Bag Lady plus mutt Part of Paul Day’s bronze frieze under his Meeting Place sculpture at the Eurostar station in St Pancras. Note the way the dog’s head has been fondly polished by passers-by. Quote of the Day ”Never mistake activity for achievement.” John Wooden (famous basketball coach) Applies to much of the ‘AI-slop’ currently being generated. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Tom Waits | Picture In A Frame Link Long Read of the Day How To Read A Novel: Or why fiction gives us an antidote to narrowband thinking. Really thoughtful long essay by Steven Johnson. It was triggered by a question posed by Patrick Collison, the only known example of a civilised billionaire: why should we read classic novels? I sketched out an answer to this question in my book Farsighted, arguing that novels (and fictional narratives in general) were extensions of the human mind’s marvelous aptitude for building simulations of potential events. It’s something we do so effortlessly that we…
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