@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-10-09 13:07:54
#WritersCoffeeClub 9. How does your own sense of mortality influence what you write?
I am writing the human condition, strictly from my POV. Life is finite, this ride is going to end one day? Absolutely a part of the story.
Death, as grim as it is, has a presence. I am, after all, not immortal. No need to pretend otherwise.
But I don't see any reason to spend my ti…
@jonippolito@digipres.club2026-10-09 13:21:42
Writers dismissed a recent NYT op-ed arguing for the spoken word in the AI era. But speech may prove key to a future in which writing forks into conversational media—spontaneous and malleable like clay—and machine-readable media that are precise like marble
https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/don
@whophd@ioc.exchange2026-10-09 03:53:44
I don’t go for bandwagons, as such — not out of principle or anything altruistic; it’s just a habit or in my nature. (I think it also technically makes me “based” which is far from what I’m aiming for, and I doubt I’d be awarded the label anyway … just as much as Gen X never called me “an individual”, instead of the plain old “weird”)
Anyway all that is to say — as a counter-suggestible kinda guy? — that the AI bandwagon was something I wasn’t comfortable with. And now the Anti-AI b…
@pre@boing.world2026-10-09 11:09:07
Thing is, the commentariat are used to the idea that if there's a policy they don't like they can campaign to get the leader changed and then the new leader will change the policy.
But the Green Party doesn't work like that. Zack didn't write the policy, would have voted against it if he wasn't busy, and a new leader can't change it any more easily than Zack can.
The job is spokesman, not chieftain.
There'll be a leadership election soon anyway, has to be one, my guess is Zack will win again. If someone better stands I'll vote for them but I'm not aware of anyone that could be.
#greenParty #uk
@rokku@soc.saiyajin.space2026-09-07 22:04:59
Die Chuzpe zu haben, nach einem einstelligen Wahlergebnis davon zu sprechen, dass das keine Personalentscheidungsfragen auslöst muss man erst einmal haben. So wird das nichts. Es hätten nie 2 Minister in den Bundesvorstand einer Partei gewählt werden dürfen. Es ist ein Fangeisen für die ganze Partei, da dieser Vorstand überhaupt keinen Biss entwickeln kann, da er im Zweifel vom Kanzler zur Loyalität gerufen wird. #SPD
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-31 04:31:14
John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-spent-30-min
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-31 20:23:01
Airbnb hosts are melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,”
like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20,
quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday.
Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up afte…
@cdamian@rls.social2026-10-30 09:50:25
Friday Links 26-33
Two weeks of links and quite a few urbanism ones, mostly about the new Oxford Street.
I recommend the podcast about the "fat bikes" ban in the Netherlands.
The engineering articles about Coding Alone and small-change code reviews are very good too.
https://christof…
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2026-10-07 17:42:07
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-31 16:35:11
The Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to cast doubt on the midterm elections,
discount some ballots
and prevent the finalization of results
is entering a frenetic new phase.
The litigation strategy has failed so far,
but appears designed to give the Justice Department more time to contest results after the election.
Trump, worried about a Democratic takeover of Congress and a third impeachment,
has tilted the Justice Department away from…
