A photo of the front cover of James E Cutting's 'Movies on our Minds'.

Taking my annual leave seriously

Friends fear he is making plans, again.

A screenshot of The Other Side, by Public Service Broadcasting, on Spotify

open.spotify.com/track/3jjMyq...

Seems appropriate for tonight

Open WebUI: Self-Hosted AI Platform Run AI on your own terms. Connect any model, extend with code, protect what matters—without compromise.

This is really interesting - forgive my ignorance, but could it work fully locally with openwebui.com ?

Maybe I just need to start making some things.

New Patrick H Willems video essay on music videos is 👌

I mention it because the blog posts are collected into a series of books, but there are undoubtedly more relevant books on the subject 😊

Elizabeth Sandifer's 'TARDIS Eruditorum' series has a lot to say on this topic and how it influenced 1960s culture/media/society:
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/pop-bet...

www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/pop-bet...

(Albeit through the lens of Doctor Who.. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-evi... )

I seem to have done the thing where you start your time off after six weeks of work, and almost immediately pick up a cold.

Out here writing ontologies before they were cool

dogs can’t LOOKUP, in fact many of them lack even a basic understanding of Excel or other spreadsheets

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

Finally managed to slay a spire for the first time last night (using the Defect)

You wouldn't be ”asking ChatGPT” anything if Max Zorin had managed to flood Silicon Valley in 1985

The cover of Omri Cohen's 'Modular Handbook' for modular synthesis

A present to myself

Any delivery managers looking for a new role in my network?

We're hiring at Which? and need an excellent DM to join us :) www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

or apply direct, here: careers.which.co.uk/jobs/deliver...

Fun!

Watching the SNL UK thing. Getting Friday/Saturday Night Armistice vibes.

What does a vlogging starter kit comprise of, out of interest? 🤔

I've spent more time in the cinema watching films, than I have watching Chelsea play football, in the last 5 days. And I know which I preferred (and which was cheaper)

Also, Christian Bale somehow channelling Ted Danson?

Quite enjoying this essay about hyperlinks, connections, enlightenment-era theory of kind, and how LLMs obscure what makes the Web so special - the network. aeon.co/essays/when-...

Forensic fandom, innit

mcpress.media-commons.org/complextelev...

Really good fun. Very silly, only the sort of thing a film could do. Loved it.

The entrance to the Odeon Luxe and Dine, Islington

Here to see The Bride

The person who solves this, saves the Web

Nous vivions autrefois au paradis

/me keeps quiet... 😬

heh, I just bought the original and the new one, never played before, but enjoying it so far!

Metric - Time Is A Bomb (Official Visualizer) YouTube video by metricmusic

I love to flirt with disaster... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJ2... #metric