York academic appointed to Orgreave inquiry panel A University of York academic has been appointed to the panel of a public inquiry investigating the violent confrontation between police and striking miners at Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire...

Very encouraging news all round. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Banging a carriage return/line break between each sentence does not increase readability. To believe it does is lazy and is also a misreading of research, mostly by experts in digital accessibility who have done actual testing… more in Humabein, the place for Humabeins.

:)

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Let’s Go Mets!

Trump’s been jabbering at the White House, alongside Rubio and Hegseth:

“Obama chose Iran over Israel.”

Verse I – March 16 2026 As a researcher focused on the intersection between human rights and technology The work sits at the intersection of global events, data, and AI At the intersection of machine learning, engineering, and science At the intersection of global sport, government relations and commercial growth. At the intersection of creativity and data At the intersection of innovation, scale, and real impact At the intersection of brand, marketing and partnerships Looks good. The hard truth The value is in knowing WHAT to create and WHY. {No fucking way!} AI now saves me hours every week without diluting a single opinion. But not in the way most people assume… I use AI to structure my thinking. The bubble isn't AI. The bubble is us. {At the intersection of life, death and breakfast} Let that sink in for a second. This isn't a threat to writers. It's a wake-up call. The bar for "good enough" writing just changed forever. If your content isn't substantially better than what AI produces in seconds, you have a problem. AI won't replace writers. But writers who use AI will replace those who don't. Some readers implicitly equate roughness with humanity and polish with automation. Cognitive offloading avoidance Let that sink in for a second. Quietly.

Verse VI of the Never Ending Poem has 'dropped'. Real lines taken from the Ai and BizSpeak communities in the public domain, occasionally laced together with our own lines. Here's a flavour.

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King ‘Leer’ but where is Cordelia when we need her?

Bruce is correct; if someone comes offering you "agentic" gifts, then de-fenestrate them.

A new verse in the Never Ending Anti Ai Poem has 'dropped'. I sweated gin to get this done. Someone should probably read it.

Share and Enjoy! as Douglas Adams would say if he'd read it, probably, possibly. That's not the point.

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Welcome - timwrite.net - ZERO Ai Welcome to TimWrite. I've been writing professionally for many years. This is where you can read a lot of fiction, factual work, poetry and the odd opinion piece. All free. All totally free of Ai. Enj...

Read my writing because it’s good.

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The creative process is richer emotionally than anything Ai can ever produce - timwrite.net - ZERO Ai The process of creativity trumps an Ai production for rich emotional experiences. The Art is the hard fought or beautifully woed the final outcome of that process. Ai privileges speed over creativity....

Bit of Ruskin, bit of Levin, zero Ai. Share and enjoy!

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Just watched Venezuela beat the USA in the World Baseball Classic.

(The Baseball World Cup… the REAL World Series)

I do so love baseball.

#LGM

Phew!

GB News Scandal: The dossier SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Twenty journalists analysed 15 hours of television – none of which complied with Ofcom’s regulations. These are their findings

Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30.
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The cover of Len Deighton’s ‘Basic French Cooking’. It looks like an egg has been cracked on it.

R.I.P. Len.

(It wasn't even an auto-correct error)

Cum perventum fuerit ad locum, ubi jacet infirmus, Sacerdos intrans cubiculum, dicit: S'pose so.

Possibly because I only pope in every so often.

I occasionally revisit this place. Every time I do, I have more followers. All of them are bots of one kind or another. What happened here?

Those two sequential events are beautifully related. They can lift the mind (the soul and the heart) differently, not so much elegantly or authentically (whatever that means) but differently…

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Your occasional reminder that yougov was founded by Reform member Nadhim Zahawi.

Orwell never said it: “It was penned by Kevin Alfred Strom, an American white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and Holocaust denier, in a 1993 essay titled "All America Must Know the Terror That is Upon Us"”

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Nicely put. May I add that Habermas wasn't expecting most of the other unpleasant, but very real phenomena of today's politics: populism, Euroscepticism, xenophobia, etc. It's fascinating how he clung to his normative convictions - but also kind of tragic as it made his theories highly unrealistic.

You may, and welcome to your insights as always.

A black and white abstract drawing by me. Not for reuse by Ai.

Looking out to the cliffs and the sea at night.

Pen on paper.

A pome for Jürgen Habermas

Farewell then Jürgen Habermas,
You talked about the significance
Of the Public Sphere.
I bet you weren’t expecting
This shitshow though.

The Ai’s Apprentice - Humabeins “Using Ai is the same as drawing inspiration from other artists and writers. Then it just accelerates the donkeywork, the creation process - like an electric screwdriver vs a manual one.”

Waves wand! Magic happens!

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Osulloc Tea Museum Jeju South Korea When I travelled to South Korea, one of my stops was Jeju Island, which is very popular with South Koreans for their holidays, honeymoons in...

My review of my experience visiting Osulloc Tea Museum, Jeju Island, South Korea.
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A hand painted figure with a halo sitting and having a bit of a think.

Producing Zero-Ai creative work feels like working in a monk’s cell at the moment. A bit worthy, most secluded, badly remunerated, very silent, definitely solitary, and occasionally drunk on caffeinated ‘tonic’ wine.

And also with you?

The “a man” is highly respected journalist Rajdeep Sardesai.