Tickets are now available for the premiere of our documentary, Defiant: County Durham, The Miners' Strike and its Legacy which looks at (the old county of) Durham's experience of the Miners' Strike and the continuing effects of deindustrialisation.
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tickets.redhillsdurham.org/event/defian...
Ah nice
Inspiring
the front of an entrance to a factory, it's yellow and swirly
a yellow telescope looking out to sea on a sunny day. On the wall to the left is a McDonald's cup with a yellow M
A yellow lighthouse, small and squat, in the middle of the frame. There's also a yellow curb running around the bottom of the image, and a yellow sign off to the left
another factory entrance with a yellow striped gate and a yellow strip around the building in the background
Yellow things 💛
#Photography
Wow, are your brains that broken?
Someone was very sneerily 'pfft is this just for Gen Xers or what' and sir, that's millennial erasure.
This actually looks fan-fucking-tastic.
Loveeeeeeeeeee this. So much better than before!
the front of an entrance to a factory, it's yellow and swirly
a yellow telescope looking out to sea on a sunny day. On the wall to the left is a McDonald's cup with a yellow M
A yellow lighthouse, small and squat, in the middle of the frame. There's also a yellow curb running around the bottom of the image, and a yellow sign off to the left
another factory entrance with a yellow striped gate and a yellow strip around the building in the background
Yellow things 💛
#Photography
a wizard (why’s pfp), a skeleton minion (Claude) approached “i’ve read through your notifications, they wish to harm you m’lord” close up on the wizard “oh dear… block them all.” the skeleton minion crawls away “yes m’lord, Claude shall block the non-believers, yes…”
Great title and cover
The cover of Thin Places in Hard Concrete with a floating brutalist staircase and a pale blue to purple gradient.
A quote from Rose Ruane, author of Birding: “Ray’s books are masterpieces of uncanny atmosphere, claustrophobic, tautly plotted, exquisitely evocative prose, written with an artist’s eye for detail and architecture, an M.R. James or Robert Aickman of crumbling concrete and civic buildings. His incredible eerie tales of the urban weird will haunt you in the most welcome way.”
My new collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete‘ is out on 30 April as an eBook and paperback with 10 brand new weird stories.
Pre-order the eBook here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4
I mean this explains my many existential crises of late.
Hahaha I know, was very surprised not to be on it. Expecting to be added to it at some point
Happy birthday Chuck 🥳
If you watch this with the sound off it looks like he's angrily conducting an orchestra.
ROLL UP, ROLL UP!
We are delighted to announce that in partnership with Redhills Durham, the premiere of
'DEFIANT - County Durham, The Miners' Strike and its Legacy' will be on the 5th of July in the Miners' Hall Durham.
Ticket details here tickets.redhillsdurham.org/event/defian... ✊
Sounds great Jen, thank you. Redhills are sorting out the screenings and it's Vonni there who's managing all of this for us (and doing a fab job!) you can get in touch with her here: vonni@redhillsdurham.org
The film will also tour the north east, so don't worry if you can't make this screening, there'll be one coming to a town/village near you... as they say.
Hope to see you there.
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We're very happy to be working with Redhills Durham on this (who are also a partner on my PhD) as they continue to do fantastic work in our communities. We'll be in the Pitman's Parliament for the screening, and it's been wonderfully restored so you'll get to see that too if you've not yet.
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Tickets are now available for the premiere of our documentary, Defiant: County Durham, The Miners' Strike and its Legacy which looks at (the old county of) Durham's experience of the Miners' Strike and the continuing effects of deindustrialisation.
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tickets.redhillsdurham.org/event/defian...
The chatbot would probably say 'you got fired, and I'll level with you, that's rough. But you were too good for that company, it's time to branch out on your own with that big idea. Reach for the stars.' And then he sinks £10,000 into snake oil.
Still from Red Dwarf episode "Confidence and Paranoia"
This Red Dwarf episode is the greatest representation of the human and LLM relationship
Hahaha
Here's the secret sauce though: it feels amazing to improve at something. You start out shit, you get better, you look back years later and go whoa look at how much I used to suck, and then you think about how much future you will think you suck right now and you have a small existential crisis.
ahaha same! One guy wanted me to write his idea and I said I didn't do that, and he said he'd also asked another writer but was outraged she wanted MONEY and I said she deserves to be paid for months and months of work, no? And he said well maybe but it's MY idea. You write it then, bud!
A lot of people just don't want to hear that the only way to genuinely get good at something is to keep doing that thing. And then even when you get good at it, you still need to keep doing it, because you have to stand out somehow from all the other people who worked to get good at it.
And if it could, say, write that novel you've always had the GENIUS IDEA to do but been unable to write yourself for some reason, and IF it could do a good job... then you'd simply be in the same boat with 1000000s others who had the exact same shortcut as you did, and you'd still be nowhere.
Having the idea is genuinely only a tiny percentage of the whole, and that's what chronic AI users struggle with, because they truly imagine they're the first to come up with *GENIUS IDEA* and THE ROBOT CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN! Except it can't, or everyone would be doing it.
LLMs are for people who love to feel like they're doing something, without actually doing anything. They're like the many people over the years, who, upon hearing I'm self-employed, tell me their 'genius' business idea in detail. They never start a business. They're sketch-on-a-napkin drunks.
