I wake, and enter my algorithm-free RSS feed. It is perfect and pure. I see a list (in the order I select) of everyone I want to follow. YouTube channels show up just like everything else, and I see only the name. With a quick shortcut-key, I tell the computer I want to watch the video later. Onto the next feed, I find …

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I felt so very bored with learning in high school that WWII was bad. The lesson plan, as far as I remember, was this: War happened, it was bad. It was bad the war happened. Nazis did a war, which was bad. Nazis did it because of racism, which is also bad. (English class) Poetry about how the war was bad 11 Million dead …

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About a quarter of the time I say I'm Scottish, someone mentions how beautiful the nature there is, and how much they'd like to visit. Putting aside that they might just be saying this as a conversation piece, and putting our 'autistic caps' on, the idea's baffling. I've travelled a reasonable chunk of the planet, and …

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Reading Plato's various Dialogues, I've come across a few very strange choices from the translators. Firstly, a pig could be dedicated as a 'sacrifice' to a god. I've read that people would then eat the 'sacrifice', and initially thought this was a cop-out - if you eat the meal, then you're not really sacrificing …

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I really hate computers engaging in pretend conversations. Hey, you left this. Okay. Do you still want it? No. Are you sure? Yes, leave it. Okay, before you go...would you like to sign up for this newsletter? No. Can I go now? I don't want a conversation, I want actions. I don't want to ask to save, I just want to …

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My partner watches YT videos in the background while working, and the nonsense I hear is unreal. People stop to discuss the algorithm, and request audience intervention, persistently. People use code-words for drugs, death, suicide, and anything else they think the algorithm may dislike. Sponsorship ads last minutes, …

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Automation is more than time-saving, it lets you do and create what you otherwise never would. I publish these little articles with as much automation as you can imagine. If I did this manually, the steps would be: Add a publication date for the future to evenly space articles (I write loads, then stop for ages) …

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I don't know how long until people cannot use pens, but it seems their days are numbered. Whatever time it might take, certain stages seem inevitable. Those currently in the government seem unlikely to change the education system to remove pens. I find it more likely that a group who broadly haven't used a pen more …

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I'm fast learning not to listen to experts when learning. I say I'm starting my second Python project. I'm trying to work a nested dictionary. You should use classes No, I really shouldn't. I haven't even become comfortable with nested dictionaries. It reminds me of people asking which Linux distro to install, and …

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The original terminal interface let you type to the computer in a type-writer, and the computer would type back - no screen required, just typed-text. Since then, computers have become so fast that no human could possibly read the text spat back out at the user. I don't think proper distinctions have been made with a …

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