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Son asking me if I know Boys Don't Cry and figuring out the chords together, it's come full circle (and thank you Robert for playing everything barred, we can just about manage that)

@sissenberg @nytimes Fixed it

@Distant_Mirror_ @mrianleslie @helenlewis What I mean is that some will find value in machine-generated content, and indeed it has its place, but it can't replicate the human process, ever, because it isn't human.

@Distant_Mirror_ @mrianleslie @helenlewis It is what it is. We had this with formulaic, imitative, mass-produced music back in the Eighties. Some people rejected it while plenty bought the records. The ultimate value of it is in the human input either way, and I think it's fair to say that poorer material didn't prevail

Here @helenlewis precisely articulates my own feelings about using AI to write (apart from the bit about enjoying writing which I assume is a lie) open.substack.com/pub/helenlewis…

@mrianleslie @helenlewis I mean, look what has happened to Buzzfeed. People can see through this stuff and they don't value it

@mrianleslie @helenlewis Plus other people's children probably have some merit, whereas everything I've read that was generated by AI has been unreliable, uninteresting, and ultimately worthless

I mean, if you feed it an 83k reference document that took a skilled human c600 hours to write and it still can't give a sensible response, what hope is there?

Notebook is probably better, but tbh the thought of being replaced by any of these machines is really insulting. But it's on the horizon

My limited experience of Google Gemini indicates that it has an agenda of its own and won't bow to human instructions, even if it says sorry and promises to stop fabricating nonsense from outwith the knowledge base. Fundamentally unreliable

Very warm Very happy

Worried about my darling boy

When I think about social interaction I feel like I live in a world where everyone else has dollars, but I only have my facility with words. It's all I can offer and there's not many places accept this feeble currency So not many friends, but the ones I have are everything

So I spent the night in an empty station wishing I'd got in the cab like any sensible person would have done, but anyway, I hope things are going good for you. And thank you for being what you were to teenage me.

Then I waited at the stage door until 2am and when he and his friend came out we were playing with some little stray kittens and it was so surreal. And then they got a cab to Notting Hill and invited me to share it and I wanted to say yes but I said I was going to Victoria

Just found an old VHS of a Suede concert I went to at Brixton in 1993. I was 19 and hopelessly in thrall to @BrettAndersonHQ. He held my hand during one song and I nearly died 🧡

I only learnt the first few verses when I was a teenager but they have stuck in my head. Like rather a lot of Alice in Wonderland

I knew I'd heard the phrase "slow horses" somewhere. It's from The Lady of Shalott: By the margin, willow veil'd, Slide the heavy barges trail'd By slow horses; and unhail'd The shallop flitteth silken-sail'd Skimming down to Camelot

By @oliverburkeman

I still come back to this frequently and it seems especially pertinent now there's so much fuss about Starmer. He might not be charismatic but at least he takes the job seriously. We're just not used to that theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

A reminder for anyone failing to read beyond the headlines that Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein, had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, wasn't in parliament when Peter Mandelson sent his tip offs to Jeffrey Epstein, his sole contribution to the scandal being to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador. Just in case you were getting confused.