I do an occasional travel blog. Catching up from December 2022 (!)

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Been working on this for a while, but it's nearly ready to go. Soon.

Apple’s new AI writing assistant really isn’t any help.

It seemed a great idea, and an almost victimless crime - well, the only victims would deserve what they got. But it escalated, and people died.
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The people that promote “alternative facts” are now saying that math is “woke”

Math is math

Math is not “woke”

Math doesn’t have illogical values

They are numerical values

McQeen has escaped a life of failure, back to his home town of Dundee. But he’s drawn into a nightmare of Russian oligarchs and murderers with no idea why. When the DCI on the murder enquiry turns out to be an old flame, it just gets more complicated for him.
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From the current Private Eye. My Irony Meter may be about to overheat...

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

Just arrived and deleted my X app. Looking forward to sensible conversations!