James Aylett
@james.tartarus.org
He/him. Working on privacy and responsible AI; usually worried about both. The pandemic isn't over. If I don't follow you it doesn't mean I don't like you. I've built things you've forgotten.
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We would open a door, a few flakes of glitter would stick to our fingers, and there would be a picture of a robin.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre—the lighting in the houseplant section is better than a SAD lamp—and the smell of the Christmas trees sent me into a full Proustian reverie.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre—the lighting in the houseplant section is better than a SAD lamp—and the smell of the Christmas trees sent me into a full Proustian reverie.
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We would open a door, a few flakes of glitter would stick to our fingers, and there would be a picture of a robin.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre—the lighting in the houseplant section is better than a SAD lamp—and the smell of the Christmas trees sent me into a full Proustian reverie.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre—the lighting in the houseplant section is better than a SAD lamp—and the smell of the Christmas trees sent me into a full Proustian reverie.
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just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I named my fists Dunning and Kruger because I’m amazing at fistfights
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I named my fists Dunning and Kruger because I’m amazing at fistfights
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"how do you feel like the new mayor is doing?"
"Well NBC 4, I wonder if some people in his administration aren't overlooking his disabled constituents by refusing to use alt text in their social media communications despite constant gentle reminders and that worries me."
"Well NBC 4, I wonder if some people in his administration aren't overlooking his disabled constituents by refusing to use alt text in their social media communications despite constant gentle reminders and that worries me."
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"how do you feel like the new mayor is doing?"
"Well NBC 4, I wonder if some people in his administration aren't overlooking his disabled constituents by refusing to use alt text in their social media communications despite constant gentle reminders and that worries me."
"Well NBC 4, I wonder if some people in his administration aren't overlooking his disabled constituents by refusing to use alt text in their social media communications despite constant gentle reminders and that worries me."
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tl;dr: I hate what we call "cryptocurrency" today *because* it's 100% orthogonal to the original vision of "internet money you can actually use as payment for goods and services" and we would have been much better off if that vision had won instead
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
tl;dr: I hate what we call "cryptocurrency" today *because* it's 100% orthogonal to the original vision of "internet money you can actually use as payment for goods and services" and we would have been much better off if that vision had won instead
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But of course, we all know the best Christmas anything is Muppet Christmas Carol, one of the few literary adaptations better than the book.
two muppets are chained to each other and one is laughing
ALT: two muppets are chained to each other and one is laughing
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December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
But of course, we all know the best Christmas anything is Muppet Christmas Carol, one of the few literary adaptations better than the book.
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after the Blue Labour fiasco I should have disbanded my radical experimentalist Labour UK theatre troupe.
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
after the Blue Labour fiasco I should have disbanded my radical experimentalist Labour UK theatre troupe.
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So wish Gary Larson would do a panel about Tr. Rex and Triceratops' visit to the Stegosaurus Museum...
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
So wish Gary Larson would do a panel about Tr. Rex and Triceratops' visit to the Stegosaurus Museum...