Posts in 2025

• Keeping the seat warm between peaks of cephalopod civilisation
  17.30, Friday 10 Jan 2025 (streak: 250 weeks)
  932 words, 8 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2025

• The need for a strategic fact reserve
  20.22, Friday 17 Jan 2025 (streak: 251 weeks)
  1,231 words, 16 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• Photo stand-ins and other stuff that happened
  20.36, Wednesday 22 Jan 2025 (streak: 252 weeks)
  312 words, 8 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, speculative-in-2025

• Strava when you’re not as quick as you used to be
  20.28, Thursday 30 Jan 2025 (streak: 253 weeks)
  878 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, introspecting

• Filtered for minimum viable identity
  17.55, Friday 7 Feb 2025 (streak: 254 weeks)
  970 words, 15 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for, multiplayer, robots

• Extending AI chat with Model Context Protocol (and why it matters)
  13.13, Tuesday 11 Feb 2025 (streak: 255 weeks)
  2,995 words, 24 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025

• Uh so about that asteroid
  18.13, Friday 14 Feb 2025 (streak: 255 weeks)
  1,191 words, 15 links
  Tagged: eschatology, speculative-in-2025

• Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected
  13.22, Wednesday 19 Feb 2025 (streak: 256 weeks)
  1,844 words, 10 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025, introspecting, meta

• My fantasy AI app is a voice mode travel buddy called Roadtrip
  17.22, Friday 28 Feb 2025 (streak: 257 weeks)
  1,357 words, 10 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Anti-Schelling points and waiting for my barista-made coffee
  09.09, Friday 7 Mar 2025 (streak: 258 weeks)
  522 words, 3 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• People I would like to meet
  18.07, Friday 7 Mar 2025 (streak: 258 weeks)
  299 words, 3 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• If a web server runs websites then a corporation server…?
  12.47, Thursday 13 Mar 2025 (streak: 259 weeks)
  1,319 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• An appreciation for the Useless Machine
  20.10, Wednesday 19 Mar 2025 (streak: 260 weeks)
  519 words, 7 links

• Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it
  21.17, Thursday 20 Mar 2025 (streak: 260 weeks)
  844 words, 10 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, speculative-in-2025

• Filtered for the rise of the well-dressed robots
  16.40, Friday 28 Mar 2025 (streak: 261 weeks)
  1,207 words, 13 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: fashion-statement, filtered-for, robots

• Between early computing and modern computing: some cultural histories
  19.00, Thursday 3 Apr 2025 (streak: 262 weeks)
  881 words, 31 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history

• I’m on People and Blogs today
  14.00, Friday 4 Apr 2025 (streak: 262 weeks)
  158 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta

• tl;dr I ran a marathon at the weekend and it was hard
  20.55, Thursday 10 Apr 2025 (streak: 263 weeks)
  2,419 words, 5 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025, introspecting

• Beach daydreams, lost at sea
  13.55, Wednesday 16 Apr 2025 (streak: 264 weeks)
  867 words, 1 link
  Tagged: speculative-in-2025

• Red caps and green beards
  17.45, Friday 25 Apr 2025 (streak: 265 weeks)
  1,043 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: fashion-statement, speculative-in-2025, vibe-is-real

• Ok the pitch is Transformers meets vapid teen relationship drama
  09.41, Friday 2 May 2025 (streak: 266 weeks)
  982 words, 7 links

• Homing pigeons fly by the scent of forests and the song of mountains
  20.52, Thursday 8 May 2025 (streak: 267 weeks)
  708 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: speculative-in-2025

• When was peak message in a bottle?
  20.27, Friday 16 May 2025 (streak: 268 weeks)
  849 words, 6 links

• Multiplayer AI chat and conversational turn-taking: sharing what we learnt
  20.20, Friday 23 May 2025 (streak: 269 weeks)
  3,087 words, 19 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, multiplayer

• Filtered for hats
  20.08, Thursday 29 May 2025 (streak: 270 weeks)
  887 words, 8 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: fashion-statement, filtered-for

• Two upcoming talks on AI
  09.58, Thursday 5 Jun 2025 (streak: 271 weeks)
  307 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta

• Filtered for bad AI and good dogs
  18.47, Friday 13 Jun 2025 (streak: 272 weeks)
  580 words, 14 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• The video calls section in cafes is the new smoking section
  20.10, Monday 16 Jun 2025 (streak: 273 weeks)
  872 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2025

• Batter bits, scraps, dubs, scrumps
  13.30, Friday 27 Jun 2025 (streak: 274 weeks)
  444 words, 9 links
  Tagged: scraps-from-the-scraps-file

• AI could be conscious tomorrow and we wouldn’t care
  15.55, Monday 30 Jun 2025 (streak: 275 weeks)
  855 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: ai-consciousness, the-ancient-world-is-now

• Is there a Karman line for AI consciousness?
  21.21, Tuesday 1 Jul 2025 (streak: 275 weeks)
  867 words, 11 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: ai-consciousness

• Is there something it is like to be an AI?
  22.07, Wednesday 2 Jul 2025 (streak: 275 weeks)
  1,593 words, 6 links
  Tagged: ai-consciousness

• Is a bee not conscious in the same way that an AI is not conscious?
  14.25, Thursday 3 Jul 2025 (streak: 275 weeks)
  1,013 words, 10 links
  Tagged: ai-consciousness

• Filtered for cats
  18.06, Friday 4 Jul 2025 (streak: 275 weeks)
  775 words, 14 links
  Tagged: cat-facts, filtered-for

• AI-operated vending machines and business process innovation (sorry)
  17.20, Thursday 10 Jul 2025 (streak: 276 weeks)
  1,630 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, vending-machines-have-a-posse

• Back from Shenzhen, China, where I’m manufacturing Poem/1
  13.08, Friday 18 Jul 2025 (streak: 277 weeks)
  778 words, 3 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: that-ai-clock-and-so-on

• Copyright your faults
  10.56, Friday 25 Jul 2025 (streak: 278 weeks)
  697 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, introspecting

• Filtered for bottom-up global monitoring
  17.11, Friday 1 Aug 2025 (streak: 279 weeks)
  966 words, 33 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: filtered-for

• It all matters and none of it matters
  15.48, Monday 4 Aug 2025 (streak: 280 weeks)
  1,224 words, 2 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: introspecting

• Me talking about AI elsewhere
  20.10, Thursday 14 Aug 2025 (streak: 281 weeks)
  1,208 words, 14 links

• Free idea: auto reply as a service
  08.10, Friday 22 Aug 2025 (streak: 282 weeks)
  649 words, 1 link

• The destination for AI interfaces is Do What I Mean
  18.15, Friday 29 Aug 2025 (streak: 283 weeks)
  840 words, 10 links
  Has 7 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025

• Pneumatic elevators
  20.16, Thursday 4 Sep 2025 (streak: 284 weeks)
  527 words, 5 links
  Tagged: speculative-in-2025

• What I think about when I think about Claude Code
  18.58, Friday 12 Sep 2025 (streak: 285 weeks)
  1,405 words, 14 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• Get your Claude Code muzak here
  10.42, Thursday 18 Sep 2025 (streak: 286 weeks)
  559 words, 7 links

• Filtered for bird calls and catnip
  17.55, Friday 19 Sep 2025 (streak: 286 weeks)
  735 words, 10 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, filtered-for

• I like AI slop and I cannot lie
  16.38, Friday 26 Sep 2025 (streak: 287 weeks)
  876 words, 9 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: ghosts

• The Campaign for Vertical Television
  18.47, Wednesday 1 Oct 2025 (streak: 288 weeks)
  1,186 words, 6 links

• Parables involving gross bodily functions
  09.28, Friday 10 Oct 2025 (streak: 289 weeks)
  542 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: introspecting, speculative-in-2025

• Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing
  21.38, Monday 13 Oct 2025 (streak: 290 weeks)
  698 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, glimpses-of-our-cyborg-future

• I love the smell of autopoiesis in the morning
  09.52, Wednesday 15 Oct 2025 (streak: 290 weeks)
  590 words, 7 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• Some wholesome media
  14.23, Friday 24 Oct 2025 (streak: 291 weeks)
  291 words, 4 links

• Filtered for wobbly tables and other facts
  12.48, Thursday 30 Oct 2025 (streak: 292 weeks)
  171 words, 4 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about
  18.58, Friday 7 Nov 2025 (streak: 293 weeks)
  791 words, 5 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, inner-and-outer-realities, speculative-in-2025, the-ancient-world-is-now

• 3 books with Samuel Arbesman
  17.16, Friday 14 Nov 2025 (streak: 294 weeks)
  926 words, 14 links
  Tagged: 3-books

• Spinning up a new thing: Inanimate
  16.30, Wednesday 19 Nov 2025 (streak: 295 weeks)
  199 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: inanimate

• Context plumbing
  18.05, Saturday 29 Nov 2025 (streak: 296 weeks)
  1,105 words, 3 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025

• My mental model of the AI race
  17.41, Friday 5 Dec 2025 (streak: 297 weeks)
  1,960 words, 10 links

• My new fave thing to go to is algoraves
  20.20, Thursday 11 Dec 2025 (streak: 298 weeks)
  1,130 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025

• Filtered for conspiracy theories
  07.31, Friday 19 Dec 2025 (streak: 299 weeks)
  440 words, 6 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• More scraps from my notes file
  10.02, Friday 26 Dec 2025 (streak: 300 weeks)
  430 words, 6 links
  Tagged: scraps-from-the-scraps-file

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