After writing yesterday's piece about conversation, little did I know what was to follow. This was an unusual day in that on two occasions people made contact with me to have a discussion. I normally like to feel the conversation moved me forward and I learn something new or at least have my perspectives changed. These two conversations did not disappoint. A phone conversation with my friend...
I had a long TEAMS conversation today with a friend whom I have known for the best part of forty years. There was no agenda and no particular reason for the call. We simply started talking. It reminded me how valuable spontaneous conversation can be. Many years ago, before instant communication became part of everyday life, if you wanted to communicate with somebody at a distance you wrote a...
I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening Video reading by Tim Foley: I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to our doom, and that if anything changes it will be because the insanity of our capitalist system causes...
Yesterday we had a thoroughly enjoyable day in Bristol, helped considerably by good weather and by one of those intuitive promptings which occasionally tells me that I should be somewhere. I have learned over the years not to dismiss these feelings too quickly. Françoise had some practical objectives. She wanted to buy a new pair of shoes and also look for materials for her painting. My own...
Are you familiar with ChatGPT? ChatGPT stands for: Chat — because it is designed to communicate conversationally. G — Generative: it generates new text and other content. P — Pre-trained: it was trained on large amounts of information before being made available for conversations. T — Transformer: the type of neural-network architecture on which the model is based. So GPT = Generative...
https://rumble.com/shorts/v7er1lq Check this one out, sweet hearts, and be amazed. The number of a number of people I see apologising after crying is quite incredible. It just shows how messed up our understanding of the human body is. I have always believed that crying has a great therapeutic benefit and here I stumble across a thought that confirms the very thing. Having said that I find it...
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