12may25

The sun is out, the cat is out, and I’m indoors because I need to generate around 150 180 pages in the next three weeks.

Last week was some much-needed reset time. I’m still behind the calendar on a good many things, but space to think was necessary. This notebook will probably be at half-power for the week. The newsletter comes back on Sunday and is mostly written.

I’m still trying to find a use case for AI beyond research and news, and still failing. Apparently the Rabbit R1 can now send emails, but its cobbled-together fake agentic AI system, where you teach it to perform an action on the web, just doesn’t work for me.

Okay. Enough procrastination. I have to start copy-typing text out of one of the notebooks, which would be an easy afternoon if I could read my own handwriting.

READING: 100 ARTISTS’ MANIFESTOS
LISTENING: ALAMUT, Laibach
LAST WATCHED: for no good reason, an entire old season of RED DWARF.

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