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> There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.
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She is one of my writer-heroes.
They’ve done it recently with their hardware. Past time for the other side of the house to refocus.
I’ve definitely been reducing my day-to-day use of em-dashes the last year due to the negative AI association, but also because I decided I was overusing them even before that emerged.
This will hopefully give me more energy for campaigns to champion the interrobang (‽) and to reintroduce the letter thorn (Þ) to English.
Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.
If I’m doing that, I’m taking notes on the meeting. As long as the agenda items are at all relevant.
I go through phases with transparency off or on.
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