Aug 26, 2026

It's what you know that ain't so, Mark Twain reminds us. But in my experience, also, "It's what you know that you don't do". Or, as Mao Tse Tung reportedly said, "To know and not to use, is not yet to know"

Aug 12, 2026

It feels somewhat sickening to realise halfway through that what you are reading, no matter how well written, is AI-generated. Soon the only way to know if something you are consuming is not AI-generated is to talk to a person face to face. Maybe generative AI will bring back people to normal social skills.