@topgold.ie I borrowed the idea for the “orphanage” when completing “Linking Your Thinking” with @nickmilo.bsky.social
@topgold.ie “If I’m drinking and smoking tomorrow night it’ll be alright.” Accompanied the sketch.
@topgold.ie Claude wants to triage my Orphanage and its 83 files. Must elevate several active projects, contact outstanding people, trim concepts, proritize tech tools, and wrangle the mid-2026 date stamped events. So says Claude.
@nevillehobson.xyz Thinking it’s also worth your time to compare the personalities and world views of Sam Altman to Dario Amodei.
@topgold.ie I jumped from that cold and noisy place in the mid-70s.
@topgold.ie And thanks @lalehkhalili.bsky.social for excellent research: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4…
@topgold.ie I could add you if you want to get alerts when I cross one of your geofences. I can tell when my 18yo is speeding. “DAD, I was on the train then.”
@topgold.ie The coffee chat afterwards involved some ideas on how Opus 4.7 Adaptive Thinking seems to trigger thinking much more often. It can pick up fsiled tasks from the day before. Appears like it does more off-cycle internet web searches on the routines I am running.
@topgold.ie Left Heuston behind at 1315. I need to cross-post my trips and perhaps get alerts when we are within a 25 km range. There used to be geofencing apps for that. Our family uses Life 360.
@topgold.ie Obligatory Brydge keyboard snapped at bus stop in Kilkenny.
@topgold.ie Brydge keyboard since 2015
@topgold.ie My brother rehomes parrots by letting them adopt him after several bloody bonding episodes. Most of his big birds are unwanted after couples divorce. I had never seen a festherless bird until brother Pat started rehoming them.
@paulmwatson.com You sound all wet.
@kissane.myatproto.social Personal Learning Networks FTW
@topgold.ie Brother Pat keeps cages covered at night so the chirping stops. When he opens the cages, the feathers fly into our cupboards. He has tree branches in nearly every corner of the house. Pat likes feathers and fins. flickr.com/photos/irish…
@hypervisible.blacksky.app And so many of these data centers end up in rural areas, far from where most people use the services.
@klillington.bsky.social If you have headspace for setting up Claude Cowork (€22 a month) and (free) Obsidian, you would craft a book in a month’s worth of command line conversations with the AI. I’m previewing that on Friday in Dublin. www.eventbrite.ie/e/is-claude-…
@topgold.ie BUT I don’t think all the items about storage that Claude found were written by you. They were on adjacent time-stamped pages in my Vault.
@paulmwatson.com I run an instance of Claude and have learned that even when I constrain Claude to only use notes I have written inside a local Vault, Claude Cowork will drift and do things like synthesize content and attribute authorship incorrectly. That’s the same behaviour people cite with AI in …
@topgold.ie At home in PA we have three budgies, two cockatiels, four finches, two canaries, two lovebirds, one African Grey parrot, and two conures. I’m in Ireland and only have a dawn chorus with playful robins and finches. There is a hawk overhead when a fox dies in the forest.
@topgold.ie UCLA estimates the elimination of USAID will cause the death of 14m people. Which means Trump/Musk have the largest death toll of any regime leaders since Mao died. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/USAI…
@rothaiocht.bsky.social Very mid-Atlantic, don’t you think? But your vocabulary makes you a furriner–or someone from Berkeley.
@klillington.bsky.social Gifting the NYT piece. We’re still looking at “loss of 20 percent of the world’s oil supplies, which was sending the price of gasoline soaring, and creating shortages of fertilizer and, among other critical supplies, helium for the production of semiconductors.” …
@shaneconneely.eurosky.social In 2012, I read grad school refugee Katherine Losse’s take from inside FB’s Hotel California. Insightful then and now.
@sm2n.bsky.social I wonder which podcatchers display cover art unique for every episode. Pocketcasts doesn’t.