@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.

@adrianweckler.bsky.social It would be so nice if off-motorway cafes had EV chargers. Simple way to attract happy custom. And relatively easy to make Open Table work as Open Charger.

@sm2n.bsky.social In case @omaniblog.bsky.social drops by, I should mention that any audio uploaded to a paid micro.blog account generates a transcript that appends automatically to the blog post.

@sm2n.bsky.social If most of what you do is writing or reviewing writing, Parker explains why Claude is your man: youtu.be/yRrzKf8WGJA?…

@sm2n.bsky.social Because the Chinese built on models the West had created. Now the West builds on top of pre-existing data trawls.

@sm2n.bsky.social You only need two: Claude and Gemini. ChatGPT will be gone by 2030, perhaps cannibalised inside Copilit. Google will survive with the image creation you need.

@sm2n.bsky.social Surprised you dont use Gemini instead of Deep Seek in your AI stack.

@sm2n.bsky.social The govt is responsible for everything according to the Concerned Citizens in my FB feed.

@paulmwatson.com We pay €100 to fill up a 2L Skoda. Ireland may reduce excise duty in the short term but we need to jump into electric.

@soulcruzer.bsky.social Can’t get it in Ireland

@soulcruzer.bsky.social I don’t see Gistvox in Play. Send a Play Store link if you have one.