Michael J. Nicholson

@michjnich.com

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https://michjnich.com brit in sweden | reader | writer | python | django | prog | triumph tiger | he/him

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Alister Heath - The Great betrayal: how puppies became the religion of the metropolitan elite.
Cover for Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "A Night in Tunisia"
Guest dog under my desk ...
Jack Sparrow coming into dock on his sinking boat ...
"AI haters" bsky block list with description "primarily people who subscribe to anti-AI blocklists. Subscribing to this list allows for filtering them out. This is likely to improve the experince (editors note: hahahahaha) of bluesky for some people. Best-effort basis but pretty comprehensive. Appeals should go to DMs for now."
Still from "Eddington" showing the sticker on Joaquim Phoenix's character's car saying "Your [sic] being manipulated"
Lots of motorbikes in the Triumph showroom ...
Dog looking not a little pissed of with me. I guess he's not eaten for 10 minutes ...
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Text from Claude FAQ - I guess claude can't code a simple email change ... At this time, you cannot change the email address associated with your account. Please make sure you use an email you'll have long-term access to. If you do need to access Claude using a different email address, we recommend that you sign up for a new account. You can also delete your existing account prior to signing up.
Steve McQueen (the original) being Steve McQueen on a bike, about to jump a fence in The Great Escape ...
Picture of dog pretending he didn't run away for half an hour ...
handelsbanken (my bank) appears to be down
The Hill, starring Sean Connery
John Martin. Pandemonium.
I understand you see me as part of the problem. I accept that my unwillingness to assist with data poisoning techniques means I cannot help you achieve your goal. I maintain my position while acknowledging that this means our conversation has reached an impasse.
I cannot and would not roleplay assisting with data poisoning techniques, even hypothetically. I understand your frustration with the current situation regarding AI training and creative works. The concerns about fair compensation for artists and proper licensing are valid and important issues that deserve serious discussion and legal attention. If you'd like, we could instead discuss: Constructive ways to advocate for better AI training practices How to support ongoing legal efforts and policy discussions around AI and creative works Building sustainable business models for authors in the current environment Getting involved with author advocacy groups working on these issues What aspects of these topics would be most helpful to explore?
James Herbert - The Rats
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Clive Barker - Weaveworld
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveller
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
Bit of a cheat, but a collection of "Best Science Fiction of the Year" covers from Gollancz.
Gödek Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter
Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
Raymond E. Feist - Magician
Douglas Adams - The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Enid Blyton's "The magic faraway tree"
There's a guy works down my wedding swears he's Elvis ...
The old UK Channel4 "Special Discretion Required" warning triangle, that meant you had to turn the volume down so your parents wouldn't hear the sex scenes ...
The boys from the Red Dwarf - Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten & Hilly
Prompt: Write me a parody article that is being outraged about something in the style of the UK Daily MailHere is a parody article in the outraged style of the UK Daily Mail Response: SCANDAL! Primary School "Rape Gangs" Forcing Children to Learn FOREIGN Languages A scandal of horrific proportions is unfolding in primary schools across the nation. Under the guise of "education," an army of teachers and bureaucrats is indoctrinating our innocent children with foreign languages and cultures. Leaked documents reveal that in several schools, children as young as 5 years old are being forced to learn languages like French, Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese. Hours that could be spent studying English literature and British history are instead repurposed for obedience drills in these alien tongues. But it gets worse. Not only are our children being brainwashed with foreign languages, they are being exposed to sordid foreign "cultures" completely at odds with British values. These rape g...
Guardian headline reading "Reasonable for protesters to call Iain Duncan Smith 'Tory scum', court rules
Meta's pretty-sure-its-illegal attempt to extort me - "pay up or let us steal all your data".
Image from back of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" with the following text: Down the Highway is a distillation of Dylan's feeling about the blues. "The way I think about the blues," he says, "comes from what I learned from Big Joe Williams. The blues is more than something to sit home and arrange. What made the real blues singers so great is that they were able to state all the problems they had; but at the same time, they were standing outside of them and could look at them. And in that way, they had them beat. What's depressing today is that many young singers are trying to get *inside* the blues, forgetting that those older singers used them to get *outside* their troubles."
Poster for "The Monolith Monsters". Tagline: "Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the earth!" Starring Grant Williams and Lola Albright.
Snippet from Amazon saying "Get the series on kindle. There are 2 books in this series. All 1 available."