Tony Durham

@rhamdu.bsky.social

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Now pursuing whatever interests me after a career in journalism and international development. Formerly @rhamdu on Twitter.

Email notification from SpecSavers "We haven't seen you yet..."
Cover of the double album Bitches Brew, recorded in August 1969 by a band including Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and Bennie Maupin, led by Miles Davis. The cover art is by Mati Klarwein. Despite the unfortunate title, the recording was a formative moment for the jazz fusion genre, and arguably one of the high points of 20th century music: depending on your point of view, either the death or the wondrous rebirth of jazz itself.
A ripe fig in my hand. Blue sky and fig tree in background.
Caterpillar seated on mushroom, smoking a narguileh . Illustration from Alice In Wonderland.
Two DEC Venezuela earthquake appeal letters (delivered to the same person). Possibly appropriate since the event was reported, with admirable precision, as two earthquakes a short time apart.
Phone screenshot: Less than 20 per cent of battery remaining. Turn on Battery Saver to add 6 hours 10 minutes. Options are "Got it" and (highlighted) "Battery Saver"
Cactus in terra cotta pot, with a large, pink, trumpst-shaped flower.
Collage of internet images of Ezekiel's vision of "wheels within wheels". Space forbids describing them individually, but let's just say they are highly imaginative.
Clip from the cited article: None of this tells us whether Claude is conscious in the way people are, or whether it feels anything at all
1K reposts. 56 quotes. 7.4 likes. (achieved by the original post overnight)
Book cover; The Unity Of Consciousness, by Tim Bayne. Shows expanses of water and sky, distant hills, and a person alone in a small boat.
Met Office radar map showing light rain, locally medium, over France's Channel coast. The rain is less than might be expected from the amount of lightning shown in the previous post.
blitzortung.org map of the English Channel showing lightning strikes. White=most recent. Red=older.
Large round sourdough loaf, breadknife, breadooard. The knife is too short to easily cut the bread.
while previous technologies such as the MIDI system could only assess velocity and timing of the keypresses, we found that the acceleration of the key descent is a critical factor in timbre variation.
"Quote posts disabled" (by the author of a Bluesky post)
Cover of the album Images by Sonny Red,Blue Mitchell and Grant Green
Google Nexus 7 packaging, date around 2015.
Clementine segments and peel on a plate.
Book cover "The Imagery Debate", by Michael Tye.
Famous Crocodile Dundee movie scene in which the character scares off a mugger by pulling his own, much larger knife.
White, mauve and deep purple tulip blooms in a blue pot.
Pest-Stop Professional Bird Spikes 50cm, 10-pack £33.27
View through hotel fire exit doorth fire escape handrail is visible through the door. Trees appear in the background.
Screenshot of https://pc-builds.com/fps-calculator/
Letter from 'Pure Cremation'. Get 100 pounds off, a cheery robin announces. 'Free gift enclosed.' 'Here's some good news for 2026.'
Drawings of the seven hand signs used in John Curwen's system to represent the notes of the musical scale.
Google maps screen showing Greenland and North America. Search text is "lithium"
Lt Gen Leopoldo Galtieri in a white ceremonial uniform in 1981. Image from Wikipedia.
“Neural networks can be a useful source of predictions. If you want to learn how the brain solves a computation, you can train a network to perform it, then test the hypothesis that the brain works the same way. Whether the hypothesis is confirmed or not, you will learn something,”
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'Homunculus' showing disproportionate mapping of body parts to motor cortex. Hands and face dominate.
American 20th century composer Harry Partch with some of the instruments he invented
Map of average thermostat settings in UK regions, ranging from 16.6C (NE England) to 18.7C (Scotland)
QA in which authors say they did not use algorithmic cluster analysis because it finds obscure categories which don't reflect how scientists think about their own subject. COMMENT: So? What's not to like?
Book jacket "The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance"
Antique montage of scenes of Belém do Pará, Brazil
Email notification: Direct Line is now part of Aviva
Details of a white panelled door cast into relief by low autumn sunlight.
(email from) no-reply (subject) important information regarding... (cut off by phone screen)
Chart with nested, coloured rectangles showing how blood pressure is classified as low, healthy, raised or high, depending on its systolic and diastolic values.
Cover of "Expressway", 29 stories by Australian writers based on Jeffrey Smart's painting "Cahill Expressway". The painting shows a fat man in a suit standing in front of a tunnel on an empty urban expressway, with a skyline of tall buildings, in lighting reminiscent of Giorgio di Chirico.
Cartoon character Wile E Coyote runs off a cliff but has not yet begun to fall.
Guardian front page with headline 'Ministers commit to overhaul of licensing laws in push for growth'. Image from https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/