Today's excuse for not writing - finishing touches (hopefully!) on DIY backyard landscaping. 🧱

#writing #notwriting #diy #chores

Big day of writing. Oh, that's right, it wasn't! It was a big day of laying brick paving and mocking up retaining wall blocks. 🥵 #writers #notwriting #diy #chores

I'm not a writer, but I do write stuff.

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I dreamed about three of my characters, two I played in one ttrpg and another was a mmo character; anyway - the story the dream spun out was 100% different for the characters, and I kinda enjoyed the drama and setting it played with - but now I'm looking at it, it'd be a whole book on it's own and ... [sighs] too many ideas, not a real writer, ya'know?

#writing #dreams
(maybe I should hashtag it as #notwriting ?)

Chance of afternoon productivity dropping fast towards 0%.

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When One’s Not Writing….

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"When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach." --May Sarton
When One’s Not Writing…. Quotes We Like…
https://careerauthors.com/when-ones-not-writing/

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When One's Not Writing.... • Career Authors

"When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach." --May Sarton

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This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

#LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

After going to the dentist after chipping a tooth, getting things done before my up coming trip, and getting things for my wife’s birthday, I picked up my kids.

Looks like I will not reach my #wordgoal today. But 🤞

But let me know your accomplishments today

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Apart from a very short poem that kept me awake last night until I wrote it down, my current writing is the legalese text for a lasting power of attorney, the first draft of an annual report for a disability charity, a packing list, and notes for a conversation about funeral planning and choices for a terminally ill friend.
None of which is fiction.

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