“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
We're moving Super Mario Bros. to an agentic workflow. Rather than controlling Mario, you'll simply prompt the agent with something like "beat 1-1", and it will take direct control of Mario for you. This frees up more time for more important things like doing your taxes or being stuck in traffic
I know I’m weird, but I’ve actively *enjoyed* working on the citations for everything I’ve worked on.
They’re connections to previous thinkers, demonstrating where I feel my own work fits into an intellectual lineage.
Why would I want to have software (even if not AI) do something so important?
Association for Scottish Literature
"Some people are so invested in their identity as ‘academic’ that the shock is deeply, intensely hurtful all the way down to their core. It really, really hurts. We should talk about that too."
It’s always great when the rule of law means selecting which laws to enforce based on personal feelings.
Not like Japan is alone in doing so by any stretch of the imagination, but I just happened to see this article this morning.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06...
No one hates academia quite like the Chronicle of Higher Education.
www.chronicle.com/article/im-a...
Iain M. Banks died on this day in 2013. Years ago, I wrote about his career for Kirkus Reviews, and ended up interviewing @amendlocke.bsky.social about him.
I figured it was a good time to resurface the interview: www.andrewliptak.com/iain-m-banks...
I get it.
I don't have any experience with the British system. But I still feel the lack of an "academic" identity (and talk about it, I know, sorry) 14 years after getting my PhD with nowhere to go with it.
It's still a kind of a void that keeps me company.
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Cowardly **** has turned off QTs. So, yes, I've just finished a 120,000-word research monograph, and I typed every single one of the footnotes myself.
