Hello!
Well, you lot don’t seem very interested in AI after the resounding silence I received for my last post! I’m going to carry on learning about it though and we can return to it if I do get any interest. Pi remains my co-pilot for this week and it’s making me more productive.
That said, I have been writing quite a bit this year, just not on this site and I’ll leave you with some of my reviews below. It didn’t help that somebody managed to take the site down for a while recently, which is a reminder to you all of how common hacking attempts are these days. I’ve upgraded security here, but please use my experience as a lesson for yourselves, especially as AI provides even more sophisticated attacks these days.
This week we’ve been watching ‘Brawn‘ on Disney+, the story of the Brawn Formula 1 team and Jenson Button’s victory in the 2009 season. I have to say (probably incurring strong disagreement from at least one regular reader) that it was the last time I genuinely enjoyed the sport. I’ve barely watched it for years now, but the season was certainly dramatic and if you have access to it, it’s well worth a watch, even for non-F1 fans.
Talking of races… Elon Musk’s ego appears to have exploded after entering orbit, following a hydrogen-fuelled tantrum after advertisers responded badly to his public comments about race and antisemitism. But hey, at least he’s providing plenty of fodder for comedians, even if his comments lack scientific merit: namely appearing to support the ludicrous notion of a supposed ‘white race’.
It’s a slightly barmy paradox. The scientific consensus is that race doesn’t exist, other than as a social construct. Yet racism patently does, on both a structural level, and in the sad, vicious little hatreds that pervade our society. Racism is like a snapped record: It’s useless, it belongs in the trash, and it sounds f*cking awful. Please don’t listen to it, please don’t accept it. We can’t all be the richest person in the world, but on the face of it, this is one area where we can be better than the guy that is.
In other news, somebody just spent £2.1 million on a bottle of scotch. I’m fascinated by this. Imagine it was you… what would you do with it? I mean, if you can afford to drop two million quid on 70cl of alcohol, it probably stands to reason that you don’t need it as an investment, right? After having plenty of dawning, ‘what the f**k did I do?!’ moments during whiskey-fuelled hangovers, this is the kind of utterly shameless extravagance I can get on board with. This person is so rich, they’re like, “I don’t even need health insurance – I could buy a hospital. But screw that, I’m gonna get wasted. I’m gonna blow two mil on a blackout and a headache, and it’s going to taste awesome.”
Maybe not.
Anyway, until next time folks, whenever that is.
