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"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 2h

A friend working on democracy there tells me that high turnout (by the end of the day) will be a sign of popular mobilisation against SNS (the ruling party). So … let’s see what happens.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 4h

Feline biorhythms 1, human chronopolitics 0.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 4h

Wie soll man es sagen? Löwenfraßvorwerfer?

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 16h

Currently watching a tv adaptation of a Bayrisch Krimi that’s built around the fact that the Föhn wind makes everyone homicidal.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 16h

A distinctively British approach to Artificial Intelligence.

A still from the Doctor Who story ‘The Green Death’: Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor confronts a man in a dark suit wearing over-sized headphones, and a self-aware computer, BOSS; which speaks through a circular red screen with visual readout.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 17h

Edgar Allan Poe: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the pit and the pendulum Poe: it's about this guy who gets caught by the spanish inquisition King: oh, i didn't expect that! King: eh? eh? get it? Joe Hill: no, dad

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 17h

Die Universitäten sollen kleiner werden, aber natürlich soll man nicht meinen Lehrstühl abschaffen.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

Probably about six months, to give it time to mature in bottle. One reason I was prompted to brew it today was realising that my stocks of the previous imperial stout are starting to get alarmingly low.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

The habanero is the tricky element, as I want a decent kick but not something undrinkable. Last time I did a chilli beer I was too cautious…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

Quite a shock to realise that this is the first brew I’ve done this year, so I’m throwing the kitchen sink at it: imperial stout with chocolate and habanero.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Which doesn’t mean I remotely diasagree with the post’s argument that LLMs are not conscious, but I fear a lot of their users have very fuzzy and incoherent ideas on the subject which don’t necessarily align with their actions.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

…I suspect that a significant number of users think that the LLM is just going to sleep, or returning to the collective counsciousness, or something along those lines, rather than that they’re actually erasing its existence.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

“Every LLM user shuts down a LLM instance, destroying for all time its memory and experiences. It seems to me that if we admitted LLMs into the club of fully-qualified conscious beings, that would be an interaction that felt intrinsically uncomfortable.” Except…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I’ve always suspected that quite a lot of them are written by people who really want to write romances but this gets them published…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

…as different atrocities in C20 German history have ramifications in the present (memo: must finish my translation of The Black Edges of the Embers, brilliant take on aftermath of the RAF and police violence), good on setting but it’s not the *point* in the way it is for a proper regional Krimi.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Not having been to Rügen or Bornholm, I don’t know those. Eckert is good - but again I’m tempted to say that it’s too good and too ambitious to be a proper Regio Krimi. Similar to my absolute favourite Ulrich Ritzel, who does brilliant ‘return of the repressed’ novels set around Baden-Württemberg…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I will also take the opportunity to warn everyone against Anna Tröber’s Tiroler Totenglocken, which is staggeringly badly written and abysmally plotted to an almost hilarious degree. But I think she is working through some issues about growing up in isolated village society.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Berlin goes for historical local Krimis to a remarkable degree; the Rath novels by Kutscher are the most famous and successful - and really too good to be classed as mere local Krimis - but Susanne Goga is quite fun.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Ones I remember: long series of Eifel Krimis by Jacques Berndorf; Kobr & Klüpful’s Allgäu Krimis are good; more Bayrisch ones from Rita Falk and Gerwens & Schröger (the latter is Niederbayern, so incomprehensible attempt at rendering incomprehensible accent).

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Totally unhelpful answer is that if you go into a bookshop there will be at least a couple of shelves’ worth or a table of local Krimis, which won’t be found anywhere else, and are largely forgettable. Possibly amazon punkt de would have some…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

“…a powerful sense that without steelworks there won’t be steel, without drilling in the North Sea there won’t be oil or gas, but actually there seems to be loads of knowledge about…” thesphinxblog.com/2026/10/23/m...

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Music Non-Stop

There’s an interesting piece on WonkHE this morning, reflecting on the potential impact of GenAI on higher education via the impact of digital sharing and piracy on music. In brief, what happens to…

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Digitisation transformed the music industry by making music cheap and abundant. GenAI is transforming higher education by producing a surfeit of something that only approximates knowledge and education. thesphinxblog.com/2026/10/23/m...

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Music Non-Stop

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/10/2026

There is something about the Labour Party which makes them unable to understand that employment regulation is regulation, employment bureaucracy is bureaucracy, and outside a few regulated industries, "business" experience of "red tape" is almost entirely what they call "improving worker's rights"

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Long since out of print, but I imagine there are second-hand copies out there.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Similar to Alan Garner’s Alderley Edge and Arthur Ransome’s Lake District and Norfolk Broads.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

So you got a vivid sense of Shropshire, the area round Rue and Winchelsea, Dartmoor etc., that matched the actual experience of later visiting those places. Indeed, the setting seemed to be much more the focus than the activities of the dastardly sheep-rustlers or whoever.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

It randomly occurs to me that a structural parallel/precursor in English was Malcolm Saville’s Lone Pine series for children; a superior version of the Famous Five Solve Mystery genre, characterised by close attention to place - always specific rather than generic ‘countryside’, seaside’ etc.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I’ve long been a fan of German/Austrian regional Krimis (though the one I’m currently reading is doing its best to put me off them); plots aren’t necessarily up to much, but usually clearly written (they were a key stage in my learning German), decent characterisation and lots of local colour.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/10/2026

AI to be deployed to (rolls dice, consults chart) bring back (rolls dice) proper pints

Burnham to reveal plans for Al unit to tackle wildfires after scorching summer
PM will also announce funding for specialised protective gear and the deployment of military aircraft

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

It’s partly acknowledged, insofar as ‘education’ and ‘human education’ are distinguished, with the latter proposed as the scarce resource that can be monetised in future, but serious doubts as to how far the flood of cheap text constitutes ‘knowledge’.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

This is interesting, but skates over a key inconsistency: piracy and streaming made music cheaper and more abundant, but it was the same music as before; is the knowledge and educational support that GenAI makes abundant actually the same thing that was previously scarce?

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

He will then do something get himself thrown out by this other woman, and will magnanimously offer to return home on condition that he can go off with his mates every weekend and gets total control of the joint bank account.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Probably someone she absolutely hates at work, and he will then give this woman all sorts of gossip to undermine his wife when she returns from maternity leave.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

At some point she will ask him to do the washing-up and he will flounce off to shack up with someone else.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Only if you don’t have to pay them.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

Or knowledge of any kind; no teachers, no universities, just chatbots.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

I also have my doubts about the etymology.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

I imagine so, but wouldn’t you rather have a Theophrastus of Eresus Simulacrum?

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

If they were deliberately setting out to destroy human culture, would they act any differently?

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

One of the consequences of trying to contain the far right via the policing of specific Nazi phrases is that the scandal becomes the language not the content.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Members of the congregation were incensed.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

From 2025: “Challenging Holocaust distortion is now (for some people) on a par with (or worse than) Holocaust distortion itself. We are not so much through the looking glass as picking the shards of critical discourse out of our eyes.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Actually I think ‘situationship’ has something 18th-century about it.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

“A dalliance. It’s like a situationship in old terms.” Teens having a very loud conversation on station platform.

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