𝕱𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖆𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖗

Back to the future: paying the ghostwriters! https://x.com/trevmckendrick/status/2096762469784137756

I couldn't resist. https://dialbop.com/products/dialbop-retro-handset

“At first the beauty of the melodies and of the interwoven words in elven-tongues, even though he understood them little, held him in a spell, as soon as as he began to attend to them. Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above the seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world. Then the enchantment became more and more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and silver was flowing over him, too multitudinous for its pattern to be comprehended it became part of the throbbing air about him, and it drenched and drowned him. swiftly he sank under its shining weight into a deep realm of sleep.” - The Fellowship of the Ring

Tl;dr: Be a dragon!

The Fallacy of Success Be careful what you wish for https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-fallacy-of-success

[OC] Every castle, fortress and palace on Wikidata, by continent https://redd.it/1w8wzjr @r_mapporn

Prepping for the Big Debate! https://www.dragoncommonroom.com/so/e3Q1nnO1j?languageTag=en

Some good advice in here on prompting your AI assistant: https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/its-all-about-context-thursday-september

You still have to check your sources. The bots can't do that for you.

My primary prediction about the presence of AI in our information world is that it is going to make more work for us, just like the alphabet, the codex, the printing press, the library, the telegraph, the radio, the television, and every other technology of communication. Before writing, people sat around telling stories. Now? We have footnotes and proof reading and indices!