Apples Siri AI has some ways to go

“Is there a setting to allow me to drag a page rather than scroll, my scroll wheel is broken”

Here are some articles on settings in Windows.

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Long read but worth your time

Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/the-psycho-social-techno-politics-of-maga-trumps-democracy-and-the-liberal-left-has-no-answer/

Cicero knew the score

I mean who doesn’t want pages upon pages of this…
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Bought myself an annual for the first time since I was a kid

Cold War Steve 2025 Annual!

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cold-war-steve-annual-2025-signed-edition-cold-war-steve/7736915

Looking less likely the assisted dying bill will pass in the UK. Slightly more support than not but when it comes down to voting, we'll see.

I hope it does. We really need to have a mature discussion about dignity in death as much as life.

How can it be morally correct to allow someone to suffer and waste away, against their own wishes, instead of leaving on their own terms?

When I'm done, I'm done.

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#20Artists20Days Day 5

Anton Corbijn

I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free

Wendell Berry

The Peace Of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds