Simon Brunning

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• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  On the subject of trusting AI - have you seen https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html? You get a shout-out....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  If pubs and chippies going out of business doesn't provoke revolution, nothing will....
• Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
  And will your eventual CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN novel be based on the Very Hungry Caterpillar?...
• Commented on Tentative hypothesis
  1Password X works fine on Linux if you're using Chromium or Firefox....
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Typo alert: "get it's no-fault divorce"....
• Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
  Sentient aliens have the same cognitive biases as humans - or may be missing at most one of them....
• Commented on Fantasy shibboleths
  The 4th film in the PotC series is based on Powers' On Stranger Tides, at least in theory. In practice, not much made it from page to celluloid....
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  How about a many-worlds story, where all of these possibilities come to pass? Might be interesting, and you wouldn't need to commit yourself....
• Commented on On the road ...
  On the off chance that you have the time, I can recommend the Museum of Occupations. Not large, very interesting. The Soviet era statuary stuffed into the basement is fascinating - something of the Ozymandias about it. Also worth a...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  Thank you, android autocomplete, for making me look illiterate on my first comment on this site. Sigh....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Atrocity Archive(s)
  With the rise of GDS, the civil service is hiring all the Slashdot reading geeks it can lay it's hands on now....