I'm falling apart. Bit by bit. Slowly but surely. I move my neck this way — pain. I shift my back that way — pain. I get out of bed — leg cramp. I walk too quickly — ankle gives way. On and on it goes. Day after day. The creeping loss of my youthful mobility.

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I think that the smallest things in life often provoke the deepest thoughts.

Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.

The latest World Wide Web hacking explanation for dummies. AI discovered that millions of websites have been leaving the back door unlocked for years. The good news is that AI found the problem. The bad news is that the burglars have AI too.

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If someone I met told me they identified as a cat or some other animal, I might say something like, "Are you actually insane?" And that's not me being old school, by the way. That's me being about as accepting of their reality as I'm ever going to be.

Who writes for these people? I left school with a couple of GCSEs and even I can see that "decisive decision" is redundant because both of those words are doing the same job.

ChatGPT-6 just gets better and more informative with each passing day.

The planet is beautiful. The human inhabitants, not so much. Wisdom seldom matches intelligence.

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I know it immediately rules out five letters, but getting five grey squares on my first guess of Wordle annoys me more than it should.

Correction: Austen. Schoolboy error. 🤨

Batten down the hatches. Storm Austin is coming on Friday. Don't bother battening down your fence panels, though. They won't survive, no matter what you do. Besides, we've got plenty here you can buy as replacements.

I think I know what he means. We will one day become fooled — hook, line and sinker — into believing what an AI tells us.

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I'm going to try beetroot and feta arancini tonight, alongside salt and chilli chicken. I wish my bowels the best of luck.

The far right are a problem. The far left are a problem. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground any more. Everything seems to be extreme. 69% of Britons sometimes bite their tongues rather than express their opinions, while 64% believe political disagreements usually become hostile or unpleasant. Think about that. Nearly seven in ten people feel the need to keep their mouths shut.

It's funny how the pop-up dialogue box on this Microsoft Edge internet browser, asking me if I want to use Chrome, doesn't have the "Never ask again" option. It's just a Yes or a No. Every morning.

As far as I know, the next nine hours will probably consist mainly of keeping the log burner alight.