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What is Copilot trying to Hide?
The Atlantic has a tool that allows authors to check if their books appear on LibGen; the pirated-books database that Meta used to train AI.…
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Stevie Wonder
Last weekend I saw Stevie Wonder at the Co-op live arena in Manchester. A fantastic gig at no doubt the worst venue I’ve ever been…
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AI Made me Redundant
Yesterday, a student asked me to help him with a program he was writing in his own time. It was an impressive project, but it…
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Great Man Theory
Thomas Carlyle stated that “The History of the world is but the Biography of great men.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory Most 19th Century composers said that Beethoven was…
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Under Siege
There are a lot of reports floating around on Social Media about Microsoft using customer data from Word and Excel to train its AI models.…
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Why You Should Write Down Everything: The Power of GTD
“Have you really included walk the dog on your list?” he asked.
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All Change!
You might notice that my websites are changing. There are a number of reasons for this, but the big one is I’ve been forced into…
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Where’s TonyBallantyne.com?
Briefly, the company hosting the site has been sold to another larger company and they’re making a mess of the transfer. I was thinking of…
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Future Proofing my Notes
As I mention last week, I’ve moved my notes to Obsidian. I’m going to talk about Obsidian another time, for the moment I want to…
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I am not an influencer
As the school holidays approach and I embark on my annual sorting of my notes and resources ready for the new school year, I’m going…









