Interesting, but the element of survivorship bias is inevitable: any evidence that they were lighting fires later than our hypothesised first date passes unremarked, so only previous dates raise eyebrows and are ‘surfaced’.

You built Janes’ bicameral mind.

That just made my day, thank you

You’re most welcome. This reads like an epistolary sci-fi origin story.

“Remember the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

I in no way want to underplay the seriousness of child sexual abuse, but as a naturist I find all this paranoia around nudity and “not safe for work” to be somewhere between hilarious and bewildering. Normal is what you grew up with I guess, and I come from an FKK family. What’s so shocking about a human being? All that stuff in public speaking about “imagine your audience is naked”. Yeah, fine: so what’s Plan B?

I’m the insufferable Apple fanboy that chimes in to mention Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I have a personal subscription to Office 365 for interoperability but I’ve been annoyed by their inescapable AI price hike and now this. I might as well just cancel my subscription. Excel for Apple doesn’t even have PowerQuery and PowerPivot, so it’s already a diminished experience.

I last used Publisher way back in the late nineties to lay out the school newsletter, later I graduated to PageMaker because I found Publisher easy to use but ultimately quite limiting. Fun memories, I hadn’t even realised Publisher still existed, and I’m the most elder of elder millennials.

I wrote an extended essay on “Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead” in high school… 1998-1999 period. I loved his screenplays even though I’m not a great fan of theatre in general. 88 is a ripe old age but it’s still deeply saddening.

> “Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead”

I love that movie. Never got to see it on stage though, which I've read was superior.

You're not losing much; the film is really good, and features Oldman... among other very good acting. There is elitist cohort bent on signaling how they cannot stand films, and how live theater is superior, blah blah. Well, usually the films are vastly superior to productions, in both interpretation of the script, and complexity of execution. The film starring Oldman is an instance of that, I think. But it's all secondary to reading the text itself.

R&G is a nice play, but honestly it doesn't come off the page nicely. The same is true for late-Beckett. I'm a huge fan of these guys, but I never understood the obsession literary teachers have with only a handful of plays, like R&G, or Waiting for Godot. These are very specific, nerd-like, I would even go as far as calling superficial—pieces of art. At any rate, Stoppard is best appreciated when read off the page, or on radio.. he's just one of these guys. Indian Ink is really good.

Well, Stoppard himself directed the movie.

The film is really the best it gets. It's perfect.

I love writing. I sit down with a stack of paper and a fountain pen and a bottle of ink.

DHL a flash drive with an AES-encrypted zip file. Share half of the key in person and half over an encrypted E2E chat app.

Please don’t. There’s enough AI slop sloshing around already. What’s the endpoint of this? Machines pretending to be human speaking to machines that pretend to ignore the fact they’ve guessed they’re speaking to a machine?