True:

HE Court of Appeal’s Web site states that “Court of Appeal Judgments are now published on the National Archives (TNA) new “find case law” service for the public. TNA will preserve the judgments as records in the archive. The judgments TNA is receiving for publication are joining the archive’s extensive collection of court records, dating back 800 years. The new service is intended to increase transparency and secure free access for all.”

An archive “dating back 800 years” is impressive. The High Court also places judgements there, much to the regret of people who engage in lawfare.

As of this week, it looks like there are at least 3 hearings ahead of us, most of them likely to take place in 2027. That hardly interferes with the ongoing activity of investigative journalism.

Old is not bad

wrote many cards to Rianne this week. They are not digital, they’re physical cards and there’s no scan or digital copies of these. They can last a century, i.e. more than a lifetime.

The health of our relationship is built around mutual trust and respect. As usual, and as noted before, Rianne and I plan to pursue an appeal in our case next year in the UK Court of Appeal.

In courtrooms we always use physical notebooks and pens, not laptops. It has served us well.

Writing one isn’t the hard part (some use LLM slop)

think literature (per se) is very, very, very important. It sets up some barrier/obstruction to publication, such that typically (but not always) not every crank du jour can put out “stuff” out there, like on the Web or digital pamphlets…

Books are an old form of publication, which have always had a barrier to access (cost, or investment in them and their distribution, based on their prospective appeal and quality).

When I was much younger (around 2005) Mathworks encouraged me to write a book and later people said the same about Boycott Novell. But who would buy such a book? How many people? More importantly, how much efforts would need to be invested in it? It’s mostly: 1) writing one. 2) improving it. 3) promoting it.

Books are not worth the effort anymore, with some exceptions, unless you’re some famous celebrity or politician writing an autobiography or “big name” like Stephen King.

In tech, apparently Cory Doctorow made enough of a name for himself to sell enough copies to be worth the effort.

don’t think the quote above has anything to do with Snowden and an actor claiming to be Snowden is just a for-profit Hollywood production.

Unverified quotes are not a new problem. It’s not an LLM slop issue, wherein they call it “hallucination”. Even decades ago one could easily find false “wisdoms” and fake (or misattributed) quotes online. Those were not satires, though sometimes people passed off satires sans the disclosures.

The best solution is to check the credibility of the sources or trace quotes back to their source.

still remember finishing my thesis about two decades ago and working on experiments that compared my algorithms to those of Bill Crum. We used different approaches and compared them.

Bill was always nice to me and today I discovered that he has medical problems and he wrote a book about it. In a way, we sort of coauthored works (or collaborated with his division down in London). I hope he will find a way to cope with health perils.

ension age afoot
Collecting things is moot
Striking at the root
Or the roots or people’s boots

Life is about freedom
Not labour for the kingdom
Family and community alike
Together at the root they strike

Collective thinking as merit
But only if the majority can have it
Indoctrination as predominant risk
From those who spy and frisk

Everybody ages
But some live in invisible cages
Life comes in stages
Indebtitude enrages

Best things money could never buy
Neither for the girl nor the guy
At the end we all sigh
It’s what we do before saying goodbye

Birthdays are a landmark
Superficiality for peasants, upon which to embark
Accomplishments not as a function of time
But time as an accomplishment

Anniversaries symbolic
Food, presents and wine for the alcoholic
Compensating for life that’s hyperbolic
Accumulating wealth by doing the diabolic

Emancipation for the mind
Is never hard to find
Reciprocating whatever you find
Your neighbour will return in kind

A life of accumulation
Neither for oneself nor a nation
It’s about the mind, not the fashion
Before arriving at the final destination/station

Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.

The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised…

— Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867