July 2020 - Andrew Blackman

Reading

Children of the Cave: A Fascinating Finnish Novel of Ideas

In Children of the Cave, Finnish writer Virve Sammalkorpi imagines an encounter between a group of explorers and some strange creatures living in a…

Thinking

No, I Don’t Have the Bandwidth Right Now

Something is very wrong with the English language. People have started asking me if I have the “bandwidth” to work on new…

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Andrew Blackman on AI spambots think I’m a genius: “Yes, I’m getting more of those too, Emma, along with offers to contribute interesting and relevant guest posts about the…” Oct 9, 08:19
Andrew Blackman on AI spambots think I’m a genius: “I think most people are the same, Bill – only a minority of readers write reviews, and an even smaller…” Oct 9, 08:14
Emma @ Words And Peace on AI spambots think I’m a genius: “Yes, it’s terrible. And am getting tons more of book review requests. I’m also currently working on an AI rant,…” Oct 8, 16:20
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Chris Morgan on The Sense of an Ending, explained: “Hi Andrew Having come late to this book the £ 500 donation is obvious. If you read this diary then…” Oct 4, 19:36