Twitter likes to play dirty tricks and deselect the ‘Following’ tab if you click on it. It seems to always rever to ‘For you’. I’ve written a Google Chrome extension that ensures that the ‘Following tab’ is re-selected if it is not currently selected. If you are using other tabs, this extension will be annoying… Read more: Google Chrome extension to ensure the ‘Following’ tab in x.com (Twitter) remains selected

I’ve been watching a few videos on how best to use ChatGPT. Various videos on YouTube can provide some great hints, tips, and tricks to get the most out of it. I can recommend Leila Gharani’s YouTube channel. I learned the following excellent piece of advice from one of her videos. You can add a… Read more: Using ChatGPT more effectively and getting better answers

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:“You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are… Read more: Doris Lessing on education

The years of a lifetime do not reach a hundred,Yet they contain a thousand years’ sorrow.When days are short and the dull nights long,Why not take a lamp and wander forth?If you want to be happy you must do it now,There is no waiting till an after-time.The fool who’s loath to spend the wealth he’s gotBecomes… Read more: A Memento Mori from a Chinese poet

Imagination is not something apart and hemetic, not away of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. – Irwine Howe Howe, I. (1994) A critic’s notebook. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace