This year’s general election will likely be the first where we see the emerging impact AI will have on our politics. Democracy can only function if it is grounded in honest, good-faith debate and voters can trust what they see and hear from our politicians. AI is scary in this case, because it is camouflaged… Continue reading Election 2024 and AI
Author: kalikellett
Traveller, habitual writer, dog walker, East Anglian, woodland owner
Jan Pedley
Came to see me, after many years. I’d heard she’d gone through wars with body - a bleed on the brain. It hadn’t diminished her recollection of our past (I’d forgotten she knew and had stayed with Alou in Edinburgh) or her character. I am angry, she said, with the limits of my body. Balance,… Continue reading Jan Pedley
Fight not over territory but imaginary stories
Yuval Noah Harari: humans don't fight over territory or food, they fight over imaginary stories in their minds
Yuka
... She is known in the UN as a Lifer, having joined in 1998.
Haiku with Tammy
Such a long time since I turned mind to writing creatively. Could not resist this invitation from Tammy. She deconstructed Haiku. We didn't have to do the form: Every first line of Haiku has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5 syllables. This was an English invention - it… Continue reading Haiku with Tammy
Thrandeston Oak and anarchy
An unexpected gift of a huge oak to behold, as B and I meandered around his village of Thrandeston, after rain, early evening. It was huge with three branches as big as trunks soaring up. A massive wound on one side, so it must have lost a 4th branch at some time (Alice thinks during… Continue reading Thrandeston Oak and anarchy
I dream of places I will never go again
I dream of places I will never go again. I miss it all, the able-bodied freedom of my former life. Hanif Kureishi - Dispatches From My Hospital Bed
Gini on her bike at the Pits
Gini on her electric trike came to test the Pits for their ease of access for people on wheels, like Gini or wheel chair users or pram pushers. Gill organised the visit and of course bought with her history of how the Pits were when she first came here in 1963 (the year Blyford lane… Continue reading Gini on her bike at the Pits
Rupert visiting
Rupert is such a good influence on me. He interrupts my habitual computer work, tempts me out, sits and reads books and reminds me to do the same. First night we dined with Yuka, Alistair and Tania, and the next morning Yuka came swiming with Rupert in Walberswick (I am still under the weather, and… Continue reading Rupert visiting
Redgrave and Lopham Fen in bursting spring
This place begins to become a familiar friend. Such a great time of year, such greens. Did we see the raft spider? (The fen raft spider is one of the rarest spiders in the UK, only known to occur naturally at three sites, including Redgrave and Lopham Fen) We heard a cookoo (beloved of B's… Continue reading Redgrave and Lopham Fen in bursting spring
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