2017-07-20 (Thursday)

@kottke .@tomtaylor did a similar thing a while back scraplab.net/generating-eng… and also made a Twitter bot of it, @urnowentering.

@blech I’ve forgotten almost everything about it, even though I loved it - I must read it again sometime.

@blech @infovore @dys_morphia Exactly, yes!

@blech @infovore It’s never the aboriginal inhabitants that feature in these alt-histories is it. Always “what if a different faction of white people won?!”

@blech @infovore Yeah… an alt-America in which the native inhabitants were, somehow, still the majority would be a much more interesting story.

Apparently, Medium automatically inserts “We decided to build our own” into start-up announcements about “public” infrastructure projects.

How is this “integrated with the rest of the transport network” if you can’t use Oyster and it uses a custom replacement for TfL’s system? twitter.com/Citymapper/sta…

Citymapper @Citymapper • 2017-07-20 11:42 • #

Proud to announce we're running a night bus! medium.com/@Citymapper/cm…

“Generating English village names with neural networks” scraplab.net/generating-eng…

My colleague ordered a custom stamp to save time on farewell cards.