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Shoscombe Old Place

Even though it is the last in a series of six, there’s nothing to indicate that “Shoscombe Old Place” was supposed to be the final Holmes tale. Perhaps Watson, now probably in his mid 70s, felt rather daunted by the “mass of material” he still had at his disposal, and it is just as well that he decided to finally retire from his biographical duties to enjoy what, we hope, was a well-deserved rest after a successful forty-year-long writing career.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free. AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. Someone else started charging admission.

original tweet was by Suraj Sharma @ suraj_sharma14. bluesky repost says:

Suraj has a point.

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

Image up top is a photo from the charity photoshoot from 19 years ago, with a 20-year old Lionel Messi bathing a baby Lamine Yamal in a plastic bathtub. Messi looks amused. Baby Yamal... not so much (very cute though).

Second image is the same as the first but captioned in 2026, and accompanied by some comments on Bluesky. The caption reads:

Lamine Yamal and Messi will now be competing against each other 19 years after this photo at the World Cup Final

The first comment reads:

Wow this photo is insane lore now

The second comment reads:

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

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Argentina (Messi's team) lost to Spain (Yamal's team) 1-0 in extra time during the FIFA World Cup final held in New Jersey on 19 July 2026.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

“For me,” said Sherlock Holmes, “there still remains the cocaine-bottle.” And he stretched his long, white hand up for it. ~~ The Sign of Four

My original version of him was a her. But I talked myself out of it. And we never told anyone. Helen and I were the only ones who knew.