A North Sider. A story teller living in an absurd world. A narrator, teller of tales, spinner of yarns. Frank Sonderborg was born in Ireland, lives in the UK, and sometimes in Spain. And does his best to write interesting stories. His short stories have appeared in various UK & USA publications. Mastodon something write.
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The East India Company eventually had 200,000 troops – twice the size of the British Army – while controlling the richest country in the world for profit. By the 1780s, around 75% of British MPs held East India Company shares. Perhaps 20% were former EIC figures who had used their fortunes to buy parliamentary seats. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Humanoid robots have emerged as the latest frontier in the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. Industry experts increasingly describe data as the biggest bottleneck in robotics and automation. Unlike large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini, which were trained on vast quantities of text available online, robots require first-person recordings of physical work. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg They are not the most social people I've met. The most friendly people I've met in my Europe travels where the Turks. Up there with any Irish Metric. And when I traveled through the old Yugoslavia, the people there were fantastic. Who knew a few months later they would be slicing each others throats. War does change people. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg The depiction of Robin Hood has morphed through the centuries, each change reflecting the era that reinterpreted him. These darker 21st-Century variations look backward to the story's origins, but as some of their creators note, they also speak to the present. Complicated views of the character challenge a polarised world in which heroes and villains are often starkly good or bad, as simplified as the Robin Hood legend became over the centuries. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg "Nereid's unique spectrum among outer Solar System bodies is not consistent with a scenario where Nereid is captured during the early Solar System's dynamic instability." npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Areas of the sea floor with little or no oxygen, known as "dead zones", appear to be creeping closer to Bornholm's beaches. This is due to human pollution from fertilisers and sewage creating huge algal blooms, which, when they die, sink to the sea floor and cover it. Their decomposition uses up the available oxygen, kills the living organisms that depend on it, and – as a result – creates dead zones. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Why didn't some tell me it would go this way!!! Oh they did. But I ignored them;+P npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg A study this week found that approximately six thousand child sex abuse and sexual harassment images are now being generated (and published online) every hour by the X Internet Unlimited Company. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg When Chinese media openly discusses preparing for Russia’s collapse and the division of its territory — that’s a signal. Perhaps a trial balloon. Perhaps preparing public opinion. But definitely not coincidence. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Why the Irish can spin a good yarn;-) npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Who is actually going to be buying their landfill junk if everybody is out of a job. Next up, Ai as consumers perhaps? npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg If the UN packed their bags and moved out of New York. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Mail Order Bride with return right? npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg But it seems sensible to reduce my attack surface. So the photos go into the memory hole, and finally, my Mastodon account, my alternative to the radioactive bonfire socials of Twitter, small and humble and very much allergic to Nazis. Hitting that "delete" button hurt. But it had to happen. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Critics have pointed out that the environment was highly artificial, possibly more like a "high-tech prison" than any natural habitat—a factor that might have amplified or distorted the effects seen, making direct comparisons to human society problematic. Some male mice withdrew altogether, focusing on self-grooming and social isolation, showing no interest in mating—a phenomenon described as the emergence of "beautiful ones," who were physically healthy but socially inert. -Billionaire class? npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Niels Brock, a Copenhagen-based business college, will lay off 186 teachers over the next five years as it closes its international, tuition-based program. Despite enrolling a record 3,500 international students this year—a new high for the institution. The closure is a direct result of recent changes to Danish immigration rules. (Hard rain gonna fall) npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new." : Philip K. Dick npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg "Do not believe…do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. : Philip K. Dick npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Boeing sends two more Cosmonauts to Mars. Believed to be a one way trip, to make Mars gripe again. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg I read somewhere that Lee Child (Author of the Jack Reacher novels) bought another apartment in the block where he lived, to use exclusively for writing. npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg Kneecap, which stars the Belfast rap trio of the same name and tells their "riotous and ground-breaking" origin story, has already taken honours at the Sundance Film Festival in the US and the Galway Film Fleadh npub1dr24xewc5v8zdu0x5vlhta3rr2txthua56haj2f8xjahvsj8dyfs4svvux Frank Sonderborg What a Knob;-)
