Buying an expensive piece of equipment carries an unspoken assumption that if it turns out to be faulty, the law will step in to put things right. On paper, consumer law in the United Kingdom looks straightforward. In reality, anyone trying to get their money back from a reluctant retailer quickly discovers a wide gap …
business, consumer, contracts, court, fairness, goods, purchase, repair, rights, sales
Create Electronic Document Bundles for Free: Use Buntool
Captain Walker
If you’re a speed reader then your behaviour is worse than many AIs. You’re probably one of those people who glanced the featured image to this post for half a second and went, ‘Nothing to do with me‘. Yes – it is a common situation for litigants in person, or those assisting them, to face …
create, diy, documents, free, getready, organise, pdf, software
Stupidity: The Apophatic Void moving at the Speed of Light
Captain Walker
Stupidity spreads with the efficiency of a pathogen, yet it operates without biological vectors. It requires no physical contact. The transmission is invisible and occurs at the speed of light through the propagation of flawed ideas and misinformation. This happens quite commonly in the new age of internet speed. Proximity to digital networks infects reasoning …
human nature, humanities, logic, meaning, mind, people, privation, stupidity, thought
How to bully an AI Model
Lot’s of people waste their time with AI models. Yes – I’m fond of AI Models for what they can do well. But that does not mean I give them free reign. I do not bully people. So in this post ‘bully’ means over control of an AI model – which is not a person …
Claude Opus 5.5 set up in OpenWebUI
These notes record a working session on Claude Opus 5.5 (hereafter O5.5), released in the third week of September 2026. The session began with a question about its new token pricing. It ended with prompt caching configured and confirmed in OpenWebUI. If you don’t know about OpenWebUI and you’re a luddite incapable of learning, kindly …
Register Creep: Beyond Slop to the Four Levels of Text
I had been working on slop. In previous work I found eleven patterns. Words, lists and stock phrases were caught by scripts. But something kept getting through. Text with no slop words still read like something delivered from a lectern, or as a report when none of that was required. This post will be of …
