Brian Corcoran
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“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad
April 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad
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Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
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Big tech investment boom spooks investors.
To get your head around this: the increase in tech capex since 2023 is nearly five times the UK's entire defence budget giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com
To get your head around this: the increase in tech capex since 2023 is nearly five times the UK's entire defence budget giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Big tech investment boom spooks investors.
To get your head around this: the increase in tech capex since 2023 is nearly five times the UK's entire defence budget giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com
To get your head around this: the increase in tech capex since 2023 is nearly five times the UK's entire defence budget giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
Miller, Thiel, and co want to create a techno-feudalism, where they control information
They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
February 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Miller, Thiel, and co want to create a techno-feudalism, where they control information
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The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
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Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Post-Brexit, Epstein told Thiel: "Brexit is just the beginning" – eyeing crypto deregulation via right-populism. 7/12
February 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?
Democracy Dies In Darkness - especially when there are no journalists to do any actual reporting, right Jeff?
INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
February 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Democracy Dies In Darkness - especially when there are no journalists to do any actual reporting, right Jeff?
This is genius!
Timeline break: Here's the Dolmio Family doing the "funny how" scene from Goodfellas.
February 4, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This is genius!
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A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):
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Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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First 30/35 minutes today was more like an NFL game than a footy match. The whole period was just waiting for Newcastle to restart play with a goal kick, long throw or corner.
Just 12 mins ball in play time in the first 30, 22 in the 1st half and 49 mins overall!!
The PL is reaching a tipping point
Just 12 mins ball in play time in the first 30, 22 in the 1st half and 49 mins overall!!
The PL is reaching a tipping point
February 1, 2026 at 12:41 AM
First 30/35 minutes today was more like an NFL game than a footy match. The whole period was just waiting for Newcastle to restart play with a goal kick, long throw or corner.
Just 12 mins ball in play time in the first 30, 22 in the 1st half and 49 mins overall!!
The PL is reaching a tipping point
Just 12 mins ball in play time in the first 30, 22 in the 1st half and 49 mins overall!!
The PL is reaching a tipping point
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Do you get it now?
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Do you get it now?
Progressive move from Spain.
Also, one that makes total financial and practical sense in a country with low birth rates. When they did similar in 2005, “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
Also, one that makes total financial and practical sense in a country with low birth rates. When they did similar in 2005, “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty
Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Progressive move from Spain.
Also, one that makes total financial and practical sense in a country with low birth rates. When they did similar in 2005, “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
Also, one that makes total financial and practical sense in a country with low birth rates. When they did similar in 2005, “tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year”
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Amazing triple spiral staircases at Santiago’s Museum of the Galician People
January 31, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Amazing triple spiral staircases at Santiago’s Museum of the Galician People
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Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
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Trump is 'a symptom. He merely exposes, in gaudy neon lights, the inadequacies of a system that allowed him to take power and keep it.'
Americans must amend these flaws in their political system. Only by doing so can they prevent another Trump.
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...
Americans must amend these flaws in their political system. Only by doing so can they prevent another Trump.
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...
Preventing the next Trump
Fundamental reforms must be enacted within the US political system
sussexbylines.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Trump is 'a symptom. He merely exposes, in gaudy neon lights, the inadequacies of a system that allowed him to take power and keep it.'
Americans must amend these flaws in their political system. Only by doing so can they prevent another Trump.
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...
Americans must amend these flaws in their political system. Only by doing so can they prevent another Trump.
sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...
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Microsoft dropped -10% today despite a revenue beat ($81.27B vs. $80.27B expected) because
1. Data center spending growing faster than revenue because they have a growing customer backlog.
2. 45% of that customer backlog is OpenAI who everyone is skeptical of their ability to pay in the long run.
1. Data center spending growing faster than revenue because they have a growing customer backlog.
2. 45% of that customer backlog is OpenAI who everyone is skeptical of their ability to pay in the long run.
January 29, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Microsoft dropped -10% today despite a revenue beat ($81.27B vs. $80.27B expected) because
1. Data center spending growing faster than revenue because they have a growing customer backlog.
2. 45% of that customer backlog is OpenAI who everyone is skeptical of their ability to pay in the long run.
1. Data center spending growing faster than revenue because they have a growing customer backlog.
2. 45% of that customer backlog is OpenAI who everyone is skeptical of their ability to pay in the long run.
The silence from SV heavyweights has been deafening during the Trump Reich. To his immense credit, @reidhoffman.bsky.social has always made his position clear - he has been loudly on the right side of history & humanity. Where he leads, will others follow?
My writing today in the @sfstandard.com: Too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration.
We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.
It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.
We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.
It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The silence from SV heavyweights has been deafening during the Trump Reich. To his immense credit, @reidhoffman.bsky.social has always made his position clear - he has been loudly on the right side of history & humanity. Where he leads, will others follow?
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I have two tickets for Dream Wife in Manchester tonight if anyone fancies it. Lacking the legs to contemplate coming home unfortunately. Free to anyone who wants them. They are my favourite live band if that counts for anything.
January 29, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I have two tickets for Dream Wife in Manchester tonight if anyone fancies it. Lacking the legs to contemplate coming home unfortunately. Free to anyone who wants them. They are my favourite live band if that counts for anything.
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Dear Isaac Asimov. Now we have self-driving cars that are basically robots, we've figured out the real-world Law of Robotics. It's acceptable to kill humans provided the rate at which they do so is slightly lower than humans would otherwise so so.
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Dear Isaac Asimov. Now we have self-driving cars that are basically robots, we've figured out the real-world Law of Robotics. It's acceptable to kill humans provided the rate at which they do so is slightly lower than humans would otherwise so so.
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One of those announcements dissapearing in all the news thunder.
The commitment to accelerate wind energy in the North Sea is a great move for Europe - creating more energy independence which can be built with EU and UK kit.
It’s a sweet spot.
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/EN...
The commitment to accelerate wind energy in the North Sea is a great move for Europe - creating more energy independence which can be built with EU and UK kit.
It’s a sweet spot.
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/EN...
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
One of those announcements dissapearing in all the news thunder.
The commitment to accelerate wind energy in the North Sea is a great move for Europe - creating more energy independence which can be built with EU and UK kit.
It’s a sweet spot.
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/EN...
The commitment to accelerate wind energy in the North Sea is a great move for Europe - creating more energy independence which can be built with EU and UK kit.
It’s a sweet spot.
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/EN...
Not only are Trump’s people awful humans, they also appear to be near-universally complete morons. More likely to be loyal when they know they’ll never rise this high in a meritocracy, of course
A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.
Trump's acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT | TechCrunch
A report cited officials as saying that Homeland Security sought to determine if there was any harm to government security as a result of the lapse.
techcrunch.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Not only are Trump’s people awful humans, they also appear to be near-universally complete morons. More likely to be loyal when they know they’ll never rise this high in a meritocracy, of course