Dan Angel
@dsvangel.bsky.social
Data and tech type, business and product builder, into coffee, food, design and music, former petrol head currently in remission
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Please tell me this ad was created by a real human with a deep sense of irony. Also given all the rich targeting data available in 2026 this is brilliantly awful #temu
February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Please tell me this ad was created by a real human with a deep sense of irony. Also given all the rich targeting data available in 2026 this is brilliantly awful #temu
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“It’s his own fault, shouldn’t have been carrying a weapon!”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
February 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM
“It’s his own fault, shouldn’t have been carrying a weapon!”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
With ICE assassinating US citizens and Andy Burnham doing the will he won't he hokey-cokey there is competition for news headlines but somehow strongest UK business activity in nearly 2 years barely had a mention; www.ft.com/content/8548...
UK business activity stronger than expected in January
Retail sales also rebounded in December, driven by online jewellery purchases
www.ft.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
With ICE assassinating US citizens and Andy Burnham doing the will he won't he hokey-cokey there is competition for news headlines but somehow strongest UK business activity in nearly 2 years barely had a mention; www.ft.com/content/8548...
Excellent @aurenh.bsky.social World of DaaS pod with Craig Fuller, freight signals on US econ not heard elsewhere open.spotify.com/episode/5bAU...
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller - why pricing data businesses trade at 30x EBIT despite 4% growth
open.spotify.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Excellent @aurenh.bsky.social World of DaaS pod with Craig Fuller, freight signals on US econ not heard elsewhere open.spotify.com/episode/5bAU...
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A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.
Well done #PalaceSkateboards Manor Place looks amazing and a great community use for the site www.vogue.co.uk/article/nike...
Nike And Palace Skateboards Have Opened A Vital South London Cultural Hub
Featuring a state-of-the-art skatepark, an indoor football pitch, a gallery space and a major product offering, Nike and Palace are reimagining collaboration for the community.
www.vogue.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Well done #PalaceSkateboards Manor Place looks amazing and a great community use for the site www.vogue.co.uk/article/nike...
Once quipped that Kennington was my move to the country, 1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth open.substack.com/pub/londonis...
1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth
Colouring in a map of Georgian London.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Once quipped that Kennington was my move to the country, 1746 in Colour: Westminster and Lambeth open.substack.com/pub/londonis...
Growing up I wanted to be a designer, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social has a point: on.ft.com/46M9mXI
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
on.ft.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Growing up I wanted to be a designer, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social has a point: on.ft.com/46M9mXI
Interesting, If you process data that you cannot decrypt then that seems to have a bunch of implications sifted.eu/articles/jef... from @sifted.eu
sifted.eu
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Interesting, If you process data that you cannot decrypt then that seems to have a bunch of implications sifted.eu/articles/jef... from @sifted.eu
@timharford.ft.com applies evidence to immigration debate, sad to see the prevalence of Muskbots in the comments on FT, somewhat like the GRU bots on articles on Ukraine invasion
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about immigration, writes Tim Harford. But the data isn’t there on.ft.com/41UgcZC
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@timharford.ft.com applies evidence to immigration debate, sad to see the prevalence of Muskbots in the comments on FT, somewhat like the GRU bots on articles on Ukraine invasion
Positive data from @hardensbites.bsky.social on London's restaurants www.hardens.com/uk-london/11...
London Restaurants “closer to boom than gloom” according to 2026 Harden's guide
😵 <strong>Closure rate lowest in a decade</strong></p>
www.hardens.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Positive data from @hardensbites.bsky.social on London's restaurants www.hardens.com/uk-london/11...
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I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Use of AI, by UK govt to do something genuinely useful and with almost no risk mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/e... + no mention of geoAI
Extract: Using AI to unlock historic planning data
This week, the Prime Minister officially launched Extract, the AI tool which the Digital Planning programme in MHCLG and the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence are developing to transform decades o...
mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk
June 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Use of AI, by UK govt to do something genuinely useful and with almost no risk mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/e... + no mention of geoAI
Could have picked any number of Roy Ayres tracks... Everybody Loves The Sunshine, his Coffy soundtrack etc.
But this one for me will always be right up there, what MAW did with him was incredible and will foreverremind me of that summer of '97
RIP
youtu.be/JtA38Ku-Avs?...
But this one for me will always be right up there, what MAW did with him was incredible and will foreverremind me of that summer of '97
RIP
youtu.be/JtA38Ku-Avs?...
Nuyorican Soul (MAW) ft. Roy Ayers ~ Sweet Tears 1997 House Music
YouTube video by 2chann
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March 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Trump wants a world safe for autocracy | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/452d7f83-fcce-424a-9d6d-4493b0112ec8
https://www.ft.com/content/452d7f83-fcce-424a-9d6d-4493b0112ec8
Trump wants a world safe for autocracy | Opinion
Europe will have to defend liberal democracy without American support
www.ft.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Trump wants a world safe for autocracy | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/452d7f83-fcce-424a-9d6d-4493b0112ec8
https://www.ft.com/content/452d7f83-fcce-424a-9d6d-4493b0112ec8
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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage. Recent floods in Asia and…
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
Exactly this: The war on drugs needs a new tactic: shame - on.ft.com/4hoQrG4 @stephenkb.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com
The war on drugs needs a new tactic: shame
Liberal reformers have been too hesitant to spell out the negative consequences for others
on.ft.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Exactly this: The war on drugs needs a new tactic: shame - on.ft.com/4hoQrG4 @stephenkb.bsky.social via @financialtimes.com
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic provides an optimistic view on the potential of AI that is also works as a good primer on AGI or his preferred term "powerful AI". Bonus, close to 0 techno optimist triggers darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, a public benefit corporation dedicated to building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable and safe.
darioamodei.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic provides an optimistic view on the potential of AI that is also works as a good primer on AGI or his preferred term "powerful AI". Bonus, close to 0 techno optimist triggers darioamodei.com/machines-of-...