Justin
@ediparolev.bsky.social
Veteran cyclist. Novice runner. Politically progressive. Waiting for the Great Leap Forward. I follow back humans.
UKRI Innovate UK (Wales)
Views are my own.
Builth, Cymru 🏴
UKRI Innovate UK (Wales)
Views are my own.
Builth, Cymru 🏴
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Of VC-backed products, 78% fail:
42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
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42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Of VC-backed products, 78% fail:
42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
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42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
1/2
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Would it seem rude or evasive to decline an AI note taker? I’ve got a call tomorrow with someone I’ve never met and I’ve just had an email from their AI assistant asking for permission to record the meeting.
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Would it seem rude or evasive to decline an AI note taker? I’ve got a call tomorrow with someone I’ve never met and I’ve just had an email from their AI assistant asking for permission to record the meeting.
Making their dogs fight our wars feels like a textbook reason the robots will eventually decide humans are the problem.
Can you imagine this thing stomping around somewhere near Kupyansk?
Ukrainian drone operator: “Is that… a Roomba with legs and a gun on its back?”
This military multipurpose robot dog was unveiled by the Chinese company Norinco at the World Defense Show 2026 in Saudi Arabia.
Ukrainian drone operator: “Is that… a Roomba with legs and a gun on its back?”
This military multipurpose robot dog was unveiled by the Chinese company Norinco at the World Defense Show 2026 in Saudi Arabia.
February 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Making their dogs fight our wars feels like a textbook reason the robots will eventually decide humans are the problem.
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As Brits we can take some pride in the resignations and demotions that the fallout of Epstein is causing. At least we still require some integrity from people in public life. In the US the criminal shit show just rolls on regardless.
February 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM
As Brits we can take some pride in the resignations and demotions that the fallout of Epstein is causing. At least we still require some integrity from people in public life. In the US the criminal shit show just rolls on regardless.
Is it possible to be a British PM without a Machiavellian sidekick, or is that just how power works?
February 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Is it possible to be a British PM without a Machiavellian sidekick, or is that just how power works?
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Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷
February 8, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷
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“It could take years to restore Brexit losses”
Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens.
Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens.
Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%
NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM
“It could take years to restore Brexit losses”
Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens.
Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens.
Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The US State Department plans to fund Far Right (and pro-Russia) think-tanks and charities in Europe to promote American policy positions and oppose European online speech regulations, the FT reports.
America’s biggest export: fascism.
America’s biggest export: fascism.
February 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
The US State Department plans to fund Far Right (and pro-Russia) think-tanks and charities in Europe to promote American policy positions and oppose European online speech regulations, the FT reports.
America’s biggest export: fascism.
America’s biggest export: fascism.
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My cartoon in The Oldie
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
My cartoon in The Oldie
From car-clogged expressways to car-free river walks. Paris’s transformation of the quais de Seine shows what happens when a city chooses public space, culture and quality of life over traffic flow.
February 6, 2026 at 9:33 PM
From car-clogged expressways to car-free river walks. Paris’s transformation of the quais de Seine shows what happens when a city chooses public space, culture and quality of life over traffic flow.
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Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January
Find out more: electrek.co/2026/02/03/even...
#ClimateAction
Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January
Find out more: electrek.co/2026/02/03/even...
#ClimateAction
Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January
Norway cut EV incentives, resulting in a rush and record sales. That would usually cause a hangover, but EVs still took 94% share in January.
electrek.co
February 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January
Find out more: electrek.co/2026/02/03/even...
#ClimateAction
Even after cutting EV incentives, Norway only sold 98 diesel cars in January
Find out more: electrek.co/2026/02/03/even...
#ClimateAction
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It is pointless trying to explain anything to a kleptomaniac using metaphors; they take things literally.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It is pointless trying to explain anything to a kleptomaniac using metaphors; they take things literally.
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People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham.
And then we're seriously fucked.
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For the second time Mandy jumps before he’s pushed.
Repercussions for the Epstein Files coming everywhere but America.
Repercussions for the Epstein Files coming everywhere but America.
Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
For the second time Mandy jumps before he’s pushed.
Repercussions for the Epstein Files coming everywhere but America.
Repercussions for the Epstein Files coming everywhere but America.
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"All that's left is 3 million horrible photographs of Epstein and his mates doing terrible things, which isn't enough for us to prosecute anybody, so the case is closed."
Literally. That's his argument.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Literally. That's his argument.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Todd Blanche says review of Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case ‘is over’
Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"All that's left is 3 million horrible photographs of Epstein and his mates doing terrible things, which isn't enough for us to prosecute anybody, so the case is closed."
Literally. That's his argument.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Literally. That's his argument.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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In cases like these, there’s nothing they wouldn’t do to cover it up, even murder.
February 1, 2026 at 1:21 PM
In cases like these, there’s nothing they wouldn’t do to cover it up, even murder.
These are the Trump files, aren’t they. It’s looking more and more like Epstein was the junior partner.
February 1, 2026 at 1:05 PM
These are the Trump files, aren’t they. It’s looking more and more like Epstein was the junior partner.
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January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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REVIEW | Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film – review
www.independent.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM
REVIEW | Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her ghastly film
“It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy…”
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy…”
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Looking through the list of 70 trade and culture delegates accompanying Starmer to China, none appeared to be representing Wales...
January 30, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Looking through the list of 70 trade and culture delegates accompanying Starmer to China, none appeared to be representing Wales...