Markham Nolan ☘️
@markhamnolan.com
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Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more
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Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more
‘Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee’
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1,115 days until January 20, 2029
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
1,115 days until January 20, 2029
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HAPPY NEW YEAR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
"He doesn't swing his arm like a regular American"
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"He doesn't swing his arm like a regular American"
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
Love the nature of interaction here on Bluesky but if you’re invested in or curious about international AI/tech/VC it’s hard to ignore the fact that the bulk of the conversation & content is still back… over there. See more and more people drifting back.
December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Love the nature of interaction here on Bluesky but if you’re invested in or curious about international AI/tech/VC it’s hard to ignore the fact that the bulk of the conversation & content is still back… over there. See more and more people drifting back.
The perfect day.
April 18, 1930: The BBC announces there is "no news" that day and plays piano music. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today
On this day in 1930, the BBC played piano music because there was no news.
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The perfect day.
Can’t get my head around the American far right co-opting Christianity and the right to say ‘Happy Christmas’ when it’s the celebration of a radical Palestinian anti-capitalist who preached tolerance and prioritized caring for the poorest of the poor.
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can’t get my head around the American far right co-opting Christianity and the right to say ‘Happy Christmas’ when it’s the celebration of a radical Palestinian anti-capitalist who preached tolerance and prioritized caring for the poorest of the poor.
Amazing little Irish detail from The Family Stone, one of the best Christmas movies.
Ballybunion!
Ballybunion!
December 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Amazing little Irish detail from The Family Stone, one of the best Christmas movies.
Ballybunion!
Ballybunion!
And we are up to 2GW of installed solar PV, half of which is on rooftops. Need to double & triple this but it’s encouraging.
🚨 At 5pm yesterday, wind power on the island of Ireland reached a new all-time high: 4675MW, or more than 75% of electricity demand at the time.
This breaks the previous record of 4671MW set just last week 😮
This breaks the previous record of 4671MW set just last week 😮
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
And we are up to 2GW of installed solar PV, half of which is on rooftops. Need to double & triple this but it’s encouraging.
Absolutely none of this is based on reality. Lack of diversified energy including renewables hurts America’s national security.
Burgum on wind turbines: "One can understand how they would cause issues with casting radar shatters and clutters, they call it, that create real issues for trying to determine what's friend and foe in our airspace for our country ... also, some concern for commercial aircraft safety."
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Absolutely none of this is based on reality. Lack of diversified energy including renewables hurts America’s national security.
Agree with Bill Gurley here: “I don't share this thought that we're all gonna go watch movies that we've imagined that are made just for ourselves.”
Simple, direct, demonstrably human communication & content creation is going to soar in value in the AI age.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Simple, direct, demonstrably human communication & content creation is going to soar in value in the AI age.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
#840: Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China, and Important Life Lessons from Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, MrBeast, and More
Podcast Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 17/12/2025 · 2h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Agree with Bill Gurley here: “I don't share this thought that we're all gonna go watch movies that we've imagined that are made just for ourselves.”
Simple, direct, demonstrably human communication & content creation is going to soar in value in the AI age.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Simple, direct, demonstrably human communication & content creation is going to soar in value in the AI age.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
This is the kind of thing that sees your citizens turned away at the border of sane, healthy countries, with good cause.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is the kind of thing that sees your citizens turned away at the border of sane, healthy countries, with good cause.
Poor boomers
Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...
Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch
Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.
techcrunch.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Poor boomers
I find it wild that choosing the bulletproof grade of your kid's unicorn pattern school backpack is a choice that people make in an advanced society
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I find it wild that choosing the bulletproof grade of your kid's unicorn pattern school backpack is a choice that people make in an advanced society
It does seem like TMTG was just used as a hollow, grift-ready SPAC here – a Trojan horse, with its belly-space auctioned off by the knowing Trojans.
Trump's social media venture strikes $6B merger deal with fusion power company
Trump's social media venture strikes $6B merger deal with fusion power company
Trump Media & Technology Group has agreed to a more than $6 billion merger with fusion company TAE Technologies.
dlvr.it
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It does seem like TMTG was just used as a hollow, grift-ready SPAC here – a Trojan horse, with its belly-space auctioned off by the knowing Trojans.
Matt Levine continues to be one of the greatest explainers of complicated money things that ever wrote an email newsletter.
If you're not making time for Money Stuff five days a week you're missing out.
Levine on WBD rejecting the Paramount bid: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
If you're not making time for Money Stuff five days a week you're missing out.
Levine on WBD rejecting the Paramount bid: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Warner Doesn’t Trust Paramount
Revocable trusts, ESG side letters, IPO lockups, Destiny and doing deals over the holidays.
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Matt Levine continues to be one of the greatest explainers of complicated money things that ever wrote an email newsletter.
If you're not making time for Money Stuff five days a week you're missing out.
Levine on WBD rejecting the Paramount bid: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
If you're not making time for Money Stuff five days a week you're missing out.
Levine on WBD rejecting the Paramount bid: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Journalists will flat out refuse to learn how to write an SEO-optimized headline but will spend hours trying to turn an AI vending machine chatbot communist.
www.wsj.com/video/series...
www.wsj.com/video/series...
We Let AI Run a Vending Machine. It Stocked a Live Fish and a PlayStation.
Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff and taught us a lot about the future of AI agents. WSJ’s Joanna ...
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Journalists will flat out refuse to learn how to write an SEO-optimized headline but will spend hours trying to turn an AI vending machine chatbot communist.
www.wsj.com/video/series...
www.wsj.com/video/series...
Could not agree more with the words and the sentiment of this. Tech resistance among journalists & professional communicators is insanely self-defeating and something I've sought to combat for 15 years.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Could not agree more with the words and the sentiment of this. Tech resistance among journalists & professional communicators is insanely self-defeating and something I've sought to combat for 15 years.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
Despite Irish podcast consumption being very high, it’s hard to see how we don’t have vast over-supply in here. I ran podcasts for big names in the US market, cash didn’t come easy. Is Ireland so influencer-influenced that it’s worthwhile for all of them? thecurrency.news/articles/211...
Willie O’Reilly: Everyone has their own podcast now, but where are the figures? - The Currency
In the beginning, there were radio waves. Guglielmo Marconi, with his national and international morse signals, used them for communication before 1920, when voice broadcasting began. In the interven...
thecurrency.news
December 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Despite Irish podcast consumption being very high, it’s hard to see how we don’t have vast over-supply in here. I ran podcasts for big names in the US market, cash didn’t come easy. Is Ireland so influencer-influenced that it’s worthwhile for all of them? thecurrency.news/articles/211...
Half forgot I wrote this but after years of trying to shave off slivers of attention on behalf of giant corporations it felt good to write. Title stolen wholesale from Bo Burnham (clips included in the post) open.substack.com/pub/markhamn...
"They're Coming for Every Second of Your Life"
What a decade of mind-destroying growth on social platforms looks like
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Half forgot I wrote this but after years of trying to shave off slivers of attention on behalf of giant corporations it felt good to write. Title stolen wholesale from Bo Burnham (clips included in the post) open.substack.com/pub/markhamn...
Saved you a click. No surprises here.
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Saved you a click. No surprises here.
End your day the right way: by following a link on social media to a stressful article about the 15 habits – many of them related to the phone you hold in your hand right now – that are slowly killing you and that you definitely do all the time. everydayhealthtips.substack.com/p/harvards-n...
Harvard’s New Health Bombshell: It’s Not Sleep Loss or No Exercise—It’s These 15 Daily Habits Silently Destroying You
The real killers aren’t dramatic—they’re the tiny, invisible, “normal” things you repeat without noticing. And Harvard researchers say they’re quietly shortening your life.
everydayhealthtips.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
End your day the right way: by following a link on social media to a stressful article about the 15 habits – many of them related to the phone you hold in your hand right now – that are slowly killing you and that you definitely do all the time. everydayhealthtips.substack.com/p/harvards-n...
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️
There's no meaningfully good reason to do this from a security perspective. This is all about the administration punishing speech they don't like. Once it gets rolling, regular citizens are next. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There's no meaningfully good reason to do this from a security perspective. This is all about the administration punishing speech they don't like. Once it gets rolling, regular citizens are next. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
The single best piece of writing I've seen on the quesiton of whether or not there's a looming AI bubble. More questions than definitive answers, but that's as good as anyone can offer.
www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default...
www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default...
www.oaktreecapital.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The single best piece of writing I've seen on the quesiton of whether or not there's a looming AI bubble. More questions than definitive answers, but that's as good as anyone can offer.
www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default...
www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default...