Hamid
@palestine.bsky.social
Proud Palestinian-Brit. Interested in everything.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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Yet another reason why a search engine without any ads is the way forward:
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February 1, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Yet another reason why a search engine without any ads is the way forward:
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For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother & midwife. Only later did it become derogatory.
More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...
More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...
January 13, 2026 at 9:46 AM
For centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended another woman's delivery. The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered support to mother & midwife. Only later did it become derogatory.
More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...
More info: www.historyextra.com/period/gener...
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Lord Darnely (husband of Mary, Queen of Scots) was quite the husband and expecting parent
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Lord Darnely (husband of Mary, Queen of Scots) was quite the husband and expecting parent
Yessssss. Exactly this.
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Yessssss. Exactly this.
What an utterly ridiculous hat. Puts a stovepipe to shame.
January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
What an utterly ridiculous hat. Puts a stovepipe to shame.
Amazon Prime Video riddles your feed with suggestions for purchase beyond whatever your subscription level is but it's practically impossible to find your purchases on the desktop app. Frankendesign.
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Amazon Prime Video riddles your feed with suggestions for purchase beyond whatever your subscription level is but it's practically impossible to find your purchases on the desktop app. Frankendesign.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Just finished William Dalrymple's 'The Golden Circle': an excellent historical argument — the kind that doesn’t hide its thesis under a pile of narrative.
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#ReadWithHamid
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#ReadWithHamid
Hamid's review of The Golden Road
5/5: An excellent historical *argument*. So often - particularly a problem with narrative histories - historical non-fiction hides arguments and analysis beneath layers of events or, worse, don't have...
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January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Just finished William Dalrymple's 'The Golden Circle': an excellent historical argument — the kind that doesn’t hide its thesis under a pile of narrative.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#ReadWithHamid
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#ReadWithHamid
Elizabeth I definitely loved a bit of the ol' twist of the knife
January 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Elizabeth I definitely loved a bit of the ol' twist of the knife
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I love that EFF knows their base well enough to lead with "we understand you probably already have a lot of polyhedral dice sets..."
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January 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I love that EFF knows their base well enough to lead with "we understand you probably already have a lot of polyhedral dice sets..."
@kagi.com hey folks - do you guys have a rough timeline for your Windows & Linux app releases for Orion? As you can imagine, I'm extremely keen to escape from the enshitternet.
January 6, 2026 at 10:14 AM
@kagi.com hey folks - do you guys have a rough timeline for your Windows & Linux app releases for Orion? As you can imagine, I'm extremely keen to escape from the enshitternet.
Have been inspired by 'Enshittification' to make a bunch of platform switches over 2026. Which, I guess, means I'll be using this place a lot more.
Anyway, here's a list of what I'm looking to switch from and to, piggybacking off of Doctorow's recommendations. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Anyway, here's a list of what I'm looking to switch from and to, piggybacking off of Doctorow's recommendations. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Over the Christmas hols, I read through Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' and loved it. I had a good long think about how I could start divorcing myself from the 'Enshitternet' as...
Over the Christmas hols, I read through Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' and loved it. I had a good long think about how I could start divorcing myself from the 'Enshitternet' as far as is possible ...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Have been inspired by 'Enshittification' to make a bunch of platform switches over 2026. Which, I guess, means I'll be using this place a lot more.
Anyway, here's a list of what I'm looking to switch from and to, piggybacking off of Doctorow's recommendations. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Anyway, here's a list of what I'm looking to switch from and to, piggybacking off of Doctorow's recommendations. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Happy New Year folks! I’ve kicked off January with ‘Thou Savage Woman’, a book about female murderers and this passage on ‘cruentation’ (the belief that the bodies of murder victims will bleed in the presence of their killers) is quite something. #ReadWithHamid
January 2, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Happy New Year folks! I’ve kicked off January with ‘Thou Savage Woman’, a book about female murderers and this passage on ‘cruentation’ (the belief that the bodies of murder victims will bleed in the presence of their killers) is quite something. #ReadWithHamid
Adulthood is watching Christmas movies and knowing Kevin McCallister probably died of asbestosis 25 years after crawling through that New York rubble chute.
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Adulthood is watching Christmas movies and knowing Kevin McCallister probably died of asbestosis 25 years after crawling through that New York rubble chute.
Just opened YouTube to look for any interesting documentaries on the Terra-cotta army in Xi’an and it’s just a useless pile of conspirabollocks. For Pete’s sake.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just opened YouTube to look for any interesting documentaries on the Terra-cotta army in Xi’an and it’s just a useless pile of conspirabollocks. For Pete’s sake.
Just heard that an old and dear friend of mine passed away. Eamon Downes gave me my first meaningful role in the business way back when and we had some amazing fun together. He was wonderful. I’ll always remember him with great respect and love. on.soundcloud.com/M1EpETaMHHOB...
Wuthering Heights - Arturino Talamonti
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October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just heard that an old and dear friend of mine passed away. Eamon Downes gave me my first meaningful role in the business way back when and we had some amazing fun together. He was wonderful. I’ll always remember him with great respect and love. on.soundcloud.com/M1EpETaMHHOB...
The DM has now picked up the 'too many blacks on TV' story, related to the C4 report, using so much of the exact logic from The Spectator that I suspect it was either plagiarised in part or heavily cribbed from. The Daily Mail of course rachets up the "woke" hysteria. Archive link: archive.is/TQXu9
October 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The DM has now picked up the 'too many blacks on TV' story, related to the C4 report, using so much of the exact logic from The Spectator that I suspect it was either plagiarised in part or heavily cribbed from. The Daily Mail of course rachets up the "woke" hysteria. Archive link: archive.is/TQXu9
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Yikes. That’s terrible.
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Study: Diversity in ads correlates to gains in revenue, brand perception
Those with the highest diversity scores showed an 83% higher consumer preference, according to Deloitte-owned agency Heat.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yikes. That’s terrible.
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
Guess he’s now tossing out the data that claims diversity correlates to gains in revenue and brand perception?
www.marketingdive.com/news/study-d...
This is *extremely* disappointing from Rory Sutherland. The article is here: www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-t...
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
October 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is *extremely* disappointing from Rory Sutherland. The article is here: www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-t...
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
Points to note:
* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary
* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black
I was middle-aging through various Reddit threads about home improvement and noted the near ubiquity - inevitability - of ‘your mum’ comments. I think this has become almost formalised as part of a 21st century chivalric code. Honi soit qui mal y your mum.
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I was middle-aging through various Reddit threads about home improvement and noted the near ubiquity - inevitability - of ‘your mum’ comments. I think this has become almost formalised as part of a 21st century chivalric code. Honi soit qui mal y your mum.
So I'm reading through the latest JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith 'Strike' book and while I'm happily surprised that there's no obvious racism/transphobia so far, there is this absolute gem from a German character: 'Der first time I came to der flat. Der vigs and dat.'
Peak literature.
Peak literature.
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
So I'm reading through the latest JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith 'Strike' book and while I'm happily surprised that there's no obvious racism/transphobia so far, there is this absolute gem from a German character: 'Der first time I came to der flat. Der vigs and dat.'
Peak literature.
Peak literature.
Whenever I’m on LinkedIn, I inevitably encounter some banal, depressing dross like ‘Thrilled to announce that we’re launching our latest case study, revealing how our business does business’ on first scroll. I immediately click away and spend five minutes contemplating life.
June 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Whenever I’m on LinkedIn, I inevitably encounter some banal, depressing dross like ‘Thrilled to announce that we’re launching our latest case study, revealing how our business does business’ on first scroll. I immediately click away and spend five minutes contemplating life.
I think the most sublime act of corporate passive-aggression is the ‘my calendar is up-to-date’ reply. It’s a polite power play. It’s practically impossible to respond to without seeming like an asshole. Do you yield to getting a CC teabagging or do you throw toys? A true white-collar snookering.
May 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I think the most sublime act of corporate passive-aggression is the ‘my calendar is up-to-date’ reply. It’s a polite power play. It’s practically impossible to respond to without seeming like an asshole. Do you yield to getting a CC teabagging or do you throw toys? A true white-collar snookering.