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This is a fantastic story of how 20 years ago today London's bus drivers came to work after the 7/7 attacks, and made sure that Londoners could get home.
One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day:
The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night.
And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1
The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night.
And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1
July 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a fantastic story of how 20 years ago today London's bus drivers came to work after the 7/7 attacks, and made sure that Londoners could get home.
This tickles the language geek/word nerd part of my brain in a nice, tingly kind of way…
aaronson.org/blog/square-...
aaronson.org/blog/square-...
Square Theory
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...
aaronson.org
July 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This tickles the language geek/word nerd part of my brain in a nice, tingly kind of way…
aaronson.org/blog/square-...
aaronson.org/blog/square-...
This is nuts.
Venture Capital Is Going Great pitchbook.com/news/article...
the scam here is that VCs can't cash out any time soon on equity funding, but they can on lending
the loans are collateralised on Nvidia cards, that well known long term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months
the scam here is that VCs can't cash out any time soon on equity funding, but they can on lending
the loans are collateralised on Nvidia cards, that well known long term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months
AI startups gobbling more than a third of venture debt dollars this year - PitchBook
Venture debt activity has soared, setting a record in 2024.
pitchbook.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is nuts.
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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I've written two articles about my task management tool. The first one focused on why it's important that we can build our own tools with ease, and not be subject to some growth hacking/user maxxing dweeb whose interests are not aligned with our own: www.techdirt.com/2025/06/03/s...
Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
This is part one of a two-part series on using AI tools as one piece to fight back against tech company control of our lives. Part two shares the details of how I built my own task management tool …
www.techdirt.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I've written two articles about my task management tool. The first one focused on why it's important that we can build our own tools with ease, and not be subject to some growth hacking/user maxxing dweeb whose interests are not aligned with our own: www.techdirt.com/2025/06/03/s...
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Love the teacher who says it is like sending a robot to lift weights for you at the gym.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Love the teacher who says it is like sending a robot to lift weights for you at the gym.
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Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
May 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
We tend to judge our own culture by the best it has to offer, while judging others’ by their worst.
It’s only by taking a long, hard look at the kind of thing our society tolerates that we get a true picture of our own culture.
Take a long, hard look at Gloucester City’s cheesy chips.
It’s only by taking a long, hard look at the kind of thing our society tolerates that we get a true picture of our own culture.
Take a long, hard look at Gloucester City’s cheesy chips.
This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We tend to judge our own culture by the best it has to offer, while judging others’ by their worst.
It’s only by taking a long, hard look at the kind of thing our society tolerates that we get a true picture of our own culture.
Take a long, hard look at Gloucester City’s cheesy chips.
It’s only by taking a long, hard look at the kind of thing our society tolerates that we get a true picture of our own culture.
Take a long, hard look at Gloucester City’s cheesy chips.
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Linda Yaccarino from X addressed the most senior people in the UK advertising industry last night.
One person described her talk to me as “brazen lies”, another said “it was like something from Black Mirror”.
It went down very badly away from the Fatherland.
One person described her talk to me as “brazen lies”, another said “it was like something from Black Mirror”.
It went down very badly away from the Fatherland.
March 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Linda Yaccarino from X addressed the most senior people in the UK advertising industry last night.
One person described her talk to me as “brazen lies”, another said “it was like something from Black Mirror”.
It went down very badly away from the Fatherland.
One person described her talk to me as “brazen lies”, another said “it was like something from Black Mirror”.
It went down very badly away from the Fatherland.
Can’t stop thinking about the opening scene in the Godfather.
“I believe in America”.
Bonasera getting rebuked for not having shown enough respect.
Making him humble himself, before agreeing to help bring justice to those who attacked his daughter.
“I believe in America”.
Bonasera getting rebuked for not having shown enough respect.
Making him humble himself, before agreeing to help bring justice to those who attacked his daughter.
March 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Can’t stop thinking about the opening scene in the Godfather.
“I believe in America”.
Bonasera getting rebuked for not having shown enough respect.
Making him humble himself, before agreeing to help bring justice to those who attacked his daughter.
“I believe in America”.
Bonasera getting rebuked for not having shown enough respect.
Making him humble himself, before agreeing to help bring justice to those who attacked his daughter.
Ok- reality and satire are officially indistinguishable.
Didn’t believe it was real. *Had* to be a fake. But here it is…
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Didn’t believe it was real. *Had* to be a fake. But here it is…
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ok- reality and satire are officially indistinguishable.
Didn’t believe it was real. *Had* to be a fake. But here it is…
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Didn’t believe it was real. *Had* to be a fake. But here it is…
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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"We're eating more cheese cubes - and loving it!"
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
February 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"We're eating more cheese cubes - and loving it!"
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
I think it’s well understood that computers are unable to handle lots of things quickly.
That’s why you should always turn them off at the end of the day and let them rest overnight.
But paper never sleeps.
That’s why you should always turn them off at the end of the day and let them rest overnight.
But paper never sleeps.
Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly."
February 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I think it’s well understood that computers are unable to handle lots of things quickly.
That’s why you should always turn them off at the end of the day and let them rest overnight.
But paper never sleeps.
That’s why you should always turn them off at the end of the day and let them rest overnight.
But paper never sleeps.
@whatleydude.com This looks… eerily familiar?
GAME ANNOUNCEMENT: FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE
👁️1995: A game releases, but is rapidly withdrawn.
👁️2019: Found in a thrift store. Something about it feels… wrong.
👁️ You couldn't wait to install it. Now? You wish you hadn’t.
WISHLIST: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
#Gamedev #Steamgame #horror
👁️1995: A game releases, but is rapidly withdrawn.
👁️2019: Found in a thrift store. Something about it feels… wrong.
👁️ You couldn't wait to install it. Now? You wish you hadn’t.
WISHLIST: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
#Gamedev #Steamgame #horror
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@whatleydude.com This looks… eerily familiar?
The problem when you think “surely he didn’t post that?” and checking to see if a Musk post screenshot is authentic is the torrent of shit you have to wade through before you discover that, yes, he did post it- and it’s not even the worst thing he’s posted in the last 24 hours.
Every. Single. Time.
Every. Single. Time.
January 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The problem when you think “surely he didn’t post that?” and checking to see if a Musk post screenshot is authentic is the torrent of shit you have to wade through before you discover that, yes, he did post it- and it’s not even the worst thing he’s posted in the last 24 hours.
Every. Single. Time.
Every. Single. Time.
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is real and coming in a few months! Bigger, new Joy-Con design, new Mario Kart shown.
Trailer: youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ
Expect a special episode of @npc.macstories.net about this very soon!
Trailer: youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ
Expect a special episode of @npc.macstories.net about this very soon!
January 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Nintendo Switch 2 is real and coming in a few months! Bigger, new Joy-Con design, new Mario Kart shown.
Trailer: youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ
Expect a special episode of @npc.macstories.net about this very soon!
Trailer: youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ
Expect a special episode of @npc.macstories.net about this very soon!
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If TV Burp was still going, Harry Hill would definitely have made something of this.
January 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If TV Burp was still going, Harry Hill would definitely have made something of this.
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If the government, with opposition support, doesn't close loopholes in political funding that allow Musk and others to buy influence, then they are idiots.
Advertising works - and the rise of online video means that reforming political spending rules in Britain is urgent.
Advertising works - and the rise of online video means that reforming political spending rules in Britain is urgent.
This may be the single most stupid quote I have seen this year.
December 22, 2024 at 8:22 AM
If the government, with opposition support, doesn't close loopholes in political funding that allow Musk and others to buy influence, then they are idiots.
Advertising works - and the rise of online video means that reforming political spending rules in Britain is urgent.
Advertising works - and the rise of online video means that reforming political spending rules in Britain is urgent.
Bias in writing is like accents in speaking- you can have all sorts, but you can’t have none, and if you think someone doesn’t have one, it just means they share your own.
This, courtesy of the owner of the LA Times, is the worst “tech solution for journalism” idea since the CueCat.
December 5, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Bias in writing is like accents in speaking- you can have all sorts, but you can’t have none, and if you think someone doesn’t have one, it just means they share your own.
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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My bluesky handle includes a handle (@Neilhimself) and my website (neilgaiman.com) and it self-verifies. Here are your instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4...
How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
bsky.social
February 7, 2024 at 12:46 AM
My bluesky handle includes a handle (@Neilhimself) and my website (neilgaiman.com) and it self-verifies. Here are your instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4...
The fact that I set up a custom domain name as a handle before actually posting anything or following anyone probably tells you all you need to know about me...
February 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM
The fact that I set up a custom domain name as a handle before actually posting anything or following anyone probably tells you all you need to know about me...
@fintasm.bsky.social Check out my fancy handle 💅
February 7, 2024 at 11:29 AM
@fintasm.bsky.social Check out my fancy handle 💅
Annoyed I couldn't get the @somerandomnerd.bsky.net handle. But happy that I could sort out @somerandomnerd.net instead.
(I would say "suck it, fake somerandomnerd!" - except I suspect there's a very good chance that I bagged the handle myself years ago and forgot all about it...)
(I would say "suck it, fake somerandomnerd!" - except I suspect there's a very good chance that I bagged the handle myself years ago and forgot all about it...)
February 7, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Annoyed I couldn't get the @somerandomnerd.bsky.net handle. But happy that I could sort out @somerandomnerd.net instead.
(I would say "suck it, fake somerandomnerd!" - except I suspect there's a very good chance that I bagged the handle myself years ago and forgot all about it...)
(I would say "suck it, fake somerandomnerd!" - except I suspect there's a very good chance that I bagged the handle myself years ago and forgot all about it...)