Tom Hannen
@tomhannen.ft.com
Video @ FT, before that BBC
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Want to preview WebM videos in MacOS Finder? This free open source app lets you do that.. Very useful: github.com/Oil3/Webm-Qu...
GitHub - Oil3/Webm-QuickLook-Plug-In: Updated November 12th - The original free MacOS plugin to play .webm movies in Quick Look Preview.
Updated November 12th - The original free MacOS plugin to play .webm movies in Quick Look Preview. - GitHub - Oil3/Webm-QuickLook-Plug-In: Updated November 12th - The original free MacOS plugin to...
github.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Want to preview WebM videos in MacOS Finder? This free open source app lets you do that.. Very useful: github.com/Oil3/Webm-Qu...
January 15, 2026 at 5:42 AM
But is trading in turnips in 'Animal Crossing New Horizons' a nod towards the Onion Act?
January 14, 2026 at 11:37 AM
But is trading in turnips in 'Animal Crossing New Horizons' a nod towards the Onion Act?
'Hob's Barrow' is the one I'd love to visit. 'Driver' on PlayStation with its maps of London, and @ultrabrilliant.xyz's trip to Japan to find 'Shenmue' www.thegamer.com/japan-shenmu...
www.thegamer.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 AM
'Hob's Barrow' is the one I'd love to visit. 'Driver' on PlayStation with its maps of London, and @ultrabrilliant.xyz's trip to Japan to find 'Shenmue' www.thegamer.com/japan-shenmu...
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Chart admirably demonstrating the climate trend
It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures
And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so
www.ft.com/content/e995...
It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures
And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so
www.ft.com/content/e995...
January 14, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Chart admirably demonstrating the climate trend
It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures
And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so
www.ft.com/content/e995...
It's leading to record wildfires, floods, rising seas, extreme storms & typhoons, harvest failures
And whilst the tech is around to curtail the problem, humanity, right now, just isn't doing so
www.ft.com/content/e995...
Two close icons next to each other in Mobile Safari. Bad. Very bad.
January 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Two close icons next to each other in Mobile Safari. Bad. Very bad.
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For this graphic we compare the terrain of the three most expensive rail projects in the world.
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
January 13, 2026 at 9:23 AM
For this graphic we compare the terrain of the three most expensive rail projects in the world.
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
“Play BBC Radio 4”. Alexa can do it.
January 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
“Play BBC Radio 4”. Alexa can do it.
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I don’t know Kemi. If the ministry of sound projected child porn on its walls I think we might shut it down
Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.
January 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I don’t know Kemi. If the ministry of sound projected child porn on its walls I think we might shut it down
Love reading Business Green for a dose of optimism, but this reminds me of when you tweeted that increased use of Vinted was a sign of more people recycling, and yes it is, but also…
January 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Love reading Business Green for a dose of optimism, but this reminds me of when you tweeted that increased use of Vinted was a sign of more people recycling, and yes it is, but also…
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*How about watching a machinist re-constructing an Antikythera Mechanism with period ancient hand-tools, and it's taken him ten years so far
youtu.be/dRXI9KLImC4?...
youtu.be/dRXI9KLImC4?...
January 12, 2026 at 8:31 AM
*How about watching a machinist re-constructing an Antikythera Mechanism with period ancient hand-tools, and it's taken him ten years so far
youtu.be/dRXI9KLImC4?...
youtu.be/dRXI9KLImC4?...
Feature request: a little field on @letterboxd.social so I can remember *why* I added a film to my watchlist
January 11, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Feature request: a little field on @letterboxd.social so I can remember *why* I added a film to my watchlist
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
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I’m counting a solid 70+ UK MPs who got blue check verified in the last 4 hours.
Are talks of an X ban in the UK getting serious? Prep in progress?
Are talks of an X ban in the UK getting serious? Prep in progress?
January 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I’m counting a solid 70+ UK MPs who got blue check verified in the last 4 hours.
Are talks of an X ban in the UK getting serious? Prep in progress?
Are talks of an X ban in the UK getting serious? Prep in progress?
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Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Banning X would have loads of upsides and really not many downsides for the government. The argument for shutting it down (distribution of CSAM) is incontrovertible, the people who are its most avid users hate the government anyway, and it would address threats to social cohesion and public order.
Followed by The Audition, The Premiere and The After Effects?
January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Followed by The Audition, The Premiere and The After Effects?
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If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
I installed Jellyfin and I’m rediscovering a gazillion old ripped CDs from my collection. Shuffle on Spotify never plays me anything half as interesting as this has so far. It’s really striking how blandifying the algorithm is.
jellyfin.org
jellyfin.org
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I installed Jellyfin and I’m rediscovering a gazillion old ripped CDs from my collection. Shuffle on Spotify never plays me anything half as interesting as this has so far. It’s really striking how blandifying the algorithm is.
jellyfin.org
jellyfin.org
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
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I think I'd like to hear now from some X employees about how they think the Everything App™ is taking shape. Does the new CFO approve of recent developments? What about the EMEA Comms director? Is the VP for stakeholder engagement still happy to have this company on their CV?
January 2, 2026 at 8:12 AM
I think I'd like to hear now from some X employees about how they think the Everything App™ is taking shape. Does the new CFO approve of recent developments? What about the EMEA Comms director? Is the VP for stakeholder engagement still happy to have this company on their CV?
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Researchers had people do a memory task, take a 10-min break (rest, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok), then resume.
Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.
Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.
Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions: Effect of Context Switching On Prospective Memory
Social media platforms use short, highly engaging videos to catch users' attention. While the short-form video feeds popularized by TikTok are rapidly spreading to other platforms, we do not yet under...
arxiv.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Researchers had people do a memory task, take a 10-min break (rest, Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok), then resume.
Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.
Result? Only TikTok wrecked their ability to remember planned intentions. After scrolling, accuracy dropped from ~80% to basically coin-flip levels. Twitter & YouTube? No effect.
If you have a few 11 year-olds handy, 'Heave Ho' for the Nintendo Switch is £9 and will cause *so much yelling* www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
Heave Ho
Swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs.
www.nintendo.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If you have a few 11 year-olds handy, 'Heave Ho' for the Nintendo Switch is £9 and will cause *so much yelling* www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
The great thing about a privatised rail system is that you can easily claim when your train is delayed... Be right back, uploading 16 PDF files...
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The great thing about a privatised rail system is that you can easily claim when your train is delayed... Be right back, uploading 16 PDF files...