Willsh
@willsh.bsky.social
John V Willshire.
Scottish, understandably so.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
Scottish, understandably so.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
Darmok and Jalad at Claridge’s.
What are you calling it?
Darmok and Jalad at Claridge’s.
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
It’s a bakery…
Spectre of the Bun
What are you calling it?
It’s a bakery…
Spectre of the Bun
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
It'll be a traditional British restaurant...
ENTER PIES
What are you calling it?
It'll be a traditional British restaurant...
ENTER PIES
December 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
Darmok and Jalad at Claridge’s.
What are you calling it?
Darmok and Jalad at Claridge’s.
Asked for Wingspan for my birthday, after years of knowing about it, but never having played it. What an awesome, lovely game.
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Asked for Wingspan for my birthday, after years of knowing about it, but never having played it. What an awesome, lovely game.
Mark Gatiss’ getting really rather good at this Christmas Ghost story malarkey… that was *great*
#bbc #ghoststory
#bbc #ghoststory
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Mark Gatiss’ getting really rather good at this Christmas Ghost story malarkey… that was *great*
#bbc #ghoststory
#bbc #ghoststory
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
Somehow, I think I’m still in #whamageddon.
December 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Somehow, I think I’m still in #whamageddon.
For the last twelve or so years, we’ve made our new tradition - #christmascheve
Instead of waiting until after Christmas Dinner to have the amazing cheese board, we make a big thing of it on Christmas Eve instead.
Instead of waiting until after Christmas Dinner to have the amazing cheese board, we make a big thing of it on Christmas Eve instead.
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For the last twelve or so years, we’ve made our new tradition - #christmascheve
Instead of waiting until after Christmas Dinner to have the amazing cheese board, we make a big thing of it on Christmas Eve instead.
Instead of waiting until after Christmas Dinner to have the amazing cheese board, we make a big thing of it on Christmas Eve instead.
Queuing for the Christmas meat
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Queuing for the Christmas meat
“Antony Joshua delights everyone by introducing a buffoon to reality, and then pays for hundreds of extra nurses too…”
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
“Antony Joshua delights everyone by introducing a buffoon to reality, and then pays for hundreds of extra nurses too…”
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
Good morning to you too, fella.
December 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Good morning to you too, fella.
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Pre-orders for Random the Book are now open: securityblendbooks.com/products/ran...
Random
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securityblendbooks.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Pre-orders for Random the Book are now open: securityblendbooks.com/products/ran...
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
Once again, broken by the end of It’s A Wonderful Life. I only switched on the last half hour as I was wrapping presents…
#dustyinhere
#dustyinhere
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Once again, broken by the end of It’s A Wonderful Life. I only switched on the last half hour as I was wrapping presents…
#dustyinhere
#dustyinhere
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I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
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The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.
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Year-end @alphaville.ft.com with the sick burn
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Year-end @alphaville.ft.com with the sick burn
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I've got a piece in the excellent new edition of the @designmuseum.bsky.social's Future Observatory Journal, on 'Abundance'—addressing what I call 'The Real Housing Crisis' fojournal.org/essay/the-re...
The Real Housing Crisis - Future Observatory Journal
The ‘abundance agenda’ argues to ‘build, baby, build’, but a country like the UK already has enough vacant dwellings to solve its own housing crisis and no emissions budget to build with anyway. Rathe...
fojournal.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I've got a piece in the excellent new edition of the @designmuseum.bsky.social's Future Observatory Journal, on 'Abundance'—addressing what I call 'The Real Housing Crisis' fojournal.org/essay/the-re...
Random, post Christnas drink *thing*:
There’s *something* that excites me so much about 2026.
Like a weird, inexplicable, Andor energy. This next year will be all you imagine, and more.
LFG.
There’s *something* that excites me so much about 2026.
Like a weird, inexplicable, Andor energy. This next year will be all you imagine, and more.
LFG.
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Random, post Christnas drink *thing*:
There’s *something* that excites me so much about 2026.
Like a weird, inexplicable, Andor energy. This next year will be all you imagine, and more.
LFG.
There’s *something* that excites me so much about 2026.
Like a weird, inexplicable, Andor energy. This next year will be all you imagine, and more.
LFG.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things