Drewsky
@afindlay.bsky.social
Londoner, news junkie, geek. @andrewfindlay on the other place.
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Excellent piece this. Sums up why I think more likely than not Biden will be re-elected:
The mystery of the ‘secret non-Trump voter’
[FREE TO READ] The former US president continued to underperform the pollsters’ predictions on Super Tuesday
on.ft.com
March 6, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Excellent piece this. Sums up why I think more likely than not Biden will be re-elected:
This is a great read.
"We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost.
We didn’t expect that it would go mad."
We didn’t expect that it would go mad."
Death, Lonely Death
Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early Septe…
crookedtimber.org
February 22, 2024 at 8:17 AM
This is a great read.
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Uh, I choose cow
February 8, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Uh, I choose cow
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It’s really wild how Gary is great at making comedy out of serious topics and also is great at doing the silliest shit ever. Time to post this again!!!
Gary Gulman On How The States Got Their Abbreviations | CONAN on TBS
Gary recounts the thrilling tale of how postal code abbreviations came to be.Subscribe to watch more Team Coco videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi7GJN...
m.youtube.com
February 14, 2024 at 4:07 AM
It’s really wild how Gary is great at making comedy out of serious topics and also is great at doing the silliest shit ever. Time to post this again!!!
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I do wish the weirdo over the road would stop staring through my window. It’s creepy af.
February 11, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I do wish the weirdo over the road would stop staring through my window. It’s creepy af.
I do wish the weirdo over the road would stop staring through my window. It’s creepy af.
February 11, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I do wish the weirdo over the road would stop staring through my window. It’s creepy af.
Exciting times for the opening up of Bluesky, the first spambot I’ve seen here.
February 7, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Exciting times for the opening up of Bluesky, the first spambot I’ve seen here.
I have a new life goal.
Professional house sitter mostly hired by the rich to watch their homes & pets while they're abroad. Rich people really are wired differently & have/do weird shit. Like one time there was family that had a massive a portrait of them covering a whole wall but the dad was a centaur
January 30, 2024 at 7:04 PM
I have a new life goal.
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Nice article from PC Gamer: www.pcgamer.com/the-wordle-o...
The Wordle of 2014 is coming to Steam in February
Threes!, the big-hit mobile game of a decade ago, is celebrating its 10th anniversary by finally launching, officially, on PC.
www.pcgamer.com
January 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Nice article from PC Gamer: www.pcgamer.com/the-wordle-o...
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Fair play, this is a good line from this unnamed Tory MP.
January 28, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Fair play, this is a good line from this unnamed Tory MP.
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the boeing situation is depressing for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that proper old school safety engineering cultures should be having a moment, in light of all the techbro "what if safety critical hardware were actually like software" foolishness
We All Live In A Carbon Fiber Submarine
Captain Elon And The Search For A Fragile Future.
niedermeyer.io
January 24, 2024 at 6:40 PM
the boeing situation is depressing for a lot of reasons, but a big one is that proper old school safety engineering cultures should be having a moment, in light of all the techbro "what if safety critical hardware were actually like software" foolishness
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Hi! I recorded a little mini-special called “Trauma Response” with Don’t Tell Comedy! I am really proud of these jokes, and I hope you enjoy them! It would really mean a lot to me if you’d watch the set and comment share it if you like it! Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpq...
January 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Hi! I recorded a little mini-special called “Trauma Response” with Don’t Tell Comedy! I am really proud of these jokes, and I hope you enjoy them! It would really mean a lot to me if you’d watch the set and comment share it if you like it! Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTpq...
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January 17, 2024 at 6:57 AM
This is objectively hilarious.
Sunak not even being preferred PM in his own very safe seat is not the ideal position to enter a prospective election year (Focaldata MRP data via The Sunday Times).
December 30, 2023 at 11:35 PM
This is objectively hilarious.
GB News Is going to have about as much influence on the beat election as I will on the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Inside GB News's plan to use Boris Johnson to influence the Red Wall in election
GB News believe it can play a 'decisive role' in a general election which could be decided in English Red Wall towns
inews.co.uk
December 27, 2023 at 2:31 PM
GB News Is going to have about as much influence on the beat election as I will on the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Everyone wants to leave Twitter. Bluesky is an alternative - but why haven't we leapt there yet? For @fastcompany.bsky.social, story 524 of the year, I spoke to folks at Bluesky about why they're building something bigger www.fastcompany.com/91002426/eve...
fastcompany.com
www.fastcompany.com
December 22, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Everyone wants to leave Twitter. Bluesky is an alternative - but why haven't we leapt there yet? For @fastcompany.bsky.social, story 524 of the year, I spoke to folks at Bluesky about why they're building something bigger www.fastcompany.com/91002426/eve...
Amazing work Tories. Beyond satire.
December 20, 2023 at 11:37 PM
Amazing work Tories. Beyond satire.
That’s one definition of move fast and break things, I guess.
guys you're not gonna believe this but it turns out Teslas have a habit of falling to bits while people are driving them www.reuters.com/investigates...
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2023 at 9:28 PM
That’s one definition of move fast and break things, I guess.
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Less than a year now to the end of this 2019 Parliament, by automatic operation of law.
This means that the government has less than a year to get any new primary legislation through parliament, and with no scope for using Parliament Acts to defy the Lords.
The end is in sight.
This means that the government has less than a year to get any new primary legislation through parliament, and with no scope for using Parliament Acts to defy the Lords.
The end is in sight.
December 20, 2023 at 8:14 AM
Less than a year now to the end of this 2019 Parliament, by automatic operation of law.
This means that the government has less than a year to get any new primary legislation through parliament, and with no scope for using Parliament Acts to defy the Lords.
The end is in sight.
This means that the government has less than a year to get any new primary legislation through parliament, and with no scope for using Parliament Acts to defy the Lords.
The end is in sight.
Ed Zitron remains the best commentator on the world of tech and nobody else comes close.
My last newsletter of the year: Marc Andreessen's "Software Is Eating The World" mentality is responsible for every problem in tech since 2011 - and if we want to save the tech industry, we must reject him and the e/acc "growth at all costs" death cult.
tinyurl.com/wyat121823
tinyurl.com/wyat121823
Software Is Beating The World
Editor’s Note: Due to the length of this piece, you may need to click a button to read the whole thing in your email. Every single stupid, loathsome, and ugly story in tech is a result of the fundam...
tinyurl.com
December 18, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Ed Zitron remains the best commentator on the world of tech and nobody else comes close.