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Wearer of hats. https://www.linkedin.com/in/basheerakhan/
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Also, why Peter Thiel made sure Gawker ceased to exist
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Also, why Peter Thiel made sure Gawker ceased to exist
Another framing of the toxic CEO problem - because they've never worked in a biz and learned it from bottom to top, they've never experienced the full range of human skill, craft, expertise and personality that MAKES the biz work ... Hence IMHO having a deeply under-developed appreciation for people
this is true, and it’s true bc the CEO role has become what i have been thinking of as “toxically professionalized.”
they don’t work in a biz and learn it bottom to top. they get an mba.
reading this 1965 book with interviews of ad execs who started out as copywriters makes me sad bc they GET IT
they don’t work in a biz and learn it bottom to top. they get an mba.
reading this 1965 book with interviews of ad execs who started out as copywriters makes me sad bc they GET IT
October 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Another framing of the toxic CEO problem - because they've never worked in a biz and learned it from bottom to top, they've never experienced the full range of human skill, craft, expertise and personality that MAKES the biz work ... Hence IMHO having a deeply under-developed appreciation for people
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A story in three parts
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A story in three parts
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🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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This is an off-the-cuff reckon, but it feels very different to looking back at, say, Cold War-era dramas, in which everything was always on the brink, pulled back at the last minute. Everything existed in tension rather than in escalation.
September 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is an off-the-cuff reckon, but it feels very different to looking back at, say, Cold War-era dramas, in which everything was always on the brink, pulled back at the last minute. Everything existed in tension rather than in escalation.
The Emperor's New Groove walked so that KPop Demon Hunters could run
I find it funny when an animated movie for an original IP that wasn't meant to be a big deal ends up making bank, and then every executive is left wondering how it happened. The answer is then always that the movie had a coherent and well-crafted story, looked cool, and had good music. Every time.
August 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Emperor's New Groove walked so that KPop Demon Hunters could run
Always looking up
flic.kr
August 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Meta explicitly enabled its chat bots to engage in sexually explicit chats with young children.
This company is fundamentally evil.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
This company is fundamentally evil.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
August 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Meta explicitly enabled its chat bots to engage in sexually explicit chats with young children.
This company is fundamentally evil.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
This company is fundamentally evil.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Is there a more perfect pop song? Discuss. youtu.be/6ihhJCPYHuk?...
Soul For Real - Every Little Thing I Do
YouTube video by Soul4RealVEVO
youtu.be
July 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Is there a more perfect pop song? Discuss. youtu.be/6ihhJCPYHuk?...
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This is a really lovely job posting. Sudowrite looking for a product designer who cares about building tools for novelists/fiction writers.
www.sudowrite.com/jobs/designer
www.sudowrite.com/jobs/designer
Sudowrite is hiring a Product Design Lead to reinvent writing
We're a small, very nice group of writers and technologists using AI to help authors tell stories. If you love writing and design, and you want to make creative tools, not B2B SaaS, this is your place...
www.sudowrite.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is a really lovely job posting. Sudowrite looking for a product designer who cares about building tools for novelists/fiction writers.
www.sudowrite.com/jobs/designer
www.sudowrite.com/jobs/designer
Yeah, this is going to make me ugly cry youtu.be/DRrcgLRX8Qc
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley - Official Trailer | Directed by Amy Berg
YouTube video by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
youtu.be
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yeah, this is going to make me ugly cry youtu.be/DRrcgLRX8Qc
Of the scant handful of things I miss about living in LA, this is probably number 3
From the position of someone living in California, where you can order online huckleberry chewy sweets, blood orange cardamom fizzy drinks or Aperol spritz-alike bottled beverages, all with THC in them, and have them delivered to your front door in thirty minutes, this whole thing looks insane.
With three of Britain's most senior police officers calling for a tougher line on use of the drug, what do Britons think?
Police aren't tough enough on cannabis: 30%
Police are too tough: 23%
About right: 27%
yougov.co.uk/topics/healt...
Police aren't tough enough on cannabis: 30%
Police are too tough: 23%
About right: 27%
yougov.co.uk/topics/healt...
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Of the scant handful of things I miss about living in LA, this is probably number 3
Cannot tell you how much I miss This Is My Jam. RIP TIMJ, you too good for this world, gone too soon
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Cannot tell you how much I miss This Is My Jam. RIP TIMJ, you too good for this world, gone too soon
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Please don’t use my friend’s name to make this point in this way, especially inaccurately. He was *not* sentenced. And the JSTOR articles he wanted people to have unfettered access to, including for purposes of machine learning analysis, are also copyrighted material. You can just critique OpenAI.
June 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Please don’t use my friend’s name to make this point in this way, especially inaccurately. He was *not* sentenced. And the JSTOR articles he wanted people to have unfettered access to, including for purposes of machine learning analysis, are also copyrighted material. You can just critique OpenAI.
I find no fault in the logic nor the reason
May 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I find no fault in the logic nor the reason
I've been on an intercity return train journey today that indicates railway SLTs would rather pay A DAILY FIXED AMOUNT in "delay repay" on EVERY leg than invest in essential staffing and maintenance, FOR EXAMPLE
May 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I've been on an intercity return train journey today that indicates railway SLTs would rather pay A DAILY FIXED AMOUNT in "delay repay" on EVERY leg than invest in essential staffing and maintenance, FOR EXAMPLE
God I pity the violins! open.spotify.com/track/5rSlEt...
All the Rowboats
Regina Spektor · What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (Deluxe Version) · Song · 2012
open.spotify.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
God I pity the violins! open.spotify.com/track/5rSlEt...
SoundCloud's recommendation algorithm is killing it of late - don't know what they've optimised but it works!
Listen to Hidden Orchestra, a playlist by SoundCloud on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/ZBanN4YSeVG4...
Listen to Hidden Orchestra, a playlist by SoundCloud on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/ZBanN4YSeVG4...
on.soundcloud.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
SoundCloud's recommendation algorithm is killing it of late - don't know what they've optimised but it works!
Listen to Hidden Orchestra, a playlist by SoundCloud on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/ZBanN4YSeVG4...
Listen to Hidden Orchestra, a playlist by SoundCloud on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/ZBanN4YSeVG4...
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When talking about white Afrikaners seeking “asylum” and being given the red carpet treatment as refugees, it’s important to recognize them by their newly adopted American name, Afrikkkaners.
May 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When talking about white Afrikaners seeking “asylum” and being given the red carpet treatment as refugees, it’s important to recognize them by their newly adopted American name, Afrikkkaners.
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“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
April 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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There’s some irony in people moving away from platforms with a bad ethical (and worse) track record and picking Substack.
If you didn’t know, here:
www.techpolicy.press/substack-fou...
If you didn’t know, here:
www.techpolicy.press/substack-fou...
Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis | TechPolicy.Press
Helping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie.
www.techpolicy.press
April 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
There’s some irony in people moving away from platforms with a bad ethical (and worse) track record and picking Substack.
If you didn’t know, here:
www.techpolicy.press/substack-fou...
If you didn’t know, here:
www.techpolicy.press/substack-fou...
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“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
April 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Hitting that 3pm slump hard after a night of insomnia. The Floating soundscape on MyNoise is - fittingly! - keeping me afloat. It's like soothing brain balm mynoise.net
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April 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hitting that 3pm slump hard after a night of insomnia. The Floating soundscape on MyNoise is - fittingly! - keeping me afloat. It's like soothing brain balm mynoise.net