James Stapley
@discusfish.bsky.social
Ichthyologist doing IT.
You could say I moved from fish into chips.
You could say I moved from fish into chips.
N E R D. R E I C H.
Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.
Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.
The early tech guys were hippie nerds who genuinely thought of tech as a tool for liberation. Very different from what today's Nerd Reich wants.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
N E R D. R E I C H.
Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.
Perfection 👌 10/10, no notes.
I feel like London needs a restaurant chain where you pick your food ingredients and they fry it in front of you.
The advert tag line?
See it
Say it
Sautéed.
The advert tag line?
See it
Say it
Sautéed.
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I feel like London needs a restaurant chain where you pick your food ingredients and they fry it in front of you.
The advert tag line?
See it
Say it
Sautéed.
The advert tag line?
See it
Say it
Sautéed.
USPS airmail is scandalously slow for how expensive it is.
"International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
"International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
USPS airmail is scandalously slow for how expensive it is.
"International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
"International Airmail Shipments usually arrive in 2-4 weeks depending on customs."
South Africans: time to find out if your flatties can pull this off.
"It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
"It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
Read more about these amazing flying spiders in this article. There is also linked video. #Aarchtober
news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/18/b...
news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/18/b...
Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests - Berkeley News
One type of neotropical spider is able to maneuver as it falls
news.berkeley.edu
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
South Africans: time to find out if your flatties can pull this off.
"It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
"It's not flying, it's falling with style!".
Yay, new @aptshadow.bsky.social day.
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Yay, new @aptshadow.bsky.social day.
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🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz.
www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...
www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...
A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective
Loaf and behold, this retrospective covers nearly 20 years of the Baker’s Dozen style annual ranking of the biggest ASes of the internet. In it we discuss the DFZ, de-peerings, and partitions. It was ...
www.kentik.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🚨Back by popular demand — I revisit the old Baker's Dozen blog post series 🍩 that my former colleagues at Renesys used to publish. The analysis ranks the top transit ASes of the internet but this time we're extending it over 20 years, using a nifty interactive viz.
www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...
www.kentik.com/blog/crumb-b...
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Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish
In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth
www.thetimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish 🧪🌎🦑🐠
Reposted by James Stapley
Reposted by James Stapley
Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
August 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
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Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
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Hey. When's the last time you thought about eels?
I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight.
Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art.
Get one here:
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight.
Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art.
Get one here:
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hey. When's the last time you thought about eels?
I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight.
Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art.
Get one here:
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I think you should probably think about eels every day for 24 days straight.
Art by the amazing @ehrenenglish.bsky.social
Learn about eels, support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, look at awesome art.
Get one here:
squidfacts.bigcartel.com
I feel like this product... will not do well in South Africa, other than as a novelty gag.
July 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I feel like this product... will not do well in South Africa, other than as a novelty gag.
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We've got 2 great talks this evening; if you're even remotely interested in network automation, you're going to want to be here!
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
This Thursday it's an automation double-whammy at #NetLdn
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
July 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
We've got 2 great talks this evening; if you're even remotely interested in network automation, you're going to want to be here!
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
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For anyone not at #NetUK2 today it's being live streamed via YouTube so anyone can watch indico.netuk.org/event/2/time...
NetUK2
NetUK2 will be held on 7th & 8th of July 2025 in London. NetUK is an open and vibrant community of individuals and organisations that are passionate about network infrastructure and wider internet tec...
indico.netuk.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
For anyone not at #NetUK2 today it's being live streamed via YouTube so anyone can watch indico.netuk.org/event/2/time...
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This Thursday it's an automation double-whammy at #NetLdn
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
July 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This Thursday it's an automation double-whammy at #NetLdn
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
Meeting from 1830hrs, talks start promptly at 1900hrs, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s
12a Finsbury Square, EC2A 1AN
netldn.uk/2025/07/07/n...
Looks like Little Johnny Drop Tables got some gene splicing from his parents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
xkcd.com/327/
xkcd.com/327/
Cyberbiosecurity: Advancements in DNA-based information security
Synthetic biology is a crucial component of the “cyber-biological revolution” in this new industrial revolution. Owing to breakthroughs in synthetic b…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Looks like Little Johnny Drop Tables got some gene splicing from his parents. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
xkcd.com/327/
xkcd.com/327/
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Hold on I need my air for this
June 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hold on I need my air for this
If you're feeling short of spoons, I may have the culprit.
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you're feeling short of spoons, I may have the culprit.
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This Thursday, the first of a new era NetLdn 2.0, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s, 12a Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AN
June 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This Thursday, the first of a new era NetLdn 2.0, at our new venue: Henry’s Den, Downstairs @ Finch’s, 12a Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AN
I haven't even finished Shroud and this arrived today. @aptshadow.bsky.social you are SPECTACULARLY productive.
June 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I haven't even finished Shroud and this arrived today. @aptshadow.bsky.social you are SPECTACULARLY productive.
... why do people keep building DCs in the boiling hot states?
Do it in a northerly state and use cold seawater when free air cooling isn't enough. Waste heat might even be useful for onshore aquaculture.
Do it in a northerly state and use cold seawater when free air cooling isn't enough. Waste heat might even be useful for onshore aquaculture.
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
400,000 of Nvidia's GB200 Superchips are gonna need a bit more than 1.2GW of datacenter capacity
Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to provide compute power to OpenAI from the first US Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, assuming the site can deliver enough electricity to handle the load.…
dlvr.it
May 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
... why do people keep building DCs in the boiling hot states?
Do it in a northerly state and use cold seawater when free air cooling isn't enough. Waste heat might even be useful for onshore aquaculture.
Do it in a northerly state and use cold seawater when free air cooling isn't enough. Waste heat might even be useful for onshore aquaculture.