Blair McArthur
@noobish1.bsky.social
Kiwi 🇳🇿 iOS Developer living in Canada 🇨🇦. I love Tech, Music, Sport, Food, Gaming and TV. iOS @TouchBistro. He/Him. On Mastodon @Noobish@Hachyderm.io.
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It's giving
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's giving
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December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The new Twitter location feature is pretty funny
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The new Twitter location feature is pretty funny
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normal stuff over there
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
normal stuff over there
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Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
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cooked his ass
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
cooked his ass
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wow thanks nothing makes me want to go shop in a store more than being harassed every 30 seconds by people who will lose their livelihoods if they do not smile at me
good job Target u really figured this one out
good job Target u really figured this one out
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
wow thanks nothing makes me want to go shop in a store more than being harassed every 30 seconds by people who will lose their livelihoods if they do not smile at me
good job Target u really figured this one out
good job Target u really figured this one out
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This greeted us just a few miles from the Austin airport when we rolled in last night. Someone around here has been hard at work to welcome Elon's dork brigade as they arrive for the Tesla AGM 💀 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This greeted us just a few miles from the Austin airport when we rolled in last night. Someone around here has been hard at work to welcome Elon's dork brigade as they arrive for the Tesla AGM 💀 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
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NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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I tend to think most of the outrage targeted at the New York Times is dumb and overblown and that the opinion page in general is a stupid thing to get mad at. But what the actual fuck?!
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I tend to think most of the outrage targeted at the New York Times is dumb and overblown and that the opinion page in general is a stupid thing to get mad at. But what the actual fuck?!
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"i mean that from the bottom of my heart" the bottom of your heart is just a dark pit where your sense of self used to be before it got replaced by a weird parasocial relationship with assholes who view you as livestock
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"i mean that from the bottom of my heart" the bottom of your heart is just a dark pit where your sense of self used to be before it got replaced by a weird parasocial relationship with assholes who view you as livestock
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Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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Over at X, the everything app, the new (10 months) head of advertising quit today. He joins the departing head of marketing, the chief legal counsel, the CEO, and two CFO’s - all gone in the past few months.
Elon Musk is a genius, and it’s going great, thanks.
Elon Musk is a genius, and it’s going great, thanks.
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Over at X, the everything app, the new (10 months) head of advertising quit today. He joins the departing head of marketing, the chief legal counsel, the CEO, and two CFO’s - all gone in the past few months.
Elon Musk is a genius, and it’s going great, thanks.
Elon Musk is a genius, and it’s going great, thanks.
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🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🧱Lots of progress towards a unified, open source, cross-platform build system for Swift 🏗️
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
Here's the latest project update: forums.swift.org/t/swiftpm-on...
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
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Wild story.
The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers.
During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap.
And ADP has stopped sharing the data.
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers.
During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap.
And ADP has stopped sharing the data.
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wild story.
The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers.
During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap.
And ADP has stopped sharing the data.
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers.
During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap.
And ADP has stopped sharing the data.
www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
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Like I’ve been saying, every female profession is porn if you’re an attractive woman. Because, according to these guys, it’s not about your consent, or whether or not you’re actually doing porn, it’s about whether or not a guy who sees it is turned on by it.
October 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Like I’ve been saying, every female profession is porn if you’re an attractive woman. Because, according to these guys, it’s not about your consent, or whether or not you’re actually doing porn, it’s about whether or not a guy who sees it is turned on by it.
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Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.
Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.
Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp