Reuben J. Brown
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Reuben J. Brown
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○ MA Investigative Journalism at Cronkite School of Journalism
○ Steele Fellow at Reynolds Center for Business Journalism
○ Prev. Digital Editor at The Architectural Review
I think this is the non-grammatical third or fourth guardian headline I've seen this week 😒
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
May 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Missed opportunity for Reform to not go with "Make England Great Again" hats and take the acronym MEGA ... MGBA hardly rolls of the tongue
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Intently trying to work through a theory of how Covid punctured the Climate Movement. I'm not sure *how* yet, I've just got a sense that it did; and it turns out the data backs me up.

Big levellings-off for a range of climate terms on Google Ngram post-2019:

(CC @climatewords.bsky.social)
March 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A yes, my favourite part of the 1940s: the 1950s
March 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I've asked ChatGPT to cite its sources and it's just given me blank bullet points and said it *has* cited specific sources but can't tell me what they are??? This some childish-ass withholding of information man
March 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
what does this graph mean I am dumb
January 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The problem with twitter is it’s still extremely funny
January 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So glad the facades got de-hospitalized. wishing for a swift recovery.
January 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As opposed to one of these unelevated bridges I keep hearing about
January 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
At least they're honest this time
January 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
These quantum computing naysayers really don't know what they're talking about because this New Mixed Use Development in India is using "quantum massing" to create new ventilation pathways and expand green spaces (I have no idea what this means)
January 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Because Claude can't generate images but is *really* good at code, it will (entirely unmprompted) draw you a little emoticon or SVG file of something to help explain what it's talking about. it's mostly useless, and quite delightful
January 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This, from Janan Ganesh, is very, very good. on.ft.com/4fYAsNJ
January 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New Zaha Hadid Architects Nikola Tesla Museum in Serbia – riffing on bits of Heatherwick and Grimshaw and Foster and the good-old ZHA without any remaining sense of an idea, panache, or quality.

Belgrade, I'm sorry you'll have to live with this.
January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Seriously, it's really good:
December 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Fascinating little stat from Sarah O'Connor here: www.ft.com/content/ebc8...
December 3, 2024 at 1:31 PM
LLMs really *are* the new call centres: both now experience a nearly eternal level of 'exceptionally high demand'
November 27, 2024 at 5:20 PM