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Richard Elwin
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Instant coffee tolerator. Dumpster fire explainer.
tweets my own
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Is it just me or is anything involving queues almost certainly not ‘Chaos’?
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Post your warning label
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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this is how I find out
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Had to double check this was real, but the CEO of Roblox actually said this.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.

the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ray Chung read this and made his confused face.
How was anyone to know that the bag of cash offered by the whaling and tobacco lobbyists anti-vax anti-trans guy was cursed??
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Some guy got in an argument with me about the impact of AI malware. He cited a MIT paper claiming "80% of ransomware attacks are AI powered". I glanced over it and burst out laughing, but couldn't be bothered to debunk it. My friend on the other hand, could. He roasted it so hard that MIT deleted it
Security Community Slams MIT-linked Report Claiming AI Power...
Experts push back on new claims about AI-driven ransomware, warning that hype and sponsored research are distorting how the threat is understood.
socket.dev
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Who’s your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I just Doomscrolled 770 meters and killed 96 monsters. How far can you get?
gisnep.com/doomscroll
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Subtly downgrade a band

Straightjacket Twitch
Beefalo Springfield
Lazy Horse
Subtly downgrade a band

Devilsthirdcousintwiceremoved
September 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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#nzpol What the poster says.
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The thread is worth a scroll
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Probably won’t need this again.
August 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and partners from over a dozen countries have linked the Salt Typhoon global hacking campaigns to three China-based technology firms.
Global Salt Typhoon hacking campaigns linked to Chinese tech firms
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and partners from over a dozen countries have linked the Salt Typhoon global hacking campaigns to three China-based technology firms.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Make a band food: Wet Veg
Make a band food: Soft Celery
Make a band food: The Rolling Scones
August 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🥳🎉🪅🎊🍻🏗👷‍♀️
August 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM