Rob Hyde
@rob-hyde.bsky.social
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Really recommend reading this piece by @kissane.myatproto.social if you are about the future of social media and decentralized networks. This piece is not just about Trump's arrival on Bluesky; it's about the state of play for the open networking sector, and the political risks it faces.
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press
The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.
www.techpolicy.press
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really recommend reading this piece by @kissane.myatproto.social if you are about the future of social media and decentralized networks. This piece is not just about Trump's arrival on Bluesky; it's about the state of play for the open networking sector, and the political risks it faces.
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.
My letter in the Oxford Times today
My letter in the Oxford Times today
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic.
My letter in the Oxford Times today
My letter in the Oxford Times today
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Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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“MPs are struggling to find anywhere on the internet that isn’t hostile territory. The online right monopolises X and are dominant on YouTube. On TikTok, neither the online left nor online right has much need for or interest in members of parliament.”
Social media has ruined politics
The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderates off the platforms. This can’t go on
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“MPs are struggling to find anywhere on the internet that isn’t hostile territory. The online right monopolises X and are dominant on YouTube. On TikTok, neither the online left nor online right has much need for or interest in members of parliament.”
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🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.
Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.
But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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When traffic flow is more or less continuous, the same number of drivers are going to wait briefly when the lights change. So why not have lights change immediately? Why does it matter which specific drivers are the ones waiting?
How long are you waiting to cross the road? 🚦
Research shows that after 30 seconds pedestrians are more likely to run out of patience and risk crossing the road before the signals change.
Discover our resources for #BetterCrossings 🚶
Research shows that after 30 seconds pedestrians are more likely to run out of patience and risk crossing the road before the signals change.
Discover our resources for #BetterCrossings 🚶
August 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
When traffic flow is more or less continuous, the same number of drivers are going to wait briefly when the lights change. So why not have lights change immediately? Why does it matter which specific drivers are the ones waiting?
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Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
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📆1 year ago, "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" hit the shelves.
It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates...
bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates...
bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
June 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📆1 year ago, "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" hit the shelves.
It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates...
bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates...
bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Sigh.
As @timmorton2.bsky.social notes downthread, the average custodial sentence for causing death by dangerous driving (of a motor vehicle) in 2020, was just over four years.
As @timmorton2.bsky.social notes downthread, the average custodial sentence for causing death by dangerous driving (of a motor vehicle) in 2020, was just over four years.
April 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Sigh.
As @timmorton2.bsky.social notes downthread, the average custodial sentence for causing death by dangerous driving (of a motor vehicle) in 2020, was just over four years.
As @timmorton2.bsky.social notes downthread, the average custodial sentence for causing death by dangerous driving (of a motor vehicle) in 2020, was just over four years.
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The propaganda campaign to reframe studying mis/disinfo as part of some “censorship industrial complex” to suppress the right was phenomenally effective - bc academia treated it as a debate ab facts, not a power game. Stanford botched the war for public opinion, thought status quo would hold.
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The propaganda campaign to reframe studying mis/disinfo as part of some “censorship industrial complex” to suppress the right was phenomenally effective - bc academia treated it as a debate ab facts, not a power game. Stanford botched the war for public opinion, thought status quo would hold.
"A cryptocurrency conference in Bedford" is very Alan Partridge.
"Sue Lawley has pulled out" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Sue Lawley has pulled out" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media
Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"A cryptocurrency conference in Bedford" is very Alan Partridge.
"Sue Lawley has pulled out" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Sue Lawley has pulled out" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
$hopping, a film about ram raiding starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost. I think it was aiming for a Bladerunner vibe but all I remember is it had an Orbital track on the soundtrack and some absolutely terrible dialogue.
Blue Juice (1995) with Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Pertwee. Everyone in West Cornwall went to see it as they almost certainly knew some of the extras and definitely knew the locations. It was like Jurassic Park in West Cornwall, receits-wise, and empty theatres everywhere else because it was shit.
March 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
$hopping, a film about ram raiding starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost. I think it was aiming for a Bladerunner vibe but all I remember is it had an Orbital track on the soundtrack and some absolutely terrible dialogue.
I'm now 'A band I enjoy seeing are playing on a Monday night? You must be joking' years old.
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I'm now 'A band I enjoy seeing are playing on a Monday night? You must be joking' years old.
20m people have clearly beaten me to the scoop here but Dua Lipa with a pleasingly motorik band in a pub in Hamburg nearly 10 years ago is such a jam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OF...
Dua Lipa "Be the one" live @ Inas Nacht 17.7.2016
YouTube video by Steffi Gold
www.youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
20m people have clearly beaten me to the scoop here but Dua Lipa with a pleasingly motorik band in a pub in Hamburg nearly 10 years ago is such a jam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OF...
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Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers
February 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Andrew Tate being allowed to come to the U.S. and avoid facing trial for sex trafficking in Romania is beyond stomach-churning. This man is a HUGE influencer and uses his platform/following to further abuse women who have accused him. Now he won’t face justice, reaffirming his lies to his followers
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...