Sam Tuke
samtuke.bsky.social
Sam Tuke
@samtuke.bsky.social
Open Source lover and Startup CEO
“She started by laying out an array of pornographic images across his desk.”
Inspiring leadership: a woman tackling a dodged, culturally buried issue with practicality. Solving for, not moralizing. Production of, and mass exposure to degrading #porn causes harm. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn
We’ve got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby Bertin
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Yes! Enable Dumbphone mode via a hardware switch: kill distractions and dopamine farming in an instant. That huge innovation plus the revolutionary supply chain they've developed over years. Amazing brand and product that's leading by example.
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Two of the most reliable forecasters of past financial crises now put the odds of a 2008-level collapse in the US and other G7 countries at 65% within 5 years. Not a fringe take. Worth hedging against? archive.ph/74kX2

#MacroEconomics #FinancialCrisis #RayDalio
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June 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Latest #ChatGPT update on Android removes speech timer, making #VoiceToText even worse. This keyboard app with 1k users and no reviews is an ideal fix. Faster than #Whisper. No time limit. Works in any app. Uses #Grok API. $3 lifetime & #OpenSource
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Dictate Keyboard (Whisper AI) - Apps on Google Play
A simple Whisper AI keyboard for reliable speech transcription and rewording
play.google.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Watch a pride of lions hunting. They don't use language but are coordinating intelligently. If language is not fundamental to intelligent behaviour then pursuit of #AGI via language processing is hopeless" - nice illustration of the #EmbodimentProblem archive.ph/wlNDD
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June 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Sad: Android has a *hardcoded* 256KB clipboard limit while iPhones are constrained only by memory. $1k+ Android phones with 12GB RAM can't copy/paste long articles, but years old iPhones can copy megabytes. 90s Throwback. Open ecosystem, you say? #Android #iPhone #FreeYourAndroid
June 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There’s something out there, and it ain’t just hyphens. Love the smell of dead extraneous punctuation in the morning. #gpt I'm watching you
June 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Shared a new AI prompt with the Lightmeter team: Immunity to Change Mapping. Helps surface why you’re stuck. I used it to unpack why I sometimes pick slower paths even when faster ones are clear. It came down to fear and identity.

lightmeter.notion.site/Immunity-to-...

#AI #FounderLife #SelfWork
Immunity to change: Immunity mapping process prompt | Notion
AI prompt to run your own Immunity Mapping Process. Inspired by the seminal book: Immunity to Change. For use with ChatGPT (or others) to run your own process to map your own internal conflicts holdin...
lightmeter.notion.site
June 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
TIL: mirror life, made from right handed proteins and left handed sugars could coexist on earth as an alien ecosystem. Touchable but biologically invisible. In Thalidomide: one mirror version of the drug healed; the other harmed. Pasteur discovered via light bending left vs right archive.ph/skmOh
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June 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Convenient, well designed tool for surfacing your personal #values in 20 minutes. I recommend setting a timer. Focus on what you /choose/, for yourself and for others. Not what life has chosen for you: www.think2perform.com/values/ #coaching
Values Cards Exercise | think2perform
Values Exercise Living in alignment is about matching your “real” behaviors with your “ideal Values.” Living out of alignment is a source of stress, dissatisfaction and poor decision-making. As the fi...
www.think2perform.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cool construction creativity and an example of aging populations driving unexpected innovation www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w... #3DPrinting #architecture
https://nytimes.com/2025/04/08/wor…
April 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice #AchievableGoals www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
Genetically modified mice have traits geared towards cold tolerance, in step towards modifying elephants
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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New version of tosdr.org just dropped 🎁

12+ years of the awesome ToS;DR community making legalese easy to understand!
@ToSDR.mastodon.indie.host.ap.brid.gy
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
'I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.
tosdr.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:51 AM
This way my album of the year. Just noticed it was for Pitchfork too pitchfork.com/features/lis...
January 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm speaking at #MotionLab Berlin on Feb 11! Theme: early stage startup sales & #pivot ing. I love the venue: it's a manufacturing co-working and hackerspace that's been home to some of my best friends' startups, incl. Bearcover.de & TrueMetrics.io www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fireside-c...
Fireside Chat #3: When to Pivot Your Business
Lessons from a Y Combinator Founder
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As the adoption of GenAI increases and models get smarter, is the value of human intelligence already decreasing day by day? All my async negotiations are now probably empowered by #GPT or #Claude on both sides. Whoever brings more human smarts now, has a devalued advantage Vs themselves in 2020
January 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"AI will take our jobs!" - maybe, but first it'll take the jobs of the children you didn't have. Which is a good thing unless you want to work an extra 5hrs a week, and retire in your 70s archive.ph/OVIt9 #birthrate #fertility
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January 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Hard to believe the EU single market could be getting even worse archive.ph/m7Lgg
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January 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Doing runway scenario financial projections for our #startup at the beginning of 2025
a man in a blue shirt is jumping over a pole
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is jumping over a pole
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January 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
80% of #VC & PE deals in #China include redemption clauses. When startups fail founders may be blacklisted, meaning they're barred from starting businesses, traveling, or escaping debt due to the lack of bankruptcy laws. “It’s not venture - it’s debt.” Huge competitive disadvantage. archive.ph/9c7xH
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January 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#Pitchbook are bullish on #VC in 2025 especially for #scaleups pitchbook.com/news/reports...
pitchbook.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"Tech workers now account for 1/6 of the top 5% of salaries, up from 1/20 in 1990. No single group had this dominance in the past... Today almost half of the top jobs require an advanced degree. And a huge section of the population knows from an early age they’re not on that path". archive.ph/gc8NC
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January 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"What appears on the surface to be a flat trend in #inequality over 20 years, in fact masks a growing gulf... If the middle class looks upwards, the rich are pulling further away. A top-tier life feels further out of reach than ever. But look down, and the floor is coming up fast." archive.ph/gc8NC
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January 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reposted by Sam Tuke
📢 an exciting opportunity to support nature recovery in Shropshire! Nestled amongst the Stiperstones and the Long Mynd, Betchcott Hill is a vital habitat for wildlife, including beloved curlew. But we can't do it without your help 🤝

www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/appeals/betc...
Betchcott Hill Land Appeal | Shropshire Wildlife Trust
Help us purchase and restore 50 hectares of land in the iconic Shropshire Hills.
www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
November 18, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Hilariously split reactions to Pump.co's (YC co. and Lightmeter supplier) cold-calling strategy on LinkedIn. A real prism for attitudes toward cold calling in late 2024. Props to Pump's CEO for a spirited front-line defense! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Kate McAndrew on LinkedIn: #yc | 111 comments
To the #YC co-founder that just cold called my cell phone and then hung up when I demanded to know how they got my phone number?? Just no. My personal cell… | 111 comments on LinkedIn
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December 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM