Willsh
@willsh.bsky.social
John V Willshire.
Scottish, understandably so.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
Scottish, understandably so.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown.
What’s in the box, Charlie Brown?
The horror, the horror, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure, Charlie Brown.
Firecrest in a holly tree. Kinda like a massive upgrade to a traditional Christmas Robin. And the opposite of whatever Liquid Glass is as an ‘upgrade’.
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Firecrest in a holly tree. Kinda like a massive upgrade to a traditional Christmas Robin. And the opposite of whatever Liquid Glass is as an ‘upgrade’.
What’s in the box, Charlie Brown?
The horror, the horror, Charlie Brown.
Open the pod bay doors, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What’s in the box, Charlie Brown?
“I’m the otter of all your pain”
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“I’m the otter of all your pain”
Ah, waking up to an England collapse. That’ll be #theashes started then…
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
Quote of the year, in this from @jim.londoncentric.media
www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
Quote of the year, in this from @jim.londoncentric.media
www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
Quote of the year, in this from @jim.londoncentric.media
www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
Quote of the year, in this from @jim.londoncentric.media
www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Playing around with the implications of ‘Laissez-faire Cognitive Debt’ because I’m trying to reconcile the chutzpah of the ‘sure, you should not trust any of this, but that’s your issue not ours…’
#cognitivedebt #ai #google
smithery.com/2025/11/19/l...
#cognitivedebt #ai #google
smithery.com/2025/11/19/l...
Laissez-faire Cognitive Debt
I have been thinking a lot recently about Cognitive Debt from one particular perspective; often the need for ‘thinking’ is not being replaced, but instead just reshaped and pushed elsewhere in a sy…
smithery.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Playing around with the implications of ‘Laissez-faire Cognitive Debt’ because I’m trying to reconcile the chutzpah of the ‘sure, you should not trust any of this, but that’s your issue not ours…’
#cognitivedebt #ai #google
smithery.com/2025/11/19/l...
#cognitivedebt #ai #google
smithery.com/2025/11/19/l...
That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
smithery.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
I have stumbled across Leonard and Hungry Paul on BBC2 and I am well that is to say I feel that actually come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it and I’m here for it one hundred percent. #leonardandhungrypaul
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have stumbled across Leonard and Hungry Paul on BBC2 and I am well that is to say I feel that actually come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it and I’m here for it one hundred percent. #leonardandhungrypaul
Grieving for the version of the internet where @iamdanw.bsky.social would give us daily ratings of Christmas fare.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Grieving for the version of the internet where @iamdanw.bsky.social would give us daily ratings of Christmas fare.
Ongoing reminder: AI doesn’t know anything. It just has users who should know better.
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Ongoing reminder: AI doesn’t know anything. It just has users who should know better.
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Latest newsletter from @willsh.bsky.social buttondown.com/artefacts? and reminded of Rutger Bregman’s Moral Ambition that people seek to be asked to act. How Mamdani asked for help and people gave their time and effort. 1/2
Artefacts
This is a newsletter is written by John V Willshire, founder of Smithery and creator of Artefact Cards. The theme is small pieces, loosely joined; ideas, observations, evidence and signals pulled fro...
buttondown.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Latest newsletter from @willsh.bsky.social buttondown.com/artefacts? and reminded of Rutger Bregman’s Moral Ambition that people seek to be asked to act. How Mamdani asked for help and people gave their time and effort. 1/2
If you forget your suit shoes for #newsnight, it turns out they make you do the interview in your PE Kit.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If you forget your suit shoes for #newsnight, it turns out they make you do the interview in your PE Kit.
Helen and the kids went up to see her brother and his kids this week.
Our nephew, 2, kept running into the room shouting “Gary Buckets! Gary Buckets!”
It took them a while to work out he was saying ‘scary pumpkins’.
They will now forever be known as ‘Gary Buckets’ to us…
Happy #halloween
Our nephew, 2, kept running into the room shouting “Gary Buckets! Gary Buckets!”
It took them a while to work out he was saying ‘scary pumpkins’.
They will now forever be known as ‘Gary Buckets’ to us…
Happy #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Helen and the kids went up to see her brother and his kids this week.
Our nephew, 2, kept running into the room shouting “Gary Buckets! Gary Buckets!”
It took them a while to work out he was saying ‘scary pumpkins’.
They will now forever be known as ‘Gary Buckets’ to us…
Happy #halloween
Our nephew, 2, kept running into the room shouting “Gary Buckets! Gary Buckets!”
It took them a while to work out he was saying ‘scary pumpkins’.
They will now forever be known as ‘Gary Buckets’ to us…
Happy #halloween
For all intents and purposes, Liquid Glass is the first piece of malware designed from the ground up and launched by the only company who will ever suffer its effects.
#apple #liquidglass
#apple #liquidglass
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For all intents and purposes, Liquid Glass is the first piece of malware designed from the ground up and launched by the only company who will ever suffer its effects.
#apple #liquidglass
#apple #liquidglass
“Yeah, rest of the world, your kooky little Cricket game goes on too long where nothing is happening”
#baseball #worldseries
#baseball #worldseries
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
“Yeah, rest of the world, your kooky little Cricket game goes on too long where nothing is happening”
#baseball #worldseries
#baseball #worldseries
I can’t believe we’re into the ‘but not all bubbles are bad’ phase of this.
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I can’t believe we’re into the ‘but not all bubbles are bad’ phase of this.
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Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.
October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.
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I rewatched some LotR on this flight, and man, I never fully noticed how little juice everyone has in this war. Ring doesn't do anything, Gandalf's magic barely detectable, Sauron's not even a guy. Replacement-level fantasy army owns Middle-Earth in 48 hours. I take no pleasure in reporting this
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I rewatched some LotR on this flight, and man, I never fully noticed how little juice everyone has in this war. Ring doesn't do anything, Gandalf's magic barely detectable, Sauron's not even a guy. Replacement-level fantasy army owns Middle-Earth in 48 hours. I take no pleasure in reporting this