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Designer/ceramicist/web explorer Proper into: Climbing 🧗🏻♂️/ Spurs ⚽️ / Design 📱
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Looking for something to read over lunch? I've written some words on what I think happened to the internet and why we should use AI to overthrow the billionaires.
www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/Brea...
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Breathe Right and You'll Change Everything
The web we were promised, the web we got, and our brief opportunity to build the web we deserve.
https://www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/BreatheRightAndYoullChangeEverything
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James Medlock
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Pavel
16 days ago
Apologizing to Sid Meier for my previous claims that Axeman units defeating jets in combat was "unrealistic"
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JA Westenberg
16 days ago
Every "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy
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Tim Bale
28 days ago
The 21st century equivalent of 'My grandad smoked 60 a day and lived until he was a hundred.'
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I skipped university - at 32 I've bought a house, my graduate friends work in Tesco
Nearly three-quarters of Gen Z are open to starting their own business, and some are skipping higher education to do so
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/skipped-university-bought-house-friends-work-tesco-4342617
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Brooke
29 days ago
❤️❤️❤️
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Brimful Of Asha meaning explained – Cornershop (Official Website)
https://www.cornershop.com/2012/01/brimful-explained
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot: During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.
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Pavel
about 1 month ago
not even software works like software otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the
#Artemis
II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
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Patrick Monahan
6 months ago
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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Ann M. Lipton
about 1 month ago
this is the most meta thing i've ever seen
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John Skiles Skinner
about 2 months ago
The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable
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Stefan Magdalinski
over 1 year ago
We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿
about 2 months ago
Love your work,
@propublica.org
! But, there's no ProPublica journalism without journalists! Pay your workers 21st century level salaries + benefits. With $98 million stashed in the bank, you can afford it! ProPublica takes in $18 million/year more in donations than expenses!
@propublicaguild.org
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konnaire
about 2 months ago
LinkedIn chuds will post things like 'It's like nowhere else, here's some perks of working at Scrongle dot io' and it's just 8 white dudes squinting at their laptops on a rooftop in East London?
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Ben
about 2 months ago
Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg
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I never, ever, want to open a link using an in-app browser btw
about 2 months ago
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Erin Fogg says Free Link
about 2 months ago
I think it's probably fine to put the chatbot that not even Walmart trusts inside the largest nuclear armed military on earth to the tune of about $200M, after all we all have universal single payer healthcare, free higher education, and a robust UBI
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Our agreement with the Department of War
Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
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Ian / Sìne
about 2 months ago
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merritt
about 2 months ago
Have a Fucking Website
www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...
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Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k
For fuck's sake
https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
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henry ✷
about 2 months ago
word of advice? drop the "the". just "Immense, Predictable, Laughable Failure". it's cleaner
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Ernesto Priego
about 2 months ago
A sample slide from my lecture yesterday. Should have added fun - but I did say "fun" out loud.
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Anuj Ahooja
about 2 months ago
D...did Marc just leak his system prompt?
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Pavel
about 2 months ago
Many predictions about AI are simply wishful thinking. "Now that AI is here, designers will have more time to focus on quality." Really? Is that what you see happening? Is that the trend, is that where the incentive structure is leading us?
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Robin-Yann Storm
about 2 months ago
Youtube thumbnails from ancient times
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“You’re right! I shouldn’t assume tables exist.” I had this exact conversation with an Oxford philosophy grad many years ago.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html
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Tim Bale
2 months ago
I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.
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JA Westenberg
about 2 months ago
All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds
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Oliver Bullough
about 2 months ago
I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?
www.ft.com/content/4493...
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‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban
[FREE TO READ] High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’
https://www.ft.com/content/4493a07e-25c7-4423-9f83-da95a1304bcc?accessToken=zwAAAZzmv6xqkc9Ek6B-JcdEI9Ofg9qVoTBLzA.MEYCIQDpf1vuwz6wjsyRMNIB9DzgmA5nr4TKeBHLg3a_KyufZQIhAObMRrAhdBG-hVNPqEykIuVxoRy0aoTXXQkXDmisVARY&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=ed6b0373-d1d0-4fe0-bbe8-74785efbf5f5
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Tim Bale
2 months ago
The Two Deprivations
open.substack.com/pub/parables...
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The Two Deprivations
Are poorer constituencies going green of turquoise?
https://open.substack.com/pub/parables/p/the-two-deprivations?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Dr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets
2 months ago
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
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Low Quality Facts
2 months ago
This is one of my favorite comics we've made.
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It doesn’t matter which side of the box you open medication, it will always be the side with the little leaflet thingy
2 months ago
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Chad
2 months ago
Every single individual who has been fined for copyright infringement should be given a refund now that we live in a world where that’s fine actually
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konnaire
2 months ago
Hello friends. 002 from Haus Von Kirschnell – our digital scrapbook – is live! Allow us to regale you with some tales of winter, fawn over our wonderful friends, food, and discovered sounds. With a guest section by my good friend
@mpinney.bsky.social
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vonkirschnell.haus/season-in-re...
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Haus von Kirschnell
From the desks of Emily & Konnaire: A season in review
https://vonkirschnell.haus/season-in-review
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JA Westenberg
2 months ago
The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint
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Sonja Drimmer
2 months ago
Thinking through something over my morning reading. I know the Discourse now is to debate the applicability of the term “extraction” to everything. I think it works for a variety of reasons & am glad to keep it. BUT sometimes what authors want to call extraction is just good old fashioned extortion.
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frank: print witch
2 months ago
this quote post is part of a vital thread of all the trans people I have met (bearing in mind we shoal together so that's loads), the one (1) detransitioner detransitioned because their family & friends rejected them, & they held huge sorrow about this. I feel so sad every time I think of them.
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Looking for something to read over lunch? I've written some words on what I think happened to the internet and why we should use AI to overthrow the billionaires.
www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/Brea...
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Breathe Right and You'll Change Everything
The web we were promised, the web we got, and our brief opportunity to build the web we deserve.
https://www.wehavethemegapixels.com/writing/BreatheRightAndYoullChangeEverything
3 months ago
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Keith
3 months ago
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
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henry ✷
12 months ago
“i pretty much never leave my house ha ha” because you’re scared the ghost of your young wife will kill you? because contact with outside air could aggravate your frail complexion? have some gall, some panache — make something of your withering
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Sam Rose
3 months ago
www.guidelabs.ai/post/scaling...
This is extremely cool. Guide Labs have trained an LLM that can tell you what part of the prompt was most relevant to each part of the output, what concepts it ties to each part of the output, and what part of its training data influenced the output.
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Pavel
3 months ago
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source
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Erin Reed
over 1 year ago
How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
3 months ago
the AI evangelists are not okay
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray
3 months ago
Every single person in the UK will think this is something else for a split second
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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙♀️
3 months ago
We do not teach students the right things about the Nazis. For example, on March 5th, 1933, Germany held elections. The Nazi party deployed SS, SA, and other Nazi orgs to “monitor” the elections This was done to “defend the homeland”
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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙♀️
3 months ago
we do not teach students the right things about the Nazis We teach them that they are evil and they did the Holocaust, and so students think these are exceptional things unique to the Nazis As well we should teach them about the Blood Flag, soaked in the blood of the Bierhallputsch martyrs
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly
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