Here’s part 2 of this week’s Better Offline special about why the AI bubble is worse than the dot com bubble. I explain the mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of fiber cable - and how different that is to GPUs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Having ranted about camera-obsessives & the need to have a good eye being more important than the camera, I can only offer one suggestion. Buy a book of 18-19th C Japanese prints & start drawing them [in planes & squiggles]. Japanese art has a magnificent understanding of how the eye works.

“AI is simply surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand with some new methodologies, but still based on theft.”

I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds

Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

❗️REPOST if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

"In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled." @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/enshit...

My interview with ASIA www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceP3...

This is actually the fault of the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which unconstitutionally capped the size of the House at the 435 seats determined by the 1910 census. We have a legislature based on the year California had 2.3M people. Both chambers have shifted power from people to land.

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Rule 1: Troika always wins Rule 2: Never fight a comms war against Zelensky

Now that I have made this Bluesky we all share my only social media home, I thought it would be a lovely idea to create a starter pack for Buddhism/Meditation/Yoga. Please feel free to suggest more accounts for this starter pack. go.bsky.app/Tmrt5io #buddhism #meditation #yoga #zen #mindfulness

Wonderful film, not to be missed if you are in Italy. Beautifully shot, brilliantly acted. You will be entertained and learn some fundamental Italian history.

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“It is for this reason that so many people in finance, after achieving their fortune, become obsessed with wanting to be the thing they know themselves to be: a philosopher king.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As the old saying goes, England conquered Wales one village at a time. Because nobody would run ahead to warn the bastards in the next one.

HAPPY ZARDOZ DAY EVERYONE!

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

"But the majority coalition that elected Trump is not a fully unified one. In fact, there are at least four clear cleavages within that coalition that will have an impact on the second Trump administration’s Latin America policy." @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social on navigating Trump 2. Gift link.

Windows in one of the surviving watchtowers of the Maximian Roman Walls than once surrounded the city of Milan (Mediolanum). These walls date to the late C3rd AD and now form part of the Archaeological Museum of Milan. #WindowsOnWednesday AncientBlueSky 🏺

ninguém falou que na festa da democracia tinha tanta gente feia

Rhetoric vs reality in immigration policy: Meloni's government has considerably liberalised work visa rules over the last few years. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. 18 years ago today. The newspaper and the independent reporting it represented are gone in Russia now, too. Also today, Putin turns 72.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,908,307!

It seems pretty clear to me that the wind in the EU is behind the eastern economies at the moment, and that will have ripple effects out into the EU's political landscape that traditionally dominant players may find disorienting.

DO THIS IN LONDON

Linux Mint 22 is out. Downloads will be a bit slow. But there are approved local mirrors, and the ISO file is just less than 3GB. It's an offshoot from Ubuntu and provides LTS ("Long Term Support") — 3years. This guy has a good YouTube video on how to install it. youtu.be/_qZI6i21jB4?...

#OTD 15 July 1790 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

My new book, The Roads to Rome, is out today! Here's a thread with a few highlights of what's inside.

Bluesky thanks for Ukrainian language. You best