The Trent Alexander-Arnold shaped hole in this squad is becoming very apparent #worldcup

proper test match

Bluesky loves this take but I’m sure it’s getting hammered on TikTok

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

Team USA will get to the semi-final

Anyone else remember Spangles, Rentaghost, Woolworths and Day 4 of a Test Match? #ENGvNZ

"Much online culture is industrialised rumination." substack.com/@andrewmarti...

euromaxxing: substack.com/home/post/p-... "Consider the thought experiment. Remove Uber from the world on a Monday. By Tuesday, competing apps fill most of the gap. Now remove Siemens."

I'm no Talleyrand, but if I had an archive of group chats where my ministers and advisors repeatedly describe me as useless, I might not rush to publish them. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a1d73...

Daryll Neita and @alexisohanian.bsky.social at #sxswlondon on the compelling case for investing in women’s athletics. The audience, attention, talent and momentum is there. The sponsors are coming and importantly, AI can’t replace it. The potential of sport as a platform for impact is huge.

This is the quartz crisis, but for cars. What's happening today to cars happened to watches in the 70s. EVs are better, cheaper, cleaner, but commodities. Top end ICE will become mechanical watches; romantic, luxury items. Mid market ICE dies. Luxury EVs are a bet. www.ft.com/content/8cbd...

This video is so late-90s coded I just signed up for a Natwest 18-24 bank account m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRAJ...

Congrats Turi on “Why we think what we think”. Humane, thoughtful, optimistic, a little bit strange. The book is too.

"Importantly, the successes were not defined by the participants’ existing credentials, but by the environments they built and the ambition they unlocked." ARIA Innovator Circles: aria.org.uk/insights/inn...

The more I use Claude, the more I think that they have promised Cordelia and built Goneril.

Give it to Big State til the end of the season.

A supercut of No Context Adam Curtis Intertitles m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAno...

Japan also interesting. (From US Naval Institute, 1949): www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

The new world record was like doing 100m in 17 seconds, 422 times

London marathon. Nothing like it.

"China exported 68 gigawatts worth of solar panels, cells and wafers in March, which was double the capacity shipped in February. For perspective, 68 gigawatts is roughly equivalent to the entire solar capacity of Spain." ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

"China exported 68 gigawatts worth of solar panels, cells and wafers in March, which was double the capacity shipped in February. For perspective, 68 gigawatts is roughly equivalent to the entire solar capacity of Spain." ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

The best keep secret in social impact? www.firetail.co.uk/news/sportfo...

It is exactly that. Dead Internet Theory is that social media has very few humans, and is overrun with bots. Bots respond to “charlie kirk shoots”, even when wildly out of context.

This is Dead Internet Theory in practice. Look at the engagement.

This is Dead Internet Theory in practice. Look at the engagement.

A close reading of Mr Beast, as turbo-Abramović. “This is the kind of personality that invents vaccines and proves impossibility theorems, but the things he got insanely invested in are (1) youtube (2) ethically sourced chocolate bars.” rottenandgood.substack.com/p/math-scien...

Apparently the band were named after this board game

I loved discovering this when I wrote an essay for the National Concert Hall ahead of his residency there in 2019. Along with this great little supplementary anecdote from his time as a white goods repairman.

TIL that Philip Glass and Steve Reich had a furniture removals company called Chelsea Light Moving www.laphil.com/musicdb/piec...

First time seeing a Waymo in London

A really well packaged handbook on strategic foresight by the Singapore gov'ts Center for Strategic Futures, reflecting their latest thinking and findings from practice www.csf.gov.sg/thinking-abo...

We're recruiting two research assistants to help us deliver "The IRL Trial" - a world-first randomised trial of social media limitations among 12-15 year-olds, and the effect on mental health. You'd be part of the Born In Bradford family. For more info and to apply: www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo...

Changing things up at @firetail.bsky.social www.firetail.co.uk/news/leaders...

Love the @banffcentre.bsky.social film festival and this film was amazing. Jasmin Paris is a legend: m.youtube.com/watch?v=PgTE...

Some thoughts on becoming a #bcorp www.linkedin.com/posts/andyma...

"But here’s the catch" in the middle of an article is just about the cleanest sign something has been written by AI.

For over 20 years, SETI@Home crowdsourced computer power to look for aliens. After a decade of analysis, the most promising signals are being studied by a huge Chinese telescope. I can't stress enough that the Three-Body Problem was not supposed to be an instruction manual. phys.org/news/2026-01...

Reality TV has trained us to blame people, not systems. Every problem is presented as a failure of character, and the only response we have is to vote them off the island.

Reality TV has trained us to blame people, not systems. Every problem is presented as a failure of character, and the only response we have is to vote them off the island.

The Candidate (1972) is a great film that ends with Robert Redford realising, a little too late, that winning the campaign mattered more than winning the office. www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...

"Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on" William Gibson,Pattern Recognition

Every Winter Olympian‘s bio during this opening ceremony is “The child of diplomats, he learned short track skating during his parents UN posting in Geneva. He switched to luge after excelling on the internal JP Morgan track during his internship.” #openingceremomy #winterolympics

Building out AI turns out to be so capital intensive that it needs to access debt finance. Diversified conglomerates are good vehicles for raising debt. That‘s the whole story. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Once you‘ve noticed this use of the word “wrong”, you see it everywhere: open.substack.com/pub/thedraft...

Early social media and blogging made room for the pleasure of observation as an end in itself. Today we have hot takes, hustle culture, performative outrage and AI slop.

The LinkedIn algorithm wants you to post three times a week, but the humans don’t

The term "big beast" is now far too casually applied in politics to both medium-sized and even smaller beasts. Stop the beast Inflation, or at least introduce a Beast* category.