NickSherrard
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Co-founder at Label Sessions - the world’s leading innovation expert network. On boards and things.
Folks, what are the best listening clubs youve come across? In person or online. I’m just kind of interested in how they are presented etc.
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@cityam.bsky.social
calling the CEO of B&M a lucky general. They are having a bit of a day of it as it turns out but I do think they are onto a winner medium term.
www.cityam.com/bms-new-ceo-...
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B&M's shares drop despite hints of turnaround from new CEO
Value retailer B&M has struggled with supply chain disruptions and wage inflation over the last year and a half.
https://www.cityam.com/bms-new-ceo-sets-value-retailer-up-for-turnaround/
3 months ago
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YouTube shorts now on 200 billion daily views
www.thewrap.com/youtube-shor...
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YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/
4 months ago
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You may now venmo the bride
www.thecut.com/article/buy-...
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You May Now Venmo the Bride
Are ‘buy the bride a drink’ posts the key to surviving overpriced bachelorette parties or just tacky?
https://www.thecut.com/article/buy-the-bride-a-drink-venmo-bridesmaid-bachelorette-parties.html
4 months ago
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The ‘tabloid for the social media age’
www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
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L.A.’s Literati Toast ‘On The Rag’— A Tabloid for The Social Media Age
Arty Angelenos swarmed Night Gallery, but where was promised headliner Chet Hanks?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/la-literati-toast-on-the-rag-1236264124/
4 months ago
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The rise of the ‘bro show’ on broadway
archive.is/2025.06.20-1...
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https://archive.is/2025.06.20-140643/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2025/06/19/bro-shows-broadway-men-male-audiences/
4 months ago
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The blank street coffee story
www.wsj.com/business/bla...
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How Do You Build a $500 Million Coffee Chain? By Selling Matcha to Teens.
Young people are obsessed with the private equity-backed chain, which has been doubling down on sugary green tea.
https://www.wsj.com/business/blank-street-coffee-gen-z-matcha-a1e249e1
4 months ago
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The new 80% rule in culture
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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The New 80% Rule in Culture
It's ugly out there
https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/the-new-80-rule-in-culture?r=3uvn&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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Iran self-sabotaged its connectivity to defend against Israeli cyber attacks. New subplot every time there’s a cyber attack here too just dropped.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Iran Shuts Down Internet in Bid to Tackle Mounting Cyber Attacks
Iran imposed a nationwide internet and telephone blackout, telling civilians it’s necessary to prevent Israeli cyber attacks as fears grow the US will join the ongoing conflict.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/iran-flicks-its-internet-kill-switch-as-cyber-attacks-mount
4 months ago
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The new Apple ‘liquid’ interface is a prototype for ambient computing. I cannot decide it if it is a good one yet though.
open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
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🔮 Living in the “gentle singularity”?
Ambient AI, fading clicks, Altman + a bonus Q&A
https://open.substack.com/pub/exponentialview/p/living-in-the-gentle-singularity?r=3uvn&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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‘LLM as operating system’ The thing is… before windows and browsers we basically just asked tech to do stuff for us. After it… does the operating system need much interaction at all?
youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?...
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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
YouTube video by Y Combinator
https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?si=CZA74QbNqvqnq5Zo
4 months ago
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Isn’t it weird that we haven’t really worked out how to handle sickness in digital work? Culturally or in tech. Email and slack just stack up on people. There’s not really a proper ‘out of office’ message or a digital ‘mode’ you can switch on to triage etc.
4 months ago
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I’m banging on about naming in the FT today
www.ft.com/content/ee9b...
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‘Don’t try to be a teenager’: lessons from Abrdn’s disastrous rebrand
Many attempts to create a fresh, agile image have failed but playing on heritage can be positive
https://www.ft.com/content/ee9bf2d2-4b4b-4ec2-818d-96ba31541059
4 months ago
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People are using Chatgpt to help them date
www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/chat...
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Is ChatGPT making you better or worse at dating?
Welcome to DateGPT. People in and out of relationships are turning to chatbots to help them get together, stay together and break up with their partners. Yes, it’s dystopian, but is an assist from AI ...
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/chatgpt-dating
4 months ago
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Anyway, I was just checking in on social media to see how the various wars are going. It’s 2025.
4 months ago
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Given the lack of crowds for the football club World Cup… this is surely pretty brutal for the R360 idea in rugby?
4 months ago
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Isn’t it kind of weird that there are so many articles about over-tourism and so few about over-landlordism?
4 months ago
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Have you noticed this Father’s Day how so many people are posting AI images of their dads who have passed? When there must surely be real photos of them. So the AI image is more like the memory than the real one? Or they don’t have access to the real ones? What drives this?
4 months ago
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What is going on with this logo?
4 months ago
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This talk of the social web does seem quite old now.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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Imagine if it was socially acceptable in normal jobs to just go around blaming your predecessors for bad things like it is for politicians?
5 months ago
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Trumpist candidates outside the US do seem to be bad at winning quite winnable elections. Is this because of the message or the messenger?
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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3 years old. What would change?
5 months ago
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Expedias B2B push grows
skift.com/2025/05/14/e...
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Expedia’s B2B Push Grows: Adds Flights, Rental Cars, Travel Insurance
Expedia Group is expanding its B2B products from hotels alone with four new products: Flights, rental cars, activities, and travel insurance.
https://skift.com/2025/05/14/expedias-b2b-push-grows-adds-flights-rental-cars-travel-insurance/
5 months ago
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Kudos right?
5 months ago
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Amazon want to use AI to make ads reflect the mood of the content they interrupt
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Amazon Hopes AI Gives ‘Pause Ads’ New Momentum
Amazon will tap AI in a bid to give 'pause ads' a new twist: new concepts that play off the show or genre being streamed
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/amazon-pause-ads-ai-tv-upfront-commercials-1236393751/
5 months ago
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Snap Map reaches 400m downloads
techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/s...
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Snap Map reaches new milestone of 400M monthly active users | TechCrunch
Snapchat announced on Wednesday that Snap Map now has more than 400 million monthly active users, a new milestone for one of the app's core features.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/snap-map-reaches-new-milestone-of-400m-monthly-active-users/
5 months ago
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Is the definition of taste going to become being uncomputable? Or at least will sophisticated taste be getting things that the LLM don’t ?
5 months ago
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I misread the Trump, Qatar, plane thing and just wanted to say that a library inside a £400m plane ie an excellent idea.
5 months ago
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Is Leo the first pope for whom we have a social media record before he took to the job?
5 months ago
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Is it not surprising that the 50 year anniversary of democracy in Portugal has been marked so little in UK media? A close important country and all that.
5 months ago
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The neuroscience of learning new skills
today.ucsd.edu/story/neuros...
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Neuroscientists Pinpoint Where (and How) Brain Circuits Are Reshaped as We Learn New Movements
Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than adjus...
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/neuroscientists-pinpoint-where-and-how-brain-circuits-are-reshaped-as-we-learn-new-movements
5 months ago
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The new amazon robot has a sense of touch
spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-stowi...
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Are Amazon's New Vulcan Robots Revolutionizing Warehouse Efficiency?
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a groundbreaking robot with a "genuine sense of touch" to revolutionize warehouse operations. Can Vulcan outpace human stowers in efficiency and creativity? With robots stowing ...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-stowing-robots
5 months ago
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AI designed DNA
phys.org/news/2025-05...
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AI-designed DNA controls genes in healthy mammalian cells for first time
A study published in the journal Cell marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that can successfully control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells.
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ai-dna-genes-healthy-mammalian.html
5 months ago
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Your gut microbes can make you criminal (sort ot)
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/09/1...
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Your gut microbes might encourage criminal behavior
Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/09/1116211/gut-microbes-criminal-behavior/
5 months ago
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Copyright does feel like some kind of zombie thing.
www.brookings.edu/articles/cop...
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Copyright alone cannot protect the future of creative work
Mark MacCarthy discusses challenges with the future of creative work and the current guidelines around AI-generated content.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/copyright-alone-cannot-protect-the-future-of-creative-work/
5 months ago
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Roam is cool. The one problem in it it strikes me is that once we stop working in physical offices we should be able to work more with people in other orgs easier. And this sort of blocks that.
ro.am
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Roam
AI-Powered Virtual HQ
https://ro.am/
5 months ago
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Solar farm installation robot!
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/l...
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Leapting rolls out PV module-mounting robot
Leapting will soon deploy a PV module-mounting robot at a project in Australia. It says the automatic installation speed of the AI-driven machine can reach one panel per minute, delivering an estimate...
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/leapting-rolls-out-pv-module-mounting-robot/
5 months ago
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Fancy living in a house made of of piss? It’s actually a good thing and possible.
interestingengineering.com/innovation/c...
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German researchers turn urine into green concrete similar to sandstone
Researchers in Germany have developed bio-concrete from urine, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional cement.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/concrete-from-urine-scientists-make-greener-building-material-using-bacteria-and-waste
5 months ago
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Apple’s appstore payments issues continue
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
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How Apple Created a Legal Mess When It Skirted a Judge’s Ruling
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/technology/apple-app-store-antitrust.html
5 months ago
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Less than half of Americans under 35 own a home
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/r...
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Where Can Younger Buyers Afford Homes?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/realestate/millennials-gen-z-buying-homes.html
5 months ago
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Kashmir is such a beautiful place stuck in such an ugly dispute as an accident of history. A war between two nuclear powers that with a border with China though. This is a real test of what the ‘international system’ really is now.
5 months ago
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I came here to say this ie. We just don’t say it anymore but this statement from the US president is just straight false.
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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The rise of the crunchy teen influencer
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
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The Rise of the ‘Crunchy Teen’ Wellness Influencer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/well/teen-wellness-influencer-health-maha.html
5 months ago
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Peacock launched an accelerator for creators
www.tubefilter.com/2025/05/02/p...
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Peacock launched an accelerator for creators. Now it's picking up their scripted shows. - Tubefilter
Peacock is picking up four scripted shows from creators it worked with as part of NBCUniversal's Accelerator Program.
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/05/02/peacock-creator-scripted-shows-nbcuniversal-accelerator-program/
5 months ago
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This woman has streamed her life dor 3 years. Viewers have got a bit bored. The internet is paying her $5000 a month. For her life.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’
A lonely young woman in Texas has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting. Is this life, or a performance of one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/04/longest-marathon-streamer-emilycc/
5 months ago
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This west village girl article is interesting on this whole agenda of the search for community
www.thecut.com/article/nyc-...
5 months ago
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Chatgpt psychosis
www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
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From the ChatGPT community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1kalae8/chatgpt_induced_psychosis/?rdt=58222
5 months ago
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
5 months ago
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Sad news for Darth Vader this
#starwarsday
#auspols
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