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...bad information. That requires people to do much more curation of their information sources than they have in the past. To me, that's the important part of the story, and it needs more attention. I wrote a bit about that, here: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc... (8/8)

How quickly does your induction stove boil water? 🤯

With only a couple of weeks gone already 20 councillors have gone from Reform. Wait a minute, the UK right-wing media were splashing all over on the front pages. The 2nd coming had arrived, and hounding the sitting PM needs to resign now. Let's see 6 months from now. Shall we.

harrison i’m so sorry for giving all the credit to mark hamil, i was not aware of your game incredible speech, exactly the hopeful but honest one young people need ♥️

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of Best for Britain: “Farage told us Brexit was the medicine, but the side effects made us sicker and, apparently, him richer - thanks to a £5m gift that could fund the average annual salary for the whole of his Clacton constituency almost twice over." Read more:

Once again: Jo Cox MP was murdered. David Amess MP was murdered.

Instagram ads appear to be pushing a glow-up for coke users and festival dealers, from "vegan leather" cocaine wallets to stainless steel straws w/ LED lights. They claim to be for storing "electrolyte powder" and snorting "cacao." Funny blog from @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/it-sur...

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We've lost count of the number of times someone has told us that "First Past the Post is not perfect, but at least it leads to stable governments." How is that going?

It’s so crazy to me that people are spending all this money to not learn anything. Just save your money and do what you wanna do.

“Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, ‘Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.’”

14 May 1944 | The main phase of deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Between May 14 & July 9 in 142 trains some 420,000 people were deported to the German camp #Auschwitz. Some 330,000 of them were murdered immediately in gas chambers. Our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

Farage after receiving his latest personal donation...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Question: why does 'Male' come before 'Female' in dropdowns? Last time I looked, 'M' comes after 'F' in the alphabet. Oh, yes - it's the patriarchy again, encoded in a computer screen... (Also: why is there no additional option? same reason)

The Navy SEALs example in this Forbes article stayed with me. In the field, hierarchy matters. During reviews, rank fades so everyone can speak openly. That flexibility feels increasingly important for modern teams. Worth a read if you’re exploring leadership and team dynamics →

Forget tokenmaxxing, I'm all in on teamaxxing 🫖 🫖 🫖

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Progress can slow in ways that are hard to explain. Small gaps add up: work pauses between teams, decisions go back and forth, and ownership feels unclear. In the 2nd edition of Team Topologies, these are treated as system signals. Get your copy here → https://www.teamtopologies.com/book

Looking forward to reading this book: Unhyped by Stuart Winter-Tear "From Hype to Hard ROI in the Age of AI" 📓 unhyped.pro

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees "...anthropomorphizing AI reduced individual accountability, increased unnecessary escalation, lowered review quality, and heightened employee uncertainty about their roles—without improving adoption." hbr.org/2026/05/rese...

“I don’t think training changes much”. I hear that a lot. People sit through sessions, pick up a few ideas, then go back to the same system, and nothing really moves. That’s why I focus training at Team Topologies on one thing: flow. Explore more here → https://matthewskelton.com/training

We would never give a human team unrestricted access to an organization. Yet with AI, this sometimes happens by default. That’s where things start to drift. Why bounded agency matters more than ever.⬇️

‘Ribbon in the Sky’, Stevie Wonder #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs #nature #sailing This is called a Circumhorizontal Arc, also referred to as a "firebow." It occurs when sunlight refracts through ice crystals found in high-altitude clouds, specifically cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Stunning. 🤩

I'll be speaking at the Northern DevOps & Platform Conference in Leeds on 19 May - "Team Topologies as the Infrastructure for Agency with AI" Loads of great speakers and panellists - see you there! 🎫 www.communitystack.io/conferences/...

Scaling is where most change efforts run into trouble. One team improves, but others can’t replicate it due to different constraints. The shift is to focus on how change spreads between teams, not just what works locally. More here → https://teamtopologies.com/scale

Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, now says “the tide has turned” and “we need Ukraine more than #Ukraine needs us.” Zelensky is no longer pleading for help on behalf of his people. Kyiv now offers the world weapons that work. Hot off the press 👇 nypost.com/2026/05/09/o...

I strongly suspect this is true of every field. There is what people think they know about it, and then there is what the daily experience of it for those who are in it. There is a wide gulf, and every one of those jobs is harder than it looks from the outside.

Just to be clear we are told this guy is potentially our next PM and look how shifty and indignant he gets when asked about someone transferring £5 million into his bank account. Watch Farage's tense interview over £5m gift from crypto billionaire news.sky.com/video/share-...

Mmm, petrichor 👃

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

The genius of this adaptation is treating hubris not as a tragic flaw, but as a hilarious liability. A hero who expects the universe to bend to his narrative structure is basically a prompt engineer who gets furious when the API turns his crew into bacon.

In Wigan, Reform won 96% of seats on 46% of the votes. In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @greenparty.org.uk won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat. We can’t let this happen in 2029 The time to change the voting system is *now* @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

Wind and Solar have saved the UK £1.7bn in gas imports since the Iran war began. Record renewables pushed gas generation to historic lows in March and April. Wind and solar have now outproduced fossil fuels for 15 months straight, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-win...

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

In many cases, AI productivity gains are a scapegoat to argue for layoffs that are done for other reasons. Possible candidates would be previous over-hiring or an unfavourable business trajectory. AI based productivity gains are mostly exaggerated nowadays. In the future? Who knows.

"the most effective teams don’t choose between hierarchy and flatness but rather shift between them, much like the SEALs." www.forbes.com/sites/london... Article by Nicole Abi-Esber, Lindy Greer, and Annebel de Hoogh

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough! In 2020, he identified the “excesses the capitalist system has brought us” as the root of our environmental ills...

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

If delivery feels slow or ownership is unclear, it’s usually not a tooling issue. It’s how teams are set up. The Team Topologies assessment helps you see where things are off and what to adjust →

It's not done ... Yet! I am literally writing a new book at the moment that provides a codified approach to human knowledge diffusion (and other things): Adapt Together. Stay tuned! 🤓

There is a large body of research available about the effects of outsourcing thought and understanding to LLMs. This can be avoided if processes of knowledge gathering are deliberately desiged to include phases of friction and human collaboration. Problem is, it is not done.

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