This will all come crashing down when said investors eventually realise “AI all the things” isn't the panacea they presumably think it is.

Remixing in human evolution. loops and rivers in the flow of our ancestors - a million year clusterfuck. arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...

Life feels like a constant succession of side quests, branching off each other ad infinitum. I soon forget what the main quest was. Maybe this is OK. Maybe there was no main quest.

Up early with Charlie. Charlie is nearly 17 now

Please don't eat my swans www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrC...

‘Unite the Kingdom’ Sept 2025 was potentially the biggest crowd of people none of whom have ever taken psilocybin

‘It’s like a cry for survival...’

I cancelled this morning. I should have done it ages ago to be honest. I'll find the shows I want to watch elsewhere. www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-...

At some point in the distant past, when social media was still successfully masquerading as a Fun and Exciting Thing, I sync'd my Facebook contacts with Apple. As a result I am still getting daily notifications about random people's birthdays. e.g. That guy from the IT dept in 2002.

If all my friends called me a pedophile in my birthday book I'd probably kill myself too

Adobe have a team dedicated to turning "scrubby zoom" back on constantly

Hear hear

This seems important:

Only just saw that Jim Lovell had died. Master of the understatement. I aspire to have that level of calm, thus annoying more prone-to-panic people regularly

Someone has bought kingsize bed frame from me, now on their way to collect it... apparently in a Ford Ka. Hmm.. not gonna fit is it?

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Predator vs Crocodile Dundee

Liberal backlash to RFK Jr.’s deprioritizing of vaccine research fails to consider the perspective of people who love to be sick all the time

I'm convinced this guy i met on ChatGPT is a bot or something

I don’t understand, under any circumstances whatsoever, the throwing of beer. I’d just be annoyed.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Accidentally (fortuitously!) ended up in Amsterdam during Pride festival. Amazing party atmosphere across the city. Heard some techno playing last night and followed our ears into a giant street party, the likes of which British prudes would no doubt have been shocked by. Fun! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hating Sadiq Khan is a more reliable indicator for not being a Londoner than eating in an Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse is.

Spent a chilled out Saturday afternoon doing a DJ mix of Japanese ambient and related music, inspired by a favourite tune picked by @eliasdaler.bsky.social Clocking in at 2.5h 😅 with a few non-Japanese but related tracks thrown in there 😘 www.mixcloud.com/gingerbeardm...

"You've hit on a really interesting point" – All chats with LLMs, regardless of how interesting your point was

Why didn't they name the "very common household item" in the headline? Because they are using the plight of a three year old child as clickbait, that's why. I know it doesn't really need pointing out, but the Daily Mail are fucking reprehensible.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss with a great post on leaving tech https://jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/changing-directions/

Saw B12 at the Jazz Cafe last night

I left X a fair while ago but recently made an anon account just to follow a few specific interesting people who aren’t on here. It’s utterly terrible on there, unless that’s just due to me hardly following anyone and the void being filled with what Elon wants to push.

Worth sharing… glyphosate (weedkiller) found in many brands of tampons. I have no idea how affordable organic alternatives are. Industry standards clearly lacking www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/fe...

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Instant messaging apps need a feature where you can set a limit for number of texts any given person can send you per day

Took the boy Karting. It’s his birthday

So… much fucking about later, apparently Ring doorbell and cameras don’t work with IPv6 enabled on your modem. IPv6 was launched in 2012, guys

93 'Til Infinity: “Sometimes it gets a little hectic out there” Yep, it did.

I also no longer have my own personal train www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Did we ever even find out how much RAM Hunter Biden's laptop had

In Wales for a few more hours. Been nice #wales #cymru

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

This is the last thing the BBC needs

Recently signed back up for Spotify but regretting it because it keeps trying to make me watch / listen to Joe Rogan. It even autoplayed Joe Rogan after an album finished. Seems no way to block it? Complete show stopper for me. Back to Apple Music if that guy's face is going to keep popping up.

This is a Fully Red State. Americans are mobilizing and its beautiful.

Stamford Meadows

Not been on here much. Life getting in the way of social media. Hope your 2025 is going well. Friday innit?

Interesting how when you make a card payment they take the money from your account in 0.00004 seconds, but a refund will take until the end of the next lunar cycle to clear

It’s Pride month, so time for a certain contingent to get angry about rainbows and kindness