explore vs exploit algorithms and all that, but Spotify’s Discover Weekly really needs to learn that I don’t believe in male vocals

the perfect caulk!!!

sensing that creatine gummies are just insane alpha versus the powder??? a chore just turned into a treat???

awooga ❓

I literally opened up Bluesky to see if SB thought this story was bonkers. Such a bizarre hook. Like they’re trying to make it ‘sound’ scandalous just to get a kite to fly… But it’s not windy and the kite is made of lead…

Claude has become catastrophically bad the last month. Absolutely shocking both for UI (laggy, huge memory leaks) and whiny, high entropy responses. What’s happened?

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

Which way, yummy mummy?

alright who turned up the cheeriness on ChatGPT 5.1? it’s like being trapped in a broken lift with an american

Every single British sitcom is the same essay on the class system of our society. Uppity lower middle class character tries to aspire beyond their station; gets knocked back by their nature; hilarity ensues. Blackadder, Miranda, Keeping Up Appearances, Watery Fowls, Not Going Out - same formula.

started an LLM conversation about the dynamic buffer chemistry of OEM washing machine drum cleaning granules and somehow ended up in particle and quantum physics, metaphysics, information theory, cryptography and n-dimensional lattices. i love an accidental deep dive driven by curiosity

i just need to reshare one of my all time favourite videos. what an absolute scene stealing, powerful queen. love her, love her ownership, love her authority in the face of such bland and limp disrespect youtu.be/lvMybU0WciM?...

not sure if I’ve been using it much more (feasible) recently but Claude token limits seem to have lowered substantially in the last few weeks. has anyone else noticed this?

note to self: think of a better way to mime to my bf ‘i’m going to brush my teeth’ when he has his noise cancelling headphones in 🥲

this week is sponsored by Ava Max on repeat we don’t stan this diva enough

(The logic of most anti-tourism or anti-gentrification arguments is virtually indistinguishable from that of anti-immigration politics.)

what is good for retaining customers (agreeableness, sycophancy, agreeing with cognitive and knowledge biases) is not good for thought exploration and challenging yourself in pursuit of personal and intellectual growth

them: make LLMs more uwu me: don’t tell me what I want to hear. back everything with evidence. don’t be sycophantic. call me a lil bitch If you need to

just discovered that the french call potholes chicken nests – « nids de poule » which I’m afraid is adorable

we’re about to see the most epic grifts of our era. strap in, girls

Perfectly put from @stephenkb.bsky.social and follows on from my piece about both the Tories and Labour negging the PMC groups who were their normal base before they went all in on retirees. benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

unwrapping new french prime ministers like mystery labubu boxes 💖

Just look at what happens to countries outside of NATO. 🇭🇺 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 Polanski/Greens are utterly naive on defence. Multipolar worlds and weak defence = war, not peace.

It's so funny that people copy this, given that DOGE was basically the least effective domestic US policy initiative of all time.

saw a preview screening of I Swear this evening, before general release tomorrow it’s a biopic about John Davidson, who developed a severe form of Tourette syndrome as a young boy in Scotland in the 80s, when acceptance and understanding were almost non-existent

saw a preview screening of I Swear this evening, before general release tomorrow it’s a biopic about John Davidson, who developed a severe form of Tourette syndrome as a young boy in Scotland in the 80s, when acceptance and understanding were almost non-existent

vaguely uncomfortable with how journalism approaches young politicos that are likely on the spectrum

The productivity crisis started around the GFC, 10 years before Brexit was even voted for, let alone implemented. Brexit didn’t help, but it goes so much deeper.

Sheridan would be appalled!

Which is indicative of just how fast the British right is clambering over itself to get to the front on race politics. Which should be just about the most deliberative, sensitive and slow politics there ever could be.

It is absolutely bizarre to say there have been no obvious paths to growth since 2008 when you look at the glaring great 🚨 signal in land prices. The state functionally bans new economic activity in our most productive regions. It’s a political, not an economic problem.

New DLR train! New DLR train! New DLR train! New DLR train!

of course the boomers think they’re the greatest generation

New post looks at what Russia is trying to achieve with its airspace provocations; the NATO and EU response; Trump’s apparent change of heart; and the latest ideas on helping Ukraine manage the financial burden of the war. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...

had much fun in 🇲🇦 but I couldn’t work out the rules on when French was better at all! sometimes people would be visibly struggling with English and show relief when I switched to French, other times it was useless

all I’m saying is tylenol must have been on a flash sale in 1993

now doesn’t this feel like an underreported phenomenon youtu.be/bN4MNdCAnWA?...

elite level Google enshitification – using quotation marks to explicitly specify a well known tech product, which it then ignores to try to direct me towards gambling website ads

Think the big question here is: is there a business model in sustaining that online space? Is it more competitive than the alternative?

an interesting essay question is ‘why do politicians not ask voters if they like what they were sold by Farage last time?’

My view is that supoort for Reform is more akin to a referendum of "Break the system, yes or no?"

cheers Gillian McKeith’s crying. nice one

found my sea legs

[god inventing donkeys] well if you’re going to be a beast of burden, it only seems fair to make you hung

did anyone else’s cup size just increase?

kαλησπέρα sailor

already missing my bougainvillea at home tbh. she’s so pretty 🥹

life’s a peach