Oof. So does the Pope have to resign now.

NO WAY. CALEB WILLIAMS HEAVES IT ON 4TH DOWN.

Maybe there’s something to all this mularky.

Well … that was unexpected. (Bears/Rams)

Thank god for xcodereleases.com, saving me from endless spelunking of the stygian eldritch horror maze that is Apple's developer site these days.

Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, today: a massive protest outside the U.S. embassy against the sale/occupation of Greenland by the United States

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

Drill baby drill

Ukraine now has not a single power plant that was not hit by missiles, most of them not operational right now. Kiev currently is -13 °C. People are freezing for days, pipes are bursting. And we got so used to the news of the war, that it's not even a front page story any more.

Slower zoom

Meanwhile, same as it ever was on the WCML.

This is a great backgrounder on Northern Powerhouse Rail in the UK, though it does also brutally highlight just how crap BSky's UI is for long threads 😔

Boxes only. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary12 #generativeart

Is it just me, or is Dave Gahan looking more and more like... well, Sir Ben Kingsley.

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes. (H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

The challenge with this cartoon is accurately identifying the point at which it takes a right-hand turn into insanity

Optimizing spatiotemporal variance-guided filtering for modern GPU architectures jcgt.org/published/00...

Google Street View can throw up such poetry. This is Martin Parr level. Jaywick, Essex, June 2023:

I think crunch in the games industry represents a failure of management and a violation of the social contract, particularly when applied "in advance" as opposed to in response to some emergency. That said, my feelings on it are complex. We crunched a LOT on System Shock 1 & 2 and Age of Myth.

Fractal mitosis 2. #metalrt #rendering

I've packaged up my config system, in case it's useful to others: github.com/andrewwillmo.... It lets you define configuration settings via a hierarchy of json/yaml files, with overrides/imports supported, or you can just use it as a general json or yaml parser. See the README for details.

One of my favorite findings: Positional embeddings are just training wheels. They help convergence but hurt long-context generalization. We found that if you simply delete them after pretraining and recalibrate for <1% of the original budget, you unlock massive context windows. Smarter, not harder.

📊 Data update: Track battery prices over the last three decades— To transition towards low-carbon energy systems, we need *low-cost* energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries are the most commonly used.

🧵 Why does politics feel so stuck? Why does everyone think the government is useless? Here's a short thread on why badgers are they key to understanding why.

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

The shameless cynicism and immorality of these chancers is simply breathtaking. This is an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer who was sacked due to failing to pay five million pounds in taxes.

I've packaged up my config system, in case it's useful to others: github.com/andrewwillmo.... It lets you define configuration settings via a hierarchy of json/yaml files, with overrides/imports supported, or you can just use it as a general json or yaml parser. See the README for details.

No, I would not, @nationalrail.bsky.social, because apparently unlike you I'm not a Nazi paedo fuckhead.

A sneak peak of what I've been working on: A strand based hair system for Jolt Physics (WIP): youtu.be/Rl19G0c003o

This is interesting because when I went for my first Covid vaccination, Farage arrived and pushed straight to the front of the queue.

Here’s an interesting new JCGT paper showing that small neural nets can outperform LUTs in speed/memory/accuracy even when embedded in purely CPU-based renderers. The authors are some ex-Pixar rendering guys who are now at Aurora. jcgt.org/published/00...

Sublime shithousery from the @financialtimes.com 🤌🏽 Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter: shorturl.at/QkJ5A

What would the hottest UK day of 1976 look like today? 35.9°C back in 1976 would be 38-39°C now. The hot extremes are warming faster than the average for the UK. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...

This is literally saving lives - and we can save even more with your help. Share and bookmark this post for when you next see a Londoner sleeping rough. We'll do everything in our power to get them into the warm.

For any Titanic nerds out there, my colleagues in the UCL Marine safety group have just published an astonishingly detailed analysis and supercomputer simulation of how Titanic sank, linked to witness statements & the best available evidence. Full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

We have lost so much since the era of the HIG bibles. Where smart people thought systematically about the details that went into a usable UI. Versus whatever the hell the last ten years has been. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

New year, new post! Jelle wrote an article about how we efficiently ingest gigabytes of unsorted data in sorted order. It's got fancy animations about our algorithm, so there's really no excuse not to take a peek. Happy New Year! superluminal.eu/efficiently-...

finally, we're living through precedented times

Oh no!

Was browsing my photos to find a picture, and, just a ridiculously beautiful part of the country (Machynlleth area)

Remember when the right-wing press and the private schools lobby said VAT would mean an exodus to state schools causing a crisis? Not so much. (From this FT analysis: www.ft.com/content/c979...)

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

So how's everybody's favourite inaugural FIFA peace prize winner and famed isolationist been doing lately?

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

2025 has broken historical climate records with provisional Met Office figures showing: 🌡️ warmest year on record for the UK 🌞 sunniest year on record for the UK 🌂 Below-average rainfall (90%)

Set out six months ago to investigative some dubious evictions. Ended up writing a sprawling story spread over 450 years about London property deals, the ethics of money lending, Tommy Robinson, Barbary pirates, Jacobean earls, and wealth in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries

Happy New Year, London! 🎆 #LondonNYEFireworks

out of context graphs from @vitalik.ca’s latest blog post