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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/03/2025

Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings

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Newcastle United @newcastleunited.com · 16/03/2025

WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED CARABAO CUP WINNERS #wedontdoquiet

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 14/03/2025

There’s a colossal opportunity for Britain to become the world’s leading location for scientific research and we all know there is no way it’s going to even get discussed

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

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2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com · 23/01/2025

The new issue of 2600 is out! Subscribe here: store.2600.com/collections/... And if you want this image on a t-shirt, we have you covered! store.2600.com/collections/...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income

This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For those leaving Meta apps and services: if you’re looking for a What’s App alternative, download Signal. Safe & secure: signal.org/download/

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Download Signal

Download Signal for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going" www.404media.co/developer-cr...

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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/01/2025

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

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Heil Tesla

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The data you don't retain can't be stolen when your systems get compromised. Stop hoarding data you'll never use.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

hindenburg guy signing off with this and it just being a link to a DJ set in Bali rather than like, a Marc Andreesen speech is so good. I respect Hindenburg's hustle so much hindenburgresearch.com/gratitude/

With unfathomable levels of gratitude,

Nate Anderson

(P.S. If you are chasing something you think you want or need, or are doubting whether you are enough, take a minute and give this a listen. It had a big impact on me at a pivotal time.)

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