Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 29/09/2026How my last day at Conference started / how it ended (Solidarity has many facets) 000
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 29/09/2026I love Labour Party Conference so much Where else do you casually bump into a Minister of Defence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or see thousands of policy nerds squeezing their brain juices to the last drop to make the country better 100
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 29/09/2026I love Labour Party Conference so much Where else do you casually bump into a Minister of Defence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or see thousands of policy nerds squeezing their brain juices to the last drop to make the country better 100
Reposted by Dan Groshevdame @dame.is · 27/08/2026we have passed a threshold where i am comfortable saying that the left *must* be using and leveraging AI it can be done responsibly there’s no going back, and to avoid or reject this technology at this point would be a massive generational mistake that lets the far right take further control 820026
Reposted by Dan Groshev"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I wrote a(nother) thing! This time it is about how no amount of military technical excellence can salvage a situation where political leadership has, in their abject strategic incompetence, demanded the military accomplish an impossible mission. Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/21/i...foreignpolicy.comThe U.S. Is Learning the Wrong Lessons in IranTactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence. 19623133
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 26/09/2026I like this post: "why i'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes" dank.systems/posts/2026-0...dank.systemswhy i'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes | jay kruer 000
Reposted by Dan GroshevJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a side point - one thing the far right are very good at doing is bombarding MPs inboxes which (alongside protests, polling, media etc) is one of the things which makes MPs responsive to their issues 1326
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 20/09/2026> Aella specifically is effectively the cultural leader of rationalism right now What a day to be able to understanding sentences 010
Reposted by Dan Groshev𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US Civil War (1861-65) ran concurrently within the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). USCR: 600-700k deaths/4 yrs... ~ 175,000 killed/yr TPHK: 20-30M deaths/14 yrs... ~1.4-2.1M killed/yr There were single battles & city slaughters that eclipsed over a few days the entire yearly KIA of the US war. 18413
Reposted by Dan GroshevEduin Latimer @eduinlatimer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This really should be bigger news. Most important driver on long-term changes in living standards is productivity and recent revision to how it is measured suggests output per hour actually grew almost twice as fast from 2009 to 2019 (up from 0.7% a year to 1.3% a year) 197
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 07/09/2026The story of salesman DHH, who wakes to find himself inexplicably transformed into D88 000
Reposted by Dan GroshevChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists 8556109
Reposted by Dan GroshevSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Channel 4 News have produced this news report where Reform UK is offered illegal funding by undercover reporters posing as wealthy US donors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...youtube.comUndercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plotYouTube video by Channel 4 News 13613233
Reposted by Dan Groshevdame @dame.is · 03/09/2026insane how much good will, longstanding trust, and real business 1Password is willing to destroy just so they can donate some money to a racist project — this is such a catastrophically dumb move that should’ve been a no brainer to walk back within the first 12 hours 724639
Reposted by Dan GroshevAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 541518622
Reposted by Dan GroshevAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Striking-yet-difficult-to-parse Cold War report graphic of the day — "Time History of Biological Response to Ionizing Radiation" (US Naval Radiological Laboratory, 1965) 107011
Reposted by Dan GroshevAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists. 19457131
Reposted by Dan GroshevIlya Petoushkoff @petoushkoff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Great things are possible when seen as necessary. 052
Reposted by Dan GroshevSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026When Cambodia and Thailand had their border dispute last year, Thai forces bombed scam centers that were operating inside Cambodia 426541
Reposted by Dan GroshevBrad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 26/08/2026I can finally talk about this, 3 years later... github.com/tailscale/ta... It's a library + CLI tool that's like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane without any control plane (no accounts, no dependence on Tailscale the company, all open source) WireGuard + NAT traversal without IP addresses.github.comGitHub - tailscale/tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control planelike netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane - tailscale/tailcat 823836
Reposted by Dan GroshevSasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The usual phrase I use when putting things like the Avdiivka Offensive into perspective during my talks is "the Russians deployed the entire USMC on a 25 KM front. After four months of fighting, they attempted to use the entire French mechanized force to exploit the breach they created." 213516
Reposted by Dan GroshevSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k. 771328544
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 26/08/2026It's incredibly annoying that the vacuum where the understanding of what Palantir does should be is filled with absolute dross. It's nearly inevitable that it will be like that, because practically no one writing about Palantir saw problems they solve and systems they build. 130
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 26/08/2026Even more depressingly, we can just get rid of drivers and not have hundreds of reported but unprosecuted rapes and sexual offences every year (from content.tfl.gov.uk/tph-sexual-o... ) Unfortunately because vibes we'd rather talk about imagined harms than the actual, observed harms 030
Reposted by Dan GroshevMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/08/2026They are doing the usual framing of "DoD can't get an audit with a clean opinion therefore no one has any idea where literally any of the money is going or being spent," when the reality is we know how every dollar is spent and say so publicly 2618
Reposted by Dan GroshevMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the issue with the audit is traceability everyone knows where all the money is going (if we didn't the appropriators would raise holy hell), the problem is being able to account for every dollar throughout the entire life cycle of that dollar, through depreciation and ultimate disposal 4908
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 24/08/2026Love those insights from our intelligentsia/media/political class' ticks and circumstances Another example: a large chunk of the housing discourse can be explained by how almost no one writing publicly from an office in London could afford their own home on their income alone 071
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 24/08/2026TIL that DHH is a Robinson stan world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem... What's with the techbros obsession with far right griftersworld.hey.comAs I remember LondonAs soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube... 010
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 22/08/2026I really like this take (from lobste.rs/s/caubyr/bun... ) 010
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 21/08/2026NIMBYism aside, there must be a word for the "people are bad and scary and want to harm you, so run away, hide, insulate yourself" narrative/reaction/meme that is slowly poisoning our societies I saw CODE at the Fringe a week ago, a performance about county lines and gangs grooming kids 110
Reposted by Dan GroshevCallum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Launched today (Thursday 20th August), the Ultra-Long Duration Energy Storage (Ultra-LDES) Challenge will offer grants which support the development of new tech focused on energy storage, including advanced batteries and underground hydrogen storage.gov.ukNew challenge launched to store clean energy for longer and protect households from price spikesChallenge aims to strengthen UK energy security, create jobs in new industries, and reduce energy bills in the long-term 022
Reposted by Dan GroshevNix @nixjeelvy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Is Trump Saddam Hussein? > Ruinous war against Iran > Gilded everything > Bullies oil-rich neighbouring states > Genocidal acts against ethnic minorities > Moron sons on a non-stop crime spree > Hides in boxes > Sets the national economy on fire 427252
Reposted by Dan GroshevSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026is Trump first Ottoman president? >gilded everything >retarded, constantly scheming sons >a harem of slavic wives >elaborate headgear >at war with Persia 517316
Reposted by Dan GroshevJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day 481709335
Reposted by Dan GroshevMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026Some outcomes are bigger than politics. 33782196
Reposted by Dan GroshevGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 382210606
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 19/08/2026I appreciate her working this hard to stop left vote split come the next election 000
Reposted by Dan GroshevMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 19/08/2026My favourite thing with stuff like this, or the Green Party’s visceral hatred of renewable energy, are the tortured Greens desperately trying to reverse engineer a sane justification in the replies. 1161
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 19/08/2026> Amazon is stealing from the customers they said they were here to serve seths.blog/2026/08/the-...seths.blogThe Amazon taxIt’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad… 000
Reposted by Dan Groshevv buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bluesky is for people who made Twitter a loadbearing part of their personality in their twenties. This is why the joke is that everyone on here is 38 years old. 2122
Reposted by Dan GroshevHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)ordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 10469211
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 13/08/2026A contrast: - Bsky is a charity funded by rich techbros and VCs - Bsky is the most techbro- and VC-hostile major social network and proud of it There are probably lessons here somewhere 000
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 13/08/2026Anthropic is really pushing the boundaries* *of what "ownership" means 000
Dan Groshev @dangroshev.com · 10/08/2026One consequence of HS2 NIMBYs getting their deep cuts and tunnels is that internet on those trains will be a massive challenge Tens of millions of passengers every year having no internet just because a few dozen rural voters don't want to see trains 010
Reposted by Dan GroshevRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 271158565
Reposted by Dan GroshevSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026New post out: "The myth of the 'Boriswave'" The online right claim that the immigrants who arrived between 21-24 will bankrupt the country. This isn't remotely true but they've created a mainstream panic that could lead us down a dangerous path. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...samf.substack.comThe myth of the "Boriswave"Over summer 2024 anonymous right-wing accounts on twitter, who support Reform or more extreme ethnonationalist parties, started using the term “Boriswave” to describe the brief but sharp rise in net m... 21451170
