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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ladies and Gentleman…The Strokes (last night at The O2)

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who/what is coming up with this stuff? Hire an ex-2010s-Buzzfeed person to do it properly for gods sake.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s not going well in the US

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I upload a photo of me from the 80s what’s going to happen 🤔 worldwide GPT outage hopefully

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was today years old when I found out Eton has pub for pupils (!) and over-16s can buy two pints of cider or beer three times a week (!!)

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Man, the NFT years (Year?) were wild. Can be used “any way you want.” Amazingly this isn’t even the worst scoring Top Trump in the pack

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had to acquire this tech curio, probably worth more than the NFTs in the long run

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Immaculate evil company CV from Palantir

The Verge article text on Palantir “You've probably heard about some of its projects. It built the Maven Al-powered targeting system that made its wartime debut earlier this year in Iran. It designed a mapping system that can generate targets for ICE agents in real time. It developed a search engine for the Department of Health and Human Services that allowed DOGE employees to identify and cancel more than $780 million worth of grants linked to DEI initiatives. It is even working on a "mega-database" of US citizens and their financial information for the IRS.”

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Unexpected encounter last night on the walk back from the pub, was a bit worried they were injured but took flight when I got really close, learning to fly season apparently

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some alien scouts rescued her, Julian May said so in her book Intervention and I choose to believe her version of events

The male and the female scouts stood at attention with screened minds and dry, impassive faces. Bali Ala had a harder time of it than her comrade because the small animal in her arms was squirming wildly and resisting her attempts at coercion. The Simbiari enforcer scowled and added his coercive quotient, but the beast only struggled harder, gave a sharp yap, and jumped free. It made a dash for the still-open door and would have escaped if Ma'elfoo had not zapped its brainstem very gently, paralys-ing it in its tracks.
Enforcer Amichass, mortified and glistening with green sweat, retrieved the creature and set it like a stuffed toy beside the two crewmen on report. I'm sorry about that, Commander. A recalcitrant species that resists_'
'Never mind, Vorpi sighed. 'Get on with it. What do you two have to say for your-selves? Of all the sophomoric idiocies - pinching the damn Russian dog!'
'Her name is Laika, Misstiliss said.
Bali Ala said, 'The power-source of the vehicle's environmental system was almost exhausted. The animal was about to perish

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Why democracy doesn’t work very well these days: Exhibit A

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Agree with Alan Moore on this, Thatcher did psychic damage to the UK we haven’t recovered from 40 years later. Think Trump is doing the same in the US, as is Netanyahu in Israel, they’ve broken the grand narrative and those countries will pay the price

That seems to me to be almost literally true. I remember that since the early '8os, I've felt that in this country, at least, an awful lot of the damage that has been done is actually psychological in its basis. I felt that Margaret Thatcher had very possibly managed to erode or destroy a lot of the ideals and symbols that social life in this country had been based upon. And that if you destroy those etheric territories, if you destroy those symbolic things, the real things will come tumbling after that. For me, this was the lesson of the Thatcher years.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Alan Moore: There’s a skeleton horse under the Arsenal stadium @jadh.dev

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Increasingly thinking this is an all-timer, basically the history of the 21st century in 4 panels

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don’t know man, this seems like a cultural moment, would be nothing more representative of the 21st century than this being the inciting event that turned the whole thing around

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Were they purposely referencing Kurt Cobain here in Project Hail Mary?

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

First Waymo I’ve seen in London, didn’t run me over, not sure they can survive the general disregard Londoners have for traffic

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Plath x Eilish collab, Polley directing, let’s go

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In a Times article full of maddening things, the fact that a panel of Leave voters all say Brexit was bad for the country but if they could travel back in time all but one of them WOULD STILL VOTE LEAVE is sending me straight into the void

With very few exceptions the Long Eaton voters felt — as did the 1,690 adults from across the country surveyed by YouGov-that Brexit had been a failure. "Forgotten",
"disappointing" and "disastrous" were words that they used to describe it, although only one person in the focus group said they would change their vote if the referendum were rerun.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just walking around New York helping people and being competent and extremely normal. Look how happy he is, everyone loves him everywhere he goes. Meanwhile the richest man in the world fails yet again to understand the “It’ll be because you’re an asshole” speech from The Social Network.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s a small thing but quite an indicator of where the ultrarich heads are at this point you can donate to Jack Clark’s Substack at a number of price points. As a founder of Anthropic, his current net worth is estimated a $15.5 billion dollars.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Currently playtesting Untitled Goose Family Game

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Simon Armitage always has some good jokes

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Every AI article is basically this one at the moment

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

On the one hand the message is “AI is going to replace everyone” in the real world…

Take Alpha Arena, run by tech startup Nof1. It pitted eight major frontier Al systems — including Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, OpenAl's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's Grok — against each other in four separate competitions. Each was handed $10,000 per contest before being turned loose on US tech stocks for two weeks. The challenges involved trading on a variety of signals, acting defensively, reacting to the competition, and using high leverage.
The portfolio as a whole lost about a third of its capital. Across all 32 sets of results, a model finished in profit only six times...
"LLMs can't really make money by themselves," said Jay Azhang, founder of Nof1. "You need basically a very sophisticated harness and scaffolding and data platform in order to even give them a chance."

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The age of finding out about AI costs is upon us, if you used Opus a lot your Copilot subscription just got worth 5x less, but it’s probably worse as the credits you get seem to be changing - the docs are as clear as mud, probably on purpose

Model multipliers for annual Copilot Pro and Copilot Pro+ subscribers o
Starting June 1, 2026, Copilot Pro and Copilot Pro+ subscribers on annual billing plans will experience changes to model multipliers. The table below shows how the multipliers for each model will adjust.
Model multipliers and costs are subject to change.
For information about your options as an annual subscriber, see Usage-based billing for individuals.

Model
Current multiplier
New multiplier
Claude Haiku 4.5
0.33
0.33
Claude Opus 4.5
3
15
Claude Opus 4.6

27
Claude Opus 4.7

27
Claude Sonnet 4

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Again, I’m asking what your argument is for thinking they’ll be successful, and is it just “because AI”? They don’t appear to be very good at running a shoe company, why would they be good at this?

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’m calling the AI peak at today, 15th April 2026. Allbirds, the shoe company was about to go bust but announced a last minute pivot to AI infrastructure and the stock went up 461%. We have officially hit peak Pets.com dotcom boom levels of insanity.

Allbirds Inc., the once-buzzy maker of wool sneakers valued at more than $4 billion in its heyday,
announced a new business plan just days before it planned to close down for good: Al computing infrastructure.
And in a market that's reacted in knee-jerk fashion to just about anything related to artificial intelligence, it did just that — sending Allbirds stock up as much as 461% after the opening bell.
The response underscores the intensity of the speculative mania around Al, which has fueled stampedes into would-be winners and panicked rushes away from any industry that seems poised to be hit by the competitive threat.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Bought one of those Kindles for ants, suprisingly readable once you stick Crosspoint firmware on it (Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky in progress)

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@davidpogue.bsky.social loving the book but not loving this diagram, Steve would be livid 😂

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We have strayed too far from the path, this is what founders should look like

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think we’ve hit peak Betteridge's Law guys.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Had seen most of the “greatest posts” going round but not this one, feels like it sums up the past 10-15 years online

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As predictions go, this summary of the world of Maureen F McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang (1992) by Jo Walton seems pretty plausible at the minute

This is a world dominated by China. At some time in the past, the USA has had a proletarian revo-lution, and at some time only about fifteen years ago has had the Cleansing Winds Campaign, an overwhelming event like the Cultural Revolution in China. Global warming has made much of the interior of the USA uninhabitable. Mars is being settled. Everything is socialist, but there are cracks.

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