Reposted by Claire Hoskingmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h"The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place." 1052146
Reposted by Claire HoskingHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 14hAs you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects 704066438
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 12hExactly. Individuals create money (and value) all the time. Banks create money through lending to people who create value. Both of these things are why the total amount of money grows over time. (Tho money predates banks, it does not predate individual lending) 000
Reposted by Claire Hosking1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Macintosh b&w art, random pick from my collection day 08 026295
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If you do work for your neighbour, they might pay you in money. But if they pay you in a favour that favour itself is the money you're paid in. Between you two you have created money (and value, since a sink is now fixed and whatever they do for you is also valuable) 030
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I recommend you listen to this podcast on the history of how money (not currency) evolved: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 Extra - Promises, Promises: A History of Debt, Omnibus Episode 1Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years. 000
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026also the reason we evolved currency was in part to make credit on favours transferable. 100
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Who cares what people say. economists said for a long time that money came from barter, but they had no historical evidence for that hypothesis. I care what the anthropological evidence shows in how debt/credit systems evolved into money. 200
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If you fix your neighbour's sink and they give you credit on a favour, you just earned some money then. 260
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026are you being serious? money originates from debt. Systems for tracking IOUs evolved into the currency we have today. 190
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is not quite true. Individuals don't make currency, but they can make IOUs which are a form of money. So if you fixed your neighbour's sink and they owe you a favour, you have effectively created some money. When they pay back the favour, that money ceases to exist. 130
Reposted by Claire HoskingBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 10/10/2026I have more experience than most creatives with the chasm between what an audience says they want and what they actually respond to or enjoy 58611
Reposted by Claire Hoskingshannon//cannon @majorarlene.net · 09/10/2026www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/... So the same country that blocked Postal 2 for pixelated extreme violence won't block an actual extreme violence and claims there's "no way to classify an event as its happening" wtf. You can. We know what the content will be. Why are you dumbreddit.comFrom the worldnews community on Reddit: New Zealand censor says it would be powerless to block livestreamed US executionExplore this post and more from the worldnews community 2174
Reposted by Claire HoskingJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 146145146246
Reposted by Claire HoskingAmanda Montañez @unamandita.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New knitting stitch just dropped, and I got to draw it!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...scientificamerican.comMathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreadingWith a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering 16584191
Reposted by Claire HoskingAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear 763274477
Reposted by Claire HoskingBig Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026one thing I don't like is when people talk about hypothetical automated futures where nobody has to work, and say they could be bad because their lives would be "sapped of meaning." like get over it big dog, get a hobby 3595676
Reposted by Claire Hosking🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My first job was at IBM's boca facility, about 18 months before they left entirely. When I was there I wandered long dark, empty corridors in a megastructure devoted to bygone technology to get my to my office. Which, reflecting back now, left a mark. 91589
Reposted by Claire Hoskingworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10161141709
Reposted by Claire HoskingBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026I don't think LLM-based software systems are like homeopathy in the sense that they don't work at all; they're more like cars, in the sense that they do do the things they're meant to do but those things are not generally good for society. 711815
Reposted by Claire HoskingInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We've read 246 books this year with Z. This is revolutionary! 31964124
Reposted by Claire HoskingDouglas Wilson @doougle.net · 03/10/2026"Polarization is [...] less the disease than democracy’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement. Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government." bsky.app/profile/dann... 1103
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't think Store is on the same level as Higher 120
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm also really enjoying Night from CRJ's new album Day and Night 000
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"founded only upon a common utility" makes it sound like he thinks inequality is justified if it does something like improves overall conditions. the raises all boats argument. 000
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026so not inequality in the sense of "to each according to their needs" then 100
Reposted by Claire HoskingIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...store.steampowered.comDressmaker on SteamBecome a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking. 291361404
Reposted by Claire HoskingDouglas Wilson @doougle.net · 22/09/2026Telling people to switch to a “more ethical bank” is like telling someone to Just Switch to Linux. Yes it’s important and good, but it also comes with frustrations and issues. (Australian friends, get in touch privately if you ever want a heads up on considerations wrt “green” Aus banking options) 1102
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But more than that, I believe people of all classes should have the right and the autonomy to control their weight in comfortable, easy, accessible ways. 000
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Tons of studies to prove it, and 50 years of failure of diet/exercise approaches to slow the rise in obesity. And sure, subsidising GLP-1RAs would probably be sensible from a health budget point of view and save a lot of money on obesity-related conditions. 100
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The gov should put ozempic on the pbs. Possibly other glp1s too. We know that weight loss is almost impossible through diet and exercise alone unless you've lucked into a body with good homeostasis, & a socio-economic environ that enables it (weight is strongly tied to socio-economic status). 101
Reposted by Claire HoskingDouglas Wilson @doougle.net · 18/09/2026Also: What I personally want most from IRL game events in the current moment is thoughtful exhibition of playable work. I want to *play*/view + discuss games, together in the company of peers. Many devs - myself included!! - could stand to engage more in each other's work, beyond social media. 2184
Reposted by Claire Hoskingshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points 5454801219
Reposted by Claire Hosking"fart" @jonhendren.com · 14/09/2026sucks how many restaurants on king street have the shitty AI flyers up now. please just use a sharpie and a sheet of paper and write "buy sand witch here" instead. the "im a small business owner i dont have resources for a designer" is horseshit, you're just lazy and you despise your community 955760
Reposted by Claire Hoskingzaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026my opinion on starship troopers is well known: if you make a movie about Clown World, obviously clowns won't see any problem with it 2346
Reposted by Claire HoskingAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...research.googleA connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain 89229
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don't think it's going to be clear cut when we get to it. Which was the first intelligent organic animal? Hard to pick a point between early jellyfish with nerve nets and humans with brains where intelligence kicks in. Likewise, we'll see a continous improvement in machine thinking slowly. 010
Reposted by Claire HoskingDouglas Wilson @doougle.net · 09/09/2026In prep for our Imbroglio episode on TSLOG, I spent a while re-reading all of @smestorp.bsky.social's old blog posts. Legit some of the best, most useful writing ever done about making videogames. Check out this nugget from May 2016, sooo good mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/05/imbr... 37014
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I thought people were crazy for protein because science shows it's the most satiating macronutrient? 010
Reposted by Claire Hoskingkonnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Putting the :/ in https:// 92472785
Reposted by Claire HoskingSerrels @serrels.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just installed a new dishwasher in my kitchen by myself. 0131
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026why is the web version of powerpoint so different to desktop. if it's gonna be bad can it at least be consistent 110
Reposted by Claire Hoskingshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the UK is in such a dire situation because for decades every government we've had has blamed the failings of neoliberalism & austerity on migrants, & the entirety of the mainstream press is happy to play along 71923288
Reposted by Claire HoskingChris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🔋 every home battery 💡 brings energy prices down 🏠 for everyone 2255
Reposted by Claire Hoskingshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important 352966686
Claire Hosking @hoskingc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026late thoughts but the whole hank green knitting controversy feels unfair. It's literally the job of a science communicator to report when new knowledge is discovered, in this case a woman physicist who knits discovered new knowledge on the physics of knitting. Yes knitters did not know that before. 010
Reposted by Claire HoskingChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The pivot to smart glasses away from VR or, in the case of Apple, the idea that visionOS was an important stepping stone to wearables feels like cope from a bunch of dumbasses that wasted a mountain of money trying to build a usecase for the tech outside of its organic community. 925811
