Reposted by Luke AlexanderA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144975760
Reposted by Luke AlexanderAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Rishi Sunak didn’t achieve much directly with the Bletchley AI safety summit, but I think its role in granting permission to the political world to take AI fears seriously might have been incredibly important 2869
Reposted by Luke AlexanderTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I really really really want you guys to believe me when I say that the things you can do with off the shelf AI in terms of manipulating data and building software is *genuinely* insane and it is *not* a big marketing push when people tell you this. 5496
Reposted by Luke AlexanderSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...samf.substack.comSovereignty for saleTech monopolies and the future of the nation state 32590282
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room 493138681
Reposted by Luke AlexanderBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 13/08/2026I’ve seen similar numbers. Bluesky users are more engaged, more likely to donate or pay for good journalism, and more likely to share it with their friends. Most people have self-selected to be here because they care, and it shows. 753376
Reposted by Luke AlexanderR/GA @rga.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Brand guidelines are important because everyone needs a single source of truth to interpret as they wish 081
Reposted by Luke Alexanderweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Must feel so good for text after you hit ctrl-x, floating in liminal space, before ctrl-v thrusts it back onto the desolate page 492284431
Reposted by Luke Alexanderfrank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Church in Wales says trans rights. I did not see this coming, brought me to tears & I'm not even a christian 61163284
Reposted by Luke AlexanderGina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Regardless of whatever else is going on, if I were Prime Minister I would resign on Monday simply because it’s going to be too hot next week 520544
Reposted by Luke AlexanderCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Snap www.thetimes.com/article/e895...thetimes.comIf ministers fear X fuels disorder, they should stop using itThe government voices concern about the social media platform spreading hate but has hundreds of accounts that help make it a success 117255
Reposted by Luke AlexanderTom Smith @tomper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Today's doomscrolling is yesterday's watching Noel's House Party because there is nothing else on. 011
Reposted by Luke AlexanderShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Unlike many other franchises of comparable size and longevity, there is a definitive best place to get started with Warhammer 40k and it is by making an appointment with the loan officer at your bank 311088181
Reposted by Luke AlexanderEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026this is my kind of company motto right here 67122202365
Reposted by Luke AlexanderBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026Until recently, we weren't accustomed to encountering coherent strings of words or polished images that had no intender, so we *imputed* the existence of that intender to them. 13/ 1342
Reposted by Luke Alexandermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/05/2026i feel like the "story" of "Tilly Norwood", in terms of the newsworthy thing that's happening, would be a behind-the-scenes report on the company's PR team that keeps getting these articles placed in major news outlets and keeps getting them written with the company's preferred framing. 231832233
Reposted by Luke AlexanderNat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I know, I know, "revenge bedtime", but I don't think this concept fully describes the joy of a brain that likes to think about the world finally getting the time and space to settle down and get to know itself. 2241
Reposted by Luke AlexanderAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way 96155133051
Reposted by Luke Alexanderdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 16/04/2026i'll read any article of any length. i'll read any book. but i will not watch a youtube explainer or monologue that is longer than three minutes. write it down buddy 2883129
Reposted by Luke Alexander@OldAndCranky @oldandcranky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I love reading novels. I’m always amazed by folks who don’t read fiction. There is nothing better, to me, than being in the middle of a book that you can’t wait to return to. It’s like living two lives at once. 1723709334
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026It's April fools day, and so like any other day you should use critical thinking to assess the validity when reading posts from other people you don't know 79919
Reposted by Luke Alexanderthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I encourage you to reach late middle age by any means necessary if for no other reason than to find out just how primo the naps are. No matter how much you like naps now you will not believe it 653009441
Reposted by Luke AlexanderHonza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 24/03/2026If you give an LLM full access over your primary computer, I'd love to study your brain. apple.news/Ay19QSmUuRTO...apple.newsAnthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer — CNETThe developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw. 5451484
Reposted by Luke Alexanderkay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 22/03/2026"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times. 122135879
Reposted by Luke Alexanderfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Primary school teacher. Me and my colleague who teaches the other class take turns to make maths worksheets for both classes to do. Made him one where the answer to every single sum is 67 and you could hear the shrieks across the school. 2485886
Reposted by Luke AlexanderIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/03/2026I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber 663331543
Reposted by Luke AlexanderPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026…and this is the model cited by politicians who want to do this elsewhere. 22210
Reposted by Luke AlexanderSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026See my post last week on how we got into this position of dependence on US tech companies and how we can start extricating ourselves (with a section on Palantir). samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...samf.substack.comSovereignty for saleTech monopolies and the future of the nation state 729186
Reposted by Luke AlexanderBen Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Here's the thing that the media and the government and everyone who hasn't been to Tehran will never admit: It's just a regular place. You can hang out in the shade and eat ice cream. Travel to the places that scare your country. You'll find regular people just trying to live. 17712
Reposted by Luke AlexanderIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This is terrible from Starmer. Just absolute trash. And any normal voter looking at the new MP and then reading this description will think him mad. 1191494273
Reposted by Luke AlexanderColin @colin-fraser.net · 17/02/2026Let me explain why I think these are interesting to look at. There are two dominant perspectives on LLMs: Boosters and Haters. They are both wrong. Boosterism says this kind of thing is of the past and simply doesn’t happen if you’re using the latest SOTA model on super smart mode. That’s wrong. 58810
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/02/2026Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s? 54790215
Reposted by Luke AlexanderAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026douglas adams was our most accurate futurist 109109162782
Reposted by Luke AlexanderMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I know I say this every six months, but if you can’t imagine how working from home might make some people more productive, you have basically never progressed from being a schoolboy, and do not understand that a lot of workers derive motivation from something other than the fear of punishment. 2933339
Reposted by Luke AlexanderEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Let us make a refinement of this claim. The claim is “do not use AI to obscure the level of effort that went into your writing.” That’s where the dishonesty lives, not in the use of the tool 10849
Reposted by Luke AlexanderDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/02/2026These bans are short-sighted and inhumane and pushed by people who do not understand the complexity of social media 33611222
Reposted by Luke AlexanderAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone 171695790
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJohn Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026"social media isn't actually social" was a poor observation but a great prediction 1463
Reposted by Luke AlexanderAvery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/01/2026It’s 2011. Your friend is the community manager at a new media startup disrupting the birthday card space. They’re launching a limited run of 38 monochromatic animal shape prints. The proceeds go to charity. Your friend got the job after commenting a lot on the company’s Tumblr. 2393
Reposted by Luke AlexanderMike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/01/2026Also, not impressed with "will require identification and photo validation." You're totally missing the point and just creating a privacy nightmare. If you want a European social media effort, look at @eurosky.social or various ActivityPub efforts. Don't build some new proprietary platform. 824437
Reposted by Luke AlexanderPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026They also just reported, without further comment, the phrase ‘X say they take a zero tolerance policy on the posting of child sexual abusive material on the site’ and it makes me feel insane - IT’S THEM POSTING IT, AND THEY HAVEN’T STOPPED! 758278
Reposted by Luke AlexanderPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026But yeah, there is still every chance that exactly the same crimes can be committed against British women and children, they’ll just now have no direct evidence that it’s happened. Musk is fighting hard to keep CSAM and exploitative material on Twitter. That’s the story. 3664129
Reposted by Luke AlexanderLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck! 44751192
Reposted by Luke AlexanderBarry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026"2026" is a pretty futuristic-sounding year. 2027 is not. I can't explain this. The next big one is 2031. 2049 is gonna be huge. 2663152219
Reposted by Luke Alexandermcc @dryad.technology · 29/12/2025The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of 352815455
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I find this incredibly jarring - personally, I watch very little on YouTube, and my children are banned from it. Unlike Netflix, Disney etc it's an uncurated swamp with a very real risk that you encounter the worst of the internet. How can that be the new Hollywood? www.ft.com/content/9e75...ft.comThe relentless rise of YouTubeAs well as being the dominant platform in podcasting and having a growing presence in live sport, it is now the leader in TV and streaming in the US 206415
Reposted by Luke AlexanderJoe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The end of A Christmas Carol is clear that Scrooge became famous for his generosity and love of Christmas. And yet his name is still shorthand for miserliness. So really that whole story is proof that you can change all you want but people will still remember you at your worst 1111128
