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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Novelist, comedian, framer, is there anything that man cannot do?

maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I guess I’m imagining a 500 person or whatever company wide email and that feels like a lot for only a potential faux pas.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The problem is the reactions show to everyone on the email, but not super obviously. People might have seen it, they might not have, and do you really want to make it about you by emailing around something like that.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Disappointingly, a phobia of magnets is called magnetophobia.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

People really don’t watch tv in the way you think they do anymore.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But you’ll probably cope that there aren’t incoming missiles…

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think there are parts of society that don’t get exposed to public information campaigns the same as in the past. And it’s not like theres a huge amount of time for a proper campaign sink in. It sort of is an emergency. It’s kind of a shame that there isn’t a non-alarm version of the same thing.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

OTOH, wildfires are bad, and given where we are, stopping people from accidentally setting them off is a good thing.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

No, she’s completely in the picture and Wikipedia acknowledges this! There are real cases of women and black people not being given proper credit, but this is absolutely not one of them! She’s even got a britannica entry! www.britannica.com/biography/Gl...

britannica.com

Gladys West | Biography, Early Life, Education, Career, Accomplishments, Recognition, & GPS | Britannica

Gladys West was an African American mathematician whose work was crucial to the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). West is often considered one of history’s ‘hidden figures.’ Learn mo...

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

FACT CHECK OF YOUR BAD FACT CHECK: What it actually says is... "The work of Gladys West ... is credited as instrumental in the development of computational techniques for detecting satellite positions with the precision needed for GPS."

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_... She had a fairly well recognised career where she was given credit for the work she did that contributed to GPS. She’s not solely responsible for GPS, no-one is. I’m not aware of the names of anyone responsible for GPS, perhaps outside of the fundamental physics.

en.wikipedia.org

Gladys West - Wikipedia

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And you don’t have to pay for the ones you sneakily eat while you are in the pool of drugs.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“I thought you’d just believe me: Reputation and the sociology of not checking"

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My big bet is that it's going to all turn out to be some grand sociological experiment into reputation and lying. And he'll publish the paper in a couple of months.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is a genuinely terrible take, 100% demonstrates the issue of selfish, self-centred Americans on the internet.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No, just Meta ones. I think it’s helpful that your head is self-stabilising, and telling it to start taking a video without taking hands off the controls is helpful. I don’t think any of them are online enough to be aware of the creepy uses. (And one uses AI image gen a lot in a very boomer way)

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A lot of people I paraglide with use them - the video that comes out has a lot better framing than GoPro, and it’s quite useful to be able to see what you were looking at/focussing on. It’s very annoying when they talk to their glasses though, especially if you think they are talking to you.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s Sunday, so they’ve probably got stomach aches from eating cake and ice cream yesterday. I think if I remember rightly they will become butterflies tomorrow.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There are two things in the world I can't stand: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m also rewatching it, and on the Americans wiki Mail Robot is on the list as supporting cast.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It’s Russell Brand, surely you meant to write: “Ah, but to imbibe the text,to let the lexicon lap against the shores of one’s quotidian existence?Time has eluded this seeker, besieged as I am on all sides by a tumultuous wave of lascivious libels and sundry sexpest slurs, hasn’t it?“

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Ignoring that it’s a boring way of looking at the world, “just develop a non-stick frying pan” doesn’t work as the funding for the science wouldn’t exist. Noone funds billions on the low chance you might make a better pan. So much progress comes from serendipity, and space projects accelerate that.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I would need a Strongly Neither Support or Oppose option to accurately capture my opinion.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

No idea where you’ve got this from, but the UK also has an adversarial system. In most criminal cases the Crown Prosecution Service is the prosecutor, and there is a defence. A jury or judge then decides. Some of Europe has something more inquisitorial, but the US system is based on the UK one.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Yes, but when you sign the giftaid form for are essentially saying ‘I won’t claim this back on my tax return’. I’ve looked it up now though, and it turns out you can still claim a bit back if you’re a higher rate taxpayer.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Doesn’t Giftaid mean you can’t deduct the donation from taxes as you’ve essentially given the tax benefit to the charity?

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I guess the problem is that the trucks provide a service locally that wouldn't work in a different location, whilst a data centre could be built anywhere, and the local benefit is minimal.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

But they are paying for the energy/water/etc. that they are using... and the data centres are providing a service that people need* similarly to trucks. (* need is obviously subjective here, but they aren't building them for fun.)

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The trucking business does use the publicly paid for roads, which they damage more than other users (because road damage scales with weight non-linearly).

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is a much smaller risk that random website X holding personal details! (And sorry for messaging your personal account about this - I couldn't find Hard Fork on Bluesky)

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sure, it's hard to completely remove that risk under this model - but the way you discussed it on the podcast suggested that websites needed to keep databases of ID - this just isn't true. The ID checking companies have a strong incentive to delete personal data because GDPR can mean *massive* fines

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Or, indeed, whether it does impact freedom of speech. Either way, if we do have to have age checks, I think I would rather have an ecosystem of age verification companies to handing things off to Apple or Google, not sure we need to give American tech companies more control over the internet.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Hyperbole around the privacy risks overshadows discussion around other aspects, like is it actually going to protect anyone (suspect not) or whether its too wide (clearly wikipedia shouldn't be affected, but 'stop smoking' subreddits being affected is down to reddit not categorising things well)

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I've not come across any site not promising to do this. It's possible, I guess that they could still be storing them and there might be a big leak, but GDPR is a pretty robust incentive not to do this. (And the OSA requires privacy preserving methods of verification where possible).

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

@caseynewton.bsky.social - did you do any research on how the OSA is actually implemented before talking about it on HardFork? Websites don't have to store databases of peoples selfies or ID - most seem to be using verification services that delete the id after verification.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think they might also be able to offer Holly Valance.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

@trientertainment.bsky.social A meta-question - I've just had a weird bug where the advert for the last of us was half read by Marina talking to Richard, but the Richard voice was someone else. How does advertising on podcasts work? Do you write or agree the things you say?

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Be careful, one of mine pounced at the tv and knocked it over doing this!

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I limit myself to one per paragraph. My bigger worry is how many smiley faces is too many in a work email and is it unprofessional? :) I limit myself to one per email.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The average chicken gives 2-2.5kg of meat, the average cow gives 200-270kg of meat so I think it’s close enough to declare it a tie.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines... - he didn't buy a ticket, but did use his Oyster card at the other end, so there was likely a nice record of the thousands of times he only tapped out and didn't tap in with his card.

bbc.co.uk

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Not a paraglider. High quality journalism here...

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

real dollars don’t convert into balatro money, you’d still be stuck on ante 11 and posting about it

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

You aren't going to get very far if you ignore the fact that actually, a tonne of people voted for Trump, a tonne of people didn't care enough to vote. They explicitly or implicitly support Trump, none of this is a surprise. If you get to vote in four years (who knows?!), they are who you need.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you think people who voted for Jill Stein hold some responsibility, then (kind of by definition, because the net effect is the same) people who didn't vote hold responsibility too. Actually, not caring at all is morally worse in my opinion.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Most of you voted for him, or didn’t vote.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is probably also down to newer planes being more pressurised.

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maxwellash.bsky.social @maxwellash.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I know it’s not the point, but it’s quite funny that it writes the email for you when you put in your postcode.

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