Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 01/10/2026Someone at Bjorn should really check the emails they're sending out, because this isn't message they probably want. 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 30/09/2026if we could all please remember to join hands and help wake up Billie-Jo Armstrong today. Tea & biscuits will be provided 001
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/09/2026my theory about the Voynich Manuscript is that whoever wrote and illustrated it was just on a very very long phone call 100
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026"Can I talk to the press?" "Perhaps this foghorn will answer your question" 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026Reminds me somewhat of Hemingway's quote about going bankrupt: "gradually, then very suddenly". (Morally, of course, Trump has always been bankrupt.) 010
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 21/09/2026Got one of those "updated T&Cs" emails today (September 21st). It apparently comes into force on September 15th, so it seems I've already agreed to it before I knew anything was happening.... Doesn't seem to be anything controversial in it, but what if there was? 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 14/09/2026Here's a quick calculation of the total donations to the five national UK parties from July 2024 til Sep 2026, as registered on the Electoral Commission website. Reform's total donations are about 45% of the entire total, and their average donation size is 9 times that of the next highest (Labour). 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 14/09/2026i thought that by now i was pretty adept at disentangling some semblance of meaning from that man's word salads... but in this case... nope, not a clue what he's actually trying to say 070
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 11/09/2026"At all times we maintained the same strict safeguards that we apply to all our frontier model evaluations" Such as the ones that hacked into Hugging face? 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 11/09/2026post here openai.com/index/navier...openai.comOn the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize ProblemWe’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean. 100
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 11/09/2026It's impressive that OpenAI have managed to settle one of the Millennium Problems by proving that a fluid can form a singularity. But what blew my mind was this sentence 101
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 04/09/2026Great. Let's give back the Parthenon frieze while we're in a repatriating mood 030
Reposted by Nick HillDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115633176
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 02/09/2026I think the US seems to have more of an embedded culture of cable TV / rolling news watching than the UK does (reminder, we still only have 3 TV channels one of which gets turned off at 6pm) 020
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 02/09/2026Bears are found to shit in woods according to separate Foi request 010
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 02/09/2026Does anybody actually watch this dreck? Or is it deliberately crafted to cause the maximum outrage and horror, so people will post "have you seen how awful this is?" everywhere? I can't help feeling that almost nobody watches the feed, they just see it clipped up like this 100
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 02/09/2026Always a good idea to proof-read things and ask yourself: "Is it realistic that anyone is planning to build a data centre 9 times the area of London, in London?" That said, I wouldn't put it past the AI bros, given time... 000
Reposted by Nick HillHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising. 291189218
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 13/08/2026but let's build more fucking data centres and drill baby drill 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 13/08/2026Really do wonder why so many of these people are happy to lose their £500 deposits, just to make a point that will inevitably get lost in the Binface/Cuntface battle 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 19/07/2026Thanks. The "this is a huge number" part is what I wasn't clear about 010
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 19/07/2026So, for a numpty like me who needs these things spelled out, what does that mean? That lots of investors are expecting it to explode before it reaches orbit? 100
Reposted by Nick HillEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations. 91627510
Reposted by Nick HillT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Forget terraforming Mars. Just stop venusifying Earth. 314028
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/07/2026I'm in the UK. Is there some kind of committee preparing a set of suitably sombre street parties for when the orange guy joins the choir invisible? Maybe samba bands, flypasts, a free bar, that kind of thing? 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 17/07/2026I made this one for Linkydink, but here it is without the tediously mandatory "what I learned about b2b sales" stuff. A quick comparison of IMAX vs other formats, for The Odyssey. 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 17/07/2026Oh my god, there are some absolute corkers in here. www.404media.co/these-are-th...404media.coThese Are the Worst ChatGPT Flyers You've Sent UsWelcome to the AI-generated poster hall of shame. 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 08/07/2026People of Clacton: You know what you have to do. At least you know the bins would be collected on time. 010
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 08/07/2026Context like this is so important any time there's a large number in public life. The average maths GCSE doesn't really help you visualise 000s 010
Reposted by Nick HillRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive. 8739591164
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 04/07/2026"I've got off track a bit"?? How far off track was he before this?! 120
Reposted by Nick HillInequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Google co-founder Sergey Brin is accidentally making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax better than anyone else could. 433784
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 28/06/2026Did anyone take him that seriously to begin with? He always seemed a wackjob to me from the early brexit days 000
Reposted by Nick HillEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23 16531831761
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026I was bought a book by a kind stranger. Can confirm this is a genuine thing. I very much enjoyed the book, too 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026Palm Sunday, right? In which I think he also said: "I will tell you how to find true love. Wear good clothes and smile a lot. Learn the words to all the latest songs," which is actually a worryingly close description of an llm 000
Reposted by Nick HillLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133286755
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026Going to start describing anything made with AI as a "token effort" 062
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 24/06/2026I'd go as far as to suggest that our outstanding university sector has been the lodestone of UK soft power since the collapse of empire. Think of all the cultural, financial & political leaders from all around the world who've been through UK universities 161
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 22/06/2026"book" but the two O's are eyes, available in a variety of expressions 060
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/06/2026So Iran gets to carry on doing the stuff it's doing, and agrees not to start doing stuff it wasn't doing anyway, and in return it gets all sanctions lifted and $300bn towards reconstruction costs? 000
Nick Hill @nickhill.me · 18/06/2026seems our new alien overlords also subscribe to the new yorker 000
Reposted by Nick HillPeter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Iran is awarding him the FAFO Peace Prize. 017020