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Co-founder at Label Sessions - the world’s leading innovation expert network. On boards and things.

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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳‍🌈 @bolshevikbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
SANCTUARY: 📅 first Tuesdays Oct-Dec 2026 🕕 6pm–7pm 📍 St John's Episcopal Church, Princes St, Edinburgh. Join us for a new service with music, candlelight, and readings. Featuring jazz, gospel and roots music. www.stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk Please share widely. #Edinburgh #prayer #music #Anglican
text for a new prayer service, on the background of candles. Text reads as follows:

St John's
Scottish Episcopal Church

SANCTUARY

Tuesday 6th October
Tuesday 3rd November
Tuesday 1st December
6:00-7:00pm

Join us for our new service with music, candlelight, and readings.
Featuring jazz, gospel, and roots music.

stjohns-edinburgh.org.uk
St John's Church, Princes Street
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Folks, what are the best listening clubs youve come across? In person or online. I’m just kind of interested in how they are presented etc.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Im in @cityam.bsky.social calling the CEO of B&M a lucky general. They are having a bit of a day of it as it turns out but I do think they are onto a winner medium term. www.cityam.com/bms-new-ceo-...
cityam.com
B&M's shares drop despite hints of turnaround from new CEO
Value retailer B&M has struggled with supply chain disruptions and wage inflation over the last year and a half.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
YouTube shorts now on 200 billion daily views www.thewrap.com/youtube-shor...
thewrap.com
YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You may now venmo the bride www.thecut.com/article/buy-...
thecut.com
You May Now Venmo the Bride
Are ‘buy the bride a drink’ posts the key to surviving overpriced bachelorette parties or just tacky?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The ‘tabloid for the social media age’ www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
hollywoodreporter.com
L.A.’s Literati Toast ‘On The Rag’— A Tabloid for The Social Media Age
Arty Angelenos swarmed Night Gallery, but where was promised headliner Chet Hanks?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The rise of the ‘bro show’ on broadway archive.is/2025.06.20-1...
archive.is
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The blank street coffee story www.wsj.com/business/bla...
wsj.com
How Do You Build a $500 Million Coffee Chain? By Selling Matcha to Teens.
Young people are obsessed with the private equity-backed chain, which has been doubling down on sugary green tea.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The new 80% rule in culture open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com
The New 80% Rule in Culture
It's ugly out there
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Iran self-sabotaged its connectivity to defend against Israeli cyber attacks. New subplot every time there’s a cyber attack here too just dropped. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Iran Shuts Down Internet in Bid to Tackle Mounting Cyber Attacks
Iran imposed a nationwide internet and telephone blackout, telling civilians it’s necessary to prevent Israeli cyber attacks as fears grow the US will join the ongoing conflict.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The new Apple ‘liquid’ interface is a prototype for ambient computing. I cannot decide it if it is a good one yet though. open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
open.substack.com
🔮 Living in the “gentle singularity”?
Ambient AI, fading clicks, Altman + a bonus Q&A
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
‘LLM as operating system’ The thing is… before windows and browsers we basically just asked tech to do stuff for us. After it… does the operating system need much interaction at all? youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?...
youtu.be
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
YouTube video by Y Combinator
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Isn’t it weird that we haven’t really worked out how to handle sickness in digital work? Culturally or in tech. Email and slack just stack up on people. There’s not really a proper ‘out of office’ message or a digital ‘mode’ you can switch on to triage etc.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’m banging on about naming in the FT today www.ft.com/content/ee9b...
ft.com
‘Don’t try to be a teenager’: lessons from Abrdn’s disastrous rebrand
Many attempts to create a fresh, agile image have failed but playing on heritage can be positive
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
People are using Chatgpt to help them date www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/chat...
gq-magazine.co.uk
Is ChatGPT making you better or worse at dating?
Welcome to DateGPT. People in and out of relationships are turning to chatbots to help them get together, stay together and break up with their partners. Yes, it’s dystopian, but is an assist from AI ...
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Anyway, I was just checking in on social media to see how the various wars are going. It’s 2025.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Given the lack of crowds for the football club World Cup… this is surely pretty brutal for the R360 idea in rugby?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Isn’t it kind of weird that there are so many articles about over-tourism and so few about over-landlordism?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Have you noticed this Father’s Day how so many people are posting AI images of their dads who have passed? When there must surely be real photos of them. So the AI image is more like the memory than the real one? Or they don’t have access to the real ones? What drives this?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What is going on with this logo?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This talk of the social web does seem quite old now.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Imagine if it was socially acceptable in normal jobs to just go around blaming your predecessors for bad things like it is for politicians?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Trumpist candidates outside the US do seem to be bad at winning quite winnable elections. Is this because of the message or the messenger?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
3 years old. What would change?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Expedias B2B push grows skift.com/2025/05/14/e...
skift.com
Expedia’s B2B Push Grows: Adds Flights, Rental Cars, Travel Insurance
Expedia Group is expanding its B2B products from hotels alone with four new products: Flights, rental cars, activities, and travel insurance.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Kudos right?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Amazon want to use AI to make ads reflect the mood of the content they interrupt variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com
Amazon Hopes AI Gives ‘Pause Ads’ New Momentum
Amazon will tap AI in a bid to give 'pause ads' a new twist: new concepts that play off the show or genre being streamed
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Snap Map reaches 400m downloads techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/s...
techcrunch.com
Snap Map reaches new milestone of 400M monthly active users | TechCrunch
Snapchat announced on Wednesday that Snap Map now has more than 400 million monthly active users, a new milestone for one of the app's core features.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Is the definition of taste going to become being uncomputable? Or at least will sophisticated taste be getting things that the LLM don’t ?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I misread the Trump, Qatar, plane thing and just wanted to say that a library inside a £400m plane ie an excellent idea.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Is Leo the first pope for whom we have a social media record before he took to the job?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Is it not surprising that the 50 year anniversary of democracy in Portugal has been marked so little in UK media? A close important country and all that.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The neuroscience of learning new skills today.ucsd.edu/story/neuros...
today.ucsd.edu
Neuroscientists Pinpoint Where (and How) Brain Circuits Are Reshaped as We Learn New Movements
Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than adjus...
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The new amazon robot has a sense of touch spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-stowi...
spectrum.ieee.org
Are Amazon's New Vulcan Robots Revolutionizing Warehouse Efficiency?
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a groundbreaking robot with a "genuine sense of touch" to revolutionize warehouse operations. Can Vulcan outpace human stowers in efficiency and creativity? With robots stowing ...
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
AI designed DNA phys.org/news/2025-05...
phys.org
AI-designed DNA controls genes in healthy mammalian cells for first time
A study published in the journal Cell marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that can successfully control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Your gut microbes can make you criminal (sort ot) www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/09/1...
technologyreview.com
Your gut microbes might encourage criminal behavior
Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Copyright does feel like some kind of zombie thing. www.brookings.edu/articles/cop...
brookings.edu
Copyright alone cannot protect the future of creative work
Mark MacCarthy discusses challenges with the future of creative work and the current guidelines around AI-generated content.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Roam is cool. The one problem in it it strikes me is that once we stop working in physical offices we should be able to work more with people in other orgs easier. And this sort of blocks that. ro.am
ro.am
Roam
AI-Powered Virtual HQ
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Solar farm installation robot! www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/03/l...
pv-magazine.com
Leapting rolls out PV module-mounting robot
Leapting will soon deploy a PV module-mounting robot at a project in Australia. It says the automatic installation speed of the AI-driven machine can reach one panel per minute, delivering an estimate...
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Fancy living in a house made of of piss? It’s actually a good thing and possible. interestingengineering.com/innovation/c...
interestingengineering.com
German researchers turn urine into green concrete similar to sandstone
Researchers in Germany have developed bio-concrete from urine, offering a sustainable alternative to traditional cement.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Apple’s appstore payments issues continue www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/t...
nytimes.com
How Apple Created a Legal Mess When It Skirted a Judge’s Ruling
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Less than half of Americans under 35 own a home www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/r...
nytimes.com
Where Can Younger Buyers Afford Homes?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Kashmir is such a beautiful place stuck in such an ugly dispute as an accident of history. A war between two nuclear powers that with a border with China though. This is a real test of what the ‘international system’ really is now.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I came here to say this ie. We just don’t say it anymore but this statement from the US president is just straight false.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The rise of the crunchy teen influencer www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
nytimes.com
The Rise of the ‘Crunchy Teen’ Wellness Influencer
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Peacock launched an accelerator for creators www.tubefilter.com/2025/05/02/p...
tubefilter.com
Peacock launched an accelerator for creators. Now it's picking up their scripted shows. - Tubefilter
Peacock is picking up four scripted shows from creators it worked with as part of NBCUniversal's Accelerator Program.
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This woman has streamed her life dor 3 years. Viewers have got a bit bored. The internet is paying her $5000 a month. For her life. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’
A lonely young woman in Texas has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting. Is this life, or a performance of one?
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This west village girl article is interesting on this whole agenda of the search for community www.thecut.com/article/nyc-...
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NickSherrard @nicksherrard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Chatgpt psychosis www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...
reddit.com
From the ChatGPT community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
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