Reposted by Nick StenningTom @tomel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Enrico Fermi on December 2nd, 1942: 210924
Reposted by Nick StenningKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776502129
Reposted by Nick StenningJake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally. 1125442
Reposted by Nick StenningMatthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 13/09/2026youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?... is an incredible introduction to things you may take for granted, including the job queue being a literal queue. Maurice Wilkes was still turning up to Computer Lab happy hours on Friday afternoons to have a beer well into his 90s. Fucking legend.youtu.beThe EDSAC FilmYouTube video by CambridgeComputerLab 2437
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If you work in tech and have ever thought you’d rather be working with your hands… now’s your chance to support someone with the same dream. Help my friend and ex-colleague retrain as a luthier! www.paypal.com/pools/c/9sqp...paypal.comHelp A Queer Woman Stay in Europe and Retrain for a New CareerMy name is Berrak, and I'm a software developer and an audio artist. For the past three years I haven't had a stable paying job. I've been rejected for every grant I applied to and continuously reject... 001
Reposted by Nick StenningAmanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite 572633957
Reposted by Nick StenningEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton 24107133230
Reposted by Nick Stenningregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now 14180942671
Reposted by Nick StenningRichard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026What is income? I tried to summarise one of the hardest and most important questions in economics on one page because we have got the answer horribly wrong, and climate change proves it. I wrote the infographic. AI drew it. 49943
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 21/08/2026OH: “Does anyone know what ‘AWS Bartholomew and the Oobleck; formerly OpenOobleck’ is and are we using it? It’s costing us $500K a month.” 060
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We also have all kinds of other roles open. If we know each other -- and that includes "internet-know" -- then feel free to DM for more info. 000
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I know these roles can be hard to find so just putting it out there: we have a bunch of Staff and one Principal role open at astronomer.io/careers/ and you'd be joining some pretty good humans here.astronomer.ioAstronomer: The Best Place to Run Apache Airflow®Apache Airflow® orchestrates the world’s data, ML, and AI pipelines. Astro is the best way to build, run, and observe them at scale. 131
Reposted by Nick StenningDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026rare books are destroyed in the process but at least we have a technology that instructs teens how to commit suicide 2292126
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Hugops as always to the folks dealing with today's (scheduled??) GitHub outage, but big yikes for continuing to post inane status updates like moving "Pull Requests" from "degraded performance" to "degraded availability" after the entire goddamn service has been hard down for an hour. 011
Reposted by Nick StenningEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you. 75123773001
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026That’s a proper car and a lifetime of service. 😍🚗 110
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Lots of reasons not to buy, but if you can afford to and plan to have the car a while, I’m of the opinion that it’s smart. Certainly better than dealing with highly predatory leasing companies. (I now own a car outright as well.) 100
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I think there’s a timeout. Even if the car is unlocked, you can press unlock on the fob to get the cable to unlock for a few moments. 000
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It was a lease/car subscription that ended in May. Loved the car, didn’t like the car subscription company (FINN). 110
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Which may only work for AC charging, I can’t quite remember and I no longer have an Inster :) 100
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Perhaps worth knowing that you can unlock the cable at the car end on an Inster by unlocking the car. 200
Reposted by Nick StenningElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’d recommend everyone watch this - it’s rather cheering to watch our media discover that an incompetent crank runs our national equality regulator 32732210
Reposted by Nick StenningJosh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/08/2026In ancient R’lyeh she slumbers. Each minute, a grain falls, and when her prison fills, the salt girl awakens. When it rains, it pours. 310822
Reposted by Nick StenningJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century 92197380
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 13/07/2026holy shit I can actually see the flatiron building… without scaffolding! 110
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 12/07/2026oh maaate i’m so sorry i missed little alfie’s christening this morning… me and the lads went out last night and had an absolute 000
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The idea that complexity can exist in multiple different forms which can be traded off against one another is definitely one to spend more time thinking about. 010
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026He’s not super bright for sure but even he’s not that thick. So it’s either simply “when I say this SPCX go up” or perhaps as you said can be thought of in terms of handicap principle, costly signalling, etc. 100
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Oh absolutely agreed: it’s not a conscious strategy. Demonstrating in-group membership through loyalty tests is one thing, but understanding why Elon himself keeps talking about space datacenters is more interesting. 220
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026oh god there’s a thought: I am so powerful I can say stupid things and suffer no consequences 110
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026did you know? you can make your organization more structurally complex in order to make it work more simply! it might be a good thing! 130
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026seriously how are we still having the datacenters in space conversation? 020
Reposted by Nick Stenningbinp @binp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence 654622945
Reposted by Nick StenningSonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society. 779220974693
Reposted by Nick Stenning𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 13/06/2026the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw 2481823900
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 14/06/2026he is looking particularly distinguished these days! (maybe that’s just his digestion face…) 000
Reposted by Nick StenningBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026this is, for reference, less than 1 percent of the water used in the United States in a single *day* 1535660
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 11/06/2026wait until you hear how many teaspoons of water they used!! 010
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Racist men have always been most afraid of the possibility that *someone else* might abuse their wives and daughters. 041
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Every once in a a while I look at UK news and reflect on the fact that the current PM won the second-largest labour majority ever and used it to… [checks notes]… become the Tory Party? 110
Reposted by Nick StenningLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 07/06/2026wealth bends rules like gravity bends light 184
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Worth emphasising that Nasdaq indices being more lax about listing requirements is a very recent development. They changed the rules (which existed precisely to make the market not do silly things) *last month* to allow SPCX to list. 1184
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Because that’s how index funds work. They buy at the market price to reflect what’s in the index. They are obliged to do so, and have no discretion. 120
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Goldman Sachs estimates that Nasdaq-100 trackers will generate about $60B in forced buying when SPCX enters the index. That’s $60B of stock they need to buy, out of $75B floated at IPO. Madness. 1143
