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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Introducing waitingfor.ai, the chillest tropical spot to wait for your coding agents 🌴 🥥 I kept finding myself getting distracted during those unpredictable stretches while Claude or Codex was working, so I built a little place to spend that time instead. It’s […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Last week I wrapped up 3 years on Threads/13 years at Meta! It's insane we went from a single line of code with a talented, friendly, nimble team and ended up with 500M MAU (and real PMF, and real magic moments) just a few years later. I had the absolute best […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

And that’s a wrap on 007 First Light! Was a great blend of Hitman, Uncharted, and Last of Us all while honoring the classic James Bond franchise. 5 stars from me 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #gaming threads

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

I went in with super low expectations from the trailer but this was basically a *great* Knives Out movie, and honestly better in a ton of ways. Not a dry eye in the theatre at the end either!! Highly recommend 🥹

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

me when I got the bug report that music + GIFs didnt work on web composer (and this is the test post)

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Anyone else playing and liking Pragmata? I feel like an original IP is so rare nowadays, and just playing a good-ol’ single player campaign is so satisfying! Between this and Project Hail Mary, I’m getting my fill of sci fi this year

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

Honored and thrilled to announce that having solved this part of the new ARC-AGI-3 drop, I am officially more generally intelligent than GPT 5.4, Gemini 3, and Opus 4.6 😎 👏🏻 10 things this taught me about B2B SaaS below ⬇️

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Project Hail Mary was insanely good! I was an already fan of the book but they did such a great job with the screenplay. Supposedly there are zero green screen shots in the whole film as well. Good little quote thread down here too for anyone who saw it this […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Inflatable face I donno… kinda random

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

One of the coolest things about emoji is that you can go read the proposals submitted to the ESC of the Unicode Consortium! I actually didn’t appreciate how much the collision (💥) emoji didn’t capture what the fight cloud one does. Read the full proposal here […] [Original post on threads.com]

May be an illustration of newspaper and text that says 'RITE-BUT SAPE ARRGH! BEETLE AND SARGE ARE FIGHTING AGAIN! BAM Ko PoW YOU SHOULD MORE ALE νου WOULD LAST TWO IN HE JUN'

May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'o 2. Multiple usages While primarily used to signal a "fight" there is an abundance of types of con which a fight cloud aids in conveying Allusion to a fight without indicating physical assault A: How was your time visiting family? B: As usual Disagreement They keep going at it in the comments section Cartoonish Brawl heard my neighbors again last night Internal Struggle, fight with yourself Whenever go to the DMV just feel like Sound The shelling continued all night'

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

Only in New York — snow men built out of trash on the sidewalk 🫠

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from all of us on Threads!

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

Don’t worry Microsoft push notification engineer, we’ve all been there! 🤓

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

In other AI news, Meta launched a new AI-enabled SWE coding interview! Instead of the "leetcode" questions that have been around for more than a decade (and are trivial to solve with AI), we're piloting a new format that: - enables code execution so you can […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

TIL there is a world of gelatin art desserts (The fact that this was hand made is nuts 🤯)

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

In the midst of all this AI discussion, I think an overlooked aspect is this excerpt from @dkthomp’s newsletter a while back. It’s likely that AI skill will reach some asymptotic limit but humans might drift lower in our raw cognitive abilities over time […] [Original post on threads.com]

Photo by Peter Cottle on October 01, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'new machines. We are so fixated on how technology will many ways that technology can de-skill us that we miss the In movies about impending planetary disasters, we often see the world come together to prepare to meet the threat directly. One might imagine, then, that the potential arrival of all- knowing I would serve as a galvanizing threat, like a Sputnik moment for our collective fear we're preparing to think deeply. Instead, for the alleged arrival of super-brain by lobotomizing ourselves, slinking away into state of incuriosity marked by less reading, less and less thinking. It's as writing'.

Photo by Peter Cottle on October 01, 2025. May be a graphic of text that says '8 Change in 12th grade NAEP math scores (2005-2013 versus 2013-2024 2024) 6 4 2 Lower Lower-peforming students Median students Higher- Higher-performing students scores math grade 12th in Change 0 -2 4 -6 -8 -10 -12 2005 2009 2013 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessement of Education Progress (NAEP) 2015 2019 2024'.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Google's nano banana image model is pretty nuts -- I feel like they've fully solved character & face consistency even with pretty wild style edits 🤯 It's also interesting to see them lean into this in terms of marketing alongside the Gemini name. It's the only […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

My main use case for running LLMs locally has been… when the flight WiFi goes out! I’m playing through wind waker again on an emulator and got stuck a few times during the sailing sequences. It’s super convenient that you can download a model that compresses the […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Loved this quote from Abundance (which I discovered from @dkthomp's newsletter): > Imagine going to sleep in 1875 in New York City and waking up thirty years later. As you shut your eyes, there is no electric lighting, Coca-Cola, basketball, or aspirin. There […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

A story in three parts for the Robinhood equity tokens. Pretty crazy that the SEC is ok with this!

Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'OpenAl Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom These "OpenAl tokens" are not OpenAl equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it. Any transfer of equity requires our approval-we did not approve any transfer. Please be careful. 4:06 PM Jul 2, 2025 3.7M Views'.

Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says '2 CNBC CB International @CNBCi Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says it's not "entirely relevant" that the trading platform's so-called tokenized shares of and SpaceX aren't technically equity in the companies.'.

Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a meme of 6 people and text that says 'I don't Idon'tgetit Idongetit.Whyaretheyconlesn get geti it. Why are they confessing? They're They'rebragging bragging They're not Theytenotconfessing confessing'.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2025

February 2023, the very first Threads war room and possibly the very first sunset photo we took together 🌆 @0xjessel @marius.schulz snapping their pics as well Been a long journey since then 🥹

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

Survivor 50 cast was announced and it's going to be NUTS 🤯 We've got Mike White getting inspiration for White Lotus Season 4, Kyle and Kamilla who JUST finished Season 48, Ozzy the redemption island king, Colby the "no chocolate please" king, and so many other […] [Original post on threads.com]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

I never knew about TRACONs, but this part seems the most wild to me: > Whereas in N90, 9 or 10 “positions” in the facility might be assigned to the Newark Sector, at Philly, that number is reduced to two. Regardless of technology or physical location, dumping […] [Original post on threads.com]

Photo by Peter Cottle on May 07, 2025. May be an image of ‎map, radar and ‎text that says '‎מוזז TI E SE หนย Key STARS ARTS 2E ARTS 3E DOD STARS Lite ARTS 1E SUN APCANTIC ولءء VIXICO Terminal Automation AS OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 CONUS FAA Traffic Organization‎'‎‎.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025

Big day for the NYC Threads team — we moved floors! And my ceramics pieces are now cable holders 😅

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2025

Honored to receive a limited edition @rileytestut Pokémon business card at SXSW! Big fan of the Delta app and how it’s redefined mobile gaming (and what the Apple App Store can do) @mmccue thanks for hosting the whole Fediverse house 😇

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

Man of my word -- possibly the first conversion from a Threads ad? 🤔 They're a pretty unique/interesting candy too! RE: www.threads.net/@pcottle/post/DFX_X…

Photo by Peter Cottle on February 06, 2025. May be an image of candy, wafer and text.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

Ok Severance marketing keeps getting better — Apple released a preview of “The You You Are” book from the show and it’s *wild*. Love all these corners of the universe they’re fleshing out RE: www.threads.net/@nerdist/post/DFi6J…

Photo by Peter Cottle on February 02, 2025. May be a meme of 1 person and text that says 'Severance 職'.

Photo by Peter Cottle on February 02, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Highlight Add Note Translate > nated by my paren tıtled "Smells Like Afterbirth, F**ker." It was noteworthy in that I was the first child sired exclusively for theatrical purposes, and critics at the time hailed it as "a baroque deconstruc- tion of the increasingly perverse human urge to procreate. My birth was nessed by such cultural leaders as Jason Robards, Lina Wertmüller, Walt Frazier, and Oregon Governor Robert W. Straub, who called it "American theater most sublimely obscene." Though I cannot remember wit- at its my birth'.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

A side effect of Bluesky’s AT protocol is that anyone can observe (and then index) blocks between accounts. Which means you can build a website that literally shows who has blocked who, including top accounts like @mcuban, and… no one seems to care? 🤯 Never […] [Original post on threads.net]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

Even Satya's tweet couldn't stop DeepSeek affecting the market 🤯📉

Photo by Peter Cottle on January 27, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'Nasdaq 100 Heatmap Technology Nvida NVDA $125.65 -$16.97 1.90%) 3Months 1.50%) NVDA -11.9 11.90% 90% GOOGL -3 3.44% 150.00 META 45% 130.00 125.65 280ct 1Now 5Now Dee 3Dee 6Jan 0Jan GOOG -3. -3.30% CMCSA -0.89% CHTR AVGO 11.34% Consumer NTES 2.03% FOX -7.78% Healthcare Csco -2.83% MSFT .74% 5.37% ISRG 2.77% AMGN 1.75% OCOM AMZN 3.00% INTU 0.64% 6.03% REGN 0.20% MU 8.88% LRCX KLAC ADBE 0.29% INTC LMN INGY Industrials 0.55% ADP 0.02% WDAY ADSK COST PCAR BKNG 0.61% NXPI TSLA 94% MRVL 14.24% CTAS SNPS MELI ORLY Uulities AEP 3.26% LULU TCOM SBUX ROST PYPL'.

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2025

Open source AI is so cool -- I'm running both DeepSeek r1 and Llama 3.2 side-by-side *completely locally* for the price of charging my macbook via Ollama. No usage limits, no rate limiting, and state-of-the-art capabilities. Can't wait for this to be an option when using Cursor/VSCode

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

“Let me relax after a busy workday with some light, calming gameplay” The game in question:

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025

Hilarious MBA situation highlighted by @itismattlevine: - Indianapolis company starts development on a golf course project in Puerto Rico - Owners share the ongoing business plan with Kelley School of Business - Students are close with the CEO of a rival […] [Original post on threads.net]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2025

Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain! Now I can sell fan fiction of Tintin-the-hacker and use Popeye to promote arbitrary apps... ...which I always expected to be WAY more common after these kinds of events. When Winnie the Pooh entered public […] [Original post on threads.net]

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

Alright I’ll admit I enjoyed these two movies **way** more than I expected. A self-aware romcom with unexpected twists, and Jason Bateman driving a ton of tension (in the midst of relatable airport humor). Netflix is cooking for Christmas 🎄

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Peter Cottle @pcottle.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024

InTENSEEe SF Earthquake!! 250 howard is wobblin' right now

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