Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"iconic meaty morsels" you may be interested in this @secondmentions.com 073
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026look, I know all of us outside the US hear way more US news than is healthy, and I try not to just post random links to US goings-on... but seriously, today's episode of What Is Even Happening Over There is one for the ages 001
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Enforce the laws! It's not complicated. If OpenAI staff commit crimes, treat them the same way as anybody else committing the same crimes. Whether they commit their crimes manually, or by using automated crime tools, is irrelevant. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is an absolutely outstanding tweet in a great thread, do read up and down. People with tech backgrounds who are newly encountering a problem do tend to think themselves the first ever to really think about it. 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Speaking with my photographer hat on, there is absolutely no chance - none whatsoever - that any aspect of this was accidental. This would have been carefully conceived and executed, which I think is the correct word here, to achieve precisely this effect. 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I see Cadbury is trying to make Christmas eggs happen. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everybody is making fun of this but bear in mind that in those days "patent medicines and soothing syrups" included stuff like laudanum and heroin. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(1) ask the White House for a big list of all the things that make it hard for them to get things done; (2) implement as many similar things as possible. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Floundering is the worst of all possible worlds" is a great motto. You can't get by on loss aversion alone, in politics as in life. 020
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Of course every court in the world is always overwhelmingly packed with supporters of the home player, but my word the crowd on Arthur Ashe is insufferable. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Zverev just plays the best American style tennis around at the moment, which makes it hard for American players trying to beat him. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026*cinema trailer voice* thsi summer how will fare nect whis 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I vaguely remember hearing a presenter on some older-demographic radio station coming out with something along the lines of "...and that was a new song by a nice young lady called Taylor Swift". Anyway, let's check in with cinema news from The Economist. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026100% agree. Maybe I'm out of touch, but everything popular on Roblox is the absolute dregs of empty-calories number-goes-up engagement-bait mobile game design, with meaningless "rewards" flashing everywhere instead of gameplay. 120
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So... are we all migrating to Twitter, then? Maybe register your handle just to be on the safe side? 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We need to consider the business model and financial situation of OpenAI with as minimal residue of sentiment as possible. Really sit with it, you know? Stare it coldly in the face. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As a schoolboy I was very Discworld and *extremely* They Might Be Giants, and yet somehow it took me decades to catch on to the 'We're Certainly Dwarves' joke in Soul Music. 050
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Stephen is of course entirely correct. There certainly was a time when the Proms were Tory-coded, but the arts parted company with the Conservative Party some time ago and these days they're not really on speaking terms. 130
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The hill I will die on: post-launch content additions to games almost always end up feeling weird and unsatisfying, like if a film director kept going back to add extra scenes and change existing ones. Make the game and leave it be; improvements and additional content go into the sequel. 010
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I feel like a class traitor for admitting it but the Dualit way really is the only correct approach: set the dial by hand from zero every time you toast something. Once you can intuit the various parameters, within two weeks or so, it's perfect toast without fail. Impossible to go back. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Well, I got the big camera out in case the sky cleared, and guess what, it didn't. Now lightening again here. See you again in 30 years, or whatever. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Captured the magical moment of maximum coverage. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wonder whether we're going to get clear skies for the eclipse! Oh wait, no, I don't wonder, because I'm in Belfast. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"Our analysis reveals just how much higher education has relied on international fees." "The economic impact of the decline in foreign students is laid bare by Sunday Times research." Heck of a lot of preening considering everybody with the slightest interest has been shouting about this for years. 030
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Funny how Anthropic are hiring human experts for a project that is going to take five years to get anywhere, while also constantly telling us that The Singularity (TM) will be upon us any day now. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Absolutely delighted that Big Walk, the new game from House House, is reviewing so well. It would have been tempting and probably profitable just to make Untitled Goose Game 2 but they've swung for something really unique and this is very much to be encouraged. www.eurogamer.net/big-walk-rev...eurogamer.netWith upcoming PS Plus game Big Walk, Untilted Goose Game developer House House's co-op puzzle quest takes the hangout game to a new peak - here's our reviewThe Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure. Our Big Walk review. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I was just out buying an overpriced baguette. In the newspaper racks, virtually every front cover other than the Guardian is running a variation of this idea. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Jenrick is not ignorant enough to believe that social care can be funded out of "benefit payments for migrants", but he's cynical enough to seek the votes of people who are. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Guys stop arguing about The Odyssey, there is an easy way to have it all: simply pick up Madeline Miller's 2018 novel Circe, which is wildly entertaining *and* you'll be smarter and better informed for having read it. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Not quite fulfilling the assignment, but an excuse for me to recommend to the curious the 1998 string quintet by the American bassist / composer Edgar Meyer. Meyer: Quintet - Emerson String Quartet - Spotify share.google/zwOr9gNDBkjI...share.googleMeyer: Quintet . Rorem: Quartet No.4 - Emerson String Quartet - Album by Emerson String Quartet | SpotifyEmerson String Quartet · album · 1998 · 14 songs 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is the correct take. Go and watch the film, which is great fun, if inevitably a bit sort of tonally confused. THEN, and only then, read Emily Wilson's article, which - even if you don't necessarily agree with every word - will help you understand why and how the film was tonally confused. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Counterpoint: I use 120 Hz displays at home, and when scrolling a document or a web page, the 60 Hz monitors I use in the office feel like a slideshow by comparison. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I've been doing what I've been doing for twenty-odd years. Still getting to grips with it, to be honest, and arguably it's lower stakes than being PM. 110
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I think there's a case to be made that Google PageRank was more transformative than AI is, in terms of facilitating access to information. Those of you too young to remember a pre-Google web may not appreciate how difficult it used to be to find what you wanted. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My word Argentina are unlikeable. Can't say I'm a big fan of Spain's theatrics and their "streetwise" game - there's a euphemism for you - but that was like watching a Reform candidate lose to a Tory. 011
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026There was so much absolute tripe from the English football punditocracy about the team becoming too defensive against Argentina that I'd honestly find it hilarious if they lose from 4-0 up. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Interesting, and much to ponder. Putting Cameron at the top of the "evil" hierarchy doesn't seem right to me; culpably glib and careless definitely, but I'm not sure that's quite the same thing. 1150
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The expression is "taps aff". It's Scottish & Ulster-Scots. Today in Belfast it's 20 degrees and sunny; there will be plenty of taps aff in Botanic Gardens. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Fun fact, I once had to cover for Bill Clinton for about this long at an event in Belfast. If you've ever done this sort of thing, you'll know how people think they'll be on time but never are. 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"Hackers claim Novo's drug recipes and AI models are for sale". I'm betting some X-based amateur cartel buys it all up - paying with Bitcoin, obviously - and then discovers they can't actually do anything at all with any of it. 031
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This weekend's drink: Fly Like A Butterfly (1:1:0.5:0.5 dry vermouth: sweet vermouth: Dubonnet: orange juice). Fairly sweet, interestingly herbal, freshened by the gentle citrus; like a flat pack self-assembly cream sherry, in a good way. 7/10, but higher if your palate is less dry / sour than mine. 100
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The precision with which people draw the line is fascinating - at what point *exactly* does a 'common-sense response to legitimate concerns' go too far. Quite a lot of British politics is basically people thinking that *that* isn't quite enough fascism but *this* is fractionally too much. 011
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Hello! Belfast here. Not to downplay the severity of the horrendous knife attack, or what has happened since here in Northern Ireland - but since you're talking about firearms, it's maybe worth saying for context: *nobody has been killed*, at all, in the current disorder. 071
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I've noticed one small change in the discourse: because people want to bang the immigration drum despite the fact that immigration is low and falling, increasingly you see references to the "stock" of migrants as opposed to the "flow". 021
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Henceforth I am adopting "Here is the mentioned donkey". 000
Peter Hewitt @petehewitt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The greatest ever achievement of American marketing: selling the idea that cola is an acceptable drink for adults. 000
