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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That thing where you see a debate among people with ill-informed opinions retro-fitting a topic to their core worldview, and start to jump in, then realise you are also relatively ill-informed on the topic and "well, actually" is perhaps the most annoying form of discourse, and just discard the post

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I suspect much of the 'required' human inputs in that pull-quote only exit due to inefficiencies in processes - not quite 'make-work' but not far off. The question is whether we choose to use complementary AI to create free time, or to 'optimise' human inputs so fewer people are just working harder.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The citizens of London, who are rich and powerful, and draw their living chiefly from merchandise sent over land and sea, which enables them to live in great prosperity, are the real leaders of the kingdom, without whom the rest of the country would neither dare nor be able to do anything."

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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cory Doctorow reckons the AI Bubble is about to burst. Is he right? @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

23 years ago, I wrote an editor's letter for the mag about the disappearance of redundant time. We were getting so good to optimising - and the cults of 'grinding' and presenteeism were getting so embedded - that we were losing something really valuable to our wellbeing and creativity: time to think

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reddit is the only social media platform I actually enjoy.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Art teacher Mr Milsom (IIRC) walking centre stage, sitting down, and playing Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner on boom box. That was it. 1985 was different, and in many ways better.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is there anything funnier than Scum fans finally singing their songs to celebrate a flukey equaliser at Craven Cottage (against a very lacklustre Fulham side) #lufc #FULMNU

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 20/09/2026

Eine schöne Bastel- und Malarbeit. Manchmal trägt Obelix den Hinkelstein. Manchmal ist Obelix der Hinkelstein. Dürfte nicht leicht gewesen sein, diesen Stein zu finden. #Asterix #Fanart

Das Bild zeigt einen kleinen, länglichen und nach oben abgerundeten Stein, dessen Form an einen Hinkelstein erinnert. Der Stein wurde rundherum so bemalt, dass er selbst zum Körper von Obelix wird.
Auf der Vorderseite sind Obelix’ Gesicht mit den roten Zöpfen, sein nackter Oberkörper sowie der grüne Gürtel mit großer gelber Schnalle zu sehen. Darunter setzt sich seine typische blau-weiß gestreifte Hose bis zum unteren Rand des Steins fort. Seine Füße stehen auf einer kleinen grünen Wiese, die mit roten Pilzen und Blumen verziert ist. Der obere, dunkelgraue Teil des Steins bleibt weitgehend unbemalt und wirkt dadurch wie ein Hinkelstein, der hinter Obelix aufragt.
Die Rückseite löst den kleinen optischen Scherz auf: Dort fehlen Kopf und Oberkörper völlig. Stattdessen sieht man nur Obelix’ Arme, die sich von beiden Seiten um den grauen Stein legen. Seine Hände greifen hinter dem „Hinkelstein“ ineinander. Darunter sind wiederum die gestreifte Hose und seine Füße auf der Wiese zu erkennen.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry but I quite like this. Gonna do it.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gutted I second guessed myself on one of the more obvious clues. catfishing.net/game/today

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026

Today's Janan Ganesh is 💯 as.ft.com/r/fcc14c9d-b...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great ChatGPT result: turned the jpeg of a diagram into a fully editable PowerPoint slide of the same thing. See, now this is what our robot underlings should be doing, not getting ideas above their station...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So much this. Whatever happened to "when they go low..."?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I get why, in trying to push back against fascist or quasi-fascist movements, there's a lot of reverse trolling and using their own tactics against them. But, it does suck. In general, I don't like having my views repped by someone doing internet clapback in the style of a 14 year old.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm sure the new agreements between AI players to limit their immediate development "to save humanity" has nothing to do with the massive increases in compute needed for fresh frontier expansion at a time when existing financial commitments are looking a tad... terrifying?

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OMG, genius. Might explain why Farage set it up as a company he owns...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In my profile bio I used to railed against hyperbole as the biggest threat to emerge for humanity in my lifetime </s>. Now I found I have fellow travellers. This is great. (HT @charlesarthur.bsky.social via the Overspill newsletter). americandreaming.substack.com/p/why-words-...

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Why Words Don’t Mean Anything Anymore

Concept creep, tribalism, and our endless chase for clout

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

With the increased use of AI, organisations and jobs are effectively redesigning themselves. This is happening without management direction and often without management knowledge. This isn’t a ‘new age of empowerment’. It’s creating new silos, new bottlenecks and new turf wars.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Really interesting piece, and an annoying new angle for a report I've pretty much finished for a blue chip client. AI isn't just taking away juniors' exposure to project work; it's removing the strong bonds between disciplines horizontally, too.

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AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work

Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Download it. Read it. Your blagger’s guide to all the policy dilemmas we face.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And it really should have been none (although the teenager helped with one of them, TBF) catfishing.net #806 - 8/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐟 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They're often *so close* to accepting that defining people as nations or even tribes is really silly. If they could just go that *little* bit further and accept the real lesson from history is we all have to share physical space and resources more equally without killing each.... Oh, yeah, Brexit

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I incorporated just to get paid by one multinational client with an insane remittance system. Setting up my own company turned out to be ten times easier than the rest of their "onboarding" process. It took 18 months to get paid. (Next worst offender: a Magic Circle law firm...)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

AI scepticism and loss of agency. Really interesting interview with Paul Kedrosky (clipped to the point where that agency question comes in, but whole thing worth a watch if AI/economics/investment is your bag) youtu.be/xcftQ5HtDoU?...

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The AI Boom Is Creating a Financial System We Haven't Seen Before (Paul Kedrosky Explains)

YouTube video by The Meb Faber Show

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OK Sora, make me a video that encapsulates the concept ”working toward the fuhrer” but in a modern context

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Men's group's winter retreat spoiled when Scandinavian neighbours drop by unexpectedly with their poorly behaved dog. (Shamelessly cc:ing @dempster2000.bsky.social )

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bad night for the Dons but against PL opposition...

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yukyukyuk. Amusing. But seriously: how many publishers of cook books get someone to prepare each recipe to ensure it works and isn't a fucking kitchen nightmare. (Answer: none.)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If your celebration of Dolly Parton - a queen, as so many point out, with a queen's grace and lack of spite - requires you to slag off other people or ideas in the process, you're not worth my attention. Unfollow!

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Newell's Old Boys - English News @newellsoldboys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Our fans were banned from using fireworks, drums or flags inside the stadium last night. But they didn't say anything about OUTSIDE the stadium... So here's how things went down when the team bus arrived 🔥🔥

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Scolding + hyperbole = block today. Even for otherwise interesting people. End of tether.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cheery. Remind me again why the existing education system is such a great model that just needs a few tweaks? (To be clear: Burnham needs to find an extra 20% for the education budget NOW to support stretched teachers regardless of what long-term reforms can be enacted to get our kids ready for C21)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Doing a big report on M&A in [sector] and had a chat with a senior bod at [global brand] who said their calculus now is not "can we buy capability we don't have" but "will the time delta between buying it in and sticking with our own project justify the acquisition cost."

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Instituted much stricter time outs for Bluesky when my feed reveals performative outrage (among other things). Hoo boy, I’ve really not seen much of Bluesky recently. (Mostly sad that a writer whose book I’m enjoying keeps reposting that sort of thing. He‘s dangerously close to an Unfollow…)

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Most reasonably intelligent people make mistakes and recognise that fairly quick after the fact (in my experience anyway). But there’s a class of people who make a living overanalysing those mistakes and publicly scolding them for them. The second is more tiresome than the first.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is particularly fascinating, because a grown-up should be incapable of feeling humiliated by people they consider 'nobodies'. A grown-up doesn't get angry or hurt by people they genuinely think are worthless, stupid or nasty. Perhaps... Nigel just isn't very grown-up?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Checkmate, Nige.

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Richard Young @richardyoung.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Post your favourite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.

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