Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good stuff, first good analogy I’ve seen for how the agent bit works. 000
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I dimly recall Sam Freedman saying the recommendation links / network effect were hugely useful for getting more subscribers… Ah, here: bsky.app/profile/samf... 120
Reposted by Rob WeirMartin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert. 13837230
Reposted by Rob WeirCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK 534039825
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 19/06/2026let’s send some Championship teams to the World Cup under some country cover and see how they do, maybe one per group 010
Reposted by Rob WeirTim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I encourage all foreign followers I have to read this, knowing that you will be totally unable to discern anything about its true cultural significance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...abc.net.auMasked band TISM stung with $18,000 Sydney Opera House fineThe anarchic, ARIA-winning group have been stung with an $18k fine by the Sydney Opera House as they announce their first national tour in more than 30 years. 65720
Reposted by Rob WeirMariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 10/05/2026AGE 12: Fell off of bike at high velocity onto gravel road, biked 5 miles home. AGE 45: Used wrong pillow, back was nonfunctional for two days. 2734140
Reposted by Rob WeirThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2026Artist Profile: Noah Kahan theonion.com/artist-profile-noah-ka… 1459725
Reposted by Rob WeirMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Thinking back to one of the greatest hater editorials of all time, along with its sheepish correction (49 years later): 🧪https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/1920editorial-full.pdf 17535137
Reposted by Rob Weirlynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/04/2026highly unfortunate max-width on this div 634741
Reposted by Rob WeirKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free 804129692
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Contemporaneous Guardian article says they did betting too: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comThe dead listA rash of sites specialise in blowing the whistle on dead and dying dot.coms. By David Rowan. 010
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Why do you think that? ECC ram and u.3 and sas storage and server CPUs are all incompatible with all home equipment, and second hand TPUs seem unlikely to be very useful even for people who want that at home. 100
Reposted by Rob WeirPeter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten. 17694163
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The critical difference is George Costanza’s bosses didn’t want him there, whereas here multiple generations of people had the bad judgment to actively hire him even after the last round of nonsense 010
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 26/01/2026You can still do this; it sucks that Google killed Reader but that didn’t stop blogs having RSS feeds. 030
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 07/01/2026And banks and health record sharers don’t trust email either, they make you do insane side and verification with SMS and then make you access some random https site to read the actual message. 210
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Also, it sounds incredibly tedious and stupid to have to explain to normal people for the next thousand years that yes, there was encryption involved, but also yes, all your messages are fully readable by Bluesky staff and Bluesky hackers and any government who cares to subpoena Bluesky 220
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Why bother then?Why introduce another crappy messaging system and then have to explain forever to people that their messages are encrypted only in a completely useless way and are readable by Bluesky staff and hackers and trivially subpoenable by any government bluesky’s corporate structure touches? 130
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 05/01/2026isn’t that also a private company listed on the stock exchange that also does a lot of land dealing to pay for things? 100
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Or go the other way and create a permanent delivery organisation that just continuously builds public transport infrastructure across Britain for the next century, avoiding so many contractors and benefiting from growing skills and lessons learnt over time. 110
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Would be good for some future progressive government to just establish an office of Investigating Stories From Private Eye And Co Years Before They Become Massive Scandals to head off some of this extremely preventable events. 0226
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Less new and less directly about what’s currently branded as “AI”, but I thought Cathy O'Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction” was great and changed how I thought about the consequences of the decisions made in my industry. 110
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025“We want [other people’s] kids to go to uni less” is always the plan. 1474
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I found so many comments by journalists about pre-2020 twitter to be completely inscrutable until I eventually realised they were all just scrolling through the ”for you” feed instead of aerially following people they thought were interesting and then reading their posts. Surreal cultural barrier. 0250
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Frying this turkey was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. 0171
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Sorry, I did read it, just hadn’t really considered that “reduce hotel cost / occupancy immediately (and no, we haven’t thought hard about what that means about our duty of care to the former occupants)” was the sincere policy goal. Jfc. 030
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Is there any purported rationale for why this could be a good thing for the people it affects or is it just the government saying “we’re cunts and we think the British people want to see more of that”? 141
Reposted by Rob WeirRob Frightcis @robertfrancis.co.uk · 22/11/2025Southampton thrashing Charlton Athletic. 001
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 15/11/2025It really is rather odd how universal the conflation of it all is, even by people who presumably understand the difference and would directly benefit (as would we all) if the public did too. 010
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 08/11/2025and that was for something much less dumb than “we borrowed a trillion dollars to build all these warehouses full of graphics cards that last like three years” - at least the houses still existed and remained house-y 1722
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 08/11/2025How is it like the House of Lords at all? It’s fully democratically elected, using an elaborate multi member preferential party list system per state, on a separate timetable to the lower house, as well as existing inside a real written constitution instead of made up conventions. 010
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 06/11/2025in the grand traditions of doing dumb things, but with computers, we finally reach phrenology, but with computers 117719
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 01/11/2025definitely managed to get un-buyable positive PR from the BBC though 000
Rob Weir @rweir.bsky.social · 30/10/2025is the communist … kayfabe still much of factor in limiting what is seen as acceptable / possible / tolerable in government even when the consequences are so severe and unwanted? it doesn’t seem like the private sector feels very bound to appear as humble working folk contributing as best they can. 140
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![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
