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Salman

@schdhri.bsky.social
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Strategic designer. Curious about political economy.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 08/08/2026
It is sobering to contemplate that in fewer than five years, the directives of about half a dozen very wealthy men have effectively ruined the most effective research tools ever devised by human civilization.
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This needs to be on a t-shirt.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector
A cat whose entire head is in a helmet with ear, eye and nose holes
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this is some real “lights came on in the club” shit
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No one, absolutely no one, asked for this halftime show.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
Look at this. This is what politicians here say people are right to have concerns over. 3.4%. Absolute fucking state of all of them.
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One of the underrated features of Malaysian and Indonesian restaurants is that you can order a cold Milo as a perfectly acceptable drink to have with dinner.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dr Manhattan on Mars. Very tired of humanity.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/03/2026
This is from 1975.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
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Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So much effort and care put into creating each letter, each word, each sentence. And now we can just change font at the press of a button and don't think about all the digital work put into enabling this.
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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/02/2026
This is amazing.
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The Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 27/11/2025
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 17/10/2025
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is a strong piece. Whenever we talk about immigration, we should emphasise that the economy is heading for broke without it. Rational countries at this point would be rolling out the red carpet for immigrants. Instead, we’re being ridiculous, awful, and self-sabotaging.
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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
90s computer desk with shelves for speakers, tower, printer, pull-out mouse and keyboard drawer etc
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 28/07/2025
We have to tackle the part we play in the #ClimateEmergency Aye, wee things like recycling, turning off lights, cycling not driving... But, mainly, by demanding change at government and corporate level. There's no benefit in using a paper straw if a rainforest has been cut down to make it.
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Waiting to see the apology written in Apple Notes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
But they will use paper straws on the planes
A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/06/2025
Useful discussion about AI energy use (tl;dr: hard to evaluate, for reasons), but also I'd love to see a comparison with other tech use: what's the energy cost of doing a Google search, or a Zoom call, or syncing your pics to iPhoto, etc? Numbers in isolation aren't helpful - they need context
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
tweet by @randygdub

trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh 
[audience going berserk]
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The beginning of the end of the hype cycle.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/05/2025
The mask is coming off of the Network State cult. Here is Network State evangelist Balaji Srinivasan boosting Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong calling for the creation "10 or so" new tech cities on federal land. Of course, Trump has already announced plans for 10 new cities...
Screenshot of Balaji Srinivasan retweeting Brian Armstrong of Coinbase calling for the creation of 10 new cities in "special economic zones," or Network States.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is a terrific and extremely important post by @salome.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...
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The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance
The tech arm of Trump 2.0 isn't just reshaping government — it's consolidating control over the data infrastructure that makes modern governance possible. By centralizing data flows and gutting public...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/05/2025
Things that are easy: Attacking trans people Things that are hard: Stopping male violence against women Things that are easy: Demonising immigrants Things that are hard: Fixing life for people who already live here
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The far-right won't love you Keir.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Incalculable = when we calculated it, it didn't give us the answer we wanted
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My quick take on Labour's anti-immigration policies, and the inevitable harm which they will cause. Starmer is mirroring Reform, but can never go far enough to appease them. #r4today
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Ever since AI took off, I've been trying to nail down one question: what's the climate impact of this technology? The initial impressions are not good. A new IEA report this week is the gold standard and shows emissions from data centres rising significantly: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
severance: a closer look into the mid-century, brutalist, and retro-futuristic universe of lumon (10min) if you like interior and office design and that TV show, you’ll love all the references.
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severance: a closer look into the mid-century, brutalist, and retro-futuristic universe of lumon
   
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 10/02/2025
every rich guy on earth currently in a coordinated effort to give each living human a new version of Sick Building Syndrome
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 07/01/2025
40 year Internet veteran - can conform I'm normal This list misses document sharing between devices tho
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Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Hard not to read this… 1/2 London hit by record downturn in affordable housing on.ft.com/49UNcU6
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London hit by record downturn in affordable housing
High inflation, interest rates and building safety costs are driving collapse in construction
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Sadly the conclusion from US policy makers is that Chinese firms must have "cheated", justifying massive tariffs instead of forming partnerships to learn from them. The "China bad" strategy to spur climate action doesn't really work.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Discourse Lover
@Trillburne
SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society
NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot
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cory hughart @cr0ybot.com · 12/12/2024
Not gonna sugar coat it, this is bleak folks. "The Great Design Handoff" indeed. #UXDesign
We're trading empathy for algorithms. Personalization has gotten so complex that it’s now out of human control, and can lead to echo chambers, warped perspectives, and consequences we’re unable to predict. We're slowly swapping user research for automated A/B tests, and gradually letting the data make decisions on our behalf. [23] [24] [25] We could be choosing to create software that is local-first, more private, and more thoughtful. Still, we're choosing to build for the machine—not for each other. [26]
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 02/12/2024
This. American economic growth is down to exactly the same reasons as the growth in the value of Premiership sides or the vast overcapacity of luxury apartments in London. Loot has to go somewhere. Until one day… it stops.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“A decarbonised society means cleaner air. In Europe, the mistaken notion that diesel and wood are relatively climate-friendly fuels has left people living with excessive traffic emissions and in air pollution hotspots from home wood burning.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How climate policies reduce air pollution saving lives and money
Early deaths from air pollution in US could be reduced by between 4,000 and 15,000 a year by 2035, study shows
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In thinking about what rich nations owe the developing world, here’s something to keep in mind: The average American emits more CO₂ in one week than an average person in low-income countries does in one year.
Bar chart displaying per capita CO2 emissions for 2021. The United States shows significantly higher emissions at 14.86 tons, compared to low-income countries, which have emissions of 0.28 tons. Land use change is not included.
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Salman @schdhri.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Seems like they're trying to ban Bluesky in Pakistan as well...
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