Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Australia really need to up its game and divide itself up into 50 states so people can spend their lives trying to visit them all. Most of them would be empty deserts but it would give people some to do. 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026repost your own 10 things other people like but i don’t 1. fantasy football leagues 2. drip coffee 3. watching basketball 4. sports betting 5. F-150 trucks 6. country music 7. pumpkin spice latte 8. refreshing dips in the ocean 9. gym workouts 10. bold &/or matte lipstick (on others) 121
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026All this AI stuff lately. Imagine you found a little creature in a box, and you weren’t sure what it could do, but after some prodding it showed you the solution to the Navier-Stokes equation. Would you then just let it out of the box into the world to see what else it could do? 100
Reposted by Tim BurrowsThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation 273654743
Reposted by Tim BurrowsHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/20266. So their bosses should encourage them to organize, signing cards to build the first labor union willing to go on strike to de-immanentize the eschaton . By doing good, the AI labs would be able to do well, crushing their compute cost as they dropped out of the frontier model rat race. 3356
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The car was subsequently charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 5 years in jail 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21432711
Reposted by Tim BurrowsPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Would he have a more progressive campaign if he was trying to win in Oregon? Very likely! But, again, and I cannot stress this enough, he is not running to be Senator for Oregon. He is running to be Senator for Texas. 4624
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026To be fair, building data centers underground is about 1000% smarter than trying to build and operate them in outer space 011
Reposted by Tim BurrowsPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I love the comment (made elsewhere) that "the more senior the [AI] employee, the more concerned they are." Yes - they have spent longer drinking the Kool-Aid. It's established that folks working on AI are more inclined to attribute AI human-like cognition and to pass it in Turing tests. 4161
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In these tumultuous times, it’s comforting to remind oneself that we have the best and wisest running the country 000
Reposted by Tim BurrowsAlli Roberts @allitude.bsky.social · 30/08/2026am i the only one that was locked out of the Bluesky app most of the day? 221
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I am once again asking for the ability to hide posts by people boosting their own posts by reposting them 020
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Sneak preview of my new one-step course “How to make millions via passive income”: Step 1: Creating your first course: “How to make millions via passive income” 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A plausible scenario involves AI setting civilization back 100 years or more as people revert to paper records and in-person communications as the only acceptable method of confidently doing business on a risk-adjusted basis www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auHow a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threatWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack. 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 09/08/2026I AM ENJOYING AN UNUSUALLY WARM AND DRY SUMMER 319425
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Stick a big battery on this set up, export during peak periods, add some BEV farming machinery and you’ve got yourself a farming business where most of the revenue probably comes from electricity generation 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/07/2026the non-pervert use cases for pervert glasses are just so *lame*. These things will literally never happen with pervert glasses, which are aimed pretty squarely, as we know, at perverts. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/m... 4538498
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 28/07/2026IPCC reports have been for years listing wars as a likely risk of climate change, I don’t think they ever considered the possibility that they might turn out to be the most effective mitigation response 021
Reposted by Tim BurrowsKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 21/07/2026Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES 6744471127
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It seems like NYC is just a continuous weather alert for most of the year 011
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Indecent behavior assumes the existence of decent behavior 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Climate change requires government action Governments are currently managed by a small number of ultra wealthy individuals Ultra wealthy individuals are not affected by climate change Tax the rich 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In awe of the penetrating insight demonstrated by people replying ”because Messi” thank you for your valuable contribution to the discourse 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Thought-provoking article by @himself.bsky.social in which Thiel (tellingly) decides based on top down structure that royalty is the closest analog of a tech startup, rather than, say, the military? www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...programmablemutter.comThe political economy of billionaire derangementThe passions are devouring the interests 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Also, 30 yr Treasuries highest in over 20 years but I’m not seeing much chatter on this (as opposed to earlier this year whence there was much gnashing of teeth) 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Or we could blow the tops off mountains and set fire to the coal 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Kind of surprised more people aren’t talking about SpaceX slowly tanking. Still about 10x overvalued, though. 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/07/2026BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES and mock people wearing them 819529
Reposted by Tim BurrowsProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I met Greg at a party and bent his ear about air pollution to the extent he went home and made this AMAZING resource. This is why people shouldn't talk to meet in public 710531
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This one of the most misunderstood interpretations of ”wealthy country“. If your country is number 2 on average and doesn’t even appear in the top 20 on median, most of the people living in your country are “not wealthy“ 051
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I don’t understand the need for an edit button. Just careful check for typos before you post! 110
Reposted by Tim BurrowsEveryone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Meta’s new AI sunglasses will help creeps record women without their consent. And then use the videos to train Mark Zuckerberg’s robots. God forbid these tech bros build something the world ACTUALLY F*ING NEEDS??? 9340133
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Reading this collection of non-words just added about 30 years to my actual age 210
Reposted by Tim Burrowsjenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Drowning is “the No. 1 cause of death for kids ages 1 to 4, & one of the top killers of children ages 5 to 14.… Drownings of very young children sometimes occur in bathtubs. But most…occur in swimming pools.” 🛟🧪 @mikestobbe.bsky.social 1298
Reposted by Tim BurrowsJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I would kill or die for Larry 36174953961
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Is there a setting that hides people reposting their own posts? 000
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 27/06/2026if progressives don’t permit change, does that not imply they are conservatives? 020
Reposted by Tim BurrowsAlli Roberts @allitude.bsky.social · 27/06/2026happy Pride to super bisexuals 121
