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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sonnet 5 pro is too often erroneous, provides incomplete answers, *long winded*, requires too much scrutiny and circling back on relatively basic adulting matters to be trusted with anything consequential, let alone the "frontier". I'm using it for a property project and it's not good.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so great!
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm not finding Huang remotely reassuring in his Klein interview, he's fielding automobile safety 'self regulation' analogous with LLM regs, but it's not, with cars we get safety recalls for unexpected failures (sometimes dodged) but where's the safety recall feature after AI agents run amok?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
❤️ uk property mkt.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Very good. willself1.substack.com/p/the-machin...
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The Machine No Longer Needs a Master
Will Self argues that Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have seen the spectre of fascism — but missed the machine that no longer needs a master.
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.
A copy of the book "Hyperpolitics" by Anton Jäger on a pub table next to a pint of lager.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the few LLM experts worth paying attention to. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My overriding memory of 9/11 is standing on Grand & Lafayette watching a silent procession of thousands dusted in grey walk uptown, when a single voice shouted "this is an attack on all the Jewish people of the world" and it dawning on me this could be the beginning of a war.
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
10/10, no notes
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Paranoid Style alive and kicking here, 5th column "communists who want to abolish private property" to describe what is in effect the "Vienna model" for social housing, which obviously exists alongside a broader property market. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...
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Sam Harris | #491 - The Suicide of the Left
Sam Harris speaks with James Kirchick about the far left’s growing influence over Democratic politics.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Of course.
Cofnas on Coleman Hughes.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Genuinely can't believe we're supposed to have a debate about whether DEI has reduced the quality of academic output whilst you have some of the critics writing entire papers on why women evolved to use a Dyson?
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
To those Cofnas signatories who sincerely believe they’re doing an Enlightenment bsky.app/profile/aure...
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Some thoughts on the discourse (with nods to @stephenkb.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social and various others)https://substack.com/home/post/p-211963353
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On Left paranoia
sociology or barbarism
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
stopped by linkedin, first time in a few months. first post, utter nonsense. theres just no point to it anymore. this ai generated sales bs and crap copy just feels reputation damaging. why are people doing this?
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Who is responsible? Who will have points on their licence?
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Benjamin Labatut interviewed by Jasmine Sun at Sana “I feel we are back when people were washing their teeth with radioactive products, it all feels a ‘50’s nuclear enthusiasm” I watched 10’ of Cowen’s talk too, and kept saying “prove it” to the screen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rL...
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How the AI age forgets to ask: "What for?" | Benjamín Labatut + Jasmine Sun
YouTube video by Sana
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Classic Gray, channeling Ballard, as he so often does! www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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AI will dissolve civilisation as we know it
Demis Hassabis has dedicated himself to guiding machine intelligence for the betterment of humanity – but is it listening?
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fields also handy for CDR and biodiversity, ofc "nice" being used here to signify middle-class village simpletons and their "views," and yes, we do need to rewire grid w/high volt power cables, and the wiring is in the wrong place because power stations need water but renewables don't.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
1st tree swallow sighted, Catskills, NY. #birding #twitchers
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
my #ai experience thus far. 1. thought it might be handy to organize/summarize ~20yrs/~5g of climate economics white papers, my notes, research, articles, circular design etc etc. “Sorry can’t read pdf’s, word etc” suggested I copy and paste individual files into chat, of which there are thousands
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Kingsnorth is popular in some circles, without thinking through what comes round.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This could have been interesting, although it did illustrate the inability of US journalists to interrogate an interviewee, compared to say UK journalists. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...
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Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC Studios
The conservative podcaster sees self-dealing and conspiracy theories in the Trump Administration. Yet the left, he says, chronically underestimates its own transgressions.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
good listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oR...
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An AI Expert Attempts to Ease Steve's Panic About Artificial Intelligence Easting The World
YouTube video by Alive with Steve Burns
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“That’s my main impression of how the world has changed since 2007: we’re all a lot more pissed off with each other.” Is it the phones or was it the financial crisis, because *I’m* still angry about that, and social media is a massive foghorn. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In 2014 went to a 3 day intensive at Fogg‘s ‘Persuasive Captology Lab’ half thinking they might have discovered something new, half suspecting behavioral b.s. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Bowie (his last live performance, NYC ‘06) Gorillaz (Apollo Harlem) Marshall Jefferson (Hacienda, Manchester, ‘87) Pixies (supporting Throwing Muses, Manchester International) Gil Scott Heron (NYC)
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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
And this… unherd.com/2025/11/coul...
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Labour is crushing Britain's farmers
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A grade. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ
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Epstein is not going away
[FREE TO READ] The issue is Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.” Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
That’s it, right there. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 31/10/2025
This was great. Old analogue technology and the roots of dub youtu.be/yJvahxF1eTc?...
youtu.be
SoundGas – An Exploration in Dub and Delay
YouTube video by Dan Rothman
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Good review of important new book, I wonder what @nafeez.bsky.social thinks about it and how it effects ‘energy superabundance’ calculus? (I understand you est. only 10% stationary storage is li-on, but the focus here is transport..) www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
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There Is No Green Transition Without Consequences
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
i’ve read many ecological economics and climate books and papers over the last twenty years, this is one of the very best. focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative. tinyurl.com/3xatdvby
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Extraction
'Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.&hellip;An immense contribution.' &#8212;Naomi Klein<br /><br />An in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental,...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Listened to Weiss/Ferguson pod it struck me she is similar to Edward Bernays, deeply manipulative. Ferguson is just run of the mill prig powerpoint historian.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If you're watching this and not rooting for the fellow on the bicycle, you're fascist trash.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
stone. cold. and we love to see it.
A screenshot of the quoted video of Zohran Mamdani saying, "And to Andrew Cuomo, you got your wish." A screenshot of the quoted video of Zohran Mamdani saying, "But don't forget, you wanted me as your opponent in the primary too." A screenshot of the quoted video of Zohran Mamdani saying, "And we beat you by 13 points." A screenshot of the quoted video of Zohran Mamdani finishing with a smile and saying, "Hope you're well."
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Caterpillar at sunset
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Perhaps one of the best movies made on motorcycle racing. Farewell, Robert, and thank you. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwZL...
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Official Trailer LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSEY (1970, Robert Redford, Michael J. Pollard)
YouTube video by Trailer World
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Last night listened to David Frum/Amanpour make some coherent points about the gravity of the situation and the likely incoherence of Robinson’s politics. Then just watched this, from where West walks off, at 40’, thru the next mad segment with ‘Destiny’ et al. JFC. m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyzX...
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“They’ll Do It Again and AGAIN!” Charlie Kirk Debate Causes Guest Storm-Out
YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
just to say bari weiss/fp pod talked plenty about political violence w/out mentioning hortman, shapiro floated a trans shooter trial balloon, no mention for groyper w2, some rando guest was banging on about ‘martyrdom’, a la Horst Wessel, that Bluesky is awash with jubilation, etc.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Found by Giuseppe Paoliello www.today.it/politica/gio... @casmudde.bsky.social
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Meloni goleador dribbla Schlein e Conte ed esulta per i risultati dell'Italia: "Record di occupazione"
Il profilo social di Fratelli d'Italia ha pubblicato un carosello di foto che ritraggono la premier come una calciatrice della Nazionale
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Newton @tworooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
On the cusp of change, the leaves are turning, hummingbirds still here but can sense their flight.
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Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Written about YouTube, YouTube Man, and the tremendous cultural significance of an episode of Question Time from June 2007: www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
newstatesman.com
Who’s afraid of YouTube Man?
Screen culture isn’t dystopia – it’s revelation.
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