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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/09/2026

they do not bring me joy. they bring mild revulsion at best and sometimes (extreme) anxiety. so i would like to have my corner of the internet dog-free thanks

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/09/2026

if you love dogs, good for you. you have my pity but if they bring you joy you do you.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/09/2026

how do I get bluesky to stop showing me stupid pictures of horrible dogs? I hate dogs. dogs hate me. i have no interest in your ugly non-cute stupid vicious dogs. the more dog content i unfollow the more its damn dogs dogs dogs dogs. pls send cat pics instead

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/08/2026

this one’s incredible- the second most ‘relevant’ link in a google maps search for ‘Vietnamese restaurant’ in Cherbourg, France : 12 hours away across a sea. North of Birmingham.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/08/2026

yes. keep having to correct it about really dumb shit and also a lot of pointless filler/asides. I worry this is a glimpse of our enshittified genAI future where the machine no longer cares about the best result but just is tokenmaxxing for cash

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Never forget that most of the rage and fear we are swimming in was deliberately manufactured to control us

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Two things are true: (1) Anthropic (or parts of it) are absolutely and sincerely worried about the misuse of Mythos-class models & have put in excessive safeguards around Fable until they are confident it will not be misused (2) They have not succeeded in explaining/convincing people of this

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Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 14/05/2026

There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...

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AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector

Guidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 03/05/2026

Can’t wait til they find Twin Peaks.

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 01/05/2026

On TheyWorkForYou, in 2009 we managed to get back to the 1918 general election from the official Historic Hansard Commons data (which as mentioned, had some gaps) before running out of time/resources. So it’s great to see full coverage of Parliament on the official site. Might even last longer ;)

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 27/04/2026

My wife and I rewatched all 12.5 hours of the Extended Edition ‘making of’ dvds at Christmas. And *then* rewatched the Extended Editions. worth every minute.

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 25/04/2026

This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others: www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/...

Pre-money valuation (down round)
The pre-money valuation for this round is £49,784,163.79

The Company raised funds in November 2025, from existing shareholders only, at a valuation of £47,223,384 (excluding the funds raised). The price was determined by the Company, taking into account many factors including feedback from external investors, the company's latest circumstances and performance, and current macroeconomic conditions. The last public crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube in 2023 was a Convertible, which converted into shares at a price of £3.47452019 per share. This corresponds to a valuation at the time of conversion of £293,339,261. As such, this represents a drop in valuation from the previous public rounds which is driven by current market conditions and strategic adjustments aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability and growth.

As an investor from rounds in 2020 and 2022 this has been a total disaster. The company
raised again in 2023 at a valuation of 293m and this current raise after 3 more years where the business was meant to be growing and securing their position is now at 49m?
All this with practically zero updates from the management to shareholders over a 6 year period

Is This Another Brewdog? paulashcroft1966 1 day ago 0 Replies
I had previously thought about investing in previous rounds and I'm pretty glad I stayed away. There doesn't seem to be any point to new shareholders in getting involved when the liklihood is that this company will come back around soonish asking for yet more money. I've not seen a pitch on Crowdcube get so much bad press from existing shareholders (and I've been with Crowdcube for as long as I remember) which must set alarm bells ringing for any thinking of parting with their money in this round.

“Our existing shareholders need exit liquidity"
Gionson 5 hours ago 0 Replies
Kicked myself for not investing last round, but I couldn't see how it would be a positive
ROl outside of a good concept.
Now they're back and telling you it's a chance to sell off your shares to the new batch of hopeful investors...
Is everything a borderline ponzi now, or am I just a cynic?

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Jo Roach @joroach.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The UKBiobank data leak is not unfortunate, its negligent. The doctor-knows-best approach to stewarding highly sensitive data led to this and many other leaks and the response of leadership is again disingenuous. I admire the research participants for their loyalty, but they have been let down.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 15/04/2026

@dracos.co.uk am I right in thinking that traintimes.org.uk did split tickets first?

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 11/04/2026

you acknowledge that it still exists tho right?

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 11/04/2026

red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-... people keep being astonished at them doing the kind of exploits you can only pull off if you never get tired - when their most unique skill is they don’t ever get tired.

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Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 11/04/2026

holy shit the speaking clock still works in the UK -123

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 07/04/2026

Claude is just the new I’m Feeling Lucky button.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 06/04/2026

as I recall, my contribution was to be too hungover to make the meeting, and so find my name on the press release as sole creator as punishment.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 06/04/2026

theory - 97% of the reason asking claude is better than googling has nothing to do with the chatbot interface but is simply because it filters out all the ads and surveillance crapware and gives you the natural search answer that the web used to in 2003

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 28/03/2026

Absolutely not. If they do a paid ad-free version, I'll buy it. If the only option is ad-supported, I'll use something else. On my phone, on my TV, in my house. So maybe time to look at www.openstreetmap.org again. Or I'll just get Claude to make me my own navigation app base on OSM.

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OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 13/03/2026

that looks… complicated- but mine doesn’t need to have as high a quality bar. Also in terms of updates, the titles db is relatively stable now compared to 2004

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 10/03/2026

I think the tech is quite nifty. I welcome thoughts, suggestions, feedback. I think it's overmatching a little at the moment on single words and I might tighten that. I've also built a little proxy at whitelabel.org/wikilinker?u... so you can see how it works before installing the plugin.

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‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? | Jimmy Wales | The Guardian

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 10/03/2026

So yeah, me and Claude dusted off a very old (2004) idea of mine and made it anew. Enjoy the whitelabel.org/wikilinker/a... - a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) plugin that backfills wikipedia into the whole web. No APIs, no tracking, just a built-in Bloom filter of the 1m most popular articles.

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Wikilinker

Wikilinker Auto-links the most popular 1,000,000 people, places, organizations, and other matchable names to their Wikipedia pages on any webpage, using a...

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 05/03/2026

I am loving spending a lot of time with Claude Code, but it's not without problems. I've gone from 15 unstarted hack projects that have been lingering in my todo list for years to 15 unfinished hack projects, in a month. 😬🤦

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 04/03/2026

ditch wordpress, go eleventy.

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 25/02/2026

bit of a above-the-fold dark pattern there Tom, don’t make it look like I need to subscribe to get access to your grumpy blogpost

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Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 05/12/2024

you think “spit” isn’t onomatopoeia?

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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The number of peers on a leave of absence jumped 48% after new rules requiring them to declare income from foreign states were introduced, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social analysis has shown. More Peer Review work by myself and @seitarowhite.bsky.social 👇 www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/11/21/d...

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Disapeering act: some peers hide foreign earnings by going on leave - Tortoise

Others say this is a loophole that needs closing

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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.

A flow chart titled: Should I say resources?
Do you mean people?
If yes, say people
If no
Do you mean people and things?
If yes say People and the things
If no
Do you mean things?
If yes, say the things

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 16/11/2024

The Post Office Inquiry has finished its hearings; closing statements take place in December. You can read all the transcripts on my site at postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk which has just been updated with the latest evidence links, including the final tranche of statements I have manually linked up.