Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
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Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.
This is interesting - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - couple of things that stand out to me as problems organizations need to tackle 1) one person's productivity can be another's slop, and 2) cognitive overload hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
@sarahjwells.bsky.social & @nickselby.com: AI tools need access to your crown jewels to be useful - so what's your blast radius when it goes wrong? Watch the episode.
Bluesky has the juice
Not sure I can say I enjoyed this, but it’s an interesting if infuriating read giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How tech turned against women
Right now, someone is getting ready to sell hi-def audio bananas, and at the same time, others are looking to buy them
gizmodo.com/audiophiles-...
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Fascinating - Reform lose to every other option, Lib Dems beat every other option, Greens beat every other option except Lib Dem
Glad to see a piece that is less panicked about projected population decline
www.ft.com/content/0ae2...
Oh no new potential obsession
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
YEAH, BABY!!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h...
At the moment on the BBC, two middle aged men are commenting on the performance of the women snowboarders and it is full of respect and massive enthusiasm for the skill, craft and athleticism of these (very) young women. It is a wholesome antidote to everything else going on.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/uk-p...
The overlooked story of booming UK productivity?
“The problem with computers is that you tinker. Automating things is fun!…
The part that's not fun is running things. Providing a service. Reliably, at scale, for years on end. A service that people will hire to do their jobs”
swizec.com/blog/the-fut...
[Snowboarding TV commentary]
EX-SNOWBOARDER COLOR COMMENTATOR WHO SOUNDS LIKE HE BATHES IN BONG WATER: Awwwww NO WAY, backside chicken salad off the knucklehuck IN GOOFY, that is groooady from my brochacho
STAID, RESPECTABLE PLAY-BY-PLAY GUY WHO USUALLY COVERS GOLF: Indeed, what a move!
If you are using Notepad++ their update infrastructure appears to have been compromised for months.
In today's edition of "What could possibly go wrong", I show you, Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI Agents.
arstechnica.com/information-...
Such a good story.
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world
www.ft.com/content/dd79...
This is actually the trippiest thing I've ever seen that was not deliberately created by M C Fucking Escher. It straight up took me over a minute to make sense of and now I can't go back.
This is the white-and-gold dress on a gram a week of trenbolone.
I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
King Harold arrow in eye decoration
It's your last chance to get our must-have King Harold with arrow in the eye decoration before the last Christmas post!! Inspired by the Museum's Bayeux Tapestry(or buy in store upto Christmas Eve, while stocks last) reading-museum-shop.myshopify.com/products/har...
insragram screenshot. lando norris 1hr ago: lifetime of work went into this hangover
Absolute respect
what a great sentence to begin my sunday by reading
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
