Dawn

Yet another reason (well, another article around the same reason) why I cancelled my @theguardian.com subscription today.

So. Many. Levels.

We finally made it to @oldoptheatre.bsky.social a few months ago, what an amazing place!

I guess it’s the contract law equivalent of the media and politics’ “unprecedented times”

Might have changed a lot since Brexit.

280% tarrif on anyone saying “proof in the pudding” rather than “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”

Surely TEA talk

The replies tho 😂👏🏻

Of course! Poor pupster. Hope he’s back on his paws soon.

I’m enjoying your “oh MATE” series of posts

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I loved this episode. Propaganda and its creators can be easy to believe until they start making claims about subjects where you have some knowledge, then you realise that if they are talking shit about that, then they might be talking shit about everything else. Thanks @podsavetheuk.crooked.com!

You were fab!

Morning Dave 😂

dear @support.bsky.team please please add better 2FA options: only having a code sent to email is a) annoying and b) no use at all if someone has taken over your email account. Please implement app-based 2FA and hardware tokens.

There is already 25 minutes more daylight than the shortest day and by the end of this week it will be around 45 minutes.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

They were doing what, now?

R.I.P. 2024 (2024 - 2024)

if labour want to destroy reform they don’t need to ban foreign donations, they need to ban outside earnings for mps. no way farage sticks around for a second term if he’s limited to just £80k/pa.

Same except mince pies

Oof. Hope it goes ok.

I sneak round your parents’ house as soon as you’ve left and put motion smoothing back on.

I read it on your recommendation and it is a great book! Congratulations @peteetchells.bsky.social !

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How about “Bring me problems, and ideas for solutions if you have any”?

Stop 👏 installing 👏 USB-A 👏 sockets 👏 in 👏 public 👏 places 👏 in 👏 2024.

And please don’t make the second options be SMS 😬

and for successfully resisting the urge to eat a little treat, I shall reward myself with a little treat

Andi needs to continue winning at GBM. How about Grace Dent?