Ed Macovaz

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

I think one of the positive opportunities of LLMs and automation is to rely more on patterns and guidance than strict building blocks.

This is a lot easier to miss because we often don’t notice who’s *not* there. This doesn’t just happen in physical spaces, the amount of people who don’t have profiles or have to stay private deprives us all of a lot contributions.

Tech’s complete incomprehension of human experience and motivation is hilarious and terrifying

Would love to have been in the Apple meeting where it was agreed the best thing would be for Xcode 27 to break fit for everyone until we accept the license agreement.

Ed Sheeran learning about Irish culture and solidarity. Good for him.

“But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight”

More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.

that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

In an honest and just approach to AI, services like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive would be drowning in funding. Instead we have Anthropic and Amazon shredding books.

Perhaps the best one so far… “Parton strongly encouraged everyone to get vaccinated when eligible and performed a song celebrating her vaccination, set to the tune of her song "Jolene".” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...

Say what you want about China, we could do with more of this in Europe and Australia. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If Linear isn’t looking into source control and git… they should.

Someone went to see the odyssey

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Your move Slack, GitHub, Notion… fuck it. Everyone.

Is Soundcloud still the place to upload DJ mixes? Or is it Mixcloud now? Or is someone doing this on ATProto? Sorry, it’s been a minute…

So I noticed Bluesky no longer manages to open at where I left off. It does the same flash and take me to new content thing that other engagement chasing social media does. When did this happen? Anyone know why?

The American mind cannot comprehend how many of my Danish colleagues have already said “see you in August”

I would like to have a conversation with whoever at Spotify decided albums should default to shuffle.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Anyone else feel the need to post that they’re definitely doing stuff with design code and AI but have no interest in adding to the general noise?

But the videos had ground truth pixels 🤷🏻‍♂️

I want to talk about ground truth pixels.

Also, am I reading it right that they’re using Fable as the carrot to lure people on to usage pricing?

Interesting that Anthropic seem to be shifting their model names from poetry to… fictional tales? So curious to understand the reasoning behind this, because… deviation from truth would be something I would not be wanting to evoke at this point.

Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.

I have yet to hear a good explanation for what is on social media that’s a problem for teenagers to experience, but fine for adults.

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Good book. Well worth buying. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A direct result of continuous victimisation, gaslighting and deliberate disinformation. Most of all an utter failure of the UK media.

Happy to see @news.abc.net.au on here. Shame DR and BBC aren’t. Any other news orgs worth following on here?

Comic timing is walking out of the toilet to your colleagues all standing up and asking “was that an earthquake”