Gordon Guthrie

new post on the world after Trump and Musk open.substack.com/pub/digitalp...

Perhaps if your Democrat friends want Trump to win they are actually Republicans

• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

The only reason anyone is talking about Marissa Mayer or Dazzle is that her marketing team understands how to deploy rage bait, and most of the Internet still can't spot it in the wild.

The Chinese would support Orban as UN Sec Gen because of where it works put the UK and France I reckon

People saying AI <can't be a bubble> - that's still a hella P/E ratio north of 200 Which is predicated on continual growth... At what point does this go sigmoid?

This is a fundamentally human process because scholarship is a human process. There is no knowing without knowers. bsky.app/profile/emil... >>

Allah Ahkbar Brother Hannan

Technocratic Remainers: "behold yoof we have Freedom of Movement back as you requested!" A finger curls on the monkey's paw Yoof: "Cheers, we're offski to Krakow, Milan, Porto, Ljulbiana, Dubrovnik, Vilnius, Tallin"

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

It looks like, as we'd put it in Eastern Europe, the express train from Budapest has just pulled in to Belgrade.

[boggles in Adult]

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Mother-in-law's 1950s? 1960s? electric frying pan Made a nice 3 nut chicken korma in it today My great grannie's Ali Baba basket for laundry - also good to hide toddlers in and scare their mum

Jeebus this is bad

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

The UK drew the lesson that they should stick close to the US; the French that they should never again be wholly dependent on the US. One other lesson: if you judge your policy is so politically risky it can’t be written down, you might want to think twice about pursuing it! End

Men are so afraid women will laugh at them, etc

Pope Bob gets a lump on the lung and his enemies in the US church go full tonto Big old dose of fire and brimstone is à-comin in I guess

Once again I blow Martel's great trumpet and summon the men of Europe to my cause... Paramilitary Trading Standards! On this we stand or on this we die

As a teenager I went to a gig and 30 people got stabbed in an BNP/BM bust up and it didn't make the local news

xkcd.com/3204/ Things which don't seem like dinosaurs but are

🚨 Breaking News The price of (post-war) Jimmy Shand 78s in charity shops has seen a record breaking price increase of 250% - from £2 to £6.50 Experts say this is either a harbinger of a coming Scottish Cultural Revolution or a dramatic escalation in the cost of living crisis Smash and subscribe

The FT chose violence: "hovering car-shaped object"

Jungle Book, Edinburgh I think, I would have been 4 so 1967

Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.

it's been 4 years and this still hasn't become a thing yet (lots of regional ones though!). just gently nudging it back out to the universe.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Excerpt from Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, by Matthew Cole www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

For my friends anything, for my enemies the law

Is there a more economical verse than this from Cher's masterpiece 🎶 Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves 🎶? Picked up a boy just south of Mobile Gave him a ride, filled him with a hot meal I was sixteen, he was twenty-one Rode with us to Memphis And papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

A quick general question. Who's the most senior person any of us currently know in the Cabinet Office that would be willing to sign a letter for Companies House saying that it's okay for Gov Camp to use that name when becoming a non-profit company (currently blocked by the use of the word "Gov")?

Just to cheer everyone up: according to the latest poll Steve Hilton is losing the California governor race by 28 points.

The drugs were so good in the ‘90s that one day some guy said “we should start listening to swing music again” and everyone else was just like “that’s a fucking great idea which isn’t weird at all”

It's embarrassing @jay.bsky.team that the only way to reliably type Alt Text in BlueSky is in another app and then copy and paste

Am I anxious about the 'Murican mid-terms? Why do you ask?

Antonia Romeo, the PAC and Darren Jones:- More news from the Centre of Government. ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/antonia-ro...

Probably not the main point, but Esperanto as a language also had idioms lolol