John V Willshire

Why Martin Sorrell is a relevant guest on #newsnight in 2026 I have no idea.

Best explanation so far

He's so close

Thinking back to the first game I ever deliberately designed, Sussex and its playfulness, and how that would be an interesting way to think about the future. (also! Thank you Lighthouse Brighton for photographing and archiving things!) #play #brighton #sussex #future smithery.com/2026/10/26/p...

This is *the* piece to read on how Brexit became “mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard” and how Rejoin can win hearts as well as heads. Free to read with email sign-up. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

One of these then, is it? #thetraitors www.instagram.com/reel/DeTfqn3...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Yeah I don’t see how this isn’t a crisis at this point? You cannot have a private citizen running a full private foreign policy which runs against that of the United States like this

I for one can’t believe Matt Hancock lied to us.

This one

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

It's the Blade Runner 2099 trailer! We are a zombie culture pouring more and more of our resources into established franchises, sequels and remakes www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK5...

This is an excellent idea. If you haven't yet been to a People's Emergency screening do make time for it

I was asked to host a #peoplesemergencybriefing this week, and have made a set of cards to help the facilitation afterwards. Have put them up here as a free to download resource, for printing professionally, at home or using online. Please share with others. #peb #neb smithery.com/peoples_emer...

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a photograph of a boat you like. The Itchenor - Bosham ferry, West Sussex.

Being John Malkovich for Tax Purposes

“Bricker says that “we are about to witness a bizarro-land Frost/Nixon, where both interviewer and subject have almost exclusively inhabited semi-fictional personae in public”” I’m sold, find me a screening. www.wired.com/story/the-ne...

No Country For Old Men For Tax Purposes

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia for Tax Purposes

The Empire Strikes Back For Tax Purposes

“I thought you might pick up our vampire ways” “It’s not conversational French!?!?” Such *great* writing. #thereluectantvampire

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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I'm sorry, an AI guy telling you "The wool is being pulled over your eyes" while simultaneously owning a huge ass yarn factory will never not be funny. You're literally part of the problem my guy.

“A nation of slopkeepers” #AI #UK

That was a really good day.

This just doesn't make any sense. The amount of memory necessary to run an LLM, and the processing power required... Your fucking thermostat aint gonna support that. These people just lie. They lie like its a reflex.

Sadly, that seems unlikely. It's all become a self-sustaining circle with a whole industry of specialists to turn your proposal into "the way the funding committee will like it". 🙄

NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

My heart sinks every time the weekend radio mentions that there is F1 coming up later. It’s boring enough to watch, never mind as a radio experience.