NickSherrard

Folks, what are the best listening clubs youve come across?

In person or online. I’m just kind of interested in how they are presented etc.

B&M's shares drop despite hints of turnaround from new CEO Value retailer B&M has struggled with supply chain disruptions and wage inflation over the last year and a half.

Im in @cityam.bsky.social calling the CEO of B&M a lucky general.

They are having a bit of a day of it as it turns out but I do think they are onto a winner medium term.

www.cityam.com/bms-new-ceo-...

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

YouTube shorts now on 200 billion daily views

www.thewrap.com/youtube-shor...

You May Now Venmo the Bride Are ‘buy the bride a drink’ posts the key to surviving overpriced bachelorette parties or just tacky?

You may now venmo the bride

www.thecut.com/article/buy-...

L.A.’s Literati Toast ‘On The Rag’— A Tabloid for The Social Media Age Arty Angelenos swarmed Night Gallery, but where was promised headliner Chet Hanks?

The ‘tabloid for the social media age’ www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

The rise of the ‘bro show’ on broadway archive.is/2025.06.20-1...

How Do You Build a $500 Million Coffee Chain? By Selling Matcha to Teens. Young people are obsessed with the private equity-backed chain, which has been doubling down on sugary green tea.

The blank street coffee story www.wsj.com/business/bla...

The New 80% Rule in Culture It's ugly out there

The new 80% rule in culture

open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

Iran Shuts Down Internet in Bid to Tackle Mounting Cyber Attacks Iran imposed a nationwide internet and telephone blackout, telling civilians it’s necessary to prevent Israeli cyber attacks as fears grow the US will join the ongoing conflict.

Iran self-sabotaged its connectivity to defend against Israeli cyber attacks.

New subplot every time there’s a cyber attack here too just dropped.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🔮 Living in the “gentle singularity”? Ambient AI, fading clicks, Altman + a bonus Q&A

The new Apple ‘liquid’ interface is a prototype for ambient computing.

I cannot decide it if it is a good one yet though.

open.substack.com/pub/exponent...

YouTube video by Y Combinator Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

‘LLM as operating system’

The thing is… before windows and browsers we basically just asked tech to do stuff for us.

After it… does the operating system need much interaction at all?

youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?...

Isn’t it weird that we haven’t really worked out how to handle sickness in digital work?

Culturally or in tech.

Email and slack just stack up on people.

There’s not really a proper ‘out of office’ message or a digital ‘mode’ you can switch on to triage etc.

‘Don’t try to be a teenager’: lessons from Abrdn’s disastrous rebrand Many attempts to create a fresh, agile image have failed but playing on heritage can be positive

I’m banging on about naming in the FT today www.ft.com/content/ee9b...

Is ChatGPT making you better or worse at dating? Welcome to DateGPT. People in and out of relationships are turning to chatbots to help them get together, stay together and break up with their partners. Yes, it’s dystopian, but is an assist from AI ...

People are using Chatgpt to help them date www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/chat...

Anyway, I was just checking in on social media to see how the various wars are going.

It’s 2025.

Exactly. I can see that you might be able to raise money to start it, but cannot see what suggests it will be popular.

It’s basically F1 without the cars.

Given the lack of crowds for the football club World Cup… this is surely pretty brutal for the R360 idea in rugby?

Isn’t it kind of weird that there are so many articles about over-tourism and so few about over-landlordism?

Have you noticed this Father’s Day how so many people are posting AI images of their dads who have passed?

When there must surely be real photos of them.

So the AI image is more like the memory than the real one?

Or they don’t have access to the real ones?

What drives this?

What is going on with this logo?

This talk of the social web does seem quite old now.

Imagine if it was socially acceptable in normal jobs to just go around blaming your predecessors for bad things like it is for politicians?

Trumpist candidates outside the US do seem to be bad at winning quite winnable elections.

Is this because of the message or the messenger?

3 years old. What would change?

Expedia’s B2B Push Grows: Adds Flights, Rental Cars, Travel Insurance Expedia Group is expanding its B2B products from hotels alone with four new products: Flights, rental cars, activities, and travel insurance.

Expedias B2B push grows skift.com/2025/05/14/e...

Kudos right?

Amazon Hopes AI Gives ‘Pause Ads’ New Momentum Amazon will tap AI in a bid to give 'pause ads' a new twist: new concepts that play off the show or genre being streamed

Amazon want to use AI to make ads reflect the mood of the content they interrupt variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Snap Map reaches new milestone of 400M monthly active users | TechCrunch Snapchat announced on Wednesday that Snap Map now has more than 400 million monthly active users, a new milestone for one of the app's core features.

Snap Map reaches 400m downloads techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/s...

Is the definition of taste going to become being uncomputable?

Or at least will sophisticated taste be getting things that the LLM don’t ?

I misread the Trump, Qatar, plane thing and just wanted to say that a library inside a £400m plane ie an excellent idea.