Reid Derby

Oh really

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Nvidia’s AI supremacy is a weapon that cuts both ways While the chipmaker is the big winner from the booming technology, it is singularly exposed to changing expectations

"It’s hard to overstate how unlikely it is that a business with almost $200bn of annual revenue would grow at a rate of over 60 per cent. Yet such are the fantastical finances of Nvidia." from an excellent FT Lex note www.ft.com/content/bd6f...

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Practicing Stoßlüften at home Achieving good air quality through ventilation is something really important for us at home part of our retrofit plans with Furbnow.

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“robots.txt passed away in July 2025… from the consequences of systematic disregard by AI corporations. Cloudflare’s decision to block AI crawlers by default marked the moment when even the last major infrastructure provider abandoned faith in voluntary compliance & moved to technical enforcement”

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Unsolicited Mick pic

Completely agree!

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

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Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

I’ve just cancelled my Duolingo subscription and deleted my account today after using it daily for several years. I’ve noticed that the Duolingo app has become a bit annoying to use and I’m not sure why. Could it be Duolingo’s “AI First” move? I’d be interested in other people’s experiences.

Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge

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“.. Fears of a bubble are mounting, as tech stocks follow a pattern that is ‘surprisingly similar’ to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s ..”

@bloomberg.com $QQQ
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At first I thought GPT 5 had got this right then I saw things like "Tonnessee," "Mississipo" and my personal favourite "West Wigina." Please do not respond just saying the different typos to me we can all read the joke, we all know about "Distrricke"

I’m tired of stupid people treating me like I’m an idiot Why are the biggest backers of generative AI so incredibly stupid? And why do they think we're as dense as they are?

My latest newsletter is about how the generative AI crowd is trying to gaslight people into thinking that genAI is better than it is, and why it fails because these people are, broadly speaking bad and stupid.

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A view inside the Sandford Park Alehouse

We're delighted to say that the wonderful Sandford Park Alehouse in Cheltenham will be hosting an Oakham Ales tap takeover starting on Mon 14 July.

The pumps will feature Citra, Endless Summer, Oranje, Green Devil, JHB, Inferno, Bishops Farewell, Citra Unfiltered, Dragon and Hoodlum Pale on keg!

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YouTube video by Novara Media Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao

It was such a pleasure to speak with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social for @novaramedia.com about my book Empire of AI. Really thoughtful and thorough questions that explored the many human stories I highlight in my book.

Order the book here: empireofai.com.
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Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

The singularity is awesome

FYI, we have one on the go here, too: go.bsky.app/MDUUstc

I just found this Circular Economy starter pack @raechelkelly.bsky.social

YouTube video by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange Middle-aged woman makes tragic music video in a bid to sell a retirement flat in St Albans, Herts.

Joanna Forbes-Lestrange, composer of A Season To Sing, would like us to buy her flat. Enjoy...
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@robinince.bsky.social thank you for such a great event this evening at the Cheltenham Science Festival. I loved the idea of confident vulnerability among other things. I knew when you talked about Oxfam Bookshops and ADHD that I had come to the right event :-)

Strange Loop, Strange Story of False Teeth, Jack of Jumps

Ways of Living, Other Fires, The Flute Player

The true deceiver, lean out, letters of Rachel henning

Lilliput magazines

Oh dear, I walked near Cheltenham’s Oxfam Books

Nice one.

For anyone who missed it. This is beyond parody!

A four panel meme, featuring John Connor talking to The Terminator, from Terminator 2 John: Wait a second, you’re saying you’re from the future? Terminator: Great question! Thanks so much for asking. Let’s think about the answer…hmm! The current year is 1983. Working backwards logically, I’m from the year 1965, which is 300 years in the future. Anything else you’d like to know? John - stares blankly Terminator: I’m sorry, I can see that was not the right answer. I actually came from the year 829392 AD, which is 10 years in the past from this year, which is 3

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Rage, rage against the dying of the mic! Look, I have a book I should be writing, but I have so many other words screaming in my head that I need to write them down first. Buckle up, my darlings, because this post is breaking my social media...

Felt incandescently angry, might delete later.
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Belonging. Stranger Things.

Ukraine says it has uncovered Hungarian spy network working in border region | CNN Ukraine said Friday it had exposed a network of Hungarian spies trying to obtain defense secrets in a border region of Ukraine – the first time it said such an operation has been discovered.

Hungarian spies were caught in Western Ukraine, looking for defense vulnerabilities. Either they are planning to occupy a piece of territory themselves, or they intend to help Putin

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