Andrew Martin

Or just don’t?

But here’s the kicker: if you can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.

"But here’s the catch" in the middle of an article is just about the cleanest sign something has been written by AI.

the Potemkin Bat Tunnels are the real issue

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy.

For over 20 years, SETI@Home crowdsourced computer power to look for aliens. After a decade of analysis, the most promising signals are being studied by a huge Chinese telescope. I can't stress enough that the Three-Body Problem was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

phys.org/news/2026-01...

that will be because of all the threats

move half of the Treasury

Reality TV has trained us to blame people, not systems. Every problem is presented as a failure of character, and the only response we have is to vote them off the island.

Reality TV has trained us to blame people, not systems. Every problem is presented as a failure of character, and the only response we have is to vote them off the island.

YouTube video by Bill Pascoe The Candidate What Do We Do Now

The Candidate (1972) is a great film that ends with Robert Redford realising, a little too late, that winning the campaign mattered more than winning the office.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=myEp...

"Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on" William Gibson,Pattern Recognition

also the finish line is in hell

Every Winter Olympian‘s bio during this opening ceremony is “The child of diplomats, he learned short track skating during his parents UN posting in Geneva. He switched to luge after excelling on the internal JP Morgan track during his internship.” #openingceremomy #winterolympics

Musk Mars Merger, Maybe Data centers, killer AI is securities fraud, CFTC sports regulations and art history.

Building out AI turns out to be so capital intensive that it needs to access debt finance. Diversified conglomerates are good vehicles for raising debt. That‘s the whole story.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Once you‘ve noticed this use of the word “wrong”, you see it everywhere:

open.substack.com/pub/thedraft...

we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

don't chatgpt me lewer

Early social media and blogging made room for the pleasure of observation as an end in itself. Today we have hot takes, hustle culture, performative outrage and AI slop.

The LinkedIn algorithm wants you to post three times a week, but the humans don’t

This is like when they put podcasters on Strictly.

It is not especially clear to me what people think a minster’s job is, especially in relationship to their department.

many examples

The term "big beast" is now far too casually applied in politics to both medium-sized and even smaller beasts. Stop the beast Inflation, or at least introduce a Beast* category.

I look forward to your thoughts on your next London restaurant bill. You’ll pine for the accessible affordability of the Hampstead Everyman.

He loves the drama and the attention. The drama is the point.

the greengrocer is powerless as an individual but powerful within a collective

Forecasting is hard...

UK Wind Power has saved consumers £100bn

"UK Wind Power has saved consumers £100bn by displacing gas and lowering rates"

(from excellent www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations)

also we have decided we probably won't use this framework

This is acceptable if it is followed by: "Then again, they say all sorts of things".