Oli Newsham

Perfect! What’s the best way to get it to you? I’m in the UK. Happy to ship it, or hold onto it for a bit if you have travel plans :D

Assuming this is the right foil 😅

I've got one on the way and would be absolutely delighted to swap if the offer is still there

Male Costa’s Hummingbird

Overcast skies? Find a hummingbird… male Costa’s 🪶☀️🌵

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I also never knew, until I was poking around there a moment ago, that Lehrer also composed an "Aristotle Variation" of his famous song "The Elements". The complete sheet music is below.

What an absolute legend.

A white bowl containing a yellow scrambled eggs topped with kimchi in the middle, brown rice, and sliced cucumber arranged on a wooden table.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I have perfected breakfast

Wow so weird that loads of indie games launched with photo mode on or after 25th July 2025 00:00:00 BST. Why? Guess we will never know. So weird.

A resident doctor at the MRI probably saved my life last year. It is unconscionable to me that their pay should have decreased by ~21% in real terms since 2008 while bosses who wilfully preside over the wholesale unravelling of the fabric of our society rake it in.

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire.

Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.

Futuristic digital visualization of a curved motorway with vehicles, overlaid with glowing blue holographic data circles and analytical interfaces, representing smart transportation technology and road network data analysis.

📊 Predicting Risk on the UK Strategic Road Network

This month Gary Short tackles data science's dirty secret - never enough training data! Learn his methodology combining estimation, forecasting & rigour.

🗣️ Gary Short
📍 Bonded Warehouse, Manchester
🕕 Tuesday 29th July, 6:00 PM

Extremely curious about this, and how you get them into a kiln. I figured they’d have to be packed in sand or something mad for shipping - especially internationally?

Impossible to tell 😅

😅 I love it

Great, now I have an image of a kawaii frog (or lobster 🤔) with the caption “boil me daddy” stuck in my brain.

The Chinese bakeries off Portland street might have something?

“Reject modernity!” he bellows while frantically operating the Torment Nexus 6000

If we ever meet please tell me all the rock and fossil facts

This alone validates my decision to leave for the weekend 😅

Once you loose it you can never get it back, so if you are going to do it you have to be 100% sure it’s the right call, both for you and potentially for those around you.

Were they good?

Looks like we might have a change of speaker for Tuesday - bear with us, updates will be posted here as soon as we know more.

Shower thought: “I wish I never had to do this again” you think every time you empty the bin and schlep it out to the dumpster. One day, you’ll get your wish.

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

YouTube video by Urban Heat Urban Heat – Have You Ever? (Official Music Video)

🎶 have you ever got a second chance just to fall in step and repeat the dance?

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