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Mark Burnley

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ATP botherer, Human Intelligence developer.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · Feb 28

The world did have A.V. Hill, so that’s something to be grateful for in spite of current affairs. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology

Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 6h

This is just brilliant. youtu.be/OTfcuJFNiy4?...

STEWART LEE on The Riyadh Comedy Festival, Oasis Reunion, Marvel, Star Wars and Being Beaten Up

YouTube video by Class Clown Podcast

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 7h

The high-ups are insulated from any effects. Once you have a billion in a trust somewhere, you simply can’t run out of personal wealth. The extremely rich people I’ve know are quite normal. They don’t live like Bond villians, which is why they got so rich in the first place.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 8h

I will say this: money doesn’t buy happiness, it just buys you different problems to be unhappy about.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yes, but he was right at the time: they acquired Chrysler and now sell loads of Jeeps in the US and elsewhere. Having a bigger piece of a smaller pie is the goal in a crash.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 19h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 8h

The US should be added to the Council for At Risk Academics programme at this point.

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 9h

BBC News: 'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 8h

Spoke to somebody very high up in FIAT as the effects of the 2008 crash started to affect the car industry. “What does all this mean for you?” I asked. “It’s an opportunity”, he said. Same with AI; Altman wants the bubble to burst so he can harvest what’s left.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Hislop included. He usually has an eye and an ear for this sort of thing.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

Look, fancy dress works here, and you don’t have to tell college students twice. Frogs assemble!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

Free from Desire: I’m not a dance music fan, but my 90s/noughties clubbing days spawned dozens of anthems better than that. It wouldn’t make a top 50 compilation of that era. Na na na na na na na, na na. What a set of lyrics though, right? Christ.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet Caroline: did any of you wonder who Caroline was? According to Neil Diamond, it’s about JFK’s daughter, who was 11 years old when the lyrics were written. “Touching me, touching you” hits different in that context.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

We need to talk about the truly terrible songs currently used at the end of sports events. Sweet Caroline and that one about Trombone Police (Free From Desire?!), I’m looking at you 1/3.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 1d

This would have been a scandal for weeks on end if Biden had said it, but shit-thick Grandpa gets crickets and tumbleweed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

All conspiracy theories eventually lead to antisemitism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

As if the decision wasn’t made weeks ago!

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t avoid commenting on the celeb bit too: it’s a safe bet that most women in the public eye below a size 10 who aren’t athletes either have had, or currently have, an eating disorder.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll laugh until I’m sick on my knees if this happens.

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 2d

Good.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 3d

We’ll get the dopamine hit of watching stock prices collapse, but rich speculators will get richer, the resulting credit crunch will be paid off by governments, and the resulting loss of public services blamed on immigrants.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 3d

This is happening to the UK because of Brexit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 3d

If under-18s get the vote, the Tories are finished.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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