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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 9h

I just imagined David Bowie on celebrity Traitors and I feel like we've been robbed of what would be some incredible television

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 13h

Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was a word for one entity owns everything www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Experience: I own the world’s largest Monopoly collection

Every set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid the word is "politician". Have got a leader article on this coming next week...

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 21h

It's wild that, in addition to stocking regulated drugs, pharmacies also sell loads of things that do literally nothing for your health, according to the best scientific evidence. It's like going to a high-end restaurant and discovering that they have ground concrete on the menu.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 18h

My paid Substack habit is getting out of hand and I really do wish everyone could get together in some sort of Interesting People Write Clever Things magazine

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 13h

These people have devolved into medieval alchemists, and not in a good, fun way with cool hats.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

Another one for the list

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Michael Mills @michaelmills.bsky.social · 14h

Get your “Nobody could have foreseen this (apart from all the people who foresaw this)” copy in now.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway, this time it's different www.ft.com/content/4e39...

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

www.ft.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

The lights could not be flashing any more red

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

This just so obviously needs to be stopped?!

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

Another one for the list

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

Not going to lie, pretty sure I'd eat the pig. If you're already ethically compromised by eating meat, why not go the whole hog, as it were www.ft.com/content/9abe...

‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

www.ft.com

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 14h

Movie execs, you can just stop putting Jared Leto in films at any point you want

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 15h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 18h

My paid Substack habit is getting out of hand and I really do wish everyone could get together in some sort of Interesting People Write Clever Things magazine

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 21h

It's wild that, in addition to stocking regulated drugs, pharmacies also sell loads of things that do literally nothing for your health, according to the best scientific evidence. It's like going to a high-end restaurant and discovering that they have ground concrete on the menu.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid the word is "politician". Have got a leader article on this coming next week...

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

black ops 6 is 236 gb and I'm sure it's swell but why install that when you could instead use the same disk space to install the original doom 19,666 times

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Such a bad look to blame your junior staff - or not even staff, sounds like it was a freelancer?

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 2d

“The results were surprising, even for me,” says Llavero Pasquina. “I knew they were playing a very little role in the energy transition. I knew it was only for show. It was only for dressing their narrative. But I didn’t expect this low number.”

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy

www.newscientist.com

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

He's not wrong

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was a word for one entity owns everything www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Experience: I own the world’s largest Monopoly collection

Every set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000

www.theguardian.com

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

Ivor (3) was watching me charge something up using a USB C cable, and he asked if he could plug it in, and I said sure, and he asked which way up it goes, and I was able to proudly say “IVOR IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH WAY UP IT GOES AND THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF HUMAN PROGRESS”

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