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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope Plur1bus is as good as it looks

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 1d

Far too many newsletters that I’d love to subscribe to but would cost thousands of pounds a year and frankly don’t generate much content. At some point they’re going to have to invent the magazine again (Magletter, Groupstack, whatever)

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Very shortly after that got X11 working and upgraded to Mosaic for the full grey background, black text, blue hyperlink, square image GUI experience. Seem to remember if was quite a bit later that we got things working on the Macs.

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing a lot of web nostalgia and remembering the first time I got on the web, must have been around 1994 at Plymouth Uni - logged into a Sun workstation, then had to log into another Sun box that had an internet connection, then start Lynx, a text browser, and connect to the internet, ASCII only

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Worse

Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 3d

@walshfreedom.bsky.social I thought you'd want to see this. People are waking up. I hope it's more numerous than that. But it looks like we're seeing people starting to wake up.

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Star Wars franchise is cooked

Braddington @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 2d

whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

apnews.com/article/adam...

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Trump literally tearing down the White House, the writing on this season of USA is truly basic

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Claude Code on your phone with GitHub integration, nice simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/...

Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic

Anthropic launched Claude Code for web this morning. It’s an asynchronous coding agent—their answer to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, and has a very similar shape. I had preview …

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 2d

Karpathy does a bit of a “state of the union” of AI in this podcast, he’s far more realistic about what’s actually going to happen over the next few years than anyone else I’ve heard, well worth a listen www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar...

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

www.dwarkesh.com

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 3d

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, I’m not a big fantasy reader but this was excellent, like a bloodthirsty and even more cynical Terry Pratchett, first one I’ve read of his and definitely not the last. Look forward to the adaptation by (checks notes) James Cameron(!) if it makes it to the screen.

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 3d

It’s nearly always a DNS issue

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 3d

“If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come - you heard it here first - when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge.”

Not now Pynchon!

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic article by Pynchon written in 1984 on luddites, tech, science fiction, everything. More relevant now than when it was written.

"To insist on the miraculous is to deny to the machine at least some of its claims on us”

archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Thomas Pynchon

archive.nytimes.com

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 4d

They don’t make them like this anymore youtu.be/gPjPb3nNprg?...

Ween - Push Th' Little Daisies (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Ween

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is trying (and failing) to bail out Milei, but there’s nobody to bail out Trump. 3+ years left on his presidency, hard to believe we’re not even a year in.

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 5d

Little Simz in the house!

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 6d

Just realised watching The Family Stone at Christmas is going to be extra sad

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 7d

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting, bug somewhere in iOS that means the Dynamic Island view of stopwatch is out of sync with the real stopwatch time, weird

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 7d

Drew Struzan, D’Angelo, Diane Keaton - real epidemic of very cool people dying at the moment

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 9d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 9d

Not sure we need a Gap reboot, they enshittified themselves before the word even existed, and Uniqlo stepped in and delivered everything they had at a higher level on every axis. The graven idol of Paltrow just puts me off even more.

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 9d

What I’d really like the pharmaceutical industry to do is take the feeling you have after you have been ill and are suddenly better again and condense it into pill form. Anything seems possible, each moment is alive with wonder. Will wear out by tomorrow I’m sure.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 10d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · 10d

Looking good so far

David Burrows @dburrows.bsky.social · Aug 30

Maybe 2026 is the year Jessie Buckley wins an Oscar. Only a matter of time.