Ewan Kirk
@ewan.thekirks.co.uk
Headline in 2 years: “Meta to slash spending on AI as Zuckerberg shifts focus to beanie babies”
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Meta set to slash spending on metaverse as Zuckerberg shifts focus to AI
Social media company considers cutting unit’s budget by as much as 30%
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December 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Headline in 2 years: “Meta to slash spending on AI as Zuckerberg shifts focus to beanie babies”
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I wrote something for the @financialtimes.com about the importance of mathematics as a source of innovation for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
on.ft.com/442Mpiq
on.ft.com/442Mpiq
AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians
We are failing to invest in the mathematical community at a time when we need it more than ever
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I wrote something for the @financialtimes.com about the importance of mathematics as a source of innovation for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
on.ft.com/442Mpiq
on.ft.com/442Mpiq
The Iris Affair is enjoyable tosh but absolutely worth watching because Tom Hollander is a genius actor.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Iris Affair is enjoyable tosh but absolutely worth watching because Tom Hollander is a genius actor.
This (from the FT) seems to suggest that tobacco duties already contribute £1 trillion to Treasury. Unless it’s a *total* of £8bn rather than a *extra* £8bn.
November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This (from the FT) seems to suggest that tobacco duties already contribute £1 trillion to Treasury. Unless it’s a *total* of £8bn rather than a *extra* £8bn.
There is a word “nocent” which means the opposite of “innocent”. Rarely used now sadly.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
There is a word “nocent” which means the opposite of “innocent”. Rarely used now sadly.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
FWIW: slow horses continues to be superb. A love poem to London.
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
FWIW: slow horses continues to be superb. A love poem to London.
Occasionally of variable quality, but @profgalloway.com really nails this. Gamblification of just about everything is destroying young men. Having once been a young man (no...really) I worry a lot about what we are storing up for ourselves with this.
This week’s No Mercy / No Malice: The Next Opioid Crisis www.profgalloway.com/the-next-opi...
The Next Opioid Crisis | No Mercy / No Malice
Today you can “trade” on the outcome of thousands of future events, from the Fed decision next month to the Grammy Awards in February. Without leaving the house, you can wager on Taylor Swift’s weddin...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Occasionally of variable quality, but @profgalloway.com really nails this. Gamblification of just about everything is destroying young men. Having once been a young man (no...really) I worry a lot about what we are storing up for ourselves with this.
Look, I know that there is a lot of stupidity in this exchange but I feel I have to <tap the sign>
Power stations don’t *make* electrons. They just move them around.
Power stations don’t *make* electrons. They just move them around.
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Look, I know that there is a lot of stupidity in this exchange but I feel I have to <tap the sign>
Power stations don’t *make* electrons. They just move them around.
Power stations don’t *make* electrons. They just move them around.
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Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
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Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
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Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
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November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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Time to watch some proper grownup telly you losers
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Time to watch some proper grownup telly you losers
Well…that’s pretty clear.
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Well…that’s pretty clear.
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
So Microsoft uses AWS?
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
So Microsoft uses AWS?
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Still $10k too much
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Still $10k too much
Who robbed the Louvre, Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Who robbed the Louvre, Right answers only.
Still use mine pretty much every day. Easier than bringing up the calculator app for things I can’t do in my head.
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Still use mine pretty much every day. Easier than bringing up the calculator app for things I can’t do in my head.
Insightful and prescient from @thedailymash.bsky.social once again.
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks
ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.
www.thedailymash.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Insightful and prescient from @thedailymash.bsky.social once again.
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Well, this is exciting.
(Also, iPhone photography is really very good nowadays).
(Also, iPhone photography is really very good nowadays).
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Well, this is exciting.
(Also, iPhone photography is really very good nowadays).
(Also, iPhone photography is really very good nowadays).
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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
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September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
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I use this graph a lot.
September 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I use this graph a lot.