Markham Nolan ☘️
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Saw auto-subtitles translate ‘Leaving Cert’ into ‘Leave and Search’ and frankly the latter is probably more relevant to most of us.
Social media platforms: ‘we sell the capacity to target customers with unprecedented accuracy’
Also social media platforms: ‘watch this unskippable ad for how to build an optometry business in the UK’
Also social media platforms: ‘watch this unskippable ad for how to build an optometry business in the UK’
January 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Social media platforms: ‘we sell the capacity to target customers with unprecedented accuracy’
Also social media platforms: ‘watch this unskippable ad for how to build an optometry business in the UK’
Also social media platforms: ‘watch this unskippable ad for how to build an optometry business in the UK’
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This is a brilliant fellowship and incredibly worth applying to if you’re an ambitious early-career journalist who wants to see the States – and it’s certainly an *interesting* time to do that.
Early-career journalist in the UK? Interested in spending 3 months at The Washington Post? What if we drop in another month of travel across the US in this mid-term election year?
You can now apply to become our 45th Stern-Bryan Fellow! Details: lnkd.in/eXuhPH_Y
Trust us, you don't want to miss it!
You can now apply to become our 45th Stern-Bryan Fellow! Details: lnkd.in/eXuhPH_Y
Trust us, you don't want to miss it!
Stern-Bryan Fellowship | City St George's, University of London
Every year, a British journalist gets the chance to spend three months at the Washington Post.
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
This is a brilliant fellowship and incredibly worth applying to if you’re an ambitious early-career journalist who wants to see the States – and it’s certainly an *interesting* time to do that.
The most interesting question about context graphs is why we never built them effectively for humans
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The most interesting question about context graphs is why we never built them effectively for humans
This is no doubt a big, expensive deal for Netflix, but it makes sense. WWE's back catalog is a major retention device for WWE fans, and arguably, their behind-the-scenes in-house documentaries are some of the most interesting stuff they produced. cordcuttersnews.com/netflix-pins...
Netflix Pins Down WWE's Library of WrestleMania, SummerSlam & More With U.S. Rights Expansion | Cord Cutters News
Netflix has just come off the top rope with a major move in the pro wrestling streaming world. The streamer and WWE have expanded their partnership by making the platform the official home of WWE’s li...
cordcuttersnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
This is no doubt a big, expensive deal for Netflix, but it makes sense. WWE's back catalog is a major retention device for WWE fans, and arguably, their behind-the-scenes in-house documentaries are some of the most interesting stuff they produced. cordcuttersnews.com/netflix-pins...
Lots of great lists of what people read in 2025.
Who’s got a good list of things they re-read in 2025?
dailystoic.com/this-is-what...
Who’s got a good list of things they re-read in 2025?
dailystoic.com/this-is-what...
Are You “Well-Read” in This Sense?
You may have missed it but in Meditations, Marcus Aurelius quotes dozens and dozens of other writers and philosophers. He just rarely attributes those quotes. Presumably, considering he wrote most of ...
dailystoic.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Lots of great lists of what people read in 2025.
Who’s got a good list of things they re-read in 2025?
dailystoic.com/this-is-what...
Who’s got a good list of things they re-read in 2025?
dailystoic.com/this-is-what...
Theres a line in @fredwilson.xyz’s 2025 wrap-up that I can’t digest as readily as the rest: “Like Instagram made everyone a photographer, AI will make everyone a coder. And that's a great thing.” It can be 100% correct or 100% wrong, depending on your perspective.
avc.xyz/what-happene...
avc.xyz/what-happene...
What Happened In 2025
I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending (What Happened) and one looking forward to the year ahead (What Will Happen). This is the first of th...
avc.xyz
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Theres a line in @fredwilson.xyz’s 2025 wrap-up that I can’t digest as readily as the rest: “Like Instagram made everyone a photographer, AI will make everyone a coder. And that's a great thing.” It can be 100% correct or 100% wrong, depending on your perspective.
avc.xyz/what-happene...
avc.xyz/what-happene...
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[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass
"We need to cultivate the skill of exact thinking in demented times."
A huge amount to chew on in this gargantuan letter from author Dan Wang. Silicon Valley psyche, AI, China, European malaise, it's all in there. Make a pot of coffee and dive in.
danwang.co/2025-letter/
A huge amount to chew on in this gargantuan letter from author Dan Wang. Silicon Valley psyche, AI, China, European malaise, it's all in there. Make a pot of coffee and dive in.
danwang.co/2025-letter/
2025 letter | Dan Wang
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
danwang.co
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
"We need to cultivate the skill of exact thinking in demented times."
A huge amount to chew on in this gargantuan letter from author Dan Wang. Silicon Valley psyche, AI, China, European malaise, it's all in there. Make a pot of coffee and dive in.
danwang.co/2025-letter/
A huge amount to chew on in this gargantuan letter from author Dan Wang. Silicon Valley psyche, AI, China, European malaise, it's all in there. Make a pot of coffee and dive in.
danwang.co/2025-letter/
Superb explainer on Venezuelan oil from almost a month ago. Worth your time.
📽️Donald Trump wants you to know he's targeting Venezuela because of illegal drugs.
But what if this were really about something else altogether...?
Dig into the murky world of crude oil refining and you find another, even more intriguing explanation...
Full primer 👇 youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
But what if this were really about something else altogether...?
Dig into the murky world of crude oil refining and you find another, even more intriguing explanation...
Full primer 👇 youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
The real reason Venezuela matters
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Superb explainer on Venezuelan oil from almost a month ago. Worth your time.
It is wild that amid all our current earthly chaos we’re going to send a team up to the moon this year.
www.space.com/artemis-2-hu...
www.space.com/artemis-2-hu...
NASA's Artemis 2 mission: Everything you need to know
Artemis 2 will be the first mission to carry humans to the moon's vicinity since 1972.
www.space.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:23 PM
It is wild that amid all our current earthly chaos we’re going to send a team up to the moon this year.
www.space.com/artemis-2-hu...
www.space.com/artemis-2-hu...
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Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
a lot of interesting revelations between the lines of this story www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially.
This is a dying empire shit.
This is a dying empire shit.
Almost all you need to understand current American politics is captured neatly in two Randy Newman songs:
Rednecks & Political Science. Enjoy. youtu.be/hTLHxpUQ_B8?... youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...
Rednecks & Political Science. Enjoy. youtu.be/hTLHxpUQ_B8?... youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...
Rednecks (2002 Remaster)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Almost all you need to understand current American politics is captured neatly in two Randy Newman songs:
Rednecks & Political Science. Enjoy. youtu.be/hTLHxpUQ_B8?... youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...
Rednecks & Political Science. Enjoy. youtu.be/hTLHxpUQ_B8?... youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?...
Nobody’s talking about affordable healthcare today, I see
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Nobody’s talking about affordable healthcare today, I see
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Cost of living protests. This is not ideological, or religious unrest. This is the kind of protest we could see much more of in Europe and the US before long, anywhere the wealth gap is widening.
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Cost of living protests. This is not ideological, or religious unrest. This is the kind of protest we could see much more of in Europe and the US before long, anywhere the wealth gap is widening.
Might be time to re-read @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s dad’s book. Read it in college about 20 years ago.
January 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Might be time to re-read @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s dad’s book. Read it in college about 20 years ago.
Interesting way to think about the impact of mostly consuming content via algorithmic suggestions
January 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Interesting way to think about the impact of mostly consuming content via algorithmic suggestions
1,115 days until January 20, 2029
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
1,115 days until January 20, 2029
Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
"He doesn't swing his arm like a regular American"
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"He doesn't swing his arm like a regular American"
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
What kind of editor lets a ludicrous sentence like that out of the building?
Love the nature of interaction here on Bluesky but if you’re invested in or curious about international AI/tech/VC it’s hard to ignore the fact that the bulk of the conversation & content is still back… over there. See more and more people drifting back.
December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Love the nature of interaction here on Bluesky but if you’re invested in or curious about international AI/tech/VC it’s hard to ignore the fact that the bulk of the conversation & content is still back… over there. See more and more people drifting back.
The perfect day.
April 18, 1930: The BBC announces there is "no news" that day and plays piano music. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today
On this day in 1930, the BBC played piano music because there was no news.
www.bbc.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The perfect day.
Can’t get my head around the American far right co-opting Christianity and the right to say ‘Happy Christmas’ when it’s the celebration of a radical Palestinian anti-capitalist who preached tolerance and prioritized caring for the poorest of the poor.
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can’t get my head around the American far right co-opting Christianity and the right to say ‘Happy Christmas’ when it’s the celebration of a radical Palestinian anti-capitalist who preached tolerance and prioritized caring for the poorest of the poor.