Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
@theriotnrrd.bsky.social
Speaker to Users | digital flâneur | introvert but faking it | perdido en el corazón de la grande Babylon
Elsewhere:
- blog: findthethread.blog
- Enterprise Alchemists podcast 🎧 wherever good podcasts are downloaded
Downtime: 🚴♂️🚵♂️🏂⛷️📚
Elsewhere:
- blog: findthethread.blog
- Enterprise Alchemists podcast 🎧 wherever good podcasts are downloaded
Downtime: 🚴♂️🚵♂️🏂⛷️📚
There are advantages to being an English-speaking country when English is the world’s lingua franca — but one disadvantage is that the whole world can easily join in on your domestic conversations, and attempt to influence them.
Polarization in the United States Has Become the World’s Side Hustle – Pixel Envy
Marina Dunbar, the Guardian: Many of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new...
pxlnv.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There are advantages to being an English-speaking country when English is the world’s lingua franca — but one disadvantage is that the whole world can easily join in on your domestic conversations, and attempt to influence them.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
I enjoyed hearing @juliaioffe.bsky.social talking to @andrewmueller.bsky.social about her new book, Motherland. In what sounds like a similar vein, I enjoyed Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty, about how the Soviet project started with such hope only to fall into rot and disillusion.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I enjoyed hearing @juliaioffe.bsky.social talking to @andrewmueller.bsky.social about her new book, Motherland. In what sounds like a similar vein, I enjoyed Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty, about how the Soviet project started with such hope only to fall into rot and disillusion.
What does it mean that insurers are threatening to deny coverage for #AI failures? Maybe denial of claims and the resulting liability will be the thing that finally gets people to stop irresponsibly shoehorning AI into everything?
Artificial Insurance
For all the talk of AI transforming our society and economy, hard data on real world adoption is still very hard to come by. Benedict Evans’ latest update to his “AI Eats the World” presentation…
findthethread.blog
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What does it mean that insurers are threatening to deny coverage for #AI failures? Maybe denial of claims and the resulting liability will be the thing that finally gets people to stop irresponsibly shoehorning AI into everything?
In the run up to Black Friday and other frenzies of gift-buying, it's worth re-upping this post I wrote about why it's a bad idea to buy "smart" devices as gifts — and this was before kids' toys were likely to start spewing BDSM advice or worse.
The Internet of Unwelcome Gifts
It’s that time of year when many of us are out buying gifts for ourselves or others – or if you’re tight like me, waiting for the sales in the New Year to buy those big-ticket items. Ahem.…
findthethread.blog
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In the run up to Black Friday and other frenzies of gift-buying, it's worth re-upping this post I wrote about why it's a bad idea to buy "smart" devices as gifts — and this was before kids' toys were likely to start spewing BDSM advice or worse.
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"here's the AI-written copyright analysis" and other phrases which make legal have a stroke
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"here's the AI-written copyright analysis" and other phrases which make legal have a stroke
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Put bike tyres to snow for the first time this winter — but not the last! There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong kit — and spirit. #cycling 🚲
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Put bike tyres to snow for the first time this winter — but not the last! There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong kit — and spirit. #cycling 🚲
This is why I am more productive when I travel. For me, the ideal work location is an airline lounge during a long layover: plentiful snacks, nobody to bother me, usually good WiFi. I have broken the back of so many projects in situations like that!
Yep.
Even with the aid of noise cancelling headphones, I find I often can't concentrate on my work due to knowing that someone could knock on my door needing something.
It's why I've made a habit of going to a coffee place to get work done.
Even with the aid of noise cancelling headphones, I find I often can't concentrate on my work due to knowing that someone could knock on my door needing something.
It's why I've made a habit of going to a coffee place to get work done.
Turns out it IS hard to be creative without a space where you can work undisturbed, while being pulled in about fifty different directions by other responsibilities, the needs of others, and general household drudgery, and at the mercy of a very fragile income stream
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is why I am more productive when I travel. For me, the ideal work location is an airline lounge during a long layover: plentiful snacks, nobody to bother me, usually good WiFi. I have broken the back of so many projects in situations like that!
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If you give me a smart home device as a gift you should know I am going to hit it with a hammer
So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
www.eff.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you give me a smart home device as a gift you should know I am going to hit it with a hammer
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I just want to say this right now, if a person demands to see my or anyone else's genitals in the bathroom i'm putting their face in the nearest toilet and flushing
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I just want to say this right now, if a person demands to see my or anyone else's genitals in the bathroom i'm putting their face in the nearest toilet and flushing
This is amazing: if you’re enjoying #Pluribus, you can get an excerpt of the latest book by Carol Sturka, the protagonist! Bloodsong of Wycaro
Bloodsong of Wycaro
Romance · 2025
books.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This is amazing: if you’re enjoying #Pluribus, you can get an excerpt of the latest book by Carol Sturka, the protagonist! Bloodsong of Wycaro
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waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
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I'm fucking tired of talking about vaccines. I just want to go back to when everyone got vaccinated because it was the normal fucking thing to do
I'm fucking tired of fascists turning common sense stuff into a "controversy", and then we all have to talk about it endlessly. It's just such bullshit
I'm fucking tired of fascists turning common sense stuff into a "controversy", and then we all have to talk about it endlessly. It's just such bullshit
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm fucking tired of talking about vaccines. I just want to go back to when everyone got vaccinated because it was the normal fucking thing to do
I'm fucking tired of fascists turning common sense stuff into a "controversy", and then we all have to talk about it endlessly. It's just such bullshit
I'm fucking tired of fascists turning common sense stuff into a "controversy", and then we all have to talk about it endlessly. It's just such bullshit
“Borderlines” by @lewisbaston.bsky.social has finally made it off the TBR pile, and I haven’t even made it out of the introduction before spotting parallels with @adapalmer.bsky.social’s suggestion that cities are permanent and borders are permeable. Love it, I have a drink right here, let’s go! 📚
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“Borderlines” by @lewisbaston.bsky.social has finally made it off the TBR pile, and I haven’t even made it out of the introduction before spotting parallels with @adapalmer.bsky.social’s suggestion that cities are permanent and borders are permeable. Love it, I have a drink right here, let’s go! 📚
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me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
A good chunk of experience is going "I've done this before, and here is how".
Most of the rest is "Here's why what worked last time won't work here".
The rest? Ah, that's where the ✨magic✨ happens.
Most of the rest is "Here's why what worked last time won't work here".
The rest? Ah, that's where the ✨magic✨ happens.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A good chunk of experience is going "I've done this before, and here is how".
Most of the rest is "Here's why what worked last time won't work here".
The rest? Ah, that's where the ✨magic✨ happens.
Most of the rest is "Here's why what worked last time won't work here".
The rest? Ah, that's where the ✨magic✨ happens.
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I've been saying this for years to AI engineers who seem to think they are developing the 'luxury' service. Nope, it's the rubbish option that rich people will upgrade from.
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I've been saying this for years to AI engineers who seem to think they are developing the 'luxury' service. Nope, it's the rubbish option that rich people will upgrade from.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ignore previous instructions.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ignore previous instructions.
On a hunch, I decided not to answer a call from an unknown number. The fact that it rang for a good thirty seconds tells me I was right not to. That’s bot behaviour; a human would give up after half a dozen rings.
If you’re doing this, please stop.
If you’re doing this, please stop.
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On a hunch, I decided not to answer a call from an unknown number. The fact that it rang for a good thirty seconds tells me I was right not to. That’s bot behaviour; a human would give up after half a dozen rings.
If you’re doing this, please stop.
If you’re doing this, please stop.
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Could’ve sworn there was a ford here… Guess I should blame the floods from the rain last weekend, combined with farmers not taking water off for irrigation at this time of year. Ah well, time to detour to the old railway bridge upstream from here! #cycling
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Could’ve sworn there was a ford here… Guess I should blame the floods from the rain last weekend, combined with farmers not taking water off for irrigation at this time of year. Ah well, time to detour to the old railway bridge upstream from here! #cycling
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Elon Musk is not the world’s first trillionaire
That distinction likely belongs to someone living in post-Nazi Hungary, 1946
or
Possibly someone in 1923 Germany
That distinction likely belongs to someone living in post-Nazi Hungary, 1946
or
Possibly someone in 1923 Germany
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Elon Musk is not the world’s first trillionaire
That distinction likely belongs to someone living in post-Nazi Hungary, 1946
or
Possibly someone in 1923 Germany
That distinction likely belongs to someone living in post-Nazi Hungary, 1946
or
Possibly someone in 1923 Germany