David Harrison
@trawg.bsky.social
"On the appropriate day (unless, as was frequently the case, there had been some stupid mistake in programming) the right message would be automatically flashed to its destination."
Computer user in Brisbane, Australia.
Bio in link: https://trog.qgl.org
Computer user in Brisbane, Australia.
Bio in link: https://trog.qgl.org
Worth noting that MSTR has a lot of BTC, but not as much as in ETFs - this post just yesterday from @benmckenzie.bsky.social (the halcyon days of yore when MSTR's haul was worth $60b) has $170b in cryptoasset ETFs.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
It was $16k just a few years ago. Still a long way down.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
It was $16k just a few years ago. Still a long way down.
February 5, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Worth noting that MSTR has a lot of BTC, but not as much as in ETFs - this post just yesterday from @benmckenzie.bsky.social (the halcyon days of yore when MSTR's haul was worth $60b) has $170b in cryptoasset ETFs.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
It was $16k just a few years ago. Still a long way down.
bsky.app/profile/benm...
It was $16k just a few years ago. Still a long way down.
I am dreading the future in which people decide what news to pay attention to and/or believe based on who has the most mainstream-acceptable AI avatar delivering it
I hate it here
I hate it here
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
February 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I am dreading the future in which people decide what news to pay attention to and/or believe based on who has the most mainstream-acceptable AI avatar delivering it
I hate it here
I hate it here
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oh no! anyway,,
*BITCOIN EXTENDS DROP TO BELOW $65,000 AS DELEVERAGING QUICKENS
*BITCOIN EXTENDS DROP TO BELOW $65,000 AS DELEVERAGING QUICKENS
February 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
oh no! anyway,,
*BITCOIN EXTENDS DROP TO BELOW $65,000 AS DELEVERAGING QUICKENS
*BITCOIN EXTENDS DROP TO BELOW $65,000 AS DELEVERAGING QUICKENS
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the only way I could use Twitter, when I was still on it, was in Tweetdeck because I could mute words, two of which were "left" and "right"
“While using the traditional ‘left-right’ lens makes some sense for some policy issues, for most of the big issues paralysing our current federal parliament it is the left-right frame that is causing much of the confusion and paralysis.” - Richard Denniss
Read more: https://theaus.in/4axwXhF
Read more: https://theaus.in/4axwXhF
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 AM
the only way I could use Twitter, when I was still on it, was in Tweetdeck because I could mute words, two of which were "left" and "right"
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Thread about why this crypto crash might be “the big one” 🧵
February 5, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Thread about why this crypto crash might be “the big one” 🧵
This is an interesting way of thinking about it - the relationship between bits of information, when visualised, can create shapes that are a way of looking how info is connected.
But! This comes with the risk of pareidolia - the tendency to draw meaning /that isn't there/ from visual stimuli.
But! This comes with the risk of pareidolia - the tendency to draw meaning /that isn't there/ from visual stimuli.
it's probably worth us internalising that information has 'shape' and 'hierarchy' rather than being endless series of columns and rows
Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures?
Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham
arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607
Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham
arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607
February 4, 2026 at 2:10 AM
This is an interesting way of thinking about it - the relationship between bits of information, when visualised, can create shapes that are a way of looking how info is connected.
But! This comes with the risk of pareidolia - the tendency to draw meaning /that isn't there/ from visual stimuli.
But! This comes with the risk of pareidolia - the tendency to draw meaning /that isn't there/ from visual stimuli.
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News came out today of serious security vulnerabilities in seven popular Australian ‘RentTech’ platforms, leaving millions of documents containing renter personal information exposed. Renters often have no choice but to use these apps in order to secure housing.
I wrote about it for the Guardian:
I wrote about it for the Guardian:
Why should renters like me have to trade away our privacy just to get a roof over our heads? | Samantha Floreani
The rise in real estate tech means renters often hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties – at great risk
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
News came out today of serious security vulnerabilities in seven popular Australian ‘RentTech’ platforms, leaving millions of documents containing renter personal information exposed. Renters often have no choice but to use these apps in order to secure housing.
I wrote about it for the Guardian:
I wrote about it for the Guardian:
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My erudition is very limited, and many of you will have better literary examples, but what is happening in the US at the moment seems to be Isherwood’s Berlin stories re-written for the American urban experience by Shirley Jackson.
How every thing we see hints at wider cruelties.
How every thing we see hints at wider cruelties.
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 PM
My erudition is very limited, and many of you will have better literary examples, but what is happening in the US at the moment seems to be Isherwood’s Berlin stories re-written for the American urban experience by Shirley Jackson.
How every thing we see hints at wider cruelties.
How every thing we see hints at wider cruelties.
Worth remembering that this is only true if users practice something resembling real opsec, not the off-brand Hegseth variety. Expiring messages and tight controls on groups.
You can export an entire Signal database quickly if you have access to the device (e.g. yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-gui...)
You can export an entire Signal database quickly if you have access to the device (e.g. yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-gui...)
January 31, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Worth remembering that this is only true if users practice something resembling real opsec, not the off-brand Hegseth variety. Expiring messages and tight controls on groups.
You can export an entire Signal database quickly if you have access to the device (e.g. yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-gui...)
You can export an entire Signal database quickly if you have access to the device (e.g. yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-gui...)
makes a lot of sense, merging a car company with an AI company. or a rocket company. or maybe some third kind of company
Christ.
January 29, 2026 at 10:50 PM
makes a lot of sense, merging a car company with an AI company. or a rocket company. or maybe some third kind of company
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Maybe this is about central banks. Maybe it’s about inflation hedges. Maybe it’s about masked agents of the state shooting unarmed US citizens 10 times in the back — and we still don’t know who, or where, they are.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but gold is up 7% from yesterday's close.
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/everything...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/everything...
January 29, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Maybe this is about central banks. Maybe it’s about inflation hedges. Maybe it’s about masked agents of the state shooting unarmed US citizens 10 times in the back — and we still don’t know who, or where, they are.
just build a software product that becomes a load bearing dependency for the stock market and the government will be forced to become a distribution partner and build a citizen sales channel for you
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:54 AM
just build a software product that becomes a load bearing dependency for the stock market and the government will be forced to become a distribution partner and build a citizen sales channel for you
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ByteDance, I checked with local reps y'day. US only for US. We'd have to actively opt in, and although the Coalition was saying we should last year, I suspect that position may have changed lol
January 28, 2026 at 2:11 AM
ByteDance, I checked with local reps y'day. US only for US. We'd have to actively opt in, and although the Coalition was saying we should last year, I suspect that position may have changed lol
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stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
just despicable brownshirt shit happening nakedly in front of us. this Bovino asshole isn't even pretending, actively embracing it with his cringe cosplay
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
just despicable brownshirt shit happening nakedly in front of us. this Bovino asshole isn't even pretending, actively embracing it with his cringe cosplay
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Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.
www.forbes.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
aristocracy 2.0 thinking
We should also talk more about how too many Republicans do not see entire swaths of people as actual people. You don’t casually muse about starting a war if you see troops as humans with lives and families. Normal people don’t fantasize about those from other countries dying for their own amusement.
Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."
January 23, 2026 at 8:38 PM
aristocracy 2.0 thinking
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Nothing says "We trust our UI strategy" as going back to the UI strategy of 40 years ago.
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source command-line tool designed to simplify the development lifecycle for Windows applications across a wide range of frameworks and toolchains. blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...
Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c
blogs.windows.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Nothing says "We trust our UI strategy" as going back to the UI strategy of 40 years ago.
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ABC News Business home page editor always drives me nuts with headlines and today is no exception; these ones were not far apart
January 22, 2026 at 2:05 AM
ABC News Business home page editor always drives me nuts with headlines and today is no exception; these ones were not far apart
Kogan listing a $237,422 gold bar as if it's just another item feels like some sort of indicator
www.kogan.com/au/buy/gold-...
(like can we please just call the fucking top already and get back to markets actually having signal)
www.kogan.com/au/buy/gold-...
(like can we please just call the fucking top already and get back to markets actually having signal)
www.kogan.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Kogan listing a $237,422 gold bar as if it's just another item feels like some sort of indicator
www.kogan.com/au/buy/gold-...
(like can we please just call the fucking top already and get back to markets actually having signal)
www.kogan.com/au/buy/gold-...
(like can we please just call the fucking top already and get back to markets actually having signal)
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completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
completely unironically, this is how we'll know
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"Regardless of what the central bank position is going to be, the long end of the yield curve will go up. Either they raise interest rates and that causes the long end to go up, or this is too dovish a central bank, inflation is going to be higher, that causes it." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gopinath Points to Danger of a US Inflation Comeback in 2026
The US economy is vulnerable to a snapback in consumer-price growth because of everything from fiscal stimulus to the weakness of the dollar, according to Harvard University Professor Gita Gopinath.
www.bloomberg.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"Regardless of what the central bank position is going to be, the long end of the yield curve will go up. Either they raise interest rates and that causes the long end to go up, or this is too dovish a central bank, inflation is going to be higher, that causes it." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Lived in London for 2 years, 15 minutes walk from this place, and even as something of a history nerd, had no idea it was there. There's just so much in London.
If you were going to be teleported there and back, and could only enter one place, I’d suggest Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street, a Spitalfields row house refurbished to look and feel as if its 18th/19th century residents have only just stepped out for a moment. Extraordinarily experience.
Mr. Gibson, when I think about London I think about you and strange calculators in the boot of a car. My wife and I are going, so I thought I would ask: If you had a place to recommend seeing what would it be?
January 19, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Lived in London for 2 years, 15 minutes walk from this place, and even as something of a history nerd, had no idea it was there. There's just so much in London.