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Willsh

@willsh.bsky.social

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John V Willshire. Scottish, understandably so. Works @ smithery.com Makes https://artefactshop.com Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective Profeshing https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 1d

“Dating centre?”

two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on

ALT: two men are posing for a picture and one has a pink tie on

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Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 1d

Drops off every Christmas (work-related), massively spikes in first days of pandemic, stays high in lock-downs and Christmases, then returns to form over the last three years.

But nah, not convincing myself here, tbh...

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 1d

Video-calling or something?

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shardcore @shardcore.org · 3d

a chatGPT enthusiast enthuses

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

For obvious reasons*, I am totally here for this.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 5d

Absolute pure chef's kiss. A company called Ugmonk have invented pieces of paper to make notes on as a way to stay offline. One of them is a ring-binder notebook ugmonk.com/en-gb/collec...

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

Office design, shearing layers, and the one number that really matters.

#layers #work #workplace #design

smithery.com/2025/10/16/s...

Shearing layers and square metres

Workplace Design shouldn’t be a paint by numbers job. But there’s one number that interests me in particular. A recent post by Bruce Daisley caught my eye. He has been looking at some r…

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

Nice!

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

I wondered if people see the warning in time to switch it off in case they have a condition where they’d react to it. But I don’t know how long a typical reaction would be 🤷🏻‍♂️

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

That GIF would come with a strobing warning on TV.

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 5d

The least well-sounding American of all time lecturing the nation on health is *quite the vibe*

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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re in the States and planning to go out this weekend, I recommend watching this for context. www.pbs.org/video/hard-h...

American Experience | Hard Hat Riot | Season 37 | Episode 5

The violent 1970 clash between student protestors and construction workers in downtown NY.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7d

One of the funny things about chatgpt pivoting to porn is that Meta already tried that just a few months ago.

Zuckerberg made a John Cena chatbot that would sext with children.

Then, a few months later, Zuckerberg *did it again*. Same results.

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 7d

“Never invent data”

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 10d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The “But It Might Work For Us” meme, changed to be as follows:

Panel 1: A man says, “There are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now.”
Panel 2: A woman says, “Well did it work for those people?”
Panel 3: The man replies, “No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...”
Panel 4: He continues, “...but there’s something real happening here.”

The words in the first and last panel are taken from the BBC News article.

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 14d

The #firstbrands debacle continues to make headlines. As I hinted at before, worth keeping an eye on with regards to its effects on the financing available to the #ai bubble.

FT article on UBS’s exposure to First Brands

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent, thanks! Another in return:

mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

mechanicalsurvival.com

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 15d

I can’t help but think the interviewer is wilfully misunderstanding the ‘2 hour’ point in order to generate a story. It’s not two hours from ‘when you park’. Just a limit on how much footage will be watched.

#r4today

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 15d

I touched on this a little in here - the use of ’individual use cases’ ignores the social, relational implications.

But even the individual use cases they use feel like they’ve never been in these situations. Or actually scalable to make sense of the valuations.

smithery.com/cognitive-de...

“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 15d

Slightly astounded that someone at Conservative HQ has decided that a *seven letter* acronym is a good thing to put their leader on the radio to try and remember. Straight from The Thick Of It.

(Meanwhile: this interview is not going well)

#r4today

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 15d

Liquid Glass in macOS 26 is just a dog of a UI. It's terrible.

a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! ''

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Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 15d

I resisted for as long as I can, but I have now upgraded to IOS 26.

I am trying not to, but coming to the conclusion that I hate #liquidglass.

Never before has a software update halved the perceived value of the hardware in your hand so quickly.

The UX equivalent of Fox’s Glacier Mints.

Willsh @willsh.bsky.social · 18d

Saw @tomchatfield.bsky.social last week, and he gave me a sneak peek at his forthcoming book ‘How To Think Clearly’, where he’d pointed to my #cognitivedebt coinage from earlier this year.

So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...

“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…

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Rachel 4 Sussex @rachel4sussex.bsky.social · 19d

THANK YOU for selecting me, @rachelmillward.bsky.social, as your Green candidate for Mayor of Sussex and Brighton. 💚

Sussex is an incredible place – but we need to make it work for all of us.

Join us for a fairer, greener Sussex. Link in bio.

#Rachel4Sussex

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 20d

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.

There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...

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