Matt Jones
@moleitau.bsky.social
Petafloptimism.com / views are my own
Well then. Time to reset the betty crocker 'add-the-egg' product manager aphorism timer I guess.
July 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Well then. Time to reset the betty crocker 'add-the-egg' product manager aphorism timer I guess.
Impeccable timing from @ppfideas.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Impeccable timing from @ppfideas.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian & podcaster Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the myth that wars are settled on the battlefield. Why are we so drawn to the idea of the decisive military showdown?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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!["I'm not a fan, because I think he doesn't know the difference between a building and a CD rack," says Ellis Woodman, an architect and the director of the Architecture Foundation. "There's no sense of scale, no sense of an urban idea that the buildings are contributing to. They disregard architectural history or the character of the spaces in which they stand. [The Google building] is not a building that's interested in making relationships with things around it. The work is always the most important building on its site, whatever he's doing.
There's never a sense that the role of a building might be to contribute to the definition of a space with other buildings."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pin4mfkhazkxfheo4evbhykl/bafkreibzyghmbq5aawf3ukfv7e5cetz756acr5aso5pbjiwczezjdde7xm@jpeg)
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Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914
May 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914
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The persistent myth that Steve Jobs just had genius ideas emerge out of his genius brain without incrementally building on prior work or observing humans or learning from huge mistakes continues to make people stupid.
May 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The persistent myth that Steve Jobs just had genius ideas emerge out of his genius brain without incrementally building on prior work or observing humans or learning from huge mistakes continues to make people stupid.
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It’s not an island of strangers. It’s an island estranged from its politicians. Inevitably, because the contempt in which they hold their own supporters is breathtaking.
May 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It’s not an island of strangers. It’s an island estranged from its politicians. Inevitably, because the contempt in which they hold their own supporters is breathtaking.
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Imagining Sir Keir standing shyly in front of his bedroom mirror, wondering if he can get away with Union Jack socks
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Imagining Sir Keir standing shyly in front of his bedroom mirror, wondering if he can get away with Union Jack socks
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Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ garbage is a capitulation to Reform and the voters he’s trying to attract will always prefer Farage’s full-chested xenophobia to the timid Labour knock-off
May 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ garbage is a capitulation to Reform and the voters he’s trying to attract will always prefer Farage’s full-chested xenophobia to the timid Labour knock-off
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When we look back at this period in history, the fact that a handful of men made a load of money on the early Web and then everyone allowed them to do whatever the liked forever is going to make us seem really very credulous.
May 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When we look back at this period in history, the fact that a handful of men made a load of money on the early Web and then everyone allowed them to do whatever the liked forever is going to make us seem really very credulous.
you can probably delete 'schools' too
“The gut biome of design schools was killed during the pandemic, and we need the time, space, ideas and resources to build them back up” - so excellent a point from @polysemic.bsky.social that I made an artefact card of it and forced him to hold it up… #design #education
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
you can probably delete 'schools' too
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“Severance is Moonlighting” just zapped into my brain and now it won’t go away.
May 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“Severance is Moonlighting” just zapped into my brain and now it won’t go away.
This week so far www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...
ONE HOUR OF DANCING MON MOTHMA | Andor Season 2 | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This week so far www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...
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One year ago today I experienced and filmed my first total solar eclipse in Mexico.
April 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
One year ago today I experienced and filmed my first total solar eclipse in Mexico.
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There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There’s a real link between AI writing and Silicon Valley meal replacement drinks and the entire fuckin swath of maximizing the human experience and it’s that they view pleasure as being unhelpful to life. I don’t want a drink that replaces a meal, I don’t want a book summary, I want to savor things
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Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax
Them: What band are you in
Me: Erm, The Charlatans
Them: Your council tax band?
😬
Them: What band are you in
Me: Erm, The Charlatans
Them: Your council tax band?
😬
April 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax
Them: What band are you in
Me: Erm, The Charlatans
Them: Your council tax band?
😬
Them: What band are you in
Me: Erm, The Charlatans
Them: Your council tax band?
😬
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Join us online or in Edinburgh at EFI next Thursday evening for this vital conversation about AI and Creative Labour. Our Technomoral Conversations fireside chats are always 🔥
Just over a week until our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour!
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
April 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Join us online or in Edinburgh at EFI next Thursday evening for this vital conversation about AI and Creative Labour. Our Technomoral Conversations fireside chats are always 🔥
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The problem is we’ve made every day April Fools Day
April 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The problem is we’ve made every day April Fools Day
Pretty sure no-one in a Ghibli movie ever wore a padded gilet.
March 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Pretty sure no-one in a Ghibli movie ever wore a padded gilet.
"The problem was the testing engine. It was never actually testing any code or part of the system. It was instead just responding to my need for tests with failure/success rates on a fairly random but low basis and creating authentic looking messages." Vibecoding LLM as Graeberian employee
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"The problem was the testing engine. It was never actually testing any code or part of the system. It was instead just responding to my need for tests with failure/success rates on a fairly random but low basis and creating authentic looking messages." Vibecoding LLM as Graeberian employee