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Peter Cottle
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Happy Halloween from all of us on Threads!
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Don’t worry Microsoft push notification engineer, we’ve all been there! 🤓
Photo by Peter Cottle on October 24, 2025. May be a video game screenshot of phone, screen and text.
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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In other AI news, Meta launched a new AI-enabled SWE coding interview!

Instead of the "leetcode" questions that have been around for more than a decade (and are trivial to solve with AI), we're piloting a new format that:
- enables code execution so you can […]

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October 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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TIL there is a world of gelatin art desserts

(The fact that this was hand made is nuts 🤯)
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October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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In the midst of all this AI discussion, I think an overlooked aspect is this excerpt from @dkthomp’s newsletter a while back.

It’s likely that AI skill will reach some asymptotic limit but humans might drift lower in our raw cognitive abilities over time […]

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Photo by Peter Cottle on October 01, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'new machines. We are so fixated on how technology will many ways that technology can de-skill us that we miss the In movies about impending planetary disasters, we often see the world come together to prepare to meet the threat directly. One might imagine, then, that the potential arrival of all- knowing I would serve as a galvanizing threat, like a Sputnik moment for our collective fear we're preparing to think deeply. Instead, for the alleged arrival of super-brain by lobotomizing ourselves, slinking away into state of incuriosity marked by less reading, less and less thinking. It's as writing'. Photo by Peter Cottle on October 01, 2025. May be a graphic of text that says '8 Change in 12th grade NAEP math scores (2005-2013 versus 2013-2024 2024) 6 4 2 Lower Lower-peforming students Median students Higher- Higher-performing students scores math grade 12th in Change 0 -2 4 -6 -8 -10 -12 2005 2009 2013 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessement of Education Progress (NAEP) 2015 2019 2024'.
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Google's nano banana image model is pretty nuts -- I feel like they've fully solved character & face consistency even with pretty wild style edits 🤯

It's also interesting to see them lean into this in terms of marketing alongside the Gemini name. It's the only […]

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August 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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My main use case for running LLMs locally has been… when the flight WiFi goes out!

I’m playing through wind waker again on an emulator and got stuck a few times during the sailing sequences. It’s super convenient that you can download a model that compresses the […]

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August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Loved this quote from Abundance (which I discovered from @dkthomp's newsletter):

> Imagine going to sleep in 1875 in New York City and waking up thirty years later. As you shut your eyes, there is no electric lighting, Coca-Cola, basketball, or aspirin. There […]

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August 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A story in three parts for the Robinhood equity tokens. Pretty crazy that the SEC is ok with this!
Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'OpenAl Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom These "OpenAl tokens" are not OpenAl equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it. Any transfer of equity requires our approval-we did not approve any transfer. Please be careful. 4:06 PM Jul 2, 2025 3.7M Views'. Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says '2 CNBC CB International @CNBCi Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says it's not "entirely relevant" that the trading platform's so-called tokenized shares of and SpaceX aren't technically equity in the companies.'. Photo by Peter Cottle on July 08, 2025. May be a meme of 6 people and text that says 'I don't Idon'tgetit Idongetit.Whyaretheyconlesn get geti it. Why are they confessing? They're They'rebragging bragging They're not Theytenotconfessing confessing'.
July 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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February 2023, the very first Threads war room and possibly the very first sunset photo we took together 🌆 @0xjessel @marius.schulz snapping their pics as well

Been a long journey since then 🥹
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June 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Survivor 50 cast was announced and it's going to be NUTS 🤯

We've got Mike White getting inspiration for White Lotus Season 4, Kyle and Kamilla who JUST finished Season 48, Ozzy the redemption island king, Colby the "no chocolate please" king, and so many other […]

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May 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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But can they beat this??
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May 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I never knew about TRACONs, but this part seems the most wild to me:

> Whereas in N90, 9 or 10 “positions” in the facility might be assigned to the Newark Sector, at Philly, that number is reduced to two.

Regardless of technology or physical location, dumping […]

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May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Big day for the NYC Threads team — we moved floors!

And my ceramics pieces are now cable holders 😅
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April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Honored to receive a limited edition @rileytestut Pokémon business card at SXSW! Big fan of the Delta app and how it’s redefined mobile gaming (and what the Apple App Store can do)

@mmccue thanks for hosting the whole Fediverse house 😇
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March 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Man of my word -- possibly the first conversion from a Threads ad? 🤔

They're a pretty unique/interesting candy too!

RE: https://www.threads.net/@pcottle/post/DFX_XX7vghO
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February 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Ok Severance marketing keeps getting better — Apple released a preview of “The You You Are” book from the show and it’s *wild*. Love all these corners of the universe they’re fleshing out

RE: https://www.threads.net/@nerdist/post/DFi6JHWpRL4
Photo by Peter Cottle on February 02, 2025. May be a meme of 1 person and text that says 'Severance 職'. Photo by Peter Cottle on February 02, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Highlight Add Note Translate > nated by my paren tıtled "Smells Like Afterbirth, F**ker." It was noteworthy in that I was the first child sired exclusively for theatrical purposes, and critics at the time hailed it as "a baroque deconstruc- tion of the increasingly perverse human urge to procreate. My birth was nessed by such cultural leaders as Jason Robards, Lina Wertmüller, Walt Frazier, and Oregon Governor Robert W. Straub, who called it "American theater most sublimely obscene." Though I cannot remember wit- at its my birth'.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A side effect of Bluesky’s AT protocol is that anyone can observe (and then index) blocks between accounts.

Which means you can build a website that literally shows who has blocked who, including top accounts like @mcuban, and… no one seems to care? 🤯

Never […]

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January 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Even Satya's tweet couldn't stop DeepSeek affecting the market 🤯📉
Photo by Peter Cottle on January 27, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'Nasdaq 100 Heatmap Technology Nvida NVDA $125.65 -$16.97 1.90%) 3Months 1.50%) NVDA -11.9 11.90% 90% GOOGL -3 3.44% 150.00 META 45% 130.00 125.65 280ct 1Now 5Now Dee 3Dee 6Jan 0Jan GOOG -3. -3.30% CMCSA -0.89% CHTR AVGO 11.34% Consumer NTES 2.03% FOX -7.78% Healthcare Csco -2.83% MSFT .74% 5.37% ISRG 2.77% AMGN 1.75% OCOM AMZN 3.00% INTU 0.64% 6.03% REGN 0.20% MU 8.88% LRCX KLAC ADBE 0.29% INTC LMN INGY Industrials 0.55% ADP 0.02% WDAY ADSK COST PCAR BKNG 0.61% NXPI TSLA 94% MRVL 14.24% CTAS SNPS MELI ORLY Uulities AEP 3.26% LULU TCOM SBUX ROST PYPL'.
January 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Open source AI is so cool -- I'm running both DeepSeek r1 and Llama 3.2 side-by-side *completely locally* for the price of charging my macbook via Ollama.

No usage limits, no rate limiting, and state-of-the-art capabilities. Can't wait for this to be an option when using Cursor/VSCode
January 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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World leaders joining Threads! Welcome @zelenskyy_official
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January 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“Let me relax after a busy workday with some light, calming gameplay”

The game in question:
January 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Hilarious MBA situation highlighted by @itismattlevine:
- Indianapolis company starts development on a golf course project in Puerto Rico
- Owners share the ongoing business plan with Kelley School of Business
- Students are close with the CEO of a rival […]

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January 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain! Now I can sell fan fiction of Tintin-the-hacker and use Popeye to promote arbitrary apps...

...which I always expected to be WAY more common after these kinds of events. When Winnie the Pooh entered public […]

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January 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Alright I’ll admit I enjoyed these two movies **way** more than I expected. A self-aware romcom with unexpected twists, and Jason Bateman driving a ton of tension (in the midst of relatable airport humor).

Netflix is cooking for Christmas 🎄
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December 23, 2024 at 8:19 PM