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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · 12d

Surprised it was a film review that flipped me to becoming a paid subscriber, but there you go.

Happy to support+pay for Panic World and Garbage Day as IMO there’s nobody reporting on the state of the Internet/world better than @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, @grantirving.bsky.social et al right now.

BONUS: How Eddington and Weapons hold a mirror up to our Panic World

Podcast Episode · Panic World · 24/09/2025 · Bonus · 40m

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · 20d

wrote about this here: tumshie.ghost.io/stick-around...

Stick around for joy

This post is about music and how we consume it. It delves into what's changed in the widespread transition to digital audio formats over the last couple of decades. It’s also about technological prog...

tumshie.ghost.io

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · 20d

Massive Attack on Spotify: “The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies”

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military

The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies

www.theguardian.com

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · 21d

“If I'm so empowered, why am I such a coward?”

Still completely awestruck by last night’s Self Esteem gig in Edinburgh, honestly one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. Standing (screaming) ovation at the end fully justified.

Rebecca Lucy Taylor on stage at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, with a large crowd in front of her.

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Sep 2

Love this New York Times visualisation of tennis courts turning into pickleball courts. Such a simple way of communicating behaviour change on a pretty massive scale. 🎾🎾🎾

[sidenote: where's the pickleball emoji?]

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Screenshot from New York Times showing lots of tennis courts being converted into pickleball courts, as seen from above.

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · Aug 27

Let no one say I'm above retweeting praise research.mysociety.org/html/ai-fram...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is good. Next let's do 'core funding for supporting and rolling out what works'
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/in-prai...

In praise of ‘boring innovation’

The boring innovations that shaped our society and how dull can change the world

www.nesta.org.uk

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 27

That's a lovely post. And having bored everyone I know with "pay attention to the plumbing" analogies for too many years, it's great to see an actual toilet anecdote in there.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Aug 26

I think a lot of people in tech are probably feeling something close to despair about what to do about LLMs, since it’s clear that those with power are not going to relent with their advocacy, and they have enough uses that they’ve gained critical mass, yet the harms & risks are so wildly egregious…

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 27

Thanks for linking back to your AI framework. It's *exactly* the document I've been looking for in terms of expressing issues in a clear and considered way - refreshingly free of techspeak and policy wonkness. Great work.

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 22

For further incredulity you should try the audiobook, where the narrator has a go at doing all the accents.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 15

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 15

Niche Scottish indie post (#3): the new Pictish Trail single is very, very good. youtu.be/Qx6IKWPi3Zw?...

Hold It

YouTube video by Pictish Trail - Topic

youtu.be

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Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me · Aug 13

Took the opportunity to pop into a fab #edbookfest event with a panel made up of @edinburghminute.bsky.social @greatergovanhill.com and @neiltosh.bsky.social - some excellent discussion of online advertising, facing up to the threat of AI, and how to fund + make local news cut through.

Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · Aug 9

Time for GovTech to come in from the cold

digitalpolicy.substack.com/p/in-from-th...

In from the cold

Integrating the GovTech ecosystem with the wider ones

digitalpolicy.substack.com

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · Jul 3

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.