I skipped university - at 32 I've bought a house, my graduate friends work in Tesco Nearly three-quarters of Gen Z are open to starting their own business, and some are skipping higher education to do so

The 21st century equivalent of 'My grandad smoked 60 a day and lived until he was a hundred.'

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Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot:

During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

not even software works like software

otherwise all those software engineering practices would produce good software, which they demonstrably do not

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Hand written sign at shop reading “WE HAVE” “CHICKEN” “NOODLE” “SOUP”

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

this is the most meta thing i've ever seen

The government don't need to build every software system in-house, but it does need enough employees who are good enough at building software that they can tell good contracts from bad, and hold contractors accountable

We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.

Love your work, @propublica.org! But, there's no ProPublica journalism without journalists!

Pay your workers 21st century level salaries + benefits.

With $98 million stashed in the bank, you can afford it! ProPublica takes in $18 million/year more in donations than expenses! @propublicaguild.org

LinkedIn chuds will post things like 'It's like nowhere else, here's some perks of working at Scrongle dot io' and it's just 8 white dudes squinting at their laptops on a rooftop in East London?

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

I never, ever, want to open a link using an in-app browser btw

Our agreement with the Department of War Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.

I think it's probably fine to put the chatbot that not even Walmart trusts inside the largest nuclear armed military on earth to the tune of about $200M, after all we all have universal single payer healthcare, free higher education, and a robust UBI

I used to go to Cleary Gardens around there, not sure what state it will be in right now after Winter, but used to be lovely and quiet in the summer maps.app.goo.gl/bzqm6irw47Hd...

Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k For fuck's sake

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...

word of advice? drop the "the". just "Immense, Predictable, Laughable Failure". it's cleaner

Screeshot of powerpoint slide. How Do We Resist? We resist not just by retreating, but by creating: - Love, curiosity, daydreaming - Civic practices and reflective attention These cannot be monetised easily.

A sample slide from my lecture yesterday. Should have added fun - but I did say "fun" out loud.

D...did Marc just leak his system prompt?

Many predictions about AI are simply wishful thinking.

"Now that AI is here, designers will have more time to focus on quality." Really? Is that what you see happening? Is that the trend, is that where the incentive structure is leading us?

Youtube thumbnails from ancient times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

“You’re right! I shouldn’t assume tables exist.”

I had this exact conversation with an Oxford philosophy grad many years ago.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

I've even come across a case where a guy completely f*cked an economy by pursuing counterproductive austerity policies only to be got rid of and then given a whole bunch of really lucrative jobs in the financial sector.

All we did was give stupid people faster access to other stupid people and now we act surprised when the stupidity compounds

‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban [FREE TO READ] High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?

www.ft.com/content/4493...

The Two Deprivations Are poorer constituencies going green of turquoise?

The Two Deprivations
open.substack.com/pub/parables...

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights. 2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do? Me: It’s just an expression. 3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it. 4 Me, frowning: I would freeze. Deer: I fucking thought so.

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

It doesn’t matter which side of the box you open medication, it will always be the side with the little leaflet thingy