Brian McCullough

🧵Some personal news: After a 6 year hiatus, the Internet History Podcast is back! Yes, the original tech history podcast is back with the first three episodes below, followed by a new one every week for the foreseeable future. Search your podcast app now youtu.be/sjkkdcMp2Pk

Talking about the Arsenal-Coventry fixture my son suggested a new tradition of the Premier League champions playing the Championship champions to open every season, with both trophies on display. I have to say I quite like that idea.

Is that why it is so French coded?

Ho boy…

TIL Terminator was showing 6502 assembly language

For this.weekinsecurity.com, I wrote about how hackers are helping criminal gangs hijack and steal delivery trucks packed full of consumer goods — from vapes to lobster meat heists, to potentially 12 tons of KitKat bars. It's a growing but underreported problem. I explain more for subscribers. ❤️

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

looking for angel investors for my business WORLD CUP SHERPAS where we charge Europeans exorbitant fees to get them to and from MetLife without dealing with this bullshit

Generation discourse is so silly once you realize that most of the music that was so meaningful to you as a teen was probably created by people in a previous generation. And some of the kids’ music is more than alright.

Anyone know why Claude doesn't have memory across entire projects yet?

I know I’m the giant asshole for not knowing this but since when do the Oscar’s start this early?

UPDATED! It's... James Mason In A Cave With A Cat Slight return. With a wee bit more information... And some nice new pictures. Enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...

This is my usual reminder that the team I really hate is Man U. But wow, this Tottenham thing is becoming a car crash that you can’t look away from.

This is 1) the best essay I’ve read in a while on OpenAI’s situation specifically, and 2) the whole question around LLMs as a new flavor of compute. Act accordingly. www.techmeme.com/260221/p5#a2...

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

You do realize you won’t have to post here anymore soon right? AI will do it for you. The thing is: you’ll still scroll as much as you ever did and won’t notice the difference.

Am I wrong or does Apple need to release Macs that are like total beasts for doing AI very soon?

🌇 on Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:54 in New York City. Current conditions (via NOAA): 🌞 Fair/clear Temperature: 0° Relative Humidity: 36.05% Wind Chill: -2.58°

so very true

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Here's Bjork again for no reason at all.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I never do this, but I really want to be involved. @elliottkalan.bsky.social should write on it. I'll laugh and unroll maps. deadline.com/2025/12/matt...

Get back to bed or die tryin'

Jesus Christ.

The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee

If I heard the call of Cthulhu I would simply not answer it. Not my business.

You think I don’t have that kind of money

Arsenal have gone 11 hours and 26 minutes since they last conceded a goal in any competition. #BURARS

For the 1000th time. Paris in spring. NYC fall.

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

Same!

The song "Wonderwall" is 30 years old today. Anyway.

Here's the thing. What if Quantum Computing has its ChatGPT moment (not in terms of consumer adoption, but in terms of proving concept) in the next 18 months? You stack that on top of AI and things will get crazy, crazy fast. www.techmeme.com/251022/p30#a...

Luigi acquires a new mansion. It's filled with the souls of the dead. No wonder, no curiosity about the nature of these souls or the greater implications. Just clean them out like vermin.

Ahead of a cryptocurrency selloff, two accounts placed bets against the market minutes before tariff news broke and scored $160 million

COL. KURTZ: fetch me my tape recorder... i must inform those bureaucrats at headquarters of my snail dream

I’ll bang this drum forever. It’s their best movie.

I keep saying this but it is just so obvious where this is going

When the aux cord breaks and I just start singing