Patrick Boyle 💎

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

I don’t even think there’s a class or position level of wealth it’s possible to attain any more where people around you aren’t wearing Hoka running shoes

Excellent video by @calnewport001.bsky.social . I love the line that Social Media companies have fracked our attention. youtu.be/ldvrxMTk7wU?...

I'm just not good at this - eh... Guess these gilet prices and we’ll predict which bank you work at - www.ft.com/content/2588... via @FT

Weird Story real quick… A year ago my friend Bria and I released a cute little app that installs an easily distractible bean on your phone. If you use your phone less the bean can knit more and then you can trade in the stuff they knit for decor for their house. SINCE THEN............

Die Welt tells Germans how to navigate everyday life in Britain: "Be restrained with gesturing hands, exuberant expressions and overly spirited language - after all we're not in southern Europe...Too much emotion and drama is out of place in a realm of understatement." www.welt.de/reise/articl...

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Telegraph: The White House has blocked the transfer of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, US officials have said. The transfer of interceptor missiles from countries friendly to Ukraine requires the approval of Pete Hegseth. I’ve been screaming about it for years - you use/sell/donate US tech on US terms

Crosetto: “I used the terms good and evil because when a state crosses another state's border with tanks, bombs hospitals, bombs schools, kills civilians, bombs power plants, and has been doing so for four years, I can only call it evil.”

If you're still on X ... now my friends is the time to pull that plug. This very dangerous man needs to be stopped, not enabled www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

New Press Secretary…

terrific profile of Marc Andreesen. Turns out most of the stuff he's big mad about never happened. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

hahahah #fail

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

Saw Duncan Jones’ new film ROGUE TROOPER last night @ London Film Festival. Find I’m mostly describing it as “beautiful” to ppl. It’s v particular combo of motion capture & computer animation (no AI!) builds the richest, most gorgeous movie “world” I’ve seen in years. I loved it so much.

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the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

How it started: "I am the house now." How it's going: Bessent: "No, because look, the house doesn't win every hand. The house plays percentages." Coming up next: 'Look, we are doing fine, my boss even was able to manage a casino into bankruptcy.'

I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

George Harrison and his wife Pattie Boyd, snapped on the King's Road, Chelsea, London, May 1968. An image that neatly captures the feel and look of the 'Swinging Sixties.'

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

For anyone interested in the story

“I Am The House” (A 23yo gif for the real ones there ⬇️)

*raises hand* if they're retail-ized, can we really say they're private? www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

One SpaceX arrangement, four filed figures: $84,500m at the outside, $3,750m at the inside. Every one accurate about a different question. Adding them describes an obligation no party has. Four questions to ask of any AI headline, free to read:

So much of the lens on culture has been turned into a numbers game, where everything is about chart placements and streaming numbers and data. Its a horse race to who gets to do data best, and all of these dorks forget that people just want a song that will make them cry at the grocery store.

Britain sold £4.25 billion of 10-year government bonds this morning at an average yield of 5.383% – the highest borrowing cost for newly issued 10-year debt since 1999. Yields were higher in the secondary market in 2007, but no 10-year bonds were actually issued then so the cost wasn't locked in.

I assume the Anthropic IPO will be one zillion jillion times oversubscribed, pop 50-100% on day 1, bleed out down 50-75% over the next eight months, and finally rally back from the dead, aka the exact same pattern every IPO has had for the past five years

"Why is your channel called Platypus Economics?" Time to share the back story.

“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Is the AI Bubble About to Be Tested? @pboyle.bsky.social #AI youtu.be/T-oXyXwD6sE

Radosław Sikorski, Poland's minister of Foreign Affairs, has more balls than the entire Republican party. Meanwhile, our president is blaming Ukraine for diesel prices. What a fucking embarrassment.

This is AI garbage.

In America the tax code is so confusing that most taxpayers have to pay for professional help. This is absurd. A new book points to another way

New video just went live on YouTube. youtu.be/T-oXyXwD6sE

JPMorgan and the broking fetish for conviction calls - and why William Butler Yeats would not have done well as head of research at an investment bank -great column by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6862e493-c...

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility