Profile avatar
leewardmister.bsky.social
Wasted so much time trying and failing to write an interesting profile.
62 posts 90 followers 241 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 23 Comments 27

I'm fundamentally unserious: I read this (terrifying) piece and found myself thinking of the potential for amazing spy fiction in the next decade.

submitted 34 minutes ago • 0 comments

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

To adapt a phrase, voting for Kid A on this site feels like kicking Alan Bennett in the balls. But here we are.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I *thought* I knew about history was that defence spending *stimulated* economies. Or does that depend on gargantuan upfront investments?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Books I read this year: Tom Shippey: JRR Tolkien Author of The Century. Brilliant examination of Middle Earth’s grounding in myth, national epic, philology, fairy stories, and religion.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

👏👏👏 [Kathryn Schulz writing on spiders]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Adore the Peej, but B#2 is without flaw.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is SO GOOD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wNT...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Sure, calculus is difficult, but have you ever looked up how the they determine the date of Easter?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible editions from Beardsley, Wilde, Fitzgerald, Stoker, Crowley, and more, to say nothing of the drawings, paintings and postcards. And, of course, the glasses.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Brutalist absolutely flies, no?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Sir David Attenborough here, thrilled to finally have a new species named after me following a lifetime devoted to the cause of nature. Just going to take a big sip of coffee and find out a bit more about it

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure this person actually read the piece.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This conclusion feels... off? Doesn't the story indicate how easily other countries can get to AI parity? And therefore how much *more* countries will have to/want to spend, just as a matter of national security?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Surely we can do better than 'visualised podcast'?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Agree with this. It's interesting that, to take one example, just a couple of years ago, you barely heard a peep about the much more extensive use of AI in cleaning up the Get Back audio.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This was the song that finally converted me.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting the ordure AI is held in right now, thanks to the shithalo of LLMs: not one of us complained when Peter Jackson made a big deal of using it to enhance the recordings of The Beatles in Get Back.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Ohhhhh big thing from me has just gone up on the SHFL…. Check it!

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Sees Dominic Cummings has a reading list on his substack Opens Substack Sees Art of War Closes Substack.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure you can measure the sheer tonnage of the amount of laughter Tony Slattery used to product on WLIIA. An engine of comedy. RIP

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

As it happens, the funnelweb has a very metal latin name: Atrax robustus. Very bloodborne.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Counterpoint: this is a good idea takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-to-use...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments