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seatrout.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, — attempting simultaneous disillusionment and wonder. ex Guardian, ex Independent. Orwell Prize winner. Interested in trout, Christianity, tech, literature, journalism, Sweden, history. Less and less interested in politics of any sort.
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FB reminds me of a 13 year old letter to the Daily Mail which rendered all subsequent letters to the Daily Mail redundant. This was the pinnacle.

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Federal regulators pause fraud case after defendant pumps $75m into Trump's crypto venture. 🧐 edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Why I hope for the asteroid

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I followed John Naughton's link to an essay on the uses of AI and this is what I found open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Who amongst us has not accidentally sent $81 trillion when you only meant to send $280

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

I really like Springsteen's tunes and his attitude, but I do wish he hadn't spent so long singing like a constipated elk.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

How about "we're also going to set your essay Q for an AI. You'll be judged on how much better your version is than the machine's - how much more original/creative/informed/accurate, etc." Wouldn't that make sense? (Tell me if this is a stupid idea, higher ed folk!)

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

"Under weaknesses, you've put 'Accidentally stopped the fight against Ebola'?"

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Even the good guys of Silicon Valley are delusional — a post against optimism open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr...

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New article - enough with trying to create a new DOGE The UK will not be <reformed> until the last viewer of the West Wing is beaten to death with the final volume of Caro's LBJ bio * * with apologies to the late, great Tom Nairn

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Listening to Daniel Levitin on the radio talking about music, neuroscience, ourselves and the wonderful mysteries. Had a sudden vision, a baby in the womb listening to her mother's heartbeat, then years later her own baby doing the same. Unbroken rhythm, stretching back forever.

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Spent the evening in a restaurant close to the Emirates Stadium packed with Arsenal fans seeking solace in regional Italian food. A scene familiar from Lowry paintings.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

#Caturday.

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Michael Heseltine was right. We should have gone for a European defence industry and not at the American one. As it is, Starmer should scrap Trident, spend half the money on bribes to win the next election and half on a co-ordinated European defence project.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Unless you're Ukrainian, obvs. A joke of a paper, increasingly often.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

This this this It’s so hard to get across to ppl outside tech. Flashback to a family dinner trying to explain why in fact no, Musk is not a ‘brilliant businessman who built something new’, it’s 99% insider ££ and hype ppl simply can’t fathom the biz model, think you’re just bitter or paranoid

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Is there a single more cringeworthy Christian song that Bob Dylan's "Covenant woman"?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The Guardian's going to have to work hard to top this, from the NYT

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This is a miserable and disturbing story of how one drunken tweet destroyed a life. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/martin-fletc...

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IN memory of Tim Radford, his wonderful rules for writing journalism. Read to the end, as they say www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

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the law in its majesty, a channel for squalid political payoffs

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Can we just pause to reflect on this.

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr...

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How to do it HTB style when you're in Silicon Valley www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Efter att har varit i Örebro och jobbat hårt i flera dagar reflekterar en kollega över gapet mellan situationen på plats och bilder han får i sociala medier av samma situation. ”…slås av vilka fina människor det finns, att så många vill ta hand om medmänniskor i livets allra svåraste stunder.”

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Um, right: "something much worse than nuclear war"

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If you think the problem is Trump, think again.

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

submitted 20 days ago • 148 comments

I just had one of those attempted scams where the scammer claims to have videos of the victim's porn habits — and realised that this is an unexploited niche for deep fakes (of the wanker, rather than the wanked over). Take your blackmail to the next level with AI!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Well done, Guardian, that is the *exact* opposite of what happened.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Saw this on the weekend and what I found interesting is that while loads of people will get down and litigate what happened at Stonewall, it’s weird saying all rights stem from that when homosexuality was legalised in the U.K. 2 years before the riot took place, and in some countries in Europe, 200!

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Are Gen Z kids really more spiritual than their parents? Mouse’s (sceptical) take | New on The Church Mouse Blog www.churchmousepublishing.co.uk/2025/02/are-...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Again, why would you post on the site of the guy who wants to destroy the rule of law?

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments