Henry Scowcroft
@oh-henry.bsky.social
Science, music and dad jokes. You will be laughing 65% more of the time. Guitars in @thisisdogunit.bsky.social.
This is a fabulous thread on AI, by the man who observed and then coined the phrase "enshittification."
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoThe greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
I think for some people it is more comforting to believe that there is a vast conspiracy to hide the truth than that sometimes the best scientists in the world sometimes don’t know what’s happening
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.
*walks into room of mathematicians* Have you considered DOING A BREAKTHROUGH.
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w agothe Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt
In which @iandunt.bsky.social beautifully captures all the messy contradictions of loving the World Cup as a not-football person. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Football, England and the triumph of modernity
Beaten on the pitch. Victorious off it.
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We're all going to be watching the James Graham play about Binface vs. Farage in five years time.
Good thread for cis people like me to get some grasp of life for trans people in the US right now
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last mo.It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
Sun comic from a couple of years back. We do not get on.
Starmer - a cricket analogy: He was the stodgy opening batter in a one-day match, who's grafted hard to blunt the new ball bowling on a tricky wicket, but whose team now needs a big score to avoid defeat - and he just doesn't have the shots.
"Saying 'AI' is not the same as having a plan." Good critique of that Blair intervention.
Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlair putting on full display what is in many ways his special ability - to lay out a political argument grounded in his own view of global trends (globalisation in the 2000s, tech in the 2020s). But… institute.global/insights/pol...
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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So, I wrote a big feature for The Crick Magazine, about @nmoris.bsky.social's super-cool work on embryo models, and the ethical questions they raise. Read it here: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03... @crick.ac.uk
The missing four weeks
The events within a crucial four week period of human development have long eluded scientists. Stem cell models are finally revealing them – and raising new ethical questions.
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This is so much a continental European election result it’s almost funny. True Britain Democrats (PfE) 26% Ecology/Planet Action (G-EFA) 18% Christian Democrat Union (EPP) 17% Socialist Workers Revolutionary Party (S&D) 17% Europe Liberalism! (Renew) 16% Others 6%
They re-enacted Red Dawn and seized control of the state government
Are you an oncologist, caregiver, patient, or patient advocate? Take 10 minutes to help empower future patients to have the information they need for decision-making by filling out this survey: tinyurl.com/ywxmms4u #CommonSenseOncology #CancerCare
Show me what democracy looks like (this is what democracy looks like)
Katalin Halmai@eublogo.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)
In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app
Allister Heath Headline Generator
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"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed" - GK Chesterton
Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
Melissa Stewart@melissastewart.bsky.social · 7mo agoA YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
So, the Ashes has been utterly fucking miserable - turns out We Couldn't Still Win This, After All. However, @barneyronay.bsky.social's writing has been a bright light throughout the series. "A voice you only get to hear if you've been following the conversation" is just a perfect line. Read him:
Barney Ronay@barneyronay.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe sun also rises www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
