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George Kean Proudfoot

@pojmasta.bsky.social

Helping big orgs and scale-ups make smarter bets on products & technology with Loomery. Occasionally pick & make music 🤓🦅🧑‍🌾👋

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George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 3d ago

This seems to me like a massive lurking impact that will see big effects in 5-10 years+ It's also been coupled with a bunch of 'public information' / 'investor education' efforts that are have been much more consumed/acted upon by higher earners... bsky.app/profile/iron...

@ironeconomist.bsky.social · 4d ago

The biggest impact is a huge number of people salary sacrificing large amounts and then retiring early and it’s very hard to score this but people on 140k salary sacrificing 41k/year for 7 years suddenly see their pots are quite big in a few years!

George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine the temptation of the Wargame production team to have this cartoon as a bit of """misinformation""" propagated by the Russians in their scenario. High def footage of Gove's reaction would have clipped up real nice on the socials 😂 bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day]. [Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.] VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON: Prime Minister… CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]: Yes? [We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]: GOVE: Let me do it. CAMERON: For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life! GOVE: But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship... ...and shoot all the aliens. CAMERON: But you have no military training! GOVE: David I haven't told you this, but... I used to be a journalist. For The Times. [Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time]. GOVE: I wrote two articles about planes, David. I've got strong opinions about aliens. I know I can do this job. [Cut to a title card panel]: AND SO: [Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands]. [Ends]
George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the best history teachers - Mr Granath - would periodically be given the stage to give a lecture on whatever subject he fancied. He did a whole assembly on bricks once, and one on his favourite British boxers of the 1920s bsky.app/profile/andr...

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”

George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 4w ago

Gemini seems specifically bad for this - which is wild given Google's heritage and supposed founding ethos. You'd think they would have doubled down on LLM training approaches or additional features around the model that specifically mitigated it... but nah bsky.app/profile/timh...

Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 4w ago

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 4w ago

True. Revealed preferences: media attention, dinner party clout and an outside the tent identity. The price = the equity. It's a lot of money to pay for that, but you aren't destroying Anthropic/AI. Smart people with their hands on the wheel could do a lot more bsky.app/profile/toob...

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 4w ago

This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.

I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well. I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · last mo.

As per @financialtimes.com, Eldridge Capital Management Services (UK), majority shareholder: Chelsea FC chairman Todd Boehly, made a £75,000 donation to Reform UK in May of this year. Boehly has also donated at least $2 million to Donald Trump and MAGA Inc.

Company linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly donated to Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s party received total donations of more than £5mn in second quarter according to Electoral Commission figures

ft.com

George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Classic need to zoom in and do more research here than just look at the A/B test graphs. YES majority of users the majority of the time are on job: ‘help me pass the time’. Algo feed is great. BUT. There’s a rarer, high impact job: ‘Give me the latest on the thing I care about right now’

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When people complain about chronological (Following) versus algorithmic (For You) feeds, it pays to remember that revealed preferences are different from people’s stated preferences. We have overwhelming evidence that actual users prefer For You feeds not feeds limited to people they follow.

George Kean Proudfoot@pojmasta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Completely agree here. Related brain jams reinforced by media (old school & social): - places never change their trajectory - ‘this place is full’ - this place is being broken by people arriving uninvited (immigrant or non)

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*

Xhxxax@txomxs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ofcom should step in and do something about all the Guardian articles which leave you guessing for several borderline-illiterate paragraphs before confirming in passing that it is aimed at their Australian readers