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Lindsay Clark

@datadictum.bsky.social

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Reporter @theregister.com covering enterprise applications, databases and analytics. Also, a bit of science here and there. Many former lives.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 8h

likewise. we put new doors on old carcasses. you can try and straighten everything up but that way madness lies.

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 10h

a black and white photo of a waterfall coming down a wall .

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13h

I can see it on airport bookshelft. "When all seems to be lost, meaning is found in mildew"

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13h

Hans Christian Alan Partridgeson.

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13h

"Everything gets damp and manky." You should pitch this as a spoof middlebrow novel.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 13h

indeed I was told the same. It's still out there in the wild though. I just read it in a report somone probably paid a lot of money for

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 14h

shall we not have "whilst" from now on? would that be ok with everyone?

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17h

About 2 months ago it was kinda edgy to call this a bubble and now...

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 17h

Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 1d

Near Portland? Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NES with a once-in-a-lifetime panel with the people who made it happen! We're hosting a panel on the actual 40th anniversary date with ex-Nintendo staff. Memories, photos, surprises and more! www.patreon.com/posts/nes-40...

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Now playing. A brilliant and groundbreaking LP. RIP D’Angelo
▶️🎧 spotify.link/DQSDmZr8sXb

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a black sweater looks up at something

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could shift this energy-sapping head cold so I can get back to my usual grumpy and tired self.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 2d

And, data centres in Ireland increasingly have to run with on-site fossil fuel generators, because their expansion has placed such massive pressure on our electricity network.