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Nick Harkaway

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Book person. Wrong timeline. “All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain rain barkels.“ www.linktr.ee/harkaway He/him

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · Jul 13

I’m just going to say “MURDER…”

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 40m

Get thee behind me etc

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning good morning good morning. Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter just dropped into 710 inboxes, including our draft charter and a load of events to sign up to buttondown.com/society-of-h...

#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events

Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

It does seem like an oversight.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3h

Hindsight is 20-20, but I really think they should have taken Maxwell's silver hammer away before the trial.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3h

But what about accuracy -

*touches ear radio*

Oh.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

In today's least surprising news

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

Nightmare fuel.

“One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO”

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One in six bacterial infections now resistant to treatment, says WHO

Levels of antimicrobial resistance highest in south-east Asia and eastern Mediterranean

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 21h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 20h

British followers! My new novel comes out in March, and I'd love for you to read it on the cheap! This week only, you can pre-order it from Waterstones for barely more than a pumpkin spice latte! Just use the code OCTOBER25 for 25% off. Tell them Ava sent you. www.waterstones.com/book/the-hid...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20h

Blimey. That’s embarrassing.

Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 20h

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”

Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20h

I mean…

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20h

What is “froikeur“ and why is it more plausible than “froideur” you dismally stupid ghost of a paperclip?

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

It’s never been able to spell! :)

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

Yes, I did when I was a member, which is where this thread comes from, really: it was not great. The only thing I was able to find recently was pretty thin.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 22h

I was a little bit proud and a little bit ashamed of that one :)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 22h

I know, I’m just nerving myself up.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 22h

“All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain rain barkels.“

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Doug Mikawa-Mallery @dmikawamallery.bsky.social · 1d

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