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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 · 32m

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

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 52m

Hans Christian Alan Partridgeson.

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

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

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 18h

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 · 21h

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

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

ALT: 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 · 1d

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.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

Most books don't need to be more than 300 pages. No maps. No elves.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

hidden dips

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

If there is an Owl Service, I suggest leaving immediately

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

Understanding the Present, rather. It's early here

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

correct

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 2d

I read Undering the Present a long time ago, and it made an impression on me. I've been meaning to go back to it.

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 3d

ah, the voice of my childhood. This was a good series BTW

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 3d

Big Yellow Taxi: Cab it Up!

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 4d

I played this game

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 5d

Can we all stop "driving efficiency" please? It is unedifying.

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 5d

@tanitatikaram.bsky.social 👀

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 5d

I absolutely did not ever understand the appeal of Bananarama

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 6d

Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 6d

He'll always be PM in the Unicorn Kingdom www.theregister.com/2023/04/25/u...

UK, the Unicorn Kingdom where gold's paid for AI fairy dust

Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 6d

Far be it from me to offer advice to someone in his position, but if my his grandparents were my grandparents, I'm not sure I would wear a black shirt to a photo op.

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...