Markham Nolan ☘️
@markhamnolan.com
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Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more
‘Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee’
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Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more
‘Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee’
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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
Reposted by Markham Nolan ☘️
The Financial Times finally covers the Network State cult.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Financial Times finally covers the Network State cult.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
Is this tech fascism?
"I mean,we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities...and if you're not into that you shouldn't move there," says Peter Thiel protégé Patri Friedman.
Just loved Parr’s work. He had this way of poking fun at public absurdity with his camera, without ever exploiting or punching down - he remained kind and empathetic and whimsical. This is the closest I ever got to emulating him. Will spend the rest of my life trying.
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just loved Parr’s work. He had this way of poking fun at public absurdity with his camera, without ever exploiting or punching down - he remained kind and empathetic and whimsical. This is the closest I ever got to emulating him. Will spend the rest of my life trying.
Well, this is awfully sad news.
Martin Parr, legendary photographer, has died.
www.instagram.com/p/DR9mbjtjEj...
Martin Parr, legendary photographer, has died.
www.instagram.com/p/DR9mbjtjEj...
Martin Parr on Instagram: "It is with great sadness that we announce that Martin Parr (1952-2025) died yesterday at home in Bristol.
He is survived by his wife Susie, his daughter Ellen, his sister ...
34K likes, 3,182 comments - martinparrstudio on December 7, 2025: "It is with great sadness that we announce that Martin Parr (1952-2025) died yesterday at home in Bristol.
He is survived by his wif...
www.instagram.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Well, this is awfully sad news.
Martin Parr, legendary photographer, has died.
www.instagram.com/p/DR9mbjtjEj...
Martin Parr, legendary photographer, has died.
www.instagram.com/p/DR9mbjtjEj...
Fascinating deck from Matthew Ball on Onlyfans’ success www.matthewball.co/all/onlyfans...
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A quick briefing on OnlyFans in 2025, the UK’s most successful start-up since DeepMind
www.matthewball.co
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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The American mind cannot comprehend, etc
Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 62% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 80% at 06:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 30% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 9% of demand was met by imports.
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The American mind cannot comprehend, etc
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A closer look at yesterday's all-time high for wind power:
- occurred during the Friday morning peak
- 4671MW, or about 75% of electricity demand at the time
- finally beats the 4629MW seen in March 2024
A green day for all the tellies and kettles during the Toy Show! 🪀
#SpeirGorm #LateLateToyShow
- occurred during the Friday morning peak
- 4671MW, or about 75% of electricity demand at the time
- finally beats the 4629MW seen in March 2024
A green day for all the tellies and kettles during the Toy Show! 🪀
#SpeirGorm #LateLateToyShow
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A closer look at yesterday's all-time high for wind power:
- occurred during the Friday morning peak
- 4671MW, or about 75% of electricity demand at the time
- finally beats the 4629MW seen in March 2024
A green day for all the tellies and kettles during the Toy Show! 🪀
#SpeirGorm #LateLateToyShow
- occurred during the Friday morning peak
- 4671MW, or about 75% of electricity demand at the time
- finally beats the 4629MW seen in March 2024
A green day for all the tellies and kettles during the Toy Show! 🪀
#SpeirGorm #LateLateToyShow
Huge kudos to @quoteinvestigator.com - possibly my new favourite website.
"The single biggest problem in communications is the illusion that is has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw?
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
The problem with your favourite quote — Markham Nolan
The single biggest problem with your favourite quote is the illusion that it has taken place.
markhamnolan.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Huge kudos to @quoteinvestigator.com - possibly my new favourite website.
"The single biggest problem in communications is the illusion that is has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw?
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
The problem with your favourite quote — Markham Nolan
The single biggest problem with your favourite quote is the illusion that it has taken place.
markhamnolan.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"The single biggest problem in communications is the illusion that is has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw?
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on" - Mark Twain?
Neither of these quotes ever happened.
markhamnolan.com/strategy/the...
She’s at 25 books now
Update on the 8yo’s MS Readathon fundraising:
19 books read
€1,216 raised (2nd highest in Ireland!)
37 generous donors - thank you!
www.msreadathon.ie/fundraisers/...
19 books read
€1,216 raised (2nd highest in Ireland!)
37 generous donors - thank you!
www.msreadathon.ie/fundraisers/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
She’s at 25 books now
Well now, there are a few of us to whom this concept is pretty familiar…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood, etc
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood, etc
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Well now, there are a few of us to whom this concept is pretty familiar…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood, etc
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood, etc
The money that flows to these political influencers js really wild. Watched the cash roll in during the TPUSA Charlie Kirk memorial, it was quite astounding.
1. Candace Owens makes millions of dollars from her show/media company (at least $9 million a year by my analysis and likely more).
Every day her fans are generous with her during her YouTube lives, but on days where things get particularly hot, they really flood her with money.
Every day her fans are generous with her during her YouTube lives, but on days where things get particularly hot, they really flood her with money.
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The money that flows to these political influencers js really wild. Watched the cash roll in during the TPUSA Charlie Kirk memorial, it was quite astounding.
This borders on predatory behaviour, frankly, and it's been brewing for a decade. @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social back in 2018: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This borders on predatory behaviour, frankly, and it's been brewing for a decade. @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social back in 2018: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Reminder that the colonists who founded America struck upon the genius idea to import the worst available white Europeans over to populate the colonies and toil in the fields, literal white trash, expecting the work to ‘purify’ them. Worked out great.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reminder that the colonists who founded America struck upon the genius idea to import the worst available white Europeans over to populate the colonies and toil in the fields, literal white trash, expecting the work to ‘purify’ them. Worked out great.
Authenticity is like sand. It feels like the more aggressively people grab it the more it's likely to slip through their fingers.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Authenticity is like sand. It feels like the more aggressively people grab it the more it's likely to slip through their fingers.
From the lyrical human (@rusty.todayintabs.com) that brought you the wonderful crypto-madness-as-beanie-babies explainer (todayintabs.substack.com/p/unstable) it's time for the offputting AI-madness-as-bottled-urine explainer:
(todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory)
(todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory)
Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory
Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.
todayintabs.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
From the lyrical human (@rusty.todayintabs.com) that brought you the wonderful crypto-madness-as-beanie-babies explainer (todayintabs.substack.com/p/unstable) it's time for the offputting AI-madness-as-bottled-urine explainer:
(todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory)
(todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory)
Writing books with AI, unless an enormous, time-consuming amount of care is taken and structure rigorously, humanly applied, doesn’t yield good results. I gave it up very quickly: markhamnolan.substack.com/p/i-started-...
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Writing books with AI, unless an enormous, time-consuming amount of care is taken and structure rigorously, humanly applied, doesn’t yield good results. I gave it up very quickly: markhamnolan.substack.com/p/i-started-...
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
I would love to get a printout of the mental reasoning someone goes through to decide ‘Yeah, AI-generated LinkedIn replies are the way to go’
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I would love to get a printout of the mental reasoning someone goes through to decide ‘Yeah, AI-generated LinkedIn replies are the way to go’
First time I've seen a geo-restriction for content based on age.
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
First time I've seen a geo-restriction for content based on age.
Energy is the big hurdle for AI scaling. We csnt hook it up fast enough. open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
November 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Energy is the big hurdle for AI scaling. We csnt hook it up fast enough. open.substack.com/pub/exponent...
Cycling in general is only just waking up to its commercial potential. Hopefully it can find a model to do it without destroying all the things that make it great
Can we expect to see a ‘Team Cav’ at the Tour de France in the future?
Mark Cavendish hints at creating own pro cycling team in future “that is more along the lines of other sports” like Formula 1, claiming riders “aren’t doing enough to make money in their own right”
“There are revenue streams that aren’t being properly utilised,” the retired British sprinter said in a recent interview discussing pro cycling’s business model
road.cc
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Cycling in general is only just waking up to its commercial potential. Hopefully it can find a model to do it without destroying all the things that make it great
‘migrants & their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands’ said the man whose great-grandparents fled tsarist Russia
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
‘migrants & their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands’ said the man whose great-grandparents fled tsarist Russia
The irony is, of course, that shooting someone in the street is one of the most uniquely American things you can possibly do.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The irony is, of course, that shooting someone in the street is one of the most uniquely American things you can possibly do.