David Burrows
@dburrows.bsky.social
multiple-model agnostic, writes code, mostly javascript/typescript, old school film, tv, sci-fi & comics nerd, ex-Yahoo!, currently at Starling Bank (opinions my own)
Weird to be on the “I don’t think it’s his best work” side of the opinion as PTA finally has his big moment, especially as I’ve been on his side since Hard Eight, even weirder to think Eddington was a better film when I hated everything else Ari Aster has done
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Weird to be on the “I don’t think it’s his best work” side of the opinion as PTA finally has his big moment, especially as I’ve been on his side since Hard Eight, even weirder to think Eddington was a better film when I hated everything else Ari Aster has done
Jay Kelly but it’s Sam Altman
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Jay Kelly but it’s Sam Altman
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
I wish Polymarket was legal in the UK because I would really enjoy making a lot of money by having the edge of “existing in the real world, not a massive delusion”
December 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I wish Polymarket was legal in the UK because I would really enjoy making a lot of money by having the edge of “existing in the real world, not a massive delusion”
Atari ST vibes
They can’t do this. Not now. I can’t know this exists. caligra.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Atari ST vibes
Chris Morris Voice:
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Chris Morris Voice:
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
Dear everyone living in my house, if a pen has run out THROW IT IN THE BIN
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dear everyone living in my house, if a pen has run out THROW IT IN THE BIN
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
If there’s any justice in this world she would be Time’s Person of the Year
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If there’s any justice in this world she would be Time’s Person of the Year
2027 is a long wait but will be nice to see the original version again 50 years later www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
2027 is a long wait but will be nice to see the original version again 50 years later www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
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Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
Re-reading Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head, which I loved when I first read it, he’s got a real anti-rock attitude which seems to create a blind spot for recognising how good some of The Beatles later work is. Like looking at late Picasso and wishing he was still doing more figurative work.
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Re-reading Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head, which I loved when I first read it, he’s got a real anti-rock attitude which seems to create a blind spot for recognising how good some of The Beatles later work is. Like looking at late Picasso and wishing he was still doing more figurative work.
Be the algorithm you want to see in the world youtu.be/PRYwbGgd3XQ?...
Join me and My 15 POUND RED CABBAGE
YouTube video by Gerald Stratford
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December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Be the algorithm you want to see in the world youtu.be/PRYwbGgd3XQ?...
Fiddling around with iOS apps and remembering that Xcode and the Apple’s iOS developer tools in general should be classed as abuse and prosecuted. Even a simple thing like reading error logs is torture.
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Fiddling around with iOS apps and remembering that Xcode and the Apple’s iOS developer tools in general should be classed as abuse and prosecuted. Even a simple thing like reading error logs is torture.
I’d like to enter this as evidence your honour bsky.app/profile/dbur...
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I’d like to enter this as evidence your honour bsky.app/profile/dbur...
Have thought this since I was 12, never understood why he ended up living in a trailer after the war, even though being a private detective looked pretty cool
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Have thought this since I was 12, never understood why he ended up living in a trailer after the war, even though being a private detective looked pretty cool
Reading one of those “100 things I learnt this year” and rapidly realising it’s actually a list of “100 things I wrote down from some books I read and have taken as fact even though with a quick Google you’d find out quite a few of them are debunked, and a lot of the others are just opinions”
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reading one of those “100 things I learnt this year” and rapidly realising it’s actually a list of “100 things I wrote down from some books I read and have taken as fact even though with a quick Google you’d find out quite a few of them are debunked, and a lot of the others are just opinions”
Sad to see Tom Stoppard go, as for many people I’m sure, seeing Rosencrantz & Guildenstern as a teenager showed me that theatre (and art in general) was a much bigger playing field than I’d realised, the lines really don’t exist, just step over them, that’s where the interesting stuff is.
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Sad to see Tom Stoppard go, as for many people I’m sure, seeing Rosencrantz & Guildenstern as a teenager showed me that theatre (and art in general) was a much bigger playing field than I’d realised, the lines really don’t exist, just step over them, that’s where the interesting stuff is.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy
November 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Private equityyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Do people who don’t want unlikeable characters in media have inner monologues? Or is it just “I love all the beautiful creatures including the rich guy who just parked across 2 disabled spaces”? They just spend all their time being likeable even in their minds? Is this like the visualisation thing?
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Do people who don’t want unlikeable characters in media have inner monologues? Or is it just “I love all the beautiful creatures including the rich guy who just parked across 2 disabled spaces”? They just spend all their time being likeable even in their minds? Is this like the visualisation thing?
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places: