Markham Nolan ☘️
@markhamnolan.com
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Worked at NOAN, Storyful, CBS News, WWE & more
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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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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.
Normally I'd assume this little detail was intentional subtext but with this crowd, you can never be sure that it wasn't just an idiotic oversight
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Normally I'd assume this little detail was intentional subtext but with this crowd, you can never be sure that it wasn't just an idiotic oversight
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...
‘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
As a media trainer, if you’re not a strategic advisor, what is your worth, exactly? If you are not coaching for spin, what are you doing? Also, podcasters have been doing disclaimers regularly for years. @caseynewton.bsky.social & @kevinroose.com do it every week on Hard Fork.
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
As a media trainer, if you’re not a strategic advisor, what is your worth, exactly? If you are not coaching for spin, what are you doing? Also, podcasters have been doing disclaimers regularly for years. @caseynewton.bsky.social & @kevinroose.com do it every week on Hard Fork.
Rough day down on the bay
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Rough day down on the bay
Holy Moly, the 8yo is current the top fundraiser in Ireland for the MS readathon: www.msreadathon.ie/fundraisers/...
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Holy Moly, the 8yo is current the top fundraiser in Ireland for the MS readathon: www.msreadathon.ie/fundraisers/...
Even aside from the cruelty of it, the suffering it will cause, shutting down SNAP in the US has significant economic consequences
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Even aside from the cruelty of it, the suffering it will cause, shutting down SNAP in the US has significant economic consequences
Eflow scam messages after the bank holiday. Smart. Don’t get fooled.
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Eflow scam messages after the bank holiday. Smart. Don’t get fooled.
My 5yo appears to be writing rules like a mafia boss
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My 5yo appears to be writing rules like a mafia boss
14 years ago today. The amazing duality of American life.
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
14 years ago today. The amazing duality of American life.
I find it so baffling that a new leader like Bari Weiss would be allowed by her own team send such a tone deaf all-hands message. Even a quick audience sense check with AI shows it would bomb. Mine: claude.ai/chat/c3d2884...
October 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I find it so baffling that a new leader like Bari Weiss would be allowed by her own team send such a tone deaf all-hands message. Even a quick audience sense check with AI shows it would bomb. Mine: claude.ai/chat/c3d2884...
I asked Claude to assess her memo from a strategic comms standpoint and.... I mean this would have taken her ten seconds.
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I asked Claude to assess her memo from a strategic comms standpoint and.... I mean this would have taken her ten seconds.
A lot of truth in this. Especially this chunk here.
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A lot of truth in this. Especially this chunk here.
50 knots sustained wind speed at the Fastnet is chunky
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
50 knots sustained wind speed at the Fastnet is chunky
Killiney Bay, yesterday. Few better stretches than this.
September 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Killiney Bay, yesterday. Few better stretches than this.
60+ nautical miles of spread in the Figaro fleet right now. Irishman @tomdolanskipper.bsky.social making a bold move west to find wind. Check in in the morning to see if it paid off…
September 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
60+ nautical miles of spread in the Figaro fleet right now. Irishman @tomdolanskipper.bsky.social making a bold move west to find wind. Check in in the morning to see if it paid off…
Double rainbow over Dun Laoghaire just now.
September 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Double rainbow over Dun Laoghaire just now.
No surprise, given the current strategic dichotomy between east and west, that China is seeking advice on AI risk while the White House is purely rushing headlong into an arms race.
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
No surprise, given the current strategic dichotomy between east and west, that China is seeking advice on AI risk while the White House is purely rushing headlong into an arms race.
Dun laoghaire yield
September 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dun laoghaire yield
This is what we’re all up against in the war for attention. Netflix gathering probably well north of a trillion data points a day by now on user behavior, attention usage, etc. TikTok probably more so, same for YouTube, other platforms. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
September 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is what we’re all up against in the war for attention. Netflix gathering probably well north of a trillion data points a day by now on user behavior, attention usage, etc. TikTok probably more so, same for YouTube, other platforms. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
A clear window into chaos and incompetence.
If you ever needed an example of feckless narcissism masquerading as ’building in public’ (not that there’s any shortage of that), this was one.
If you ever needed an example of feckless narcissism masquerading as ’building in public’ (not that there’s any shortage of that), this was one.
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A clear window into chaos and incompetence.
If you ever needed an example of feckless narcissism masquerading as ’building in public’ (not that there’s any shortage of that), this was one.
If you ever needed an example of feckless narcissism masquerading as ’building in public’ (not that there’s any shortage of that), this was one.