Scott Thompson | Out of Office @somerandomnerd
Professional nerd. Media researcher. Retired twitterer. Excel mathemagician. Terrible guitarist. @Fintasm's husband. On Threads & @[email protected] somerandomnerd.net Threads Joined May 2008-
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The worst thing is how often they turn out to be right. (Which I guess is a bit like the Theuth & Thamus myth - complaining that literacy will make people stupid because they won't need to know anything if they can just read it in a book...)
trying to leave twitter
Everybody welcoming the decline of journalism has something to hide - invariably, throughout history, this is the case
Everybody welcoming the decline of journalism has something to hide - invariably, throughout history, this is the case
Remembering the good old days… #MyTwitterAnniversary
If @elllmilll doesn’t love this then I don’t know anything about anything anymore. (So good I just bought the magazine so I can read it properly…)
If @elllmilll doesn’t love this then I don’t know anything about anything anymore. (So good I just bought the magazine so I can read it properly…)
In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then turned it into one of the most mind-bending riffs on identity in the digital age I've ever heard.
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 13/
After a long time of trying to come up with a simple answer to the simple question of “what is television?”, I decided to go the long way around. somerandomnerd.net/blog/2022/12/1…
Define “sunk cost fallacy”
Pop songs don’t have key changes anymore. tedium.co/2022/11/09/the…
i like this analogy: musk is burning twitter at the same rate as bill and jimmy burnt banknotes on the on the isle of jura… /cc @johnhiggs @jonone100 @church_burn
i like this analogy: musk is burning twitter at the same rate as bill and jimmy burnt banknotes on the on the isle of jura… /cc @johnhiggs @jonone100 @church_burn
the conservative party are gifting themselves a do-over because they had a vote and then suffered buyers remorse when they didn't like the ouctcome. which. is very much what they got cross about anyone suggesting post brexit. maybe they should respect the will of the people?
Weird to think that someone out there actually wants the job.
The best thing the Government could do for growth would be to stop being interesting. I've lost years of productivity by being glued to the endless drama.
Does the next chancellor reverse these policies entirely? Or will they be a sort of Quasi-Kwarteng?
Sixty years ago today, the first Bond film and Beatles record came out. Just finished the Love & Let Die audiobook that explores those two British icons- v. highly recommended.
Sixty years ago today, the first Bond film and Beatles record came out. Just finished the Love & Let Die audiobook that explores those two British icons- v. highly recommended.
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/
@MorganBroadcast Charlotte, one thing I recommend when you get restored with a phone is to put a SIM PIN on. This means if they get the phone they can’t just put the SIM into another phone and pretend to be you. Default is usually 0000. Change in Settings -> Mobile Data -> SIM PIN.

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