Adam Roberts

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every dad has two jobs: supporting his family and researching world war II

the tech buzzword hype cycle plays out the same way every time. FIRST, a startup breaks out and VCs rush to fund it.

I've gone down a rabbit hole of reading about the life of Yellowstone wolf 21, who seems to have been the wolf equivalent of the Buddha crossed with Batman. In his entire life he never lost a fight & never killed a defeated enemy. What a legend.

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Sidechannel is maybe the most interesting thing happening in independent journalism and media right now. I highly recommend subscribing to any one of these eight excellent newsletters to get access to it. platformer.news/p/announcing-s…

@elle_hunt This is the only reason I have a degree or have remained employed youtube.com/watch?v=PicPkG…

Writers: what album do you put on in the hours before a hard deadline???????????????????

Is Superhuman bad and dumb and I shouldn’t use it? I can’t recall whether there’s been negative press since 2018 when I signed up on the waiting list and I’m too lazy to research. This is a non-ironic tweet (my first!)

Japan’s Tottori City has a mascot named Tottori-shi, a man with a chicken on his head.

The spot where @NASAPersevere began its journey on Mars now bears the name “Octavia E. Butler Landing." Groundbreaking author @OctaviaEButler is a perfect fit for this mission, as her main characters embody overcoming challenges. 📸: Ching-Ming Cheung

@robinsloan TRYING MY BEST A form of ther (common (also, bad) After an afternoon of trying, I audibly gasped when I saw a brief flash of green in the SHA. Hooked. (The word I was typing was 'therapy', obviously.)

@robinsloan Earlier today I decided I wanted to read a good mystery novel I had a vague memory of. So I searched my emails for “decagon house”, and found a newsletter from you from 2017(!!!!) Also mentioned in the newsletter:

@paulbrislen @damianchristie I have several email addresses using this formula because 16 years ago I thought it was clever - not getting other people's email (yet)

Tech support: My gmail address has a dot between my first and last night. I seem to recall many many years ago when I signed up for it, my name by itself wasn't available. Recently I've started receiving emails addressed without the dot, for a Damian who lives in the US. (1/2)

Watch this youtube.com/watch?v=cqKCx0… All for now, as you were

@robinsloan It really can't be good for the nation's famed level of modesty and humility

@robinsloan I always assumed using the All Blacks as the go-to metaphor for dominance was just a parochial Kiwi thing. Seeing KSR reach for it blew my mind!

😰 anxious + ☹️ frowning =