Dave Crossland

I think I posted this here a while ago but this is so insane to me

Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I remember Corbyn *gaining* 78 councillors in the 2018 local elections and the media calling it a catastrophe 🤣

Everyone loves this tweet, but it got it completely wrong. It is the sci-fi author — not the tech company — who is the true villain, for having put the story of the Torment Nexus into the training data.

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll. We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

This is batshit. The Greens had ZERO councillors in Waltham Forest. They just won 31 councillors - and have won control of the council!

Ask yourself why you never had about this candidate but you heard about so many Green candidates.

On billionaires, please read this by Cory Doctorow, summarizing Thomas Piketty's 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺.

he did everything American centrists want to do to the left flank, and it’s worked out precisely as anyone with two brain cells to rub together expected

There’s a real sense we’re just writing off the next three years now isn’t there. Starmer is going to try and limp on. The country doesn’t want him to. His party don’t really want him to but they’re worried it’ll result in a snap election. And even if there is a leadership battle now, it would seem absurd given the challenges we face. But that’s the problem isn’t it… all paths forward now seem absurd. Starmer staying in, a leadership battle, a general election. Absurd. A political crisis. The country is clearly fed up at this point. They’re giving Labour an almighty kicking in this election. But it seems we’ve got another three years of going through the motions. From watching the coverage overnight, Labour think the problem is they’ve not delivered fast enough. They believe they need to increase the speed of delivery in order to win over the electorate. They refuse to acknowledge that it may be their actions and policies that have driven this collapse in support. And so speeding up delivery, will actually have the opposite effect of what they hope. So I guess we’ll continue to pretend for 3 years.

Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣

NEW IN: Investor Marc Andreessen says “every big company is overstaffed by 2-4x and has been for decades” and AI is finally fixing it.

So Mythos was, indeed, not marketing hype. Remember this is a general purpose model that just happens to be good at finding exploits because good models are good at lots of things. Expect similar from OpenAI & Google. And from open models in 8 months. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind…

@jonoalford And, just curious... Have you ever had a customer or anyone in a client team request a vf?

@jonoalford I love to hear it! Please could you clarify what you mean by granularity, do you mean selecting a unique style that has no name, but that's dialed in to just what you want?

@jonoalford have you ever paid a retail font license for a vf? I heard it still very rare

Amazing section of Jane Goodall’s Wikipedia page

@jonoalford Appreciate the reply :) so to confirm, you like vf but you haven't paid a retail vf license before... How about libre fonts / Google Fonts, have you used vf when fees aren't an issue?

@davelab6 Nope, they’re too much of a liability E.g, we knew of somebody receiving an eye watering invoice from the font creators because they hit a certain limit. The agency that did the work was cowboy so don’t rule out them not paying the license. But yeah, we don’t use them generally

does instrument regret putting their brand font on google fonts...?

Nigel Farage has committed prosecutable election offences with this video under the Representation of the People Act 1983. The Act prohibits inducing voters through the threat of “temporal injury”, which includes material disadvantage such as the targeted imposition of government burdens. Threatening to specifically house illegal migrants in a constituency if it does not vote Reform is coercive and constitutes a criminal offence.