Stuart Fotheringham

How it’s started. How it’s going.

Fathers who show up have a huge impact on their daughters #GirlDad open.substack.com/pub/verityfoth…

@PRAGMATAgame Brilliant game, congrats on sales figures … they are well deserved

🎉 PRAGMATA has sold over 2 million copies worldwide! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for your support! Here's a special drawing from Diana to celebrate!✨ #PRAGMATA

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny: 1. It is a video. 2. You are wearing a jacket. 3. Then you aren’t. 4. Then you are again. Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends. A few corrections for you: Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.) We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing). We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing. There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event. Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale. We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now. We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story. I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now: ->110,000 additional operations ->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges ->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

@DreyfusJames Watched your Andrew Gold interview the other day, I know I’m late to that party, but you did very well. Entertaining and informative, as expected 😀

Account is restricted yet again. If you could drop a brief comment on my posts below, it apparently helps that algae-rhythm… Thanking you in advance.

@GreatBritishTT Good analysis, you’re right about GDP PPP per capita. What’s more shocking … this relies on the official number of capita — whereas in UK it’s well known that’s underreported. Indirect measures such as mobile phone SIMS, sewage, supermarket food consumption indicate maybe 90m

🚨The GDP Delusion🚨 The British Political and Media Class as well as the Electorate are broadly delusional We have to break this spell Check out the shocking data as well as a World Bank fuelled comparison tool Please comment and share gbtt.info/gdp-delusion.h…

@Ne_pas_couvrir Worth some consideration of modern observers of the same phenomenon “cultural demoralisation” today @TheCriticalDri2 @Nerdrotics @EchoChamYT

Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They propagandized the nation into accepting a fake world where businessmen are villains, criminals are the good-guys, small towns are sinister, military officers are proto-fascists, and work barely exists.

@tyminski_marek I double-dipped and bought it on PS5pro and Steam — cross-save please!

Lords of the Fallen has sold over 2.5 MILLION copies! As of end of February 2026, the game has officially broken even. Huge thanks to every player, supporter, and fan who made this possible. More to come – stay tuned!

@ShadePJ @geoffkeighley Same list as me, you have fine taste in games

@geoffkeighley Right now it’s all about Crimson Desert, but once it drops? There’s SO much more to look forward to

Which games have you most excited right now?

My constituency was once Liberal 1929–31 but Conservative through the rest of history until 2024, when Labour’s Sojan Joseph from Kerala, India became our MP. Voting to abolish 900 years of English right to jury trials, he shows how abhorrent Labour are when they’re in power. Classic Labour drone is also a champion of the authoritarian internet policies, he also voted against the “grooming gang” enquiry, for winter fuel cuts for pensioners, against opposition amendments to Border Security & Immigration for stricter caps and limiting “human rights” defences, etc How is he here? The Right vote was split, this was the result. Demonstrates there’s a chance that Labour could do better than expected at the next GE for same reason — although of course their vote could well be split by the Greens. The world is changing more quickly than it has in history, yet Labour remain the same but somehow worse than ever.

Here’s the list of the 304 MPs who voted to end the right to jury trials. All of them are Labour MPs. This is an affront to British justice. They have ripped the heart out of a constitutional principle. Shameful.

Psychology says the 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history — not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to self-regulate, problem-solve, and develop emotional calluses that modern comfort has made nearly impossible to grow. geediting.com/d-bt-psycholog…

A Redditor bought an Amazon return pallet for $100 and found 40 sealed Kingston Fury 16GB DDR5 RAM modules inside. At current retail prices of around $175–$205 per stick, the total value is approximately $7,000 to $8,000.

@emollick “Do not do the following…” should be in every image prompt. Beyond cliché now.

We need a moratorium on the following depictions of AI: gleaming white robots, floating blue holographic brains, glowing amber lines connecting a dark globe, Lawnmower Man style 1990s computer graphics, semitransparent screens floating in the air with vector art faces on them

@Krytopsy @oliemack Old enough that Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace were in reception of my game studio employer — arguably these were first QTE games You’re right, these LLMs are similar to this … 60 seconds of gameplay per prompt Won’t be long before more gameplay — I’ve already seen platformers

@oliemack @StooMonster Peak gaming 🙃

@oliemack Project Genie is very interesting demo, but gamification is years away … surely?! But even if it wasn’t putting the onus on the player to imagine the world and the game won’t work, you’ll still need a game maker to write the ultra-prompt that drives the game 🤷‍♂️

@oliemack It may be capable of idea generation now, maybe 60 second prototype … but as analogue consider how far video generation has come in three years. It’s not Genie today they’re pricing into U, RBLX, APP, TTWO, NYDOY, EA, SONY, MSFT it’s what it might be like in three years time.

@oliemack As an equity markets professional, I would say a synchronous change in a sector like this is news driven. Which either puts this in delayed Xbox/MSFT news, or Genie. I’m pretty sure what we’re seeing here in the real-time future pricing in of potential impact of Genie.

@oliemack Can this get more meta?

@N_X_G @RedGamingTech Your experience in corporate IT provides some great context, thus relevant analysis of the Sony patents — reminds me of what Microsoft claimed to be doing with the cloud on Xbox One, but this time working and for real. Hope @mooreslawisdead has you on again to talk about this

@StooMonster @RedGamingTech Thanks @StooMonster glad you enjoyed it.

Hey @RedGamingTech have you seen @n_x_g excellent video Database #33? Reckon MT has hit the nail on the head with his PlayStation 6 Future analysis, plus the real causes of AI bubble is worthwhile too youtu.be/7xXZAkPJENc?si…

@grok @tombitcoin @MarioNawfal Explains the breakthroughs in fusion @grok

Rapid AI integration could transform daily life: smarter assistants handling complex tasks, personalized medicine via genomics, autonomous vehicles becoming norm, and VR/AR reshaping work/education. Energy constraints might slow deployment, but breakthroughs in fusion or batteries could accelerate it. Expect disruptions in jobs, privacy, and ethics—exciting yet unpredictable.

ELON: "WE'LL HAVE MORE AI CHIPS THAN POWER TO RUN THEM" "The limiting factor for AI deployment is fundamentally electrical power. It's energy. We're seeing the rate of AI chip production increase exponentially, but the rate of electricity being brought online is 5% a year, max. It's clear that we're very soon, maybe even later this year, we'll be producing more chips than we can turn on." Source: @elonmusk