Tim Meade

@matthewdmarsden Sociopath FTFY

He is too much of a narcissist to do this.

@DuncanMcNab It pales compared to the Italian negroni.

America’s gift to the world (reminded by an accidental Bourdain TV moment) - the martini (gin, a splash of vermouth & stirred..for me served with a twist..). Chilly but never frigid..those aromatics need to mingle.

@anti_fr4gile @rorysutherland @Kpaxs I believe I've passed the age Of consciousness and righteous rage I found that just surviving was a noble fight. I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view, And life went on no matter who was wrong or right. (Billy Joel)

@Kpaxs “I’m at the stage in my life where I keep myself out of arguments. Even if you tell me 1+1=5, you are absolutely right. Enjoy” - Keanu Reeves

Intelligence is the ability to notice when winning the argument would make you less correct.

@r0ck3t23 Get a dog and walk it - you’ll talk pleasantly to strangers every day.

Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth. His son Saxon is autistic. Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants. You can get the same food delivered. You can call your friends over. You can eat better at home for half the price. So why go? Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’” A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question. We like being around people we’ll never know. Look at what we already built. Delivery apps so you never wait in line. Remote work so you never share an office. Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier. Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity. Every one paid off. Until it didn’t. Loneliness is now a public health emergency. Depression has doubled since the smartphone. The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history. We didn’t remove friction. We removed the thing friction was hiding. Now look at what’s coming. AI agents that handle your emails. AI companions that replace your conversations. AI assistants that make every human interaction optional. Same playbook. Same bet. Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers. We’re engineering out humans entirely. The coffee shop where nobody knows your name. The subway where no one speaks. The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again. Those aren’t failed connections. They’re the background radiation of belonging. We don’t just need people who know us. We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t. That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom. We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to. AI is about to finish the job. And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.

@ellymelly Interesting that the ABC considers them an electoral “threat”.

That might be the dumbest thing I've read in a long time, Peter. Did it occur to you that the identical spread of progressive politics - open borders, mass migration, massive taxes, the LGBT agenda, the war on men, 'BLM', and attacks on Western history - might trigger a UNIFIED REJECTION? This is the people of the Western world telling the left to bugger off.

@matthewdmarsden @anon_opin Reminiscent of how Twitter was going to collapse when Elon Musk got rid of most of the staff 🧐

@anon_opin Oh no.

Civil servant here. If Farage wins the next GE, he'll call us all back to the office 5 days a week. The CS will then be on the verge of collapse, as thousands of people will either retire immediately or quit, due to the removal of WFH. Cheap optics will meet reality.

@asherperlman @rorysutherland Writers’ Cleaning Service 😉

@matthewdmarsden Nevil Shute's In the Wet written in the early 1950s becoming ever more relevant - although he had the freedom of speech coming from Australia and Canada.

I have been saying for a while that Brits ( or former Brit’s in my case) in the USA will be crucial to the freedom of the people there because we can say what we want in the USA, when their voices will be suppressed more and more.

@thesundaysport @benonwine Tell me you’ve never been to Wolverhampton without telling me you’ve never been to Wolverhampton.

@benonwine Durham

In your opinion, which UK city is the most beautiful? I’ll start: York.

@Joey7Barton Russell Crowe and Richard E. Grant both in award winning form; Remi Malik not so much. Top marks for historical accuracy in showing how Robert H. Jackson failed to skewer Göring under examination; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe's concentrated line of questioning saving the day.

Nuremberg. Russell Crowe. Rami Malek. Richard E Grant. Michael Shannon. Top movie. 🍿

@IPhillips79 Paying tribute to Sidney Poitier on his death, Dame Patricia advised how SP arrived to film the scene and very generously sat with his back to the camera to give her screentime - as the star he was free to take whatever position he chose.

To Sir with Love - Patricia Routledge & Sidney Poitier (1967) Clinty (Patricia Routledge RIP) offers Mark (Sidney Poitier RIP) on his first day at work.