Sam Tuke

“She started by laying out an array of pornographic images across his desk.” Inspiring leadership: a woman tackling a dodged and buried issue with practicality. Solving for, not moralizing. Production of and mass exposure to degrading #porn causes harm. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Yes! Enable Dumbphone mode via a hardware switch: kill distractions and dopamine farming in an instant. That huge innovation plus the revolutionary supply chain they've developed over years. Amazing brand and product that's leading by example.

@Fairphone But you're still not on @bluesky ? 🤔😵

It’s time for us to say goodbye to X. But before we go, we wanted to thank our community here for all the support over the years. Follow our other social channels for the latest at Fairphone, or sign up to our newsletters: For support queries, visit support.fairphone.com 💚

Two of the most reliable forecasters of past financial crises now put the odds of a 2008-level collapse in the US and other G7 countries at 65% within 5 years. Not a fringe take. Worth hedging against? archive.ph/74kX2 #MacroEconomics #FinancialCrisis #RayDalio

Latest #ChatGPT update on Android removes speech timer, making #VoiceToText even worse. This keyboard app with 1k users and no reviews is an ideal fix. Faster than #Whisper. No time limit. Works in any app. Uses #Grok API. $3 lifetime & #OpenSource play.google.com/store/apps/det…

"Watch a pride of lions hunting. They don't use language but are coordinating intelligently. If language is not fundamental to intelligent behaviour then pursuit of #AGI via language processing is hopeless" - nice illustration of the #EmbodimentProblem archive.ph/wlNDD

Sad: Android has a *hardcoded* 256KB clipboard limit while iPhones are constrained only by memory. $1k+ Android phones with 12GB RAM can't copy/paste long articles, but years old iPhones can copy megabytes. 90s Throwback. Open ecosystem, you say? #Android #iPhone #FreeYourAndroid

There’s something out there, and it ain’t just hyphens. Love the smell of dead extraneous punctuation in the morning. #gpt I'm watching you

Shared a new AI prompt with the Lightmeter team: Immunity to Change Mapping. Helps surface why you’re stuck. I used it to unpack why I sometimes pick slower paths even when faster ones are clear. It came down to fear and identity. lightmeter.notion.site/Immunity-to-ch… #FounderLife #SelfWork

TIL: mirror life, made from right handed proteins and left handed sugars could coexist on earth as an alien ecosystem. Touchable but biologically invisible. In Thalidomide: one mirror version of the drug healed; the other harmed. Pasteur discovered via light bending left vs right

Convenient, well designed tool for surfacing your personal #values in 20 minutes. I recommend setting a timer. Focus on what you /choose/, for yourself and for others. Not what life has chosen for you: think2perform.com/values/ #coaching

“The only way to build a moat is to keep shipping. Product velocity is everything - Al is moving so quickly that people always want the latest, greatest product. And shipping supercharges distribution.”

Cool construction creativity and an example of aging populations driving unexpected innovation nytimes.com/2025/04/08/wor… #3DPrinting #architecture

Today, the EU launches its new #Preparedness Strategy. “Ready for anything” — this must be our new European way of life. Our motto and #hashtag.

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice #AchievableGoals theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

This way my album of the year. Just noticed it was for Pitchfork too pitchfork.com/features/lists…

@pjotrek_b Love it. Trademark it!

@samtuke A related question: Is the term #IntelligentArtificials already a thing? Shortcut "IA" for currently labeled AI. Or would future AI leaders decide "I-A" to be relate-able to "donkey" and therefore violating ToS(DR😉)? ;)

As the adoption of GenAI increases and models get smarter, the value of human intelligence is decreasing daily. All my async negotiations are now probably empowered by #GPT or #Claude on both sides. Whoever brings more human smarts, has a devalued advantage Vs themselves in 2020

@OpenAI All those m-dashes—looks like this announcement got some help from ChatGPT 😁

Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies. The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman. Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements. As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle. This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services. All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.

Founder-led marketing FTW!

I'm speaking at @BerlinMotionLab on Feb 11! Theme: early stage startup sales & pivoting. I love the venue: it's a manufacturing co-working and hackerspace that's been home to some of my best friends' startups, incl. Bearcover & @truemetricsio eventbrite.co.uk/e/fireside-cha…