Cyril

Don’t Die x Do Flourish. Long ethics; short expedience. Views are fervently argued and provisionally held. Oxford | Edinburgh

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

Ideal culture in this and the next tweet.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

For this work you must be diligent, comfortable with good faith disagreement, and if possible a good writer. A good colleague offers earnest and direct criticism, rather than agrees for the sake of agreeing.

7/n

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@lfg_uk Hey @MartinSLewis — you may want to see this and weigh its impact on consumers

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A headline that one would expect from China

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban

[@thetimes]

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

@Aella_Girl “Have you thought of any other ways to do research and make money” is such a wonderful faux pas. Except for a few fields, such thoughts are only to be whispered, lest you be thought of as a quack, traitor, etc.

It’s a shame; it makes research worse and researchers poorer

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@s8mb @jujulemons Being here, it certainly feels like Edinburgh has been overlooked for a while. Brilliant and talented scene, just a little more remote

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Propose the legislation, subject to the usual voting, deliberation, and amendments. This sort of posturing is ridiculous.

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

🚨 Tech companies like Apple and Google have three months.

Activate safeguards on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children or we will bring forward legislation to force you to do so.

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@Fremond_ Not bad, but not quite round enough. This is the square to Cybetruck’s triangle.

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@NishantBalepur @rachelrudinger Aaaand this explains one of the puzzles I’ve been wrestling with. Need to test it on my question set, thanks!

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@Fremond_ I saw my network offering “priority” and thought about leaving because they had downgraded everybody else. I guess it’s a national issue.

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@jujulemons Bets, lag, and vibes.

Assume we really are the future frontier of AI given all recent related news.

1) It’s uncertain

2) People update slowly from old habits (go to US)

3) US has other incentives

All that and “top talent” is a bit too vague for rich analysis

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

@s8mb @jo3hill Britain has a first-mover disadvantage.

We invented modernity and built institutions to run it. But everyone else upgraded. We kept: Civil Service from 1854; discretionary planning from 1947; a vague constitution, so every norm is contestable.

No empowerment, no consequences.

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

There are many obvious ones but “the world is too loud” is v true. I seem to be one of the few people sensitive to it.

There are high quality, discrete earplugs to take the edge off without losing sound quality. I highly recommend them.

Church, restaurant, bar, all too loud

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

“We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.”

Of course, Labour could consider being the party of “making working people well-off”.

Now that would be quite the mission. Growth, anyone?

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Our party has suffered a historic defeat.

Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.

What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.

The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.

We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.

Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.

Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.

Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.

In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer. 

We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.

The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism. 

Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.

For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.

But we have the chance to fix this. 

1/2

[Cyril @cyrilnotes]

It’ll take another couple of years, perhaps. Video games will likely crack this first. Video is great; generating underlying assets along the way so that video can be reliably edited at any given moment is what’s missing.

The convergence of the right tech will happen, for sure

[Marko Slavnic @Markoslavnic]

The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your story!

Made in @runwayml in a few hours and a handful of gens.

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@SydSteyerhart It’ll be a cash cow for 5 — 10 years. Rockstar will be ok

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@LexnLin Didn’t expect it. This guy 16?!

Maaaan, it’s hard to beat the generativity of a smart kid that is doing it for the love of the game

Play > “Work” so many times

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@deanwball I will almost certainly buy this

And I’d be happy to edit for the sheer love of the game tbh

Good luck!

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@caaptusss Astro Empires, but 2026?

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@pmarca 👀

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How many people on this list are visibly living as if they believe there’s a single or double digit chance that extinction about to happen?

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… Which are downstream of taste (design, management) and sense (technical, physical).

Generalists are typically generalists because they have developed one domain of taste and one domain of sense.

[Oliver Habryka @ohabryka]

Ok, guys, hear me out. There are exactly 4 skills. If you master these, you have mastered everything. Learning a new one really sucks though.

(Things I learned from trying to run an organization where everyone is a generalist)

https://t.co/abXL42RRPT

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@AnnaLeptikon Yes, I always understood based to be adjacent to concepts like “punk”… including that it became a self-defeating aesthetic in its own right