Ewan G

[Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer]

American football tends to be a test of two highly functional organizations to see which is even more efficient, like Walmart vs. Costco.

Soccer tends to be a tragic struggle against the malignity of random fate, like Serbia vs. the Ottoman Empire.

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: After two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday afternoon, one of the climbers appeared to propose to the other. https://t.co/ngG3jOeTBU

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@ReOpenChris Is there any human being alive today with less charisma than this guy? He's trying to say nice things, but I still feel like I am being fired by HR.

[Bryan Caplan @bryan_caplan]

"Europe explained for Americans."

Pretty good.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The issue isn't Starmer, per se, it's the fact that we all now know, whoever is PM, unless it's some far right leader with friendly tax policies for the ultra wealthy, they will be met by a barage of misinformation and relentless online attacks: accusations they support p**dophiles & r*pists, that they jail 12,000 innocent people every year for tweeting; and all the usual misleading, manipulative BS designed to exploit people's emotions.

This won't stop until they have installed the party they want. A party that will be focussed purely on optimising the affairs of its wealthy backers, and not on the working people and families of Britain.

[Vitorio @VitorioKripto]

I refuse to believe this is just a website.
No download. No app store. No install. You open a browser tab and suddenly you're wandering through hand drawn streets with Ghibli level vibes, delivering packages on a tiny little planet.
First person movement. Smooth WebGL rendering. A whole mood, built entirely with Three.js and running in your browser like it's nothing.
I've been clicking around for 20 minutes and I genuinely forgot it wasn't a real game.
I opened it expecting a tech demo. I closed it 30 minutes later feeling weirdly nostalgic for a place that doesn't exist.
The web can still surprise you.
Go see it for yourself:
👇👇👇

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@itvnews
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[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@ChShersh this really works. it's called the Hawthorne effect, people improve behaviour and are more productive when they know they are being observed

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

These LinkedIn emails are so valuable. How else would I discover such useful professional connections?

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

Look after your mates. Lose yourself in the moment. Fall asleep on the sofa. Put the kettle on when everyone wakes up. Warehouse Party Politics for #makerfield @AndyBurnhamGM 💊

[Nina Power @Nina_Power_]

You spend £30 on a mediocre burger, a coffee and water. Unbusy incomprehensible men pretend to be waiters.

You go to the toilet. The bathroom is a large, misshapen room with multiple cubicles catering to various identities. The toilets are dirty, because the elimination of sexes has created a tragedy of the urinary commons. People wash their hands furtively, the ritual profane, men next to women, weird, awkward.

There's a tube strike. You get the bus. You would have taken the bus anyway, but the bus is crowded. People block the door, the stairs and the walkway. Your teeth hurt. You drive past empty pubs. "At least she's trying" says the young man on the phone next to you.

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@dioscuri StumbleUpon was my pick, too. Such a wonderful portal into the old, esoteric, creative web. In 2026 it's actually sad to think about how the internet felt back then...

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@lukeakehurst Proper Northern Lad, Luke.

Embarassing.

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

The King is Risen.

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

Summer in the UK

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.

My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.

This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.

Hedgie🤗

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

A humanoid robot tumbles while dancing to Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’ and lies motionless before being dragged offstage, May 2026.

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP OH FFS

[Guido @cyberpionier]

After visiting and evaluating (for refurbishment) at least 300 Nuclear bunkers in North-West Europe (NLD, DE and UK) in the past 15 years, this is probably the most gorgeous example I can show you.

More pictures, pricing and estimated refurbishment costs 🧵👇

#bunkerlove

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@CharlieFBBaker1 Radio 4 World At One just opened with " It's Definitely Maybe for Andy Burham"

It's ALREADY happening!

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

@CharlieFBBaker1 with this post you are ushering in the summer of peak Burnham memes and vibes. 2026 summer of Gurnham. 💊

[Samplo Corvodina of Streatham @TreborRhurbarb]

A momentous day in British politics 🇬🇧