Glenn Hall

Innovation Therapist.Technologist.I do awkward stuff. Sometime CTO @aardman.ex HP Labs. Property investor, into smart contracts, NFTs, #Mattereum

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@morse7mufc @robinmonotti particularly crap, for the special day it is, World Naturist Day! colder here and intermittent, pi33ing down here in Netherlands

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

They made a puppet version “We Are the World” parody back in the 1980s… and it looks like this.

Spitting Image went full savage with creepy rubber versions of all the 80s superstars singing “We’re Scared of the World” instead.

Peak British satire

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

My high school math teacher Mr D was known for one thing.

He reused the same exam questions every year. Just changed the numbers. Everyone knew it. He also made a very big deal of collecting every paper back after we reviewed our scores so nobody could pass them to the next year's class.

Of course some of my classmates got their hands on a full set of tests from the previous year.

Within a week everyone had a copy.

Before every exam we'd sit together and work through every problem on the old test until we could solve them in our sleep. When the real exam landed the numbers were different but the logic was identical.

We thought we were geniuses.

Years later I became a teacher myself. Ran into Mr D at a funeral.

Me: I have to confess something.

Me: We had a copy of your old tests the whole time.

Me: Full set. Every exam.

Him: (smirked)

Him: Who do you think leaked them?

Me: (stared at him)

Him: Kids won't study if a teacher tells them to.

Him: But if they think they're getting away with something?

Him: (shrugged)

Him: They study all night.

Me: (stood there)

Me: (replayed four years of feeling clever)

Me: (we were never clever)

Me: (he played us perfectly)

Me: (I became a teacher and I still got played)

Me: (Mr D was built different)

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@morse7mufc @Elsie_560 hard to beat when it's needed Andy!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The disappearance of Farage and the cancellation of public events is multi-fold

Financial

- The financial issues mean he is desperate to avoid scrutiny. He is already in fairly serious trouble for non disclosure and destroyed his own arguments and those promoted by the Party,
- he argued it was a gift, then for security that was not provided for hm - except it was and Yusuf confirmed it was cut by 75% in Sept 2025.
- Then t was a reward for Brexit - except he said it was a gift and not politically linked. To be fair not the brightest comment when you are accepting it at a time you are President of Reform , which was the Brexit Party and then magically decide to stand again as an MP after receiving it.
- In addition he managed to get the cash purchase of a £1.4million house mixed in to the equation. All agreed before the |£5milion gift Reform screamed, bought out of his I'm a Celebrity earning they brayed - until of course it was proven that the earnings were paid in to his cmpany to 'avod' some tax and that the money has never left that account
- this is not forgetting the allegation from Ben Habib of Farage receiving a million for throwing the 2019 election to Johnson. The response of a legal letter demanding an apology was essentially met by laughter and doubling down by Habib and ongoing silence with zero legal action from Farage
- to be fair it also resurrects the questions about the purchase of the 'girlfriends' house too

Political - external

- Farage dismissed Restore as nothing more than a one man band (there was no hint of irony nor personal recognition at the rime at all)
- Restore trounced Farage candidates in Great Yarmouth and are now in the byelection arena and have growing support.
- Farage does not like challenge and has never had a challenge to face which is seeking to remove votes from him - he has always been the deviant disrupting others.
- This is a massive Farage issue and one he cannot control - not being in control is something else Farage takes badly

Political internal

- There is obvious disquiet near the top of the Party.
- Two years on from the GE vetting is as poor as ever.
- 30p Lee as become the 4th Chairman inside 2 years..... in the somewhat crazy scenario of scoring a high number of local election seats and then removing the Chairman.
- There is conflict about policy direction. Yusuf struts around unelected trying to be more divisive and racist than Restore.
- Cunningham challenges this narrative stating it is costing votes at the elections and especially in London
- History shows that if Farage is challenged internally on Party direction he gets up and walks away

What is clear is that currently Farage is saving himself and appears happy to even sacrifice the byelection to do so. Ordinarily he would be screaming from rooftops and on every news channel.
Legal advice of low profile and for Gods sake keep your mouth shut?

[Khusboo Tayal @KhusbooT14835]

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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“It’s been very well received”

Trump claims Americans love the “settlement” he reached with his own administration, in which he’ll get nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to hand out to his allies and friends.

He has absolutely no shame. The corruption and stealing are now completely out in the open.

This is what a Banana Republic looks like.

[Felipe Demartini @namcios]

A Anthropic acabou de matar o Markdown.

Um engenheiro do Claude Code publicou um artigo ontem que pode decretar o início de uma nova era.

A tese é brutal: Markdown nunca foi o formato certo para comunicação entre humanos e IA. Era só o que tínhamos.

O próprio autor admite que nunca leu um arquivo Markdown gerado por IA com mais de 100 linhas até o fim.

Você também não lê. Eu também não.

A sacada:

Markdown assume que você vai ler do início ao fim.
HTML assume que você quer ver o que importa e mexer com as mãos.

Na prática:

→ 30 tickets de projeto viram kanban arrastável com colunas Now / Next / Later / Cut e botão de exportar
→ Lógica de rate limiting vira flowchart SVG com código inline, no lugar de 200 linhas de texto
→ Code review vira diff colorizado com grafos de dependência entre módulos
→ Parâmetros de animação, cores, regex, cron jobs ganham sliders com preview ao vivo
→ Specs de projeto viram 6 opções lado a lado com mockups interativos

Todos exemplos reais do artigo. Todos substituem um muro de texto por algo que você de fato abre e usa.

O trade-off existe: HTML é 2-4x mais lento para gerar. Mas com contexto de 1 milhão de tokens, esse custo sumiu.

E a parte que ninguém está discutindo: o HTML gerado não é só para humanos. O agente de verificação também lê. O spec deixou de ser documento e virou memória compartilhada entre agentes.

Markdown é relatório.
HTML é interface.

Relatórios são para ler.
Interfaces são para continuar o trabalho.

Se você usa IA em 2026 e ainda pede Markdown para tudo, você pode estar usando um smartphone como lanterna.

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@lady_valor_07 weights for a cuckoo clock

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@sweet_nector1 it is a toaster. a clever design that flips the slice of bread, by having a curve on the sides, such that it turned the toast over. My grandmother had a very small pan that was enough to cook scrambled egg. Her toaster, I still have, more than 60 years old, it still works

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@TheFigen_

[锐汉街评 @ruihanmeimei01]

天呐，中国的物流有多厉害！这也能发货~~Oh my god, how amazing China's logistics is! They can even deliver this~~

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@Matt_Pinner Plumb Bob

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@PeriklesGREAT Yes

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@elonmuskFatZo Real account, appreciate the reinvention of the little blue bird

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

Beautiful music

https://t.co/RUUaUcoSu7

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@StandUpForTrmp -85

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@elonmusk impressed! looking forward to the first 1000 Optimus units, helping the outstanding SpaceX team that you inspired, accelerating their work, making it even safer, creating a multiplanetary future. @SpaceX

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@EmilySm43 Did it today

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

@StandUpForTrmp Former..

[Glenn Hall @skirrid]

And I have deleted Facebook.