dan barker
@danbarker
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Ozzy Osbourne, one of the most famous people in the world, probably the most famous person in metal music that there will ever be. Despite being the ‘Prince of Darkness’, with numerous high profile arguments and terrible behaviour in the past, being kicked out of his own band,…
🚨 BREAKING: Detailed list of all 44 people in Meta's Superintelligence team. — 50% from China — 75% have PhDs, 70% Researchers — 40% from OpenAI, 20% DeepMind, 15% Scale — 20% L8+ level — 75% 1st gen immigrants Each of these people are likely getting paid $10-$100M/yr.
Castleton, Hathersage, Eyam, Bakewell... on a quiet morning, much of the Peak District still looks like the picture here.
All I want is for England to look like this again.
My column on today’s milestone release of the first volume of the report into the Post office scandal. Warning: contains weapons-grade scumbags theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Marcus Willis is currently playing. Reminded that he had basically given up pro tennis in his mid 20s, coaching kids at Warwick Boat Club, until his girlfriend persuaded him to give it one last shot. He trained, got into Wimbledon when someone was injured, and ended up playing…
Jota’s mothers letter has just broke me shows how grateful he was out starboy we will forever look up to him our angle fly high jots
One of the reasons there are so many splinter groups and small parties is there is less need for a large party's infrastructure to handle communications. But one of the reasons these small parties seem to get into trouble is they overestimate their communications abilities.
🚨📝 NEW COLUMN The bullies in Westminster have lost their power (and that's a bad thing) The whips' tricks don't work any more - every MP is cultivating their own personal brand through social media It's making the country ungovernable
Palestine Action have essentially relaunched under the name ‘Yvette Cooper’. This reminds me a little of the time when the comedian Joe Lycett temporarily changed his name to ‘Hugo Boss’. (Taking others names is quite topical this week in general, with ‘Bob Vylan’ shooting to…
All I want is for England to look like this again.
A lovely pair of messages. Best wishes to @Dr_Eluned, and well done, @carlosalcaraz .
Does the Internet feel different today? Overnight @Cloudflare changed how AI crawlers scrape the Internet…Publishers & tech companies across the alphabet are on board—from ADWEEK to Ziff Davis… Welcome to default blocking & a new era of the Internet ➡️ nytimes.com/2025/07/01/tec……
Reminded that Mick Hucknall blocked me, a decade ago, for this.
The rumour spread by @snoozeactive that Mick Hucknall's torso resembles Sir Michael Caine is categorically untrue.
I've still never figured this out - it seems nobody really has.
disgusted by what's been said on stage at the world's biggest festival. no one should ever be subjected to the words "hello Glastonbury, we're The Script".