Pete Horne

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I’ve just done a meditation retreat and media detox by default; I’m amazed at observing my own response to news post an intense meditation process. Social media is literally the definition of “identifying with your own thoughts” - the first no no of mindfulness. Interesting to ponder…

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The slam poetry of the moment. A free hat at an Australian pub for the American superbowl.

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My prediction was correct - Samba TV reports that 37.1 million US households watched the game, a 5% decline from 2024. The halftime show featuring Kendrick Lamar drew 8.8 million U.S. households, down 4% from Usher's performance last year, per Advanced Television.

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I just watched the documentary “South Park - the end of obesity”.

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Does Apple _also_ (ie this happens with other platforms and other countries) giving the UK access to “private” Apple cloud data shake off complacency and remind us that crypto loses its crypto when it’s focused on consumer experience on consumer platforms? Not to mention trump coin. Crypto is not crypto anymore…

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How amazing is Emily Armstrong on the new Linkin Park album?!

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I predict declining Super Bowl ratings.

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I’ve just finished the latest episode of the Prime Target documentary.

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AI is 3D movies. Discuss…

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Here’s the untold superfish story… it was created by an Israeli firm, based in California, and the New York Times hit an FOI wall because it was “protected”. Lenovo were duped into distributing it on their PCs and because it was the old IBM PC business it still had govt supply contracts and better contacts than me. It was strongly suggested I give up my quest.

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It’s just gone 10 years since I discovered superfish. AMA https://www.horyzon.co/team/psh/lenovo.pdf

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Do you know me? No, but I’ve been looking for you. That last line almost made Dark Matter worth the time.

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AI is following the 90s open source revolution playbook where Netscape and Microsoft learnt they couldn’t control a software market and Enron learnt they couldn’t monopolise network capacity.

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If imaginary numbers in complex numbers create a number system that solves real problems; why is it imaginary?

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If air traffic control is run by “DEI incompetents”, then the air is not safe, ground all the planes, do a purge and a retrain, then let the planes fly. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. As well as the victims; my heart goes out to the air traffic controllers who are having trauma piled onto their trauma. Words matter.

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“They stole our data we generated from data we stole your honor”. Good luck with that.

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Sometimes a drone is just a drone.

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I wrote a client newsletter on Deepseek today. Irony with Chinese characteristics drips off this initiative - its brand is the old Twitter blue and its whale icon looks like an awkward Twitter bird copy, and the open source license of this Chinese endeavour is the MIT Open Source License. You can ask the app about the 47th American President inaugurated on the day of the R1 release but you can’t ask for an opinion about Winnie the Pooh. You can also ask about the mathematics of squares but you can’t ask about events in Tiananmen Square. And DeepSeek is owned by a hedge fund started by Liang Wenfeng and while I know nothing, I know an opportunity when I see one. Shorts on NVIDIA by the investors in DeepSeek wouldn’t surprise me and in fact not having shorts would be counter intuitive for a hedge fund. It all feels like it's a perfectly orchestrated X (formerly known as Twitter, and #103 on my app store popularity list) meme campaign to me.

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You can’t control an algorithm.

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Zero is not nothing, in fact it is quite an important something. Nothing however is nothing.

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