Bryan Appleyard CBE
@BryanAppleyard
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Sunday Times writer, author. Interviewer of the Year, BPA, 2014. Three times Feature Writer of the Year. CBE 2019.
London/Norfolk
Joined February 2009
So, after tainted blood and sub-postmasters, what will be the next great British attempt to screw things up with fatal consequences and attempt to delay compensation until everybody is dead? My guess is shitty rivers, but there are so many other possibles.
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‘The future is hard but not impossible. We should free ourselves of the worship of the tech gods – Musk, Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg, etc – and their money. They are so blinded by their ingenuity that they know very little of value.’. Me on the media.
engelsbergideas.com
The old media has failed to rise to the challenge of tech, but we'll miss it when it's gone
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So do I.
@Climate_of_apes @danmiller999 @EliotJacobson I recommend you all to read Novacene by Jim Lovelock and @BryanAppleyard:.
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RT @EngelsbergIdeas: Elon Musk's new brain implant, Neuralink, has been sold as a way of helping people with various ailments and disabilit….
engelsbergideas.com
Elon Musk's new brain implant, Neuralink, has been sold as a way of helping people with various ailments and disabilities. But is he moving too fast?
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The post Office scndal, “reveals that a wall of obtuse legalism has been used to subdue anybody that cannot afford litigation - about 99% of the population I would guess.”.Me on how not to build bad stuff.
humanise.org
We're living through a quiet global catastrophe of soulless boring buildings. Join the campaign, launched by Heatherwick Studio, to make cities more human.
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RT @EngelsbergIdeas: Neuralink and Elon Musk's quest to own the future | @BryanAppleyard .
engelsbergideas.com
Elon Musk's new brain implant, Neuralink, has been sold as a way of helping people with various ailments and disabilities. But is he moving too fast?
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Thanks, Jordan.
@BryanAppleyard beat me and wrote this amazing book recently! Well done, about half way through today and it is a wonderful, unexpected discovery. Thanks!
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It’s Angela Rayner. Nothing spooky there.
Is it just me that finds this weirdly spooky?.
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Loving is the word.
With the @LAAutoShow underway, what lies ahead for #cars? #thisweekthosebooks has @TomStandage's riveting survey of how the automobile shaped our society; @BryanAppleyard's loving look at the significance of the automobile and 3 classic road books
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Honoured but you must be very tired.
@BryanAppleyard I’ve been reading your books for 30 years, so probably.
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Im a good way?.
@WorldAndScience Om goodness - this reminds me of @BryanAppleyard ‘s The Mind is wider than the Sky.
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They can’t help it, they have a primitive conception of freedom.
Thanks. It is a truly astonishing fact that Americans have killed more Americans than their enemies have in all the wars in American history. Even more astonishing is the fact that this changes nothing in America.
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‘To say that photography has lost its innocence – an innocence born of the photographic genius of Julia Margaret Cameron or Eugène Atget – is to wildly understate the issue.’. Me on war and photography in @spectator .
spectator.co.uk
This war is being fought with pictures more than words. The poignant shots, often selfies, of families, children, even babies, who were to become victims of Hamas butchery, the wailing mothers and...
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‘The robots known as banks, for example, have succeeded in bringing the world to its knees with appalling regularity.’. My review of David Runciman’s The Handover in @EngelsbergIdeas .
engelsbergideas.com
Can Thomas Hobbes save the modern world?
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‘For the former, Autumn Variations will be yet another occasion to despair at the colossal popularity of such proudly unimaginative, staunchly unoriginal and intellectually bereft music.’.Rachel Aroesti speaks truth to the power of Ed Sheeran.
theguardian.com
Plodding, genre-hopping songs all end up as unimaginative ballads, their dreary lyrics littered with gibberish – though Sheeran’s hooks remain strong on his second album this year
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I’m afraid I did.
@TheTimesBooks @BryanAppleyard Not the book I read! This is a laughable attack by someone affronted by Dennett’s atheism. Most of the book is about other topics. I wonder if he read those other bits.
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‘Any Utopia must be dystopian, for a life of rational harmony is the death of the soul.’.John Gray in The New Leviathans.
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Tucker Carlson is the only man in the who can make Trump look well dressed. @TuckerCarlson .@realDonaldTrump .@YSL .@PaulSmithDesign .Etc.
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