Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

"Don't show this recommendation again" | "Don't show any recommendations for a week". Of course there's no option to, you know, turn it off. Modern consumer operating systems, ladies and gentlemen.

My job title has the word 'director' in it. This is like a magnet for LinkedIn recruiters that seem to think I run the whole place. There's loads of us, it's like 'vice president'.

#F1 Logan Sargeant in for another year at Williams. No driver moves at all for 2024.

Thoughts to all affected.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/broadcom-lay-1300-vmware-employees-following-takeover-3957961

Read Doctorow's enshitification essay and it's very good. Describes so many things in tech. The latest of which is YouTube.

Sportscar racing is definitely having a sunshine period, the surge in manufacturer support due to Hypercar, the convergence of IMSA and FIA regs. But, they're fickle. They tend to walk away. Audi and Porsche in particular treat it like their plaything. LMP2/3 filled the gaps in the grid with a cost controlled formula. it's a shame to throw it away.

A superb Racecar Engineering deep dive of the Oreca 07, of LMP2 fame. Probably the most important class of endurance racing, they kept prototype racing alive while all the big manufacturers swanned in and out as they pleased. Dropped from WEC next year, they will only be at Le Mans. #FIAWEC #EnduranceRacing
https://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/rebellion-r1/

I first heard this version at uni in the 90s, and thought I imagined it. A kid in the next door room had it on vinyl and I remember thinking "what the hell is this?" Then I didn't hear it again for 20 years.

The 1986 rework of 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' is such an interesting example of a distinctive and timeless composition being made very, very of it's time. It sounds like Jan Hammer. A weird time capsule of the post-Police Sting dipshittery. I still like it, for all that.
https://youtu.be/8RlUMoWP-Mg

There's a cheapness in academia that sometimes gets right on my pip. They never want to pay for anything.

Taylor Swift features very prominently on my #SpotifyWrapped, as well as Sepultura. My eight year old (loves him some TayTay) has a lot to answer for.

Charlie Higson absolutely losing his shit as Johnny Nice Painter while Arabella Weir tries not to corpse is just fantastic. #black
https://youtu.be/phnUHcP6oXk

19F? This weather can kiss my arse.

There's a thing at Ferrari's site about it here: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/great-ferrari-innovations-the-f1-semi-automatic-gearbox

Here's Fernando Alonso having a go in a Supercar in 2022 at Albert Park, like he's never known anything else. I don't think he even blinks.
https://youtu.be/1f5QlfrODu8