Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Covers digital sovereignty quite a lot these days. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66
This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
if people weren't clinging to the copyright system that the rich use to oppress them in the mistaken belief that it protects them, we could do things like pass laws mandating that ML training operations *publish the scans for the benefit of everyone.*
"Asked what kind of impact AI will have on their lives, 45 percent of respondents said it will have a negative affect on their careers, while an additional 40 percent opined that the US government should regulate AI" futurism.com/artificial-i...
Reform UK's Richard Tice says the UK should "celebrate" climate change.
"I think when it's a bit warm, let's enjoy it. And if it means that English wine and sparkling wine gets better and better, fantastic. That means we can take on the French."
A little astrophotography at our Breton holiday home last night, as fireworks went off somewhere in the distance (how that was allowed in such dry conditions, I do not know)
Saw a solitary bottlenose dolphin this afternoon just 30m or so off the beach in Erquy. Delightful but unusual - wondering if it might be a dolphin called Randy/Dony who likes to hang around people, usually on the south rather than north coast of Brittany.
It’s sad how old online articles often disappear, without a trace even on Wayback Machine. This link should lead to a piece I wrote 20 years ago, in which a T-Mobile UK exec admitted the company was “screwing” its customers on data roaming. My first significant piece. www.zdnet.com/communicatio...
My eight-year-old daughter Is now comfortably reading her own books, but I’m insisting on reading Wee Free Men to her, terrible attempts at a Scottish accent and all.
Don’t think I ever read the Tiffany Aching books before. Very happy to see that Pratchett’s poetic humanism is on full display.