David Meyer

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.*

but no, that's ~piracy~
Who would want to be cowed into obsolescence?
Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social
"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...
Setting ourselves on fire, to own the French
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social
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."
I truly believe in ten years not a single person will admit in polite company to having supported Trump.

Honest to God I fully believe that
Business & tech press need to keep up with their credulity therapy sessions.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app
True to form, Meta says they will do something—in this case removing creep content—and it gets widely reported.

Meta doesn’t really do the thing, but gets the credit until researchers, activists, or journalists point it out. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Someone’s rattled
Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com
In joking about "Woke 1," progressives are making it clear they were always just virtue signaling
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)
I’m not like Bluesky or death but otoh I’m very done with Zuckerberg properties, X is hell, and maybe there’s just life after social media
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social
So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
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 official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch!

Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism.

They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work.

Buy the book:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Screenshot of email: Your YouTube Account will be disabled in 7 days
Bro I want off this ride. These people are demons.
Forbes @forbes.com
Clark approached Epstein after he had already been convicted for soliciting prostitution.
Looks like Apple Intelligence just activated in beta form on my EU iPhone?
the gaslighting over the pervert glasses is in a class of its own. They think we're idiots.

www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...
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...
zdnet.com

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.
Posting false information about election candidates is one of the last remaining forms of criminal libel in the UK, fwiw.

If your algorithm/AI is bad enough that it isn't immune to this kind of fuck up, it is not ready for deployment! Turn it the fuck off!
Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social
hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense
Trending on bluesky gives erroneous election result for Clacton.

want to email me? that will be david at dmeyer dot eu

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