Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’
Technology
2025-12-30: Tech bros seem obsessed with Lord of The Rings. Perhaps they should read it.
2025-12-28
2025-12-27
Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.
Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-11-28
King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.
2025-11-05: 📚 Finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-26
The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?
2025-10-25
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-10-20: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2025
2025-09-10
The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.
2025-09-06
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
2025-08-29: This is an idea I’ve not seen before on the kind of site that suggests you write a letter …
2025-08-21: Join in the Archive Team and help save at-risk online content into the Wayback Machine
2025-08-17: The UK government wants to use 'advanced AI' to catch pre-crime
2025-08-10
Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot: This of course actually was a Black Mirror episode.
Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner: A lot of this makes me nervous.
2025-08-03: Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world This …
2025-08-03
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world: Open source technologies built by the community that solves real problems,
2025-08-02
Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music: Yet another reason.
2025-07-27
2025-07-26
2025-06-28: 📚 Finished listening to The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.