Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Running the [insert]* has become an impossible job on.ft.com/4oE2cwk *BBC *ONS *British Library *country

I’m at a Martin Stephenson & the Daintees gig. The audience have an “outdoorsy 60-somethings” look.

It never stops. The endless grifting and crankery. theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...

This is an important point. Starmer could personally find a cure for cancer and also invent some as-yet-undiscovered economic magic wand - he'll still get the bark stripped off him all the same. He's *really* not handling his job well, but I'm not convinced that changing that would help him much.

Thinking of getting a distillation of this point as a tattoo.

We have a date for the enactment of the Renters’ Rights Act. Excellent news for millions of private tenants across the country.

Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...

Facing increasing pressure on the front lines, Kyiv is hoping that its European allies can quickly reach an agreement of billions of Euros in funding.

Yes, but it's not always (ahem) as simple as that: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/simplicity...

Mass-market Word Processors have been around for well over 30 years. The www is barely much younger. And yet there's no easy-to-use common standard or protocol for collaborative authoring yet. It's a real failure.

DON’T LET ELON GET HIS HANDS ON IT.

This “… no political motivations” is written from a point of ignorance about what fascism is perhaps?

Let us simply not check that figure after they stuck most of the BBC in the US behind a paywall a few months ago to increase revenue at the expense of British soft power and influence.

You never know, there might come a time when advances in facial recognition software will briefly be socially useful in cases for the prosecution.

This attack on the BBC has been a long time in the gestation.

I hear it’s the new rule that editors and board chairs resign whenever a journalist has been found to have edited a quote unfairly. This can only be good news, surely?

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

I've never understood this conception. All technological details aside, at its heart copyright as a concept protects the expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. LLMs here are no different from airport novelists, supermarket cola packages or Oasis thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Wonder which Tories at the top of the BBC Kemi Badenoch will get sacked next?

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

Wayne O'Rourke got 16 months in August 2024: incited violenceon X inc against Muslims & those protecting mosques He told police X paid him £1400 per month tweets. Called Musk a hero: "we wouldn't know what was going on" Unlawful tweets for which he went to jail remain on X platform today

It is, yes. And it won't.

I had this by @chrisdillow.bsky.social open in a tab, after @pauliewaulie.bsky.social‬ had mentioned it, and now I finally read it. It's from 2018, but as true now as when it was written: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/against-de...

“Why is the country so polarised?” asks #r4today as they introduce Michael Gove to discuss the topic.

IDK, if I wanted to make a case against 'DEI hires' I'd probably not get it made my an public school boy, or do it in a month where Randy Andy is making so many headlines. I'd probably not use someone who was part of a government that had Dominic Raab or Chris Grayling in the cabinet either.

Tesla is a meme stock & Musk is key to it remaining so, just as Kim Kardashian is key to the appeal of the Kardashians. So he's got a lot of bargaining power. This has less to do with car-making than with the economics of superstars. See eg Moshe Adler: pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers...

Sky / ITV merger on the cards... ISkyV? SkiTV? What's the betting on how many UK broadcasters are left by the end of the decade. BBC and one/two others?

If you want your day ruined, listen to this (the main part of the program is NOT about Rachel Reeves tax options. Mohamed El-Erian has some quite worrying-but-credible observations. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I can’t recommend the Minute Cryptic app highly enough. Today’s clue is my favourite kind.

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Thought about this post - from @chrisdillow.bsky.social so many times. We don’t get a consensus about what the public want from a synthesis of what they, or their advocates *say*. We get it when we see the outcomes after they’ve all had equal access to advocacy. open.substack.com/pub/chrisdil...

The campaign to keep private school fees exempt from VAT included encouraging parents to lie about their intention to move children to the state sector. Hardly surprising that almost none have done that bit.ly/41D35L9 some predictions were that 90,000 would be moved

Once again, with feeling: the “Labour right“ did not spend years “sabotaging Jeremy.” It turns out that they spent years shielding him from of the company of people who could’ve sabotaged him within weeks. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Labour MPs could stop thing about Farage and the far right’s media clout and instead defend the independence of the BBC or they could get on board the Telegraph’s stitch up.

Appalled to hear that the so-called "Trump insurrection", for which the House of Representatives voted to impeach him in January 2021, was actually a hoax created by a BBC documentary made in 2024 and transmitted back in time by woke scientists and the deep state

This first sentence hasn’t been completely true for more than thirty years.

That's not how it feels if you're living in a parallel universe, where people get their news via far-right YouTube, local Facebook groups & GBNews.

Superb work from @tomcalver.bsky.social and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com showing how the UK's upper-middle classes have born the brunt of our 20yr long productivity stagnation, whereas lower earners have been insulated from this via ongoing minimum wage hikes, compressing earnings across the spectrum.

Google 2003 - today: we can infer intent based on your searches to sell ads to you. Facebook: 2013 - today: we can infer your intent based on your friends, pages you like and what you look at and sell ads OpenAI: 2025 - ... : we can infer *your mind* based on your chats and will sell ads to you.

I’m writing something at the moment, and here is my draft conclusion. Am I on the right track?

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

I spent years thinking Alexa is creepy and should be avoided. Just set one up for my mum as a trial- it’s absolutely useless. Shockingly bad functionality.

“It’s not a problem in my experience but I believe it’s a problem nationally” is a very common indicator of issues pushed by media-owners, usually because they need to pull the government’s chain.

If politicians have fans, I was a Lisa Nandy fan. But she either doesn’t know what her job is, or she’s been ordered not to do it.

Anyone want to give me odds on him being out of the line of succession by the middle of next week? They keep hoping the writing on the wall doesn’t say what it obviously does say. It doesn’t do them any good, thankfully.