In an effort to be less addicted to vinted and doomscrolling, I’m trying to read more/anything - and have started the year with this brilliant recommendation from the fab @theverge.com team ! www.theverge.com/c/23771068/b...

brat truly knows no bounds

Brilliantly reported by my colleague @grahamjfraser.bsky.social, our story about Apple Intelligence making up BBC News app headlines when summarising notifications seems to be exactly the sort of thing Apple wanted to avoid with a slower, “thoughtful” approach to genAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, I’ve been obsessing about a quirk in the TikTok law: assuming no stay, Oracle is banned from hosting TT’s data after Jan 19. AWS, Google, etc. can’t host it either. So where does it go? well, it’s a ByteDance asset, and if they can’t keep it here... www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

This is not great

good morning to my new wee flurry of followers from a very chilly but very pretty glasgow 🌅❄️

Ads in ChatGPT? It's on the company's mind, as revealed by OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar in an interview with the FT this week. For @opinion.bsky.social, I break down why I think it's way too soon for such a move. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s

"OpenAI suspended access to its unreleased but highly anticipated video generation tool Sora on Tuesday after a small group of artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company’s treatment of creative professionals who test the tool with minimal compensation, acting as 'PR puppets.'"

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

this piece is SO good, and really shines a light on the strange aspirational beige-ness that’s come to define a lot of influencing

The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

I know looking at/sharing things Elon posts on X is literally part of my job but the first *five* posts on my For You feed were from him today

BookTok For Real www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

the human washing machine is finally here, everyone ! www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic...

all i want is to be thrown into a big pile of blåhaj

There are a ton of features in Bluesky that are brilliant but many still don’t know about them or use them. This new article by @theverge.com is a brilliant, simple manual and a must-read for the millions of new users arriving.

hiii to all lovely people following me 🥰👋 i haven’t posted anywhere in months but i’ll be trying to do so more here from now on. keeping my thoughts to myself is just too hard sorry.

we are so back

I am on threads at @livmcmahon if anyone would like to follow me and my weird, infrequent posts on yet another app

reconnecting with my Twitter Mutuals