@gruber.foo surprised not to see a reference to this in your starred post about Meta’s similar failings daringfireball.net/2019/08/siri... would also add that the “lay off the whole team who blew the whistle” was Apple’s stance too

i like the vibes but do feel that sparring with the regime in private and toadying in public is exactly the wrong way to go

still find it inordinately funny every time I put a sausage roll on a BNPL account

The Green Party’s pivot from environmentalism to class politics in action: a demand to “prevent British holiday makers from being hit by jet fuel shortages”

I really thought there was gonna be something weird about the dog kennels. I really, really thought that

same

absolutely nothing so infuriating in modern consumer society as when two companies each agree something isn't working as it should, each blame each other, and each insist you act as the go-between

this story is literally CMOT Dibbler going "named fish is extra" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the government is proposing to make it mandatory to have at least two staircases and two lifts in every new residential building over six storeys.

happy fifth birthday to my longest outstanding kickstarter project, estimated delivery April 2022

This is a good bruise to punch because in my experience people don’t know MPs are paid by twitter & are fucking furious when they find out

he’s given up on opening the strait and is trying to get Ukraine to surrender again because he thinks that will count as a win

AI companies have been 7% of all London office lets, by floorspace, since 2025, according to Knight Frank. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a hill – mound – i will die on is that i'm not going to play a mobile game that requires me to turn to landscape mode. not happening

Choice paralysis. Anyone taken a family of four to Lisbon and had an Airbnb they’d write home about?

Good worked example of how substack’s roach motel works in practice, and why I don’t begrudge people who won’t move their businesses but do advise people against building new ones on the platform

Received my first local election leaflet, for Reform Newham. I don’t live in Newham.

What’s the current state of the art for long-term - months - energy storage? “Renewables plus battery” risks breaking bad if you have a still month over winter, right?

immediate reaction on here seems to be to mock the typical man for being obsessed with big machines but there's only one inarguable question of fact there and it's not one where the man are doing poorly

every time I see Al Carns mentioned I feel like when Dawn turned up in BTVS and everyone acted like Buffy had always had a sister

Britain's big cities are not very dense. But why? And where should they be looking to build upwards? The answer lies in the postwar housing (blue) built in "collars" around the big city centres. This is very low density + should be the priority for densification. Quick thread:

periodically get so annoyed at undergraduate me. why couldn’t that dipshit have had 20 years of accumulated knowledge and context before taking all his courses?!! I'd be SO much better at it than he was

Cosmically unfair that the two countries least affected by closing the straits are the US and Iran

only one of my council candidates has posted on bluesky and only one more even has an account. this would be a bad way to allocate my vote but also… there are worse ways…

can't stop thinking about the TUI cannonball run

working on a theory that the exact moment anything from SNL UK gets good is when you go "Well, this wouldn't be on SNL in America". in this case that moment is 1:16 youtube.com/shorts/rboHL...

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

the fun conversation around smartphones in schools is that no-one is thinking about the mid-term effects, because The Forces Of Capitalism are absolutely not going to stand still and go "yes, a brick phone is boring and undesirable and provides children no compulsion to use it"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... wonder if the payment was in crypto

Nearly posted about the Green Party on a sunny Saturday afternoon but I got better

well,

@kierongillen.bsky.social read TPF TPB THREE and [exhales] good work pal

At least the people benefitting from wage compression like it and won’t vote for populist wreckers in an attempt to protest the system right

been going mad trying to work out the correct answer here. reckon you can plausibly say all of these things are useless depending on how you parse the question.

You couldn't make it up. ft.com/content/cf1f...

calling the council at 11am and navigating the phone tree to speak to an advisor (which takes six minutes and requires you repeatedly saying something the voice assistant can't parse) gets you an automatic message warning that you might not get through to someone before the office shuts at 5pm.

A side effect of project glasswing that won’t be overlooked in the Pentagon is that Anthropic has an elite level hacker and is using it to decommission the NSA’s stockpile of zero days not hack America’s enemies economist.com/business/202...

www.anthropic.com/glasswing not now, AGI

itsbenedict.tumblr.com/post/8124313... CACKLING

blog.playstation.com/2026/04/07/i... Lena (2021) by @qntm.org

IRAN'S MEHR: EXPLOSIONS HEARD ON KHARG ISLAND

continue to think that Google, which arguably has the best AI models in the market, deliberately filling its search results with responses from with the dumbest models it makes is one of the worst strategic decisions in the sector so far

It’s bad www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

This is the dream

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Tackle the fuel crisis? No, subsidised use!

in reply to a post asking for the funniest tweet ever, you shared sceengrabs dating from 2024, more than a year after the acquisition of the site by Elon Musk

awful discrimiantion against people with disabilities, we need to fix this by mandating black boxes for every driver under 30. and then fix that discrimination by mandating black boxes for every driver. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hjd... i think they should have to pay Mark Danielewski a _little_ bit of money