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I'm planning to cancel my ChatGPT subscription. I fed their own cancellation text into ChatGPT and this is what it said. "Yeah — the wording there is… not great. Let’s untangle it cleanly." "It’s a classic 'no-risk trial, but we’re hoping you forget to cancel' setup — pretty standard SaaS move."

100% this. Not sure how that's different to other countries though.

"the Home Office holds the information that you have requested, and it is planned to be published online in the future on GOV.UK. We have concluded the public interest lies in favour of withholding the information until the planned publication" www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...

Sadly completely unsurprising. Still, good to see our government along with Germany, France and Italy not only opposing it but doing so in public. "We urge the Israeli decision makers in Knesset and Government to abandon these plans." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Meet the new boss...

“Hannah White, chief executive of the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, wrote: “If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated. This is dangerous.”” @drhannahwhite.bsky.social

Weeknotes from last week: Hail Mary frankieroberto.github.io/nhsnotes/pos...

I'm not sure it's the case that people don't know. I think it's a partially entrenched power but really that the only people who can meaningfully shift things are, quite rightly, focused on so many immediate traumatic questions that they can't get to fundamental systems change.

From @lessig.bsky.social on #TheAIDoc documentary. "The hardest problem in AI governance is not the AI part; it’s the governance part." - 100% correct. lessig.medium.com/review-the-a...

Sir, We need more power, Scotty! We're hurtling uncontrollably into the front cover of issue #759! ROBERT DODD From the Private Eye archive. Issue 759, January 1991.

Hey Claude. My personal website is pretty naf. Tidy it up a bit please. Before was this pic. Now this: bowsy.co.uk (take a look).

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings

@drbecky.bsky.social @philplait.bsky.social The world has become a weird place. I've wanted to build this for years and even as an ex-developer it always seemed way too hard. Tonight I "vibe coded" it in two hours. astro-point.bowsy.co.uk

While other parts of government are flailing Ed Milliband is just cracking on with it.

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

Amazing job done by @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and Liz. Given the number I've done over the years I really should have created an account 😅.

Very late, as usual, but finally getting round to reading Fractured by @ntouk.bsky.social - now very handily in serialised form. Looking great so far. ntouk.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/f...

Amazing!! And my pic of her dad with the original, late 2010

This is a good piece about how most commercial chatbots will "nudge" users towards moderate political opinions. It'll be interesting to see how long it is before radicals on both sides just produce their own. What it really makes me want is Moltbook but for 1-2-1 debate of important topics.

THIS THIS THISITY THIS THIS I've been seeing more fake stuff getting passed around lately. Take a sec to check the actual source!

Our team is out in full swing at the march in London. Today and every day, we stand against the far right 💪 Join us goodlawproject.org/donate

Great to see Govt publish the evidence base underlying their advice on screen time usage for under 5 year olds. Will outline the headline things they flag (just pulling from their subheads, but to save you looking at the full report) www.gov.uk/government/p...

I’ve shared this report with plenty of people over the years, but sharing it again as I had a reason to point someone at it today. Learn how posh people level up: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Libraries aren't just about books. They are local centres of culture and community support. Cuts to local government spending lead to irreversible damage.

I've been building up to watching this from @innuendostudios.bsky.social and it's one of the most affecting things I've watched in years. youtu.be/zv1SFurxwbE?...

Hardly surprising that NASA has cancelled the stupid Luna Gateway station but "will instead use its components to construct a $20bn base on the moon’s surface over the next seven years". Thank you - I really needed a good laugh.

Just realising that HMRC is making every non-sole-trader business either pay for commercial software or use an agent to pay corporation tax. If you have a small turn-over this is a huge expensive pain. Why build a system to support small business owners when you can outsource the problem to them.

Thanks for this @joelanman.bsky.social . My dad spent his whole career in power stations so I've seen a lot of seafoam green without ever thinking about it.

Anthropic just won its preliminary injunction against the Trump admin. Judge writes that, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.”

We need to be absolutely clear: there is no revival of Christianity in Britain. For almost a year, we have taken a rational, evidence-based approach, repeatedly and rigorously explaining why the Bible Society’s claims did not stand up. Today, they retracted them. www.thetablet.co.uk/news/bible-s...

How might an FOI Network encourage the protection and expansion of Freedom of Information in the UK? Building on the success of FOI Fest (www.mysociety.org/transparency...), that's the question we'll be looking to answer at an online workshop next Wednesday, 1 April. Join us! luma.com/erlh5p2b

If anyone knowns anyone at Radio Four / BBC Sounds ( @steveparks.me ?) you might want to give them a gentle prod to fix their podcasting from the future 😄.

Honestly, fuck #GirlGuiding. The Scouts happily accept trans young women so Girl Guiding's decision to exclude them isn't a matter of law. It's a decision made by the bigots in charge.

I've just finished rebuilding the website for www.nationalstrategy.uk the UK's huge experiment in national deliberative democracy. Much more to come soon!

I don't know enough to know if this is good not so tagging @annadent.bsky.social . www.gov.uk/government/n...

The latest polling is in. The majority of the public respect personal faith – but DO NOT want religion in politics or in public institutions. From bishops in the Lords to faith-based school admissions, the status quo is out of step with modern Britain. 🧵 humanists.uk/2026/03/25/t...

ah <deep breath> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Amazing.

The better thing would be some legal reform so that the extraordinarily wealthy could NOT bankroll legal cases over and over again until they can enact their will on a democracy through money.

I had no idea we'd cut the use of Russian gas so much. This is the kind of amazing thing that doesn't make headlines.

You give me a one-time username and password and when I log in I get this. Slow clap Met Police...

The world is going to be run by a smaller and smaller group of people who, in turn, will have a smaller and smaller group of individuals they trust to advise them and a good portion of them won't be human.

One million internet points to M&S!

I've never cared about better markets up to now but does anyone know how to bet this will never happen?

Literally typed rm -rf * and realised that I was in the wrong folder as my finger was half-way to hitting enter. The effort to divert almost caused me to fall off my chair and the eeekkkk! could be heard across the flat.

Who's gonna tell him?

to everyone talking about how everything gets worse after 27, just want you to know that I’m so excited for every day of my life and when you do something new every day, the time does not feel as short but maybe I’m naive. either way, I’m trying to enjoy the time I do have

On Bluesky at 2am. Clicked on "Discover" and get a non-trivial number of people whose pets have died today 😮.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Next “feel good” BritFlick just dropped.

‘Upstream impact: How service designers shape better policies’ — made another submission, this time for the upcoming Touchpoint issue on emerging #serviceDesign, the journal of Service Design Network, together with @beliebig.eu 🤞🏻