I think it’s important Labour considers all factions of the party before deciding on the next Prime Minister

There are two famous books called The Double, if you wanted reassurance on that point.

Heroic reporting by the FT, and robust in the face of a giant libel threat. But more importantly, heroic bravery of the women to come forward, tell their stories and offer to be witnesses.

god I need to go kayaking

Am I doing this right?

2023: "NHS England told openDemocracy it would alter or remove identifiable personal information before it was passed to Palantir" 2026: "NHS England has allowed staff from the US tech firm access to patient data before it has been pseudonymised" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

With this and the GDP figures, you'd think the Labour government would be having a good day

Nearly 50,000 people around Lake Tahoe have been told their utility will stop providing them power because that electricity is being redirected to Nevada data centers. This is beyond cruel.

It's beside the point, but I don't know how SAP CEO Christian Klein somehow manages to look like he's from a stock image library. I wrote this piece BTW

SAP's new tag line is "the beginning of better" .

After I die, I might come back as a customer-facing solution

senior execs having to explain their lame jokes that fall flat in keynote presentation. 100% here for that

SAP brings AI to legacy apps, as per our quoted prediction in March www.theregister.com/software/202...

People say there is no goodness in the world any more, but it turns out that crypto-billionaire in Thailand really did care about improving our bin collections.

This may well be very good... I'll have a listen later

Am I doing this right?

Now reading 📖 Cruz, Nicole (2026). Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs. Computational Brain & Behavior doi.org/10.1007/s421... 1/🧵

next up: squares that look round

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

but DOGE tho?

AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in

takes me back to my childhood. Not specifically German, but all stuff seemed to be designed like this in the 70s. Duvet covers, wallpaper, placemats. I was lost in the geometric paterns.

Very good stuff from @quinnypig.com www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/a...

Once again, so very interesting how the some of most common uses for cryptocurrency is for cyber crime or for fraud, isn't it?

Ramsay is coming to put in a new alternator tomorrow. We will feel much happier then.

BY ME!

Look how happy this woman is about SAP's API policy

SAP in one post everyone

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

Cool job 🚨 for an experienced lawyer wanting to make tech fair @foxglovelegal.bsky.social litigates against Big Tech companies who abuse their power, their workers or the planet. We're working on cases against Meta, Google, TikTok, Amazon & more Legal Director👇 www.foxglove.org.uk/news/jobs/di...

I recommend anyone listen to tropicalia if they have not. It is an absolute joy. I was turned on to it about 10 years ago and never looked back

Son 2.0 is so bored at school. they are just going over and over really basic maths and english he could do a couple of years ago just to bump up the school's Sats score. hey ho. what gets measured gets managed, I guess

There's a new face in hell for this one. "Our PE overlords say we have to sack you and replace you with AI, sorry" www.ft.com/content/8772...

Refers to our study of AI researchers, the largest so far. Our study was a collab with students from the @stsucl.bsky.social MSc in Science, Technology and Society @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social

This was predicated on there being a short war. That's what the The US is saying, Gartner told me. Iran: Hold my beer.

And that's enough Twitter for now

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock

cool cool cool

As today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Prince, I've updated @thequietus.com #ThePortal archive dive with writing on his utter genius: John Higgs on Prince & William Blake, a guide to Prince's Minneapolis, classic albums revisited, Prince beyond the hits & much more thequietus.com/portal/

Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.

I did a call in Jan but didn't use it for a story. Anyway, the PR just emailed me to pitch me a different story and quoted a question I asked on the call I didn't use. *That* is clever PR.

"We have a database and we're not afraid of using it." How DuckDB tackled the small changes problem in lakehouse design. www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/d...

Harbour sunrise with doggo

Nice piece on @duckdb.org's Duck Lake by @datadictum.bsky.social #databs

It's nearly six years since I wrote about Palantir in the NHS> www.theregister.com/2020/05/19/c.... It's good to see it being debated in Parliament this afternoon.

I mean, we all *knew* why they're pushing AI, but it's fun when they just come out and say it.

Until there’s liability you’re going to say anything about your broken product to cover the hundreds of billions in costs coming.

I remember this going out out live in front of millions and I’m glad it’s captured for posterity. Yes, Queen played to segregated audiences in apartheid South Africa

Brazil; another planet