Train delayed by 1 hour…. Good news: train ticket is now free. Bad news: I’m an hour late.

Calling all small charities! The Boring Fund is now open for applications. It offers small (£200) grants to UK non-profits, charities and voluntary groups to cover boring running costs like web hosting, admin, insurance etc Apply by 30 Nov #Funding

OH FUCK #celebritytraitors

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

So much this. Labour needs to rise to this challenge, as I know they can. I just don't know if they want to.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Having both good planning and skilled operatives saves lives. This is what you pay for and what the persistent bad press about rail crew salaries misses deliberately every time.

I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet

On this, if you grew up watching the Christmas Lectures or watch them now or have anything to say about them, I’m taking oral histories. About 20 mins over Zoom, if you’re lucky one of the cats might join us.

Who knew, it wasn’t patriotism, it was money. And maybe a choice slot on GB News. These amateurs learning that if you lie to a good journalist, they’ll just fact check you. Nice work @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-...

This is your annual reminder that Restore Trust once backed a bloke that stands outside abortion clinics shouting bible verses at women.

The worst thing I’ve ever seen.

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

"Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It Humans keep hanging on." "The thing to remember about vibe coding is that sometimes the vibes are bad." lol gizmodo.com/even-the-inv...

Reform MP Sarah Pochin not in the chamber today for #PMQs it must be because seeing our faces makes her mad…

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

www.aboutamazon.com/news/company... > Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well. I wonder when governments will start asking this. Because everyone knows the answer, and it doesn't benefit wider society in the slightest.

Also did yall know I wrote a book called The Remote Work Era? This event is basically the origin story / major part of the lore! Remoteworkera.com

I bet Christmas is fun in the Leith household. Prue, what did you get up to? Eating cake, judging a baking contest. Wearing jaunty necklaces. Danny, what about you? _Oh, nevermind then._

This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit. This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

“CEO Jassy aims to reduce bureaucracy, increase AI use” is peak 2025.

At the next general election, this stuff will become normalised as it has in other countries. If you vote for this, we simply cannot be friends.

Reuters reporting on what we already know - that Reform is accepting crypto donations. As a former anti-corruption specialist, let me be clear. Crypto should be nowhere near UK politics. The risks around anonymity, tracing ownership & manipulation of instruments are all good reason to act.

I'm unreasonably pumped about this album. Christopher Tin continues to contribute to the choral repertoire more than almost anyone else in recent times.

Yet another election where a noisy online minority against LTNs doesn’t translate to the ballot box. The three candidates campaigning explicitly to halt and remove the LTN in the Moseley by-election received a combined total of just 11.4% of the vote.

Nice work Caerphilly. Good to see the “anything but reform” vote mobilising perfectly.

Cotteridge Park looking stunning in the autumn colours 🍁

When I'm noisy about knowledge workers being 100% more productive at home, this is what I'm talking about.

Just checking that we're all aware that allowing Sam Altman access to our entire browser usage is not a good idea?

👇 www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-numbers-...

hog consumed us-east-1

I think LLMs are cool and interesting but I agree with this. Democracies have barely survived the fact that we can all give everyone our opinions at all times, regardless of truth or knowledge. Mixed in with realistic fake footage of anything and we’re screwed.

So this is fun. If you use a Nerivio migraine device, and wear an Apple Watch, sometimes your Apple Watch tells you your heart has gone into atrial fibrillation.

This is a fascinating listen on how researchers uncover rural LGBT+ lives in the archive, and the difficulties in doing so compared to in urban histories:

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

It always worries me that 50% of the UK's medical records are stored on a system where the company that makes and owns the software regularly gets reviews like this.

Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

“We have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues” I’m totally relaxed about this and 100% believe this guy.

Another day, another reason JustGiving has decided to irritate me. 100 - 5 is 95.

My GP has moved to online triage (yay!) but you literally cannot fill out the form outside working hours. Surely this can’t actually reduce demand?

34 years of hard use, a few coffee spills and 7 exams later, it’s time to say goodbye to this lovely piano. (New one on the way…) I’ll miss you buddy 😢

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Control your LLMs wokeness… And SSO.

Your reminder to vote in the National Trust to keep folks with his views having any say. I used a toilet last week, it had free tampons. I did not use them, and then got on with my day.

Does Ruby Central make a habit of directly emailing folks about security incidents and post-mortems? My inbox (over many years) says no. So was this the first ever security issue, or the first that was deemed serious enough?