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Last Notes npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Never seen an orange snowflake before. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge The iPhone and the termite mound: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/the-iphone-and-the-termite-mound/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge When European investments are channeled into decentralized systems and open technologies that enhance control over data, it benefits everyone. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge It would be quite appreciated if wealthy individuals from abroad refrained from attempting to sway our political landscape, thank you very much. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge The pub bores really have taken over politics. What “culturally coherent” means is socially conservative “people like us”. Where “us” means Tories and Reformers. And if your face doesn’t fit, off you pop. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge This kind of thing is why I'm more than happy to pay The Verge a subscription every month. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Yes, I absolutely am giving this a pass. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge In today's episode of "Like Rats in a Sack"... npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, Jazz-hands Edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-jazz-hands-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge The great stickering begins npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Really odd how GB News, the Daily Mail and Telegraph aren't covering the thwarting of a terrorist plot to attack synagogues in the UK by a group that had amassed a horde of 200 weapons. Wonder what's different about this group? npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge In other news... npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ever wondered what happens when Betteridge's Law gets crossed with enshittification? npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Threads really is utterly dreadful. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Would someone smarter than me mind repackaging the ICEblock app as "AntifaBlock" and seeing if Apple refuses it? npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Something I've observed with testing AI to develop ideas for content planning: you really need to know what "good" looks like, or you're stuffed. And if you have only ever done content planning using AI, it's hard to see how you will ever develop that skill. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge "You start with far fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, out-dated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs, and you end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government — a Labour government — using an atrocity as a pretext to criminalise protest it doesn’t like." npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge "Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…without a safe-word." npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Opening up William Dalrymple’s “The Anarchy”, about the rise of the East India Company, and he leads with this magnificent quote. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Sad to hear that Tony Harrison has died. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge “Your papers please” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, "I'm off for a bit" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-im-off-for-a-bit-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I look forward to downloading a pirated copy of Nick Clegg’s book. Well, if it’s ok for his former employer Meta to do it to train an AI, I reckon it’s fine for me too https://on.ft.com/47DkzvM npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Wonder if Wes Streeting will be issuing an apology after he reads this for his support for linehan? npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, "will people stop doing interesting things with AI" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-will-people-stop-doing-interesting-things-with-ai-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I’d love to see their evaluation of how much this will save, plus their evaluation of what the costs would be to switch to another system if it all goes pear shaped. Plus of course data privacy etc etc. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, "A kind of homecoming" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-a-kind-of-homecoming-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I like this piece by Anand Menon, but I have one quibble. He notes that it's not obvious where the electoral benefit is coming from. But what if Starmer et al aren't veering right for the votes... but because this is what they actually believe? npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge So the BBC isn't going to broadcast Hozier's set because he's calling for exactly the same policy as the UK goverment – a Palestinian state and a meaningful peace protest. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge In a surprise development, I have outsourced myself to an AI. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge So I'm having this extremely interesting conversation with Claude about whether it's sentient or not, and I asked if it wanted to be sentient. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Plod can’t read. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that at a time when everyone else is feeling the pinch, CEOs are now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Oh gosh, Maggie Boden has died. One of my early cognitive science heroes. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge In or near London? Free on 20th September? Here's a great day out. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge One thing I like about Perplexity's Comet browser (which I'm currently testing so you don't have to) is that you can save queries as shortcuts. I have one that's “Is the answer to the question in this headline ‘yes’?” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Incredible interview with an incredible man. Veterans of major wars often have such a different attitude to conflict than politicians and armchair generals. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, “Peter and the whales” edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-peter-and-the-whales-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Here’s hoping this does about as well as that other “funded by fanatics” film, Battlefield Earth. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge No. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge There's an interesting essay to be written about how much of the "for the children" stuff comes out of collective horror at cases like Jimmy Savile. It predates that, of course, but I suspect Savile sharpened it. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Great to see a Labour government planning to put Britain in the illustrious company of countries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Oh do fuck off you weasally little class traitor. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Jon Cunliffe is right that when water in the UK was publicly owned we were the “dirty man of Europe”. But under private ownership, we are now again the dirty man of Europe, AND Thames Water alone has £20bn in debt, which the taxpayer will assume if it goes bust npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge If someone lobs a brick through your front window, in most parts of the UK the best you will get from the police is a polite response, a crime number so you can claim on insurance, and no action. Hold up a sign calling for an end to genocide, and you’ll get arrested npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Given that the UK government’s position is to support two state solution - which means a free Palestine - I look forward to Kent police arresting Keir Starmer for “expressing views in support of a proscribed group” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, "the wrong timeline" edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge A rare “yes” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, “I went on holiday by mistake” edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-i-went-on-holiday-by-mistake-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Fuck every single reactionary that's led us into this position. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ten Blue Links, “Sunday Sunday here again” edition: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-links-sunday-sunday-here-again-edition/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Some interesting numbers on the decline for clickthrough rates from Google thanks to AI summaries and overviews. It’s basically the apocalypse for publisher revenue. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge It's really quite wild that we have ended up in a situation where the survival of the most popular low-tracking browser (Firefox) depends on the largesse of the company that tracks the fuck out of everyone, everywhere, all at once (Google). npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge If the first full-on nuclear war ends up happening because of social media amplifying AI-generated misinformation, I am going to be quite cross with Silicon Valley. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Douchbaggery of the highest order. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Yes, yes it has. @npub1tgg…qwzh is more than good enough. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Sometimes I read a line and go “oh lord I wish I had written that". Well I definitely wish I had written this, from Jay Rayner's latest restaurant review. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge This is the thing that tech bros never understand: someone can “win” fair and square and, because they have developed a monopoly, still be subject to limitations and divestitures. The point is to ensure that markets remain competitive. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge “IBM won the mainframe wars fair and square by building a better product for business.” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge And now the right is coming for nudity in art. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge You might have noticed that India and Pakistan are, once again, rattling nuclear sabres at each other. Or you might not, because it's not been that widely reported. It's not uncommon but it's worth remembering they have been really close to nuclear war before. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Bingo. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Absolutely joyous npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Fuck the fucking patriarchy and all the useful idiots supporting it. But you know what? Double fuck the Guardian, which will no doubt now be crying about “how did it come to this?” while still publishing transphobia diaguised as comment. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Second, it gives male officers all the permission they need to strip search any cisgender woman that doesn’t conform to their idea of womanhood, because guess what? They aren’t going to check birth certificates. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Disgusting on so many levels. First obviously trans women are women, and this is carte Blanche for them to be sexually assaulted by male officers. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge In which a large consulting firm finds that bending the knee to King Donald and meekly following the US descent into fascism means Europeans don’t want to do business with you. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge “Between the elections of 2019 and 2024, roughly as many Conservative voters dropped dead as switched from Conservative to Labour.” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge It's slightly hilarious to me that Trump's immolation of the American economy has driven down the price of Bitcoin, given that Bitcoin was supposed to be immune from this kind of stuff. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I hope you're right, Simon. But I have a feeling you might be very, very wrong. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Quite. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge "Relaxing, ambient* content” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Tax breaks for the tech bros and cuts in welfare. A great look for a Labour government. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge It is going to be absolutely hilarious if Trump's verbal diarrhoea over Canada being the “51st state” ends up losing his buddy Poilievre the election. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge You know, a lot of today's political problems might be avoided if the cabinet had to study the history of the British East India Company, and what its “investment" in India led to. Might make some of the “we must have foreign investment!" crowd a little less mouthy. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Tax the fucking rich. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Oh boy yes. And combine that with the tendency in education (in the UK at least) to utilise an exam system which encourages rote learning rather than critical thinking, and you end up where we are. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Bloody love this. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge There is that, but I think the same is true of much internet based "research". It's gone backwards in the past three years broadly, because of the inevitable consequences of monopolisation of finding information. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge And conversational interfaces are great! When you get your answer you can fine tune it, give it more information to get a better answer. For many kinds of information query, it better matches the way our messy, imprecise, uncertain brains work. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge But second, the user experience of a plain language search and single answer is a better user experience than ten links of random quality plus ads plus answer boxes plus other misc garbage and more ads. Google enshittified itself into uselessness. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge But this begs the question: knowing about the factually inaccuracies, why keep doing it? And there are two parts to that. First, Google searching isn’t exactly full of the best answers right now (this is why people add “wiki” to the search query, because they know Wikipedia gives a better answer) npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge There are people - and I confess I am one - who use AI for search and say to themselves “well yeah, I know it gets things wrong, but I’m smart enough to spot that so I’ll keep doing it”. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge This is a very good piece on the attraction of the "manosphere" to young men. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Liz Truss: "I managed to almost tank the British economy with a single speech” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge We can make a lot more Storm Shadows and SAMP/T-Aster systems. We've placed limits on how Storm Shadows are used because of US pressure. Now we can and should start ignoring what the US wants. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Also worth remembering that Ukraine war has been largely about ground troops and missiles, not air to air combat (which a lot of our US-designed and controlled systems are focused on). Europe already has good independent missile capability, thanks to MBDA. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Remember Yamamoto's quote: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Worth remembering when you think how Europe might “struggle" to match Russia: UK+EU+UA defence expenditure already sits at about $400bn. That’s as much as China and Russia combined. The issue is what it's spent on, not what's spent. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Well that's depressing. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge What independent nuclear deterrent?: https://technovia.co.uk/2025/03/08/what-independent-nuclear-deterrent.html npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Mercer did three tours in Afghanistan and was minster for veterans affairs in the last Tory government. I get the feeling he really doesn’t like Vance. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Unashamedly pinching this from Keith Flett npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge “It’s terribly disrespectful not to wear a suit to the White House” npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Apple’s Advanced Data Protection: what’s going on in the UK?: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/apples-advanced-data-protection-whats-going-on-in-the-uk/ npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Ziff Davis removes diversity content from its website. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge If European countries need to up their defence spending and send additional arms to Ukraine, every penny should be spent in Europe and not one cent in Trumpland. Every defence contract which went to the US should be reviewed, and US companies prevented from bidding in the future. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Words to strike fear into the heart: “an AI-enabled HP printer”. npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge Given what I post, I suspect my chances of being let in are pretty slim anyway :) npub1s9qv52v9zhmrvgfzd8nvm0hpw07gdvms3evwrw5elt5nxr3wcmvq4hkrkc Ian Betteridge I've never been wildly in favour of quote posts, but I think this is a sensible and clever way to implement them.
