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BBC: Public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped again, setting a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey.Just 24% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2023, with...
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TechCrunch: Facebook (Meta) is essentially a cybercriminal organisationIn 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s...
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If you’ve been following along the Beyoncé/Country Music thing, I recommend reading this article:Vason named the rodeo in honor of Bill Pickett, a Texas native of Black and Cherokee descent who...
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Every now and again, I get to show people around this Island in the middle of the Caribbean. I have friends over from the UK at the moment and I got to take them up the killer volcano. OK, I’m...
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Normal person reading Science Fiction novel: “Oh wow, cool story. Not reality however because of a million and one flaws and oversights in physics, sociology, politics and human nature.”Billionaire...
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When Facebook (or Meta if you believe they have changed purpose) first proposed the EU-only pay-for-no-ads subscriptions to their “products”, there was something that rubbed me up the wrong way but I...
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No Logitech, I don’t want or need an AI prompt system attached to the mouse software wasting GPU uselessly. At least make it so we can switch that crap off if we want! FFS!Logi Options uninstalled, and...
View ArticleAu revoir Apple Watch
I’ve bought three Apple Watches since its introduction, spending a total of around 1000 € not including a few bands that I bought to change things when wearing it for sleep, sport or out for dinner.I...
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I’ve tried blogging on and off for years, possibly decades. It has never stuck. These last couple of years or so, I have been more consistent and blogged a lot more.I’ve had to move platforms, so much...
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Never forget.Cory Doctrow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr), writing on pluralistic.net:Together, they represent a multi-front war on the very idea that four billion people should have their digital lives...
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Heads up. Here’s the real reason the Caribbean cannot dig itself out of the hole that it has been forced into for over 400 years:SIDS drowning in debt and ‘running on empty’, warns Guterres in...
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In other words, Threads likely wants to be a monetization center for online creators and eventually compete with Patreon.Human Generated Content: Patreon Belongs in the FediverseEmbrace, extend and...
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The long-term outcomes and the impacts on the economy, society, and politics clearly show that neoliberalism has failed. It has been a disaster and a complete abdication of responsibility by the...
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Social Media and general online commentary are about to get even more vacuous, irrational, wrong and just plain stupid.With around 50% of new iPhone sales being the Pro model and therefore potentially...
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With news that Threads has reached 175 MAUs, this is an interesting waypoint in its life worth keeping an eye on.Currently, Thread is an ad-free and watered-down attempt at building a Twitter...
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Despite the discussion about LLM training data and the rights to train this data, a fundamental question about consent is often ignored. Much of the tech industry has flipped over into a non-consensual...
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I’m currently reading Number Go Up by Zeke Faux.Anyone who is deep into, holds, uses or otherwise is connected to the running of this “industry” is complicit in murder, slavery, torture, and organised...
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Please stop using the word content, as in “content creator”, “creative content”, or “content”.You are commoditising your work, your time, and your skill. You are being exploited by devaluing its...
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What a wonderful sunset we had tonight.I was tempted to get the camera out and take a picture postcard photo.But something told me to sit, relax, and just enjoy it.Not everything needs to be...
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Facebook continues insisting on being an awful Internet citizen.Surreptitiously scraping data to train its AI models since 2017unless legislation existed to prevent this.This company’s moral compass is...
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I’m trying to figure out where I was when the memo was passed around asking everyone to use the word “obligated” rather than the existing, perfectly fit-for-purpose word “obliged.”While I’m on the...
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BBC: Met Police launch plans to be “truly anti-racist and inclusive”.Yeah sure. We believe you this time.28 September 2024 — French West Indies
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I finally bought a decent coffee grinder after months of unsuccessfully trying to find one on the island.People will hype them as “game-changing,” and while they make a noticeable difference,...
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I haven’t been posting much here for reasons I can’t quite explain. But as it’s not a commercial adventure and really only a personal space to put down ideas, reflections and other thoughts, I don’t...
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