BREAKING: TikTok declares it would rather shut down and forgo billions in profits rather than cut loose from CCP control.

Incredibly rational behavior that definitely doesn’t give the entire game away.

How TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

➡️ ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-t…

Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.

I wrote a careful, nuanced, measured piece about how Michael Hobbes is a complete fraud and a dishonest hack. I'd call it 'comprehensive' but you could pick any subject he's spouted off about and write an article of similar length.

Enjoy!

jessesingal.substack.com/p/michael-hobb…

Very good take (and only partially saying this as I made a similar argument a while back).

What misleads with AI is that it is bad right up until the moment it becomes good enough. (Like the evolution of GPT.)

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/twitters-tra…

I’m not sure why but there’s a public body I’m FOI-ing who, while refusing my request is very helpfully making suggestions for documents I could ask about instead. This isn’t how it is supposed to work!

Fascinating thread:

Greenpeace be like, “oh you support the advancement of human welfare with science and technology? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, childhood blindness.”

Plot twist on this! The BBC Parliament feed correctly handled the weird 'O' character!

The BBC needs to update its graphics software to handle UTF-8 character encoding.

Sounds like Labour is adopting the rail proposals that have been in the works for ages, which is better than starting over. Good stuff.

Taxpayers shouldn't subsidise the enshittification of local news.

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/taxpayers-sh…

Brutal drive-by of a space probe that's just doing its best

Mayyyybe setting the curriculum around random moral panics isn’t a good idea

If you're wondering about the basic plausibility of this claim, it works out at a little over £1 million per civil servant.

Having a great first day in the Household Cavalry. Just woke up from a nap after a long early shift. Now before I go and fetch my horse, which I assume is where I left it, it’s time to take a big swig of water and check the latest news.