1/ After following the AI conversation for so long there is one argument that is made over and over, by well meaning and not so well meaning folk. “AI is inspired by artists the same way humans are”. As a professional artist I can safely say that's nonsense. Lets discuss 🧵

Meta might have to change its business model after being fined 390 million euros by the EU. Turns out that forcing Facebook or Instagram users to opt-in to targeted ads violates GDPR. wired.com/story/meta-sur…

Why is everything so complicated and difficult, with your customer services system unable to do what's asked Hotpoint UK ? How good was sales pitch that got management to buy into an unfit for purpose online/telephone system? (And no, you aren't first to squander money like that)

The one thing that made it stand above others in the past, particularly Facebook.

A take on her time with which I agree; mixed feelings, but infinitely better than recent UK PMs. What did Nicola Sturgeon change in Scotland for women in politics? Everything theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Barrow folk, we need your help !Do you want to be part of an exhibition?We want photos of people/places/events in Barrow during 1974. Email them to [email protected] Here are a couple to give you ideas BrilliantBarrow BarrowFull Showcase Cumbria The National Lottery Heritage Fund North

There are many doctors with WhatsApps that show another story.

Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’ theguardian.com/music/2023/mar…

A set of four for #InternationalWomensDay - what women did at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. Making tyres for Avon 1930s, driving small motor trucks & operating a steam hammer in smithy 1940s, Draughtswoman Julie Jones 1960s Dock Museum The National Lottery Heritage Fund BAE Systems Maritime #archive

Yes > The Guardian view on refugee rights: a warning from history theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘Authoritarian regimes everywhere progress by breaching one convention as a launchpad for breaching the next’… it’s taken a brave football star to inject morality into our shaming debate on migrants theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thank you to everyone who has given our RT to our new Twitter @comicartfest account here - even though this one has the same name! We were victim to a hostile takeover. We’d built a following of over 12K of followers here since 2012 and we’d like to get them back

From the cradle to the grave, there is something rotten in the state of welfare theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Saran Ahmed, an absolute legend, for many reasons but also this Figure, from On Being Included: a “job description” for university diversity work

As cllr in 90s, remember highways officer’s concern gvt funding switching from basic maintenance to capital. 30 yrs on: everything now frayed on edge of collapse, patching no solution. AA blames profits fall on callout surge fuelled by 'pothole epidemic' theguardian.com/world/2018/sep…

Interview just been published, questioning my views on VR and mixed reality medium.com/authority-maga…

Horace Silver performing “Song For My Father” with Bill Hardman on trumpet, Bennie Maupin on saxophone, John Williams on bass and Bill Cobham on drums live at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 1968.