Merci Monsieur Léon Gautier! Honneur et Patrie.

7 companies have notified the 🇪🇺 Commission that they meet the #Gatekeepers thresholds under the Digital Markets Act (#DMA): Alphabet Amazon Apple ByteDance Meta Microsoft Samsung 🔜 Following our review process, official designation will be announced no later than 6 September

trying to leave twitter

How it started: How it is going:

so....price fixing?

Most midlife crises are lifelong crises that you finally have time for.

Private Eye nails it

People keep changing Les Dennis’ Wikipedia to claim that he’s actually a horse, so they’ve locked the page for vandalism.

This seems silly. I tried this, and it took me about 10 seconds to change from Google. I mean, yeah, Safari was "buried"—buried, I tell you! —in a list. So it was 10 seconds instead of 7 seconds. If that's what the trial depends on, how absurd. nytimes.com/2023/09/20/tec…

Before people get too upset, if there is a big thing on TikTok or something about kids trying to change default search engines while hopping on buses, and having their search engine default switches interrupted, this is indeed a crisis and I Stand With The People.

With the FTC likely launching a lawsuit tomorrow aimed at breaking up Amazon Prime it's worth noting that A) 64% of voters are Prime members, B) 91% are satisfied C) voters wants govt to focus on other tech policy priorities, and D) ind. voters oppose a breakup by > 5-1 margin.

Food for thought

#brexit in a nutshell x.com/AC_Black_/stat…

Completely forgot to announce the opening of this fantastic cultural experience in glorious Herefordshire. Free entry for both my fans.

This is brilliant

Performing the pause theme for Goldeneye on N64 [📹Greg Hersey / gherseydrums] x.com/ViralRedditVid…

A beautiful morning in Dublin.

"Bring in Steven Gerrard, he knows the club" says pundit who is friends with Steven Gerrard. #Klopp

My first non-EU passport. In a strangely beautiful illustration of Brexit’s absurdity, it was printed in Poland by a French company, and delivered to me by a German logistics firm.