“You can’t really address the economic problems the U.K. has without addressing and improving the trade relationship with the E.U,” Mr. Rahman said. “Otherwise, you’re just fiddling around the edges.” via ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2022/11/22/wor…

There’s a new Mastodon server for #Southsea peeps if anyone is interested in exploring the “fediverse” southsea.social/invite/SPqaBMrj

Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras via The Verge - ⁦Eufy⁩ ? theverge.com/2022/11/30/234…

England’s water: the world’s piggy bank - great piece by ⁦The Guardian⁩ that’s worth a read. It makes no sense to me for water companies to be privatised. theguardian.com/environment/ng…

I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner. I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.

Hi @icliving - not sure if you guys are looking at alternatives to Twitter, but I’ve set up a Mastodon instance for #southsea people here’s the link if you want to look around (currently quiet of course - but loads of promise) southsea.social/invite/SPqaBMrj

Mastodon is a decentralised, open-source social media platform with a focus on privacy and community-building - could it be the catalyst for change in the social media landscape? It happened with email. #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Privacy matthopkins.com/2022/12/05/wil…

Seems like Apple could avoid all the monopolistic talk relating to their 30% fee for competing apps in their App Store (e.g. Spotify vs Apple Music) if they decided to stop charging the fee for those apps where they have a competing in-house app/product. #levelplayingfield

Artificial intelligence is permeating business at last, the age of “boring AI” will be anything but.. via ⁦The Economist⁩ economist.com/business/2022/…

Nicola Sturgeon's claim to be world leader on climate change 'in tatters' after watchdog report #ukpolitics telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/0…

Meta considered building a Twitter competitor to capitalize on Elon Musk's 'crisis' at company << imo, they should simply addd ActivityPub support into WhatsApp. Faster ramp up and would avoid monopoly criticism. #meta #whatsapp #activitypub businessinsider.com/meta-considere…

#Brexit: 65% of voters say EU withdrawal has gone badly, poll finds independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

A map of Europe with the naughty bits censored

One of my friend’s funny use of #chatGPT to create a prenup - “can you write a prenup for a bride with a jobless boyfriend with huge mortgage”