It’s weird to me that if you have a cat in the kitchen on social media people like it but if you have a cat in your kitchen at a restaurant they call a health inspector

When I send a card or a letter, I don’t consider it to be “on the way” the instant I have addressed and put postage on it. Do you?

I’ve quickly gone from tolerating the inclusion of “AI” in a product to wanting to actively avoid it. The privacy implications alone are a nightmare.

Turns out, I can put a number on the cost of Elon Musk’s “involvement” in UK “politics” during August 2024 and since… 4.3%. Yup. We’ve lost just 4.3% of Followers from the X account our not-for-profit uses since September 2024. It was going steadily down each month but now appears to have levelled off.

To put it another way, 95% of users don’t care what Musk does. So, now you know where you stand, I guess.

 

I never thought that the UK’s slide into authoritarianism would be centred on protests against the killing of women and children

Received an email today about service that is relaunching with a greater focus on “inclusivity” (in a DEI sense). The email was addressed “Dear Sir/Madam”. There’s such a long way to go.

There’s a new Microsoft Copilot ad, with everyone asking a colleague for things and she just uses Copilot… the unspoken implication is that, if she can use Copilot, so can they… so what do they need her for?