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UK Technology Editor at the Guardian. Views mine, tweets deleted weekly. email me: [email protected]. signal me: +44(0)7901 111 711 call me: never

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  1. 5 hours ago

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  3. 5 hours ago

    Has ML got good enough that you’d be confident literally staking your life on it correctly identifying edible forage

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  4. 7 hours ago

    "tories lose by election to an anti-transport, anti-housing campaign" alright who voted for a tory loss on the withered monkeys paw

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  5. Jun 17

    (I just moved mine from 7th July to 21st June, the system, works)

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  6. Jun 17

    This is a fantastic rapid roll-out of a much needed improvement, slightly marred by the fact that to access the screen showing availability of appointments… you need to click on a button marked "cancel and rebook appointment", which does not in fact cancel your appointment.

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  7. Jun 17

    God I love our robust digital infrastructure, with its many and varied single points of failure

    As suspected, Akamai has confirmed it is behind the outage that took down a bunch of bank services and other companies this afternoon.
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  8. Jun 16

    In hindsight, it is a bad thing that the bulk of my communication with my colleagues for the last 15 months has been using an email address that is also published on our website and my Twitter bio

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  9. Jun 16

    The thing is, I would be absolutely stunned if the Co-op didn't have brand safety requirements that it communicates to its media buyers. So what is the actual policy here? "We won't advertise in outlets that make us look bad, unless people ask us not to, in which case we will"

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  10. Jun 16

    Of all the companies to say "we think it's more important to boost our bottom line than to advertise in publications that share our stated values" I did not expect the Co-op to be first

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  11. Jun 16

    Genuinely interesting that the Co-op has outlined a specific policy against participating in advertiser boycotts:

    Replying to @paulmasonnews
    1/2 Hi Paul, we have developed a detailed and thoughtful advertising approach, which is driven by 3 principles: 1- We will not seek to affect the editorial independence of publications or channels.
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  12. Jun 16

    Here is a piece I would like to see: a cross-sport comparison of the rules and game design behind video referees. When can you invoke them? What's the guiding principle behind the limitations? What have the knock-on effects been?

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    Jun 16

    A really interesting way Londoners are, for want of a better phrase, out of touch of broad swathes of the rest of the country is not because of latte drinking or Islington dinner parties but because they have much more regular interactions with grinding poverty

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  14. Jun 16

    I've just realised: the death of blogs means that we won the fight against people calling an individual blogpost "a blog". Was it a Pyrrhic victory? yes. will I celebrate it anyway? also yes

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  15. Jun 16

    Alternative phrasing: it's an air conditioner set up to cool The World and dump its waste heat inside your house

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  16. Jun 16

    I have only just realised that a heat pump is effectively a freezer with the warm bit inside your house and the open door poking out a window

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  17. Jun 16

    This isn't even about the costs of *stopping* climate change, just the failure to prepare for *living* with it

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  18. Jun 16

    "The UK is even worse prepared than it was five years ago, at the time of its last report on the risks of climate change… ministers appeared to be deterred from taking action by the upfront costs of protecting infrastructure."

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  19. Jun 15

    No waluigi, 7/10

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    "WAH!" Take on over 200 quick and quirky microgames solo or with a friend in WarioWare: Get It Together!, coming 10/09 on .
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  20. Jun 15

    But will it be as good as hollow knight

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    Metroid Dread. 08/10/2021.
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