• I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”

  2026/04/13

• The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

  2026/03/28

• UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people”

  2026/03/22

• Moxie Marlinspike, of Signal fame, announces partnership with Meta to bring end-to-end encryption to Meta AI Chat

  2026/03/18

• A New Jerusalem

  2026/03/09

• I have a 2018-era MacMini with 64Gb of RAM + negligible GPU, running a 35 billion parameter model and I’m getting 4 tokens per second out of it; tell me again how we aren’t going to be running AIs locally at home?

  2026/03/07

• If you read 1 thing about Social Media Bans this week, it should be Rod Wilson’s magisterial letter to the WSJ; extract, text & link below

  2026/02/28

• Across Civil Society you can almost hear the mumbling of activists suddenly staring at their shoes wondering if they now have to defend AI & “Effective Altruism” against Trump

  2026/02/28

• Thought for the day: Online Safety and Age Verification

  2026/02/23

• Excessively Cute Dog Tax: this is Coco, slightly overexcited on yesterday’s walk

  2026/02/12

• ‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian

  2026/02/07

• The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech | …fascinated to wonder if @arusbridger supports @4chan conversely doing similar to @ofcom

  2025/12/21