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The Right Decision, Even For The Wrong Person I find Tommy Robinson repugnant. But the courts were right to clear him of terrorism related charges for refusing to give border officials access to his phone.

I disagree with everything Tommy Robinson stands for. But this ruling is a timely reminder of the deeper problems with the UK’s Schedule 7 powers.

If you carry a phone across a UK border, this should matter to you.

My take👇

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Second this. I know people now, who said they were aware he was a predator in the fake sound of progress days. “Clearly far too interested in young girls” were their words.

He was obviously a vile sack of shit. In the extreme.

I also haven very happy memories of dancing in the rain and mud as a child to the fake sound of progress at Ozzfest.

The two don’t cancel each other out, and it’s complex and nuanced. Not black and white.

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The man was a grade A c**t. He was also in a band who wrote some tunes that meant a lot to some people. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Yeah. But. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.

Funny how the ‘causes’ of autism they come up with never seem to involve men 🤔

Toupee glue’s off the hook, apparently.

The Public Doesn’t Trust AI. Rishi Sunak Doesn’t Understand Why. You can’t dismiss safeguards as a nuisance and then act surprised when people don’t feel safe.

I wrote a little piece on why the public doesn’t trust AI, why, and what politicians need to do if they want to turn this around.

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Recently took a trip to Dungeness. The old light house focusing glass optic things were beautiful.

Gogledd cymru!

Government Guidance Accidentally Improves Porn Access for Home Workers This is not satire.

Since the introduction of the Online Safety act. It appears the governments on cyber security advice, improves access to porn for home workers.

This is not satire. Really.

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This 👇

“When parents make autistic kids not flap, or make boys wear jeans & not dresses. They replace the child that exists with the one they wish existed. They are sentencing them to the misery they claim they want them to avoid.”

👌 👍 💯 🙏

Just finished reading it. Great stuff ☺️

Hey, my latest bit of writing made the front page of Hackernoon.

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The West Cannot Win by Imitating China on AI As China surges toward AI dominance, the West must ask: what kind of future should it be building?

China is surging towards AI dominance. Building infrastructure, consolidating data & cultivating talent.

I wrote about why we should not try to win the AI race by copying China’s playbook. And how a values based approach, will lead to tech that works for everyone.

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Apple & Facebook Hope We've Forgotten the Term 'Glasshole' Innovation? Or repetition with a degraded privacy policy.

A little article about face mounted tech, and what happens when innovation outruns accountability.

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The press have done well not perpetuate the “undiagnosed autism” card that he tried to play.

Market square in Marrakech.

Not had much head space for photography recently. This came off the end of a roll from our last trip.

📷 Leica M-A, 28mm VL, StreetCandy 400

#filmphotography #believeinfilm #analogphotography

Nothing like a bit of casual defenestration.

This weeks writing efforts.

Owing to a cold my voice is horse & I sound like I smoke 50 a day. Also, I have a wad of cash in my possession.

If I am ever going to convince the manly men in the builders merchants that I am one of them; today is the day.

Ha. Never realised that was one of my Autistic traits. Doesn’t everyone do that 🤣?

I recently recorded an interview with my buddy Meg, about her journey as a woman in tech.

I have it from a reliable source that the correct way to fix all vibe coding problems is as follows;

Mac / Linux: rm -rf *
Windows: try deleting system 32

Motorbikes in the souks.

📷 Leica M-A, 28mm VL, Ilford 100

#filmphotography #believeinfilm #analogphotography

AI Bias, Corporate Responsibility & The Need For Regulation Innovation, progress and equitability are not mutually exclusive. But achieving all three is only going to be possible with meaningful regulation.

However, you measure innovation. It’s very difficult to call products that discriminate against marginalised groups as “progress”…unless, of course, you are ‘making bank’ in the gold rush.

Beautiful tree growing up through a hole in the roof of the Souks in Marrakech.

📷 Leica M-A, 28mm VL, Ilford 100

#filmphotography #believeinfilm #analogphotography

Recent trip to Marrakech.

Hot dam metering for the vast differences in light in the same frame was tough.

📷 Leica M-A, 28mm VL, Ilford 100

#filmphotography #believeinfilm #analogphotography

I know this comment helps no one, and only fuels the left vs right bonfire.

But…what a shit stain this man is.

Should do some comparative carbon foot printing on this. Autistic person vs ChatGPT 🤣

For as long as I can remember. My morning alarm on my iPhone has been the poke flute.

Only way to wake the sleeping snorlax.

#millennial #autisticactually