Well I've even less confident that the programmers at Google and Apple are benign. Again, covid: remember Google's news management and what you could and could not search? (View Post)

Well that's a fair point Ben. And with your welcome dose of perspective, I ought to clarify that my reaction to the 3 o'clock alert was 'tut' rather than 'RAAAAAAAAARGHARAARA… (View Post)

ISTR that if you live in Cardiff (which, due to the shape of the Bristol Channel is the location in the UK most at risk), you are more likely to die ina tsunami than, ooh, something quite commonplace… (View Post)

He was the lesser evil in 2019, certainly. Imagine a world where Jeremy Corbyn was able to send email alerts to your phone. (View Post)

It's clearly less malign than most. This isn't Russia; this isn't even France. But it is malign nonetheless. Covid proved that. And it believes in the perfectability of humans, for a s… (View Post)