If you reserve a rail ticket on many corporate expense systems, it demands you insert your card if collecting tickets from a machine (travelcards are not issued as etickets yet for example). You can … (View Post)

I went to a publishing conference this week. You can now produce an audiobook with AI (they prefer the term 'synthetic voice' which made me think of the scene in Aliens) and one company is offering s… (View Post)

Rail travel might have been shit but at least it was cheap. Now it's shit and expensive. (I checked. London to Manchester one way is currently £160 but was £9.60 in 1976. Using a Purchasing Power cal… (View Post)

Second like the DUP. I guess that's supposed to be Feb 2025? (View Post)

It's the speed of collapse that is of most concern...punctuated equilibrium means you get no change for ages and then...boom. (View Post)