Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY shouldn’t update to iOS14 this evening.
Your apps have a really good chance of not being ready.
One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would have been a set of APIs to allow fitness providers to work with the Watch, not an Apple Service.
What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard and Pencil 2?
Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while its citizens are encouraged to report their neighbours to the police if two families stop to chat in the street.
Welcome to Dystopia Now™.
This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.”
Not completely true, but uncomfortably close to it…
Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂
Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job.
Probably not, mind. But it could.
Once you know an AI is grading your work — you can game it.
The next decade is just going to be a long series of disasters as people try to use AI where they really shouldn’t, isn’t it?
On social media pile-ons
Moreover, I’ve learned not to join in with Twitter pile-ons, or insult or mock people I disagree with. This is partly because I have no wish to add to the febrile atmosphere that permeates social media at the moment, and which I think is poisoning so much of our public debate. It’s also because the moment that you insult or belittle someone, the opportunity for progress in the discussion is lost because they’re not going to be open to anything else you say. Why should they?
Written four years ago. Still insightful. Still true.
