John Naughton in The Observer:

The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by parliamentary acts from 1600 onwards in England.

Good morning from the South Downs.

A view towards the South Downs, from Lancing College, including the playing films.

The nice thing about EV tech developing so fast is the realisation that my current EV - good though it is — is probably the absolute worst EV I will ever own.

Things will only get better from here.

Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty open web linking behaviour.

(People are really still trying to control who links to them in 2024… Mind-boggling. 🤯)

There’s never 30 to 50 feral hogs around when you need them.

If AI search takes hold, and upends the business model of web publishing and Google itself, the search giant will have been the architect of its own downfall.

By letting search quality decay to maximise profits, it created the perfect conditions for its own disruption.

Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.

Wild garlic growing in Shoreham.

The US really went and did it. Bytedance faces an ultimatum: sell TikTok - or see it banned in the US.

Now we’ll find out how important the app is to China’s influence operations.

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The last post for Post News: a potential Twitter successor that tried to cosy up to the news industry is shutting down.

The field is thinning… I suspect it’ll come down to X, Threads & Mastodon, and Bluesky.

But can Bluesky find its audience in that context, or is the future all ActivityPub?

The one cost of AI we don’t talk about nearly enough: it’s seriously energy hungry at a time when we’re both trying together to decarbonise and increase our energy security.

New solutions needed…