Sam Farndale

Software Test Engineer with a passion for UX. All views are my own. He/him.

[Jesse Cox @JesseCox]

I'm sure this isn't related at all, but this week we learned that stats show big game studios with existing IP that use AI saw sales decline from 40-60%.

But like, no way that has anything to do with the desire not to disclose :P

[Sam Farndale @SFarndale]

@The_Bunny_Doll Parmo! Oh how I miss it. Glad you had a nice time

[Michael Lavelle @mikelavelle93]

This may be the greatest 2 minutes and 44 seconds of television I’ve ever seen

[Josh Strife Hayes @JoshStrifeHayes]

In a bad place right now.

Not mentally, I'm just in London.

[Christopher Green @GreeneyOfficial]

@TiceRichard @reformparty_uk This is Reform UK. This is Tice. Just an average British person, but he’s a British British Person. Don’t be fooled. Be vigilant.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Get a hobby you wanker.

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Throughout my career, I've been dismayed by the contempt some genre executives have held for fans, routinely underestimating their power to make or break a show. I've watched this repeat too many times, across too many shows, to be talking about any single one of them. Yet despite the mounting evidence over the past few years, they continue to dismiss the data, repeating the same miscalculations time and again.

But technology has rewritten the rules, and the power dynamics are shifting. Today’s fans are organized, strategic, and highly data-literate - effectively turning the platforms' own metrics against them.

As the bets get bigger and the audience grows sharper, it will be fascinating to see how this plays out.

[Sam Farndale @SFarndale]

@AmazonMGMStudio Stargate

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

This is what the UK spyware proposal means.

There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.

When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).

The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.

Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.

Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.

The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.

The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.

@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu

Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s

@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77

The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Nobody has done more to undermine British values than Nigel Farage.

[Winter @LeftyWinter]

Mamdani: "Of the Margret Thatcher quote, the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. If anything my friends, it seems you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

A cause for national shame.

This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe.

Until 2015, the UK was top.

We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe.

We're now near Albania.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Living in Britain is watching the media smear and vilify good people who want to make positive change, while they celebrate and platform far right goons, funded and backed by almost comically evil tech multimillionaires.

It does make you feel a little mad.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Two Reform Councillors had died before they were elected.
Five have quit because they never actually wanted to be Councillors.
At least four have been fired because they are vile racists.
One is complaining because he thought he'd be an MP.
One was completely made up

Clown party

[April Ajoy @aprilajoyr]

How am I supposed to make satire when headlines like this are real 😭

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Rachel Millward, "The country has never been more divided, and that is heartbreaking isn't it"

"It's horrible seeing hate rise in our communities"

"The real divide is that we have 50 families in the UK that have the same wealth as 50% of the population"

"That's a massive elephant in the room and the reason why so many people voted Green yesterday, because we're the only ones actually calling that"

"Until we look at that great divide where the super rich get richer and richer and richer, and the rest of us, the 99% are struggling on the daily"

"When everybody's standard of living is affected, then people start scapegoating, they start pointing fingers, they start pitting us against each other"

[LBC @LBC]

“They had nothing from the system!”

Caller James, a teacher, lists all the reasons why young people shouldn't be asked to go to war for a country that failed them.

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

“To me it seems H!tler has won. He’s changed us J€ws from being compassionate and caring…into this vicious, Genocidal, nationalist nation,”

—Miriam Margolyes, an 83-year-old Jewish Australian-British actor publicly condemns Israelis