John Cole

CCO & Board Member @Ezoic | 20 years in Ad Tech | Sailor | Father | Veteran | Englishman | Christian | @johncole1

[John Cole @johncole1]

Just a reminder to all of us working with AI:

Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking.

[John Cole @johncole1]

@ShippersUnbound @Annemarieward "The modern British state no longer knows how to produce solidarity except through compliance architecture"
Pretty much sums it up.

[Tyler Bishop @TylerBishop]

Have to think the ONLY reason a YouTuber wouldn't have Open Video setup for search results alone is because they literally don't know it exists.

Most don't know its possible

[John Cole @johncole1]

Clause 39 of the Magna Carta

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.

#magnacarta #fsu

https://t.co/qWwt5uImlP

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

The Grok 4.20 Beta shows three major improvements over Grok 4:

➤ Our lowest ever hallucination rate on the AA-Omniscience evaluation. When Grok did not know the answer, it hallucinated an incorrect answer 22% of the time - this is the lowest hallucination rate of any model we have tested, topping Claude Haiku 4.5 (25%)

➤ Top scores for instruction following and prompt adherence. On IFBench, Grok 4.20 takes the #1 spot with 82.9% - a +29.2 point increase on Grok 4

➤ Leading speed for its intelligence. At 265 tokens per second output speed on xAI’s API, Grok 4.20 is significantly faster than its peer and over 2x the output speed seen from Grok 4.1 Fast

Congratulations to @xai and @elonmusk on the 4.20 Beta 0309 launch!

[Tyler Bishop @TylerBishop]

Literally, everyone should use it.

Hard to think of any good reason not to

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 NEW FSU PODCAST EPISODE OUT NOW!

Just when you think this government couldn’t get any more authoritarian, it’s pressing ahead with restricting the right to trial by jury.

Tomorrow, the Courts and Tribunals Bill will have its second reading, and Labour MPs are gearing up to rebel against the government.

On this week’s episode, the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, is joined by Labour MP and former Shadow Attorney General @KarlTurnerMP, who has been leading the charge in Parliament to save our jury trials.

Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel 👇

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

✍️SIGN OUR PETITION TO SAVE JURY TRIALS: https://t.co/yfS61KvRVQ

[Ezoic @ezoic]

There are only 4 Google Premier Certified Publishing Partners in the world.

Ezoic is one of them.

That means early access to Google beta features, priority support, and ecosystem tools your current provider can’t offer.

Accept no substitutes.

[John Cole @johncole1]

Great insights here

[Ezoic @ezoic]

Some highlights from @MediaKing , founder of @MarketBeatCom discussing the balance of using AI as a tool.

Catch the full episode of The Publisher Lab where he and @TylerBishop go in-depth on the topic and how strategic focus plays an important role.

[John Cole @johncole1]

Please support this uk petition.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

David Lammy’s plan to slash our right to trial by jury is the biggest assault on English liberty in 800 years — especially on free speech.

Our research shows that people charged with speech crimes are almost twice as likely to be acquitted in a Crown Court with a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one.

We’re calling on the government to guarantee our right to trial by jury.

✍️ Sign our petition: https://t.co/xPotJM6DNO

[John Cole @johncole1]

Top tips for getting into AI Search Answers:
https://t.co/jwQ55uGPaB

[John Cole @johncole1]

@HMSLANCASTER @smrmoorhouse @ukmcc @RMBandService Proud moment. BZ to all the crew.

Can’t see it in the photos; do ships no longer fly paying off pennants when decommissioning ?

[John Cole @johncole1]

@TomSharpe134 Yeah - really good one. Thanks for sharing Tom!

[John Cole @johncole1]

This is not good for our country...

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

We’ve had jury trials for over 800 years.

But, this morning, David Lammy was too much of a coward to tell us why he’s scrapping them.

He’s stealing our freedoms and hiding as he does it.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Juries have been the last line of defence against the authoritarian cancel mob.

When our members have found themselves charged with criminal offences for speaking out, juries have reliably said no dice to overzealous prosecutors. This has infuriated the CPS and the activists who make malicious complaints.

One was Jamie Michael, a decorated Royal Marines veteran, who was charged with inciting racial hatred after a Labour staffer reported him to the police for a video he posted on Facebook. Jamie spent 20 days in prison on remand. A jury took just 17 minutes to clear him. The local Labour Party were said to be furious.

Now David Lammy wants to scrap juries and give judges — who are required to follow DEI policies — the sole power to convict and jail Brits for up to 5 years for online posts.

This move is about power, not saving costs. Nothing in our present national situation warrants abandoning an 800-year-old right: that in a court of law, your peers decide if you're guilty, not the state.

We will fight any such proposal with everything we’ve got.

Read more below 👇

[John Cole @johncole1]

This guy's SO fun to watch!
https://t.co/Y6ufcog4SR

[John Cole @johncole1]

🚀 Ezoic crushing it - passing 100 Billion Tokens with OpenAI.
Ezoic continuing to push hard for AI innovation in the ad-tech space
#ezoic #openai

[John Cole @johncole1]

Ezoic passes 100 Billion tokens…

#ezoic #openai