Leon Maughan

from Newcastle🇬🇧. Making weather stuff in 🇳🇱

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

black mirror s7e1: common people

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

good summary of the nonsense

[Jose @josesaezmerino]

This is so dumb on the EU's part but they're being so stubborn and beurocracy-minded that they're blind as to why.

Their statement doesn't clash with what Apple said, but what the EU considers "interoperability" means Apple should allow you to power Siri AI with other models (GPT, Gemini, Claude), which is obviously a huge privacy risk because the whole idea of Siri AI is that by having unrestricted access to all your personal context its able to do things that you can't do with a simple app.

The reason Apple doesn't want to open it up that way is because they can only guarantee that their own in-device and private compute models will respect their privacy but they can't prevent other companies from using your data.

In thinking that they're helping consumers by offering "choice" the EU is risking user safety. Ugh.

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

when I first moved to NL Marktplaats was horrifying to me, hated using it. Purely transactional messages, often ignored.
But this is what Dutch culture is, and it’s taken me ages to see it as a weirdly positive thing.

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@BIMBOSATTVA_ it can be useful to get to know someone through observing their actions rather than listening to them, especially if they’re charismatic

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

@Nyarloteph @DangleSpanners getting a job in eu as a British person is the same process as being an Indian person.
That process puts burdens on the employer to prove they’ve looked to fill the vacancy from within the eu first.
It’s practically impossible 99% of the time

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

@jonnyvjames @DangleSpanners I’ve worked in netherlands 9 years and still don’t speak fluent dutch, I came in 2017, would be impossible now. English is the global language

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

it’s so damn quiet out here I could hear a

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the wall of hate twitter towards @garyseconomics today, 3 days before the election, is fascinating

[Karthik Tadepalli @karthiktadepall]

if only most econ papers had this good of a first paragraph

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@graceyldn Smile at them and say ‘sorry’ and don’t slow down

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@adamtranter bikes should be guests in this sort of street too but they take priority everywhere. It’s pretty hard to actually enjoy walking around Amsterdam lol

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they’re the same picture

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pleased Voldemort has taken up a trade instead of hanging around his old school bullying the kids

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@LFRedfoot @technopopulist how is it the same?

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

turns out this is like the blog post i wrote but 100x better

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

You spend more time on social media than you intend to, because time flows faster on these platforms, causing you to lose hours in what feels like minutes. This is no accident; it’s a result of a decades-long plot to steal your time.

My new essay.
https://t.co/7tnGcPxSK2

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

Screen time is reducing your working memory 👉https://t.co/OnOWDqT3k8

[🇭🇷dylan🇵🇸 @fountinsofwayne]

doing poorly so naturally i have gone to greet at one of my favourite limmys show sketches

[Leon Maughan @LeonMaughan]

we need palm beach pete on the next series of traitors

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@Porkchop_EXP @Genxmemoir yeh in NL, I’m saying in the US it’s decided by insurers so there’s cost-benefit gatekeeping in both systems