"if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle." - Francis Fukuyama got it right in 1992 when he foresaw the great-grandsons of those […]

Just how much longer will UK and Europe kick the can down the road over digital sovereignty, after Comb-over Caligula ordered a ban on US entities making transactions with the International Criminal Court, because its former judge Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (and she […]

All jabbed up against winter lurgies, and listening to HMRC's execrable hold music. I always do this at the end of a Friday, as I know I can have a glass of wine soon.

The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat”... Hammami peppered his diatribes with the language of the manosphere […]

Just 2 hours until I get home. I'd love to tell you what was said, but Chatham House Rules. I think we gave it our best shot; I don't think Big Tech Gatekeeper made their case convincingly. It's all EU politics now, which is outside my influence (or interest, tbh).

Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

Finally getting into the swing of speaking / hearing French again, after baffling a couple of waiters on my first 2 nights by replying in thai, then Turkish. Wish I could stay and practice more.

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

In the midst of a wasteland of flaky buttery monstrosities and sweet cakes, I have found a cafe filled with Arabic blokes and elderly French speaking men playing chess where real breakfast is available for 6 Euro.

It doesn't need to be this way, of course. It's possible to imagine a world in which someone with hundreds of dollars to spend on a device is treated as adult enough to run the software they choose on it. Crazy, I know.

Brogrammers couldn't wrap their megabrains around not-a-real-language CSS, so decided to reinvent it and fight against the web platform for their own convenience. Who could possibly have predicted it would be crap for users and would need expensive surgery to lance the festering pus?

Off to see what hideousness passes for breakfast in Europe. Probably "croissant" wallowing lasciviously in hot chocolate, while Marxists read Camus and snort absinthe to the strains of maudlin accordion music.

I'm staying on Stalingrad Avenue. I hope that isn't some sort of omen about the meeting with The Big Tech.

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Zut alors! I'm off to Brussels, home of Magritte, Brel and the only good beer on the continent, for 3 days of synergies with Europeans about Big Tech's abuse of dominance and general stinkiness. Wish me luck, open web fans! Keepez votre fingers crossé.