Chris Bailey

have you looked in the haystack?🙂

was he from Strewsbury?

I share your opinion of Beyond Black

Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens I envisioned the web as a place for the shared benefit of all — by reclaiming our data we can make that happen

In 2017 I wrote about Charlie - an AI that works for you. @inrupt.bsky.social labs now has Charlie working.

Thanks to the FT for my op-ed online today ⬇️
www.ft.com/content/79d2...

Can we save the audio and listen to it later? - Media Arts Cities Discarded sound – Leon van Oldenborgh x Róbert Rampáček Creative Industry Košice again briefly became the Košice residency center in 2024, and for 2 months, we hosted Dutch new media artist Leon van O...

I loved this artwork about what we miss by discarding the sound that is cancelled by our noise cancelling headphones. mediaartscities.com/can-we-save-...

From The QT: Ticket to ride In March 2024, writer Michael Chaplin made an epic journey through time and space to celebrate perhaps the greatest gift made to the world by the North East— the railways.

From The QT: Ticket to ride
open.substack.com/pub/eyesande...

Want an antidote to the general doom and gloom about the state of Britain? Take a look at ONS's "Well-being dashboard."

The vast majority of us are happy with our family, friends, jobs and communities.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Eyes & Ears North East | Brian Aitken | Substack Eyes & Ears is a curated round-up of what's been happening in the North East in the past seven days and was a popular part of The QT, an online news magazine for the North East of England. Click to re...

If this is what local journalism is turning into, then I'm all for it. Eyes & Ears North East eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Who is 'the money behind the money?' As the Guardian announces the 'sale' of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, I wave hello to my new bosses (hi!) with an investigation of their finances.

Whoah!
This piece on the Observer newspaper's capture by global oil interests is explosive!
Written by investigative journo & Observer insider Carole Cadwalladr, it paints an incredibly gloomy picture of the future of independent newspapers.
Gulp!
broligarchy.substack.com/p/who-is-the...

Blimey

Tweets from the official X/Twitter engineering account: Soon we’ll be launching a change to how the block function works. If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage (like, reply, repost, etc.). 1:32 PM · Oct 16, 2024 Today, block can be used by users to share and hide harmful or private information about those they’ve blocked. Users will be able to see if such behavior occurs with this update, allowing for greater transparency.

WELCOME, NEW BLUESKY USERS

Bluesky Social as the #1 free app in the App Store rankings

Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking

Morning all. I like it when people write well and carefully about very small things, and this is one of those (also a reminder to the new people: with less algorithmic boosting here, you gotta repost what you like or people don't find it)