James Fowkes

@fowkc.bsky.social

Glider pilot. Embedded software puncher and PCB wrestler. Remains overweight. 40 ± 2.

With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?

BBC news article headlined "Better WiFi for hundreds of trains under government plans"

The centrist who sneers "populist" is inviting you to believe that there is no difference between "you are worse off because of the swarming hordes of islamic transgenders" and "you are worse off because the rich have used their wealth and power to amass more wealth and power."

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

You want to get rid of speed cameras so that you can speed without getting fined. I want to get rid of speed cameras and instead fill up the road lanes with so much impedimenta that it's impossible to get up a lick of speed and speed cameras would be redundant. We are not the same.

One good thing about useless AI chatbots is that you can vent at them without guilt. You can't (or, you shouldn't) yell and scream and swear at a human but a chatbot doesn't care if you call it a thick cunt. It's very cathartic despite being ultimately pointless.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

In Christmases past I would spend Xmas day wishing a Merry Christmas to people I follow on twitter... But obviously that's not happening anymore, so here's a thread I shall add to through the day in no particular order...