Facebook’s ridiculous plan to crowdsource news trustworthiness
Asking users to rate the trustworthiness of news sources is like asking 3 year olds to choose their own meals: they’ll pick what they like, not what’s good for them.
Setting goals I might stick to for 2018
I’m trying a new way of setting my New Year’s resolutions, in a probably hopeless attempt to actually stick to them.
Diversity: don’t civil servants have something better to be doing?
If every public service is created by straight, white, middle-class men, the result is ‘great’ services for straight, white, middle-class men.
I listened to every Eurovision 2017 entry, so you don’t have to
Here we are again. First impressions of every track, in the order they’ll appear, in less than a tweet each.
I made a Twitterbot to tell people the obvious
It’s you. It’s just you. No really. No one else saw that. It was just you. You’re a genius. Well done.
A 21st century health service: fax machines, print outs and misinformation
Who knew that changing GPs surgery would be so hard in 2016?
What happened when my blog post went viral
I recently wrote a blog post - a letter to my heterosexual friends about Orlando - that went unintentionally viral. Here’s the story behind that post.