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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1d ago

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.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Loads of fighting age people in burkas invade our coast and cause massive disruption. I thought Patirots hate that?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2d ago

Replying to

@DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz Thanks! Hand-made for me in Rajasthan.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 6d ago

Rappin' with regulators

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

A tasty shakshuka in a Palestinian cafe before my train. It's been too long since I've had this pleasure.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Your occasional reminder that, with no added A.I., Vivaldi browser is guaranteed not to attempt to wipe out humanity. https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser

Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of…

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Confidence in Big Tech Continues to Slide https://news.gallup.com/poll/712436/confidence-institutions-remains-near-time-low.aspx#:~:text=Confidence%20in%20Big%20Tech%20Continues%20to%20Slide Confidence in large technology companies has fallen steadily from the 32% recorded when Gallup first included it on the list in 2020; today’s 20% rating brings it to a new low.

Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low

Gallup.com

Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low

Americans remain stuck in a confidence rut, with average trust in national institutions below 30% for the fifth straight year.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Replying to

Counsel for Meta now tugging at our heartstrings at how over-regulated they are, and how mean it is that different territories have different regulators, when all they want to do is bring people together and enable a Brotherhood of Man. I'm worried that my laptop might short-circuit in this sudden outpouring of lachrymosity.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(min(100%, 22rem), 1fr)); = the best bit of CSS ever. Thank you, new layout algos.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

I'm orf to fakkin Laaahhndaaaaahn for some meetings and then to yell at nerds about Big Tech, squire.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

"JPEG XL isn't useless; it is genuinely compelling technology for use cases beyond the Web. I'm just not personally convinced we need it in browsers any time soon." https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/

giannirosato.com

The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange

Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it’s not training on your faces (really) https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/07/microsoft-admits-it-force-installed-ai-powered-onedrive-on-windows-11-says-its-not-training-on-your-faces-really/ So, that's OK then. You didn't want that storage space, did you?

windowslatest.com

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Marginalia: a search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content, no AI, no tracking, open-source. "The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write" https://marginalia-search.com

Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

What has happened to me? A lobbyist acquaintance from Trumpistan asked to pick my brains on the differences between the EU and UK tech regulatory regimes, and I've just expounded for 30 mins on the theme. What have I become? I should have learned React so I could make iOS Crypto Apps or games to sell cigarettes to children in the global South.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2w ago

Replying to

Artificial intelligence data ‘land grab’ looms amid proposed digital changes, privacy activist Max Schrems warns https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/09/21/ai-data-land-grab-looms-amid-proposed-digital-changes/ EU proposals put interests of private AI firms above citizens’ rights, warm campaigners

The Irish Times

Artificial intelligence data ‘land grab’ looms amid proposed digital changes, privacy activist Max Schrems warns

Campaigners warn new EU proposals put interests of private AI firms above citizens’ rights

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Replying to

@urlyman@mastodon.social This designer fetish for so-called "whitespace" must end.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Exchanging billets-doux with Apple's compliance department, yet again.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Replying to

Suddenly, the skies have darkened - thunder rumbles ominously, owls are screeching, and all the wolves in the City of London are howling in unison. The Competition and Compliance Counsels from Meta and Google have taken the stage.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Taxpayers to foot the bill for by-election after Reform Councillor can't be arsed to turn up for 6 months. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98v75nl8zpo

bbc.co.uk

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Replying to

@Lukew@toot.wales I wasted my time filing that interoperability request, it seems.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Replying to

@anarodrigues@front-end.social I liked it when you told me that my CSSDay talk was "boring and wrong", but "remarkably comprehensible considering you're a half-wit"

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social

Replying to

It's nice to see folks from Opera and Brave adding their support to our request to be able to use WebAPK minting for better PWA installation on Android. Once again, Vivaldi is happy to be leading the way & fighting for a better web for all. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/543049061

issuetracker.google.com

Google Issue Tracker

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

After yesterday's triumphant picture, here's the best photo of Sid James smoking a pipe while sitting on a Chopper you'll see *today*.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Has anyone coded a jamming PWA to use in case some wanker with a new iThing is recording every conversation with Siri Recap? Or should I just carry a mallet, because privacy is a human right?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Farewell, Spectator journo Rod Liddle, who wrote "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids … I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten" (eg, 14-15 years old). Yet the Right are mourning him. https://spectator.com/article/a-teenage-girl-a-maths-teacher-and-a-righteous-tabloid-fury/

spectator.com

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Replying to

@dletorey@front-end.social God no, she'd mash me. @anarodrigues@front-end.social

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 3w ago

Replying to

@anarodrigues@front-end.social it's definitely less comprehensible

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@janl@narrativ.es Did you get a sticker?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

I'm always delighted when a new regulator contacts us to ask questions about the villainy of Big Tech, but -by Darwin!- it takes an age to gather all the info together. Just another 5 Qs to go…

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@mattround@crispsandwi.ch why would anyone paint over them?!?!

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@sil@mastodon.social @brianleroux@indieweb.social The world is a perpertual WTFountain at the moment.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

At @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net we want the web to be the application platform of choice. So to make PWAs more "native" on Android, I filed an interoperability request with Google under DMA article 6(7) to make WebAPK minting available to all browsers. Hopefully this will be uncontroversial, given that our chums in Mountain View stated that "We are committed to making this available to all browsers on Android", other browsers want it too, and we all 💕 PWAs and the open web. https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/543049061

issuetracker.google.com

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

#blessed

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Replying to

@hirsebirse@norden.social They presumably wish to be thought of as stormtroops. But I didn't really get storm vibes, so much as fart vibes

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

This is the best photo of Sid James and Barbara Windsor on a moped you'll see today.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

I almost wish it would rain to end the heatwave and drought, except I know some pompous smartarse will use it as an opportunity to tell social media about "petrichor". Oh bugger I just did.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

I see the that the Arschlochtruppen of a group calling themselves "White Vanguard" were demonstrating in a town near me over the weekend, wearing black shirts and niqab.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@malarkey@mastodon.social See, I'd got you down as a Charles Hawtree devotee.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1w ago

Replying to

Counsel for Google is telling a heart-rending tale of woe on the stage. Apparently, the UK regulator can impose more conduct requirements in the future, which means that product teams don't know what they can or can't do in UK, and this makes them sad. I'm not a lawyer, but perhaps they could try to stop shitting on competitors in UK?

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 1mo ago

Because i'm often asked to settle arguments, here are the best songs from the Cocteau Twins. 10/ Blue Bell knoll 9/ Cherry-coloured funk 8/ Summerhead 7/ Squeeze wax 6/ Bluebeard 5/ Fotzepolitic 4/ Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires 3/ Lorelei 2/ Iceblink Luck 1/ Carolyn's Fingers

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@brianleroux@indieweb.social I think that if it's in the face, technically that's "BukkaQue?". @sil@mastodon.social

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@malarkey@mastodon.social Yup. You're the Leslie Philips to my Jim Dale.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@malarkey@mastodon.social Rich kid, eh? We could never afford one.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

"My general rule of thumb however, is that added shareholder value is in inverse proportion to human nutritional value." says Felicity Lawrence, about Ultra-Processed Food. It's my rule of thumb about most industries. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/ultra-processed-food-firms-sue-harm-products-regulation

theguardian.com

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net

· 2mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@malarkey@mastodon.social I know! Mind you, it was the Chopper that saved it from administration when we were kids. And I think we're more suited to Segways now.

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