Dan Swinhoe
@danswinhoe.bsky.social
Journalist: Senior Editor at Datacenter Dynamics. Previously IDG, CSO Online.
Midlander. Metalhead.
Midlander. Metalhead.
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This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is an excellent, level-headed, informative piece. I'd kill for a government which could discuss the issue with the same sense of objectivity and calm.
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The Spectator is just a few columns away from endorsing Advance UK
Lost for words at this Jonathan Sacerdoti piece in the Spectator
September 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Spectator is just a few columns away from endorsing Advance UK
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You couldn't make Trigger Happy TV today. Not because of woke. It's simply that most of the audience wouldn't understand that the loud guy with the big phone was doing something bad.
August 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
You couldn't make Trigger Happy TV today. Not because of woke. It's simply that most of the audience wouldn't understand that the loud guy with the big phone was doing something bad.
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So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about.
As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
Trump on Intel boss: "He walked in wanting to keep his job and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States. We do a lot of deals like that. I'll do more of them."
August 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So, uh, first off, the US gov't getting a $10b stake in Intel (by converting grants to equity) is not "giving us $10b." And, second, this is insane. Nationalizing US businesses used to be the sorta thing that Republicans freaked out about.
As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
As a former Intel employee, I find this all very stupid.
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Today I learned Victoria Beckham's album was the fifth most expensive ever recorded for some reason?
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Today I learned Victoria Beckham's album was the fifth most expensive ever recorded for some reason?
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It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot.
tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
June 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot.
tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
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I'm just real dang happy with these little guys
May 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I'm just real dang happy with these little guys
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Turns out that AI-generated summer guide printed by the Chicago Sun-Times was made by magazine giant Hearst. We spoke to them.
www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...
www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...
Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
The Chicago Sun-Times said "we understand this is unacceptable for us to distribute."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Turns out that AI-generated summer guide printed by the Chicago Sun-Times was made by magazine giant Hearst. We spoke to them.
www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...
www.404media.co/viral-ai-gen...
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There are certain things that AI is particularly and notoriously bad at and this is one of them.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There are certain things that AI is particularly and notoriously bad at and this is one of them.
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Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?
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This might be a sleeper among the stuff Microsoft showed at its 50th anniversary event: Quake generated entirely through AI. www.theverge.com/news/644117/...
Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake | The Verge
You can now try out Microsoft’s new Muse AI model
www.theverge.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This might be a sleeper among the stuff Microsoft showed at its 50th anniversary event: Quake generated entirely through AI. www.theverge.com/news/644117/...
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A lot of investigative reporting relies on @archive.org, which is an invaluable resource for journalists of all stripes. But don’t sleep on the alternatives. The coverage provided by any.run or @domaintools.bsky.social isn’t nearly as comprehensive but the pair can fill in crucial gaps.
March 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A lot of investigative reporting relies on @archive.org, which is an invaluable resource for journalists of all stripes. But don’t sleep on the alternatives. The coverage provided by any.run or @domaintools.bsky.social isn’t nearly as comprehensive but the pair can fill in crucial gaps.
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🌨️Here's a long feature from me on efforts to build a subsea internet cable directly through the North Pole. This is a project which could have big upside for connectivity, but also comes with myriad problems. It was a fascinating one to research:
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...
Poles apart: Building the Arctic's first subsea cable
Could going directly through the North Pole finally deliver the Arctic Circle an underwater Internet cable?
www.datacenterdynamics.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🌨️Here's a long feature from me on efforts to build a subsea internet cable directly through the North Pole. This is a project which could have big upside for connectivity, but also comes with myriad problems. It was a fascinating one to research:
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/...
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Apropos of literally everything … time to reflect on this post from a year ago.
Billionaire board members feeling peer pressure to take drugs with Elon because if they don't they think Musk will be angry and cut them out of his companies and life. The world is so stupid.
February 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Apropos of literally everything … time to reflect on this post from a year ago.
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Finally some good news
The US Copyright Office has declared that generative AI art and text generated by prompts cannot be copyright protected.
(Read more: The Verge)
(Read more: The Verge)
January 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Finally some good news
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name a more iconic safety engineering duo than Boeing and Elon Musk
January 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
name a more iconic safety engineering duo than Boeing and Elon Musk
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Agree with this (unsurprisingly) - it's such a bad habit, wastes huge amounts of time and you just look a bit worse when it comes out.
I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.
I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.
January 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Agree with this (unsurprisingly) - it's such a bad habit, wastes huge amounts of time and you just look a bit worse when it comes out.
I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.
I'm a huge fan of the FOI Act for letting people ask for the information they're intested in, but I'm also a fan of not having to ask.
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Today I Learned.
Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
January 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today I Learned.
Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
Lemon pigs originated in the latter half of the 19th century as a children's amusement, subsequently adopted for the dining table, re-emerging only recently with good luck associations for the New Year.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
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An explanation, for tonight
![A cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:
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THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him.
Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading:
OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England
FAN 1:
That’s Harry Styles!
FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]:
Can I have a selfie, Harry?
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FAN:
What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry?
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HARRY STYLES:
Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘
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*FSHW*
[Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM]
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[We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it]
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[Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles]
[Legend on screen]:
ARTIST ELIMINATED
HOLLAND:
Goddamn it
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HOLLAND:
Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT?
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HOLLAND:
Tim Davie!
TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]:
Y-yes Jools?
HOLLAND:
Who’ve we got left for this year?
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TIM DAVIE:
The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond
HOLLAND:
Almond *again*?
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TIM DAVIE:
We’re running out of artists to call, sir…
M-must we keep killing… so many…?
HOLLAND:
You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it…
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HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]:
Must be eliminated](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibtcfluywrhxbnpooa5dcxr526hq474qcbio63di5dbctszzacezq@jpeg)
December 31, 2024 at 10:09 AM
An explanation, for tonight
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If you've been good this year, Kirk Windstein will come to your house and leave you a big bag of tasty riffs. If you've been bad, Lars Ulrich is gonna add nine unnecessary riffs to every song you've been working on.
December 24, 2024 at 2:51 PM
If you've been good this year, Kirk Windstein will come to your house and leave you a big bag of tasty riffs. If you've been bad, Lars Ulrich is gonna add nine unnecessary riffs to every song you've been working on.