Tom Morris

@tommorris
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Eternally damned techno-priest heretic, curly brace balancer, and pesky citation requester.
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I swear, please, if you are writing about Apple's new age verification stuff in iOS, please do not say that it is there to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct.

The OSA applies to user-to-user and search services. iOS isn't a service that comes within the remit of the OSA, nor are (as far as I can tell) pretty much anything an Apple account is used for.

They may be trying to pre-emptively comply with other laws (such as California's AB-1043), but the OSA does not require OS-level age verification.

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble 

they're so close

#PredictionMarkets #Coinbase

Journalist: "You may think you know everything there is to know about my interview subject today. But beneath the hollow exterior lurks something far deeper."

Interview subject: "I resent the implication of this. I'm incredibly shallow, actually. If I were complicated, why would I become popular in this day and age?"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116287584957845626

AI guys—and it almost always is guys—really dislike the idea of people having the ability to say no.

The girls and the gays spot the red flags. Big incel/manosphere podcast host kinda vibes. Keep an eye out for anyone who has a drink in their vicinity.

Madagascar’s military ruler decrees that ministers must pass lie detector tests

Michael Randrianirina, who dismissed PM and cabinet without explanation, claims measure is to root out corruption

The Guardian

Copilot is a colossal failure. That button on PC keyboards is a tombstone.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html

Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why

Nadella just reshuffled his entire AI leadership. Here's what that means for your portfolio.

Yahoo Finance

I admire the intentions of the person who put up a “This is an ICE free zone” sticker on the sign for my local park, but I’m reasonably certain ICE aren’t descending on London yet.

We call them the Home Office and they’re also bad.

The Case Was Settled, But ChatGPT Thought Otherwise: A Dispute Poised to Define AI Legal Liability

On March 4, 2026, Nippon Life Insurance Company of America (“Nippon Life”) filed suit against OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC in U.S. District Court

National Law Review

“Who could have predicted this?”

Oh, literally everyone… except the effective altruist superpredictor AI rationalist bros who were super-hyped about prediction markets.

The moment money is riding on an outcome, there’ll be people trying to manipulate the outcome. See: every dodgy cockney East London boxing promoter in a Guy Ritchie movie.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/prediction-markets-promised-better-information-instead-theyre-creating-powerful-incentives-to-corrupt-information/

Prediction Markets Promised Better Information. Instead They’re Creating Powerful Incentives to Corrupt Information.

There’s a concept in economics known as Goodhart’s Law, often summarized as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The idea, originally about mo…

Techdirt