Adam Tinworth
@adders.blog
Journalist, blogger, lecturer in audience strategy at City St George’s, University of London. Tired Dad and a good egg (mostly)
Work blog: https://onemanandhisblog.com
Personal blog: https://adders.blog
Work blog: https://onemanandhisblog.com
Personal blog: https://adders.blog
My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
One Man's Notes
My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
adders.blog
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 AM
My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.
Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
One Man's Notes
Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
adders.blog
January 16, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫
Reposted by Adam Tinworth
Time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s report for the Nerve on why Keir Starmer’s digital ID policy was actually Tony Blair’s digital ID policy (and also “a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream”)
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January 14, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s report for the Nerve on why Keir Starmer’s digital ID policy was actually Tony Blair’s digital ID policy (and also “a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream”)
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Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years:
"A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035."
"A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035."
One Man's Notes
Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years:
A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035.
adders.blog
January 14, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years:
"A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035."
"A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035."
Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products.
This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.
apple.news/AKFwHofHJS4u...
This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.
apple.news/AKFwHofHJS4u...
Warhammer maker bans staff from using AI — The Telegraph
Games Workshop ‘very cautious’ on the technology as it plans to ‘respect our human creators’
apple.news
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products.
This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.
apple.news/AKFwHofHJS4u...
This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.
apple.news/AKFwHofHJS4u...
Not saying it’s cold up here on the Downs today, but…
January 10, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Not saying it’s cold up here on the Downs today, but…
I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.
One Man's Notes
I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.
adders.blog
January 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.
Reposted by Adam Tinworth
If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI chatbot Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says
Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:08 AM
If a website appeared overnight that gave hundreds of millions of users the opportunity to create CSAM you'd expect governments to shut it down quickly, so the question is why X gets a pass when it's done just that?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Adam Tinworth
The by-product of this is that, in ceasing to worry about whether something is true or not, we’ve also ceased to worry about whether it’s any good. We live in the era of fuck-it-that’ll-do. Which, not accidentally suits the roll out of AI down to the ground.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
The by-product of this is that, in ceasing to worry about whether something is true or not, we’ve also ceased to worry about whether it’s any good. We live in the era of fuck-it-that’ll-do. Which, not accidentally suits the roll out of AI down to the ground.
Reposted by Adam Tinworth
This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Ira Sachs's new film about Peter Hujar to an enchanting David Attenborough documentary about London's wildlife
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-pe...
From Ira Sachs's new film about Peter Hujar to an enchanting David Attenborough documentary about London's wildlife
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-pe...
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️
From Ira Sachs's new film about Peter Hujar to an enchanting David Attenborough documentary about London's wildlife
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-pe...
From Ira Sachs's new film about Peter Hujar to an enchanting David Attenborough documentary about London's wildlife
www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-pe...
Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces:
"As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/07/elizabeth-spiers-eating-the-chess.html
"As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/07/elizabeth-spiers-eating-the-chess.html
One Man's Notes
Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces:
As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and find some rational explanation for it that does not involve Donald Trump with a colon full of chess pieces.
adders.blog
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces:
"As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/07/elizabeth-spiers-eating-the-chess.html
"As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and ... https://adders.blog/2026/01/07/elizabeth-spiers-eating-the-chess.html
I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.
One Man's Notes
I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.
adders.blog
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.
It’s nice to have a goal in life… 😉
January 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
It’s nice to have a goal in life… 😉
Roll up, roll up.
It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog.
(Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog.
(Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
One Man's Notes
Roll up, roll up.
It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog.
(Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
adders.blog
January 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Roll up, roll up.
It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog.
(Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
It’s time for my annual round-up of the top 10 most read posts on One Man & His Blog.
(Not first day back at work procrastination, no, not at all. 😇)
I appear to have deeply confused Amazon’s algorithm. This is not going to encourage me to spend…
January 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM
I appear to have deeply confused Amazon’s algorithm. This is not going to encourage me to spend…
Five for me.
Just did a thing on Facebook.
Open the app and go through the first 100 posts. Include in the 100 posts all groups, ads, company posts, media posts, anything.
Count how many of those posts are from people you are actual friends with.
I got 2.
2 out of 100.
WTF is the point of Facebook in 2026?
Open the app and go through the first 100 posts. Include in the 100 posts all groups, ads, company posts, media posts, anything.
Count how many of those posts are from people you are actual friends with.
I got 2.
2 out of 100.
WTF is the point of Facebook in 2026?
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Five for me.
Possibly the best pub meal I’ve ever had. Kudos to the team at the Rose & Crown, Shilton.
January 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Possibly the best pub meal I’ve ever had. Kudos to the team at the Rose & Crown, Shilton.
Sunset on Shoreham Beach
January 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Sunset on Shoreham Beach
The first and the last couple of words are the other side of the wall, which made it all very confusing at first.
December 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The first and the last couple of words are the other side of the wall, which made it all very confusing at first.
Faringdon town centre in the Cotswolds, UK.
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Faringdon town centre in the Cotswolds, UK.
Chilly Christmas beach walk.
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Chilly Christmas beach walk.