James Parry

@Microinteracti1 Try the Yuka App, it’s free, scan your foods barcode and it highlights the issues with it.

In Praise of Being Told What We Can’t Eat I used to find European regulations mildly embarrassing. The endless directives, the committees, the solemn deliberations about cucumber curvature. It seemed like a continent-wide exercise in missing the point. Then I looked at what was actually in my food. More than 10,000 chemicals are permitted in the American food supply. Nearly 99 percent introduced since 2000 were approved not by the FDA, but by the food industry itself.  Companies writing their own permission slips, essentially. The GRAS loophole, created in 1958, allows manufacturers to self-certify that their ingredients are safe. The EU has no equivalent.  The results are specific. BHT, used to extend shelf life in cereals and crackers, is banned in Europe over endocrine disruption concerns – which is why you will never find Wheat Thins here.  Bovine growth hormone, linked to elevated cancer markers, is injected into American dairy cows and banned across the EU. Standard American milk contains it unless the label says otherwise. Potassium bromate, a probable human carcinogen, is still used in American bread.  This is not accident. Three of America’s biggest lobbying firms work for the food industry. Pepsi alone spends nine million dollars a year on lobbying. Incentives, working exactly as designed. Europe chose the precautionary principle. Prove it is safe before it goes in. America chose the reverse. Things are safe until enough people are harmed to prove otherwise. Throw in the right to repair, universal charging cables, and food labels a human being can actually parse – and what emerges is not bureaucratic overreach. It is a regulatory culture that decided to represent the person eating the food rather than the company selling it. Critics can call that excessive. I call it civilization. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 What about OS updates? Most device lives end early due to no longer being supported (in relatively short timelines). Be nice to cover that with the same 10 year cycle and a paid option to increase for a further 10 years ♻️

The EU just declared war on glued-in batteries. From February 18, 2027, every smartphone and tablet sold in Europe must have a battery you can swap yourself. No heat gun. No solvents. Just normal tools any person can buy. Article 11 of the EU Batteries Regulation makes it law. There’s a loophole, naturally. Phones that clear certain waterproofing and battery longevity thresholds can skip end-user replaceability, as long as a professional can still do it. Apple’s lawyers are already reading that sentence very carefully. Samsung may actually be ahead of the curve. Recent Galaxy models already use pull-tab adhesives, which could put them close to compliant without a redesign. The era of “sorry, that’s not a serviceable part” is ending. In Europe, at least.

@iAnonymous3000 Run Ecosia… trees get planted 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

iPhone markets itself as the privacy phone. But Safari is the default and Google is its default search, because Apple takes ~$20B a year from Google to keep it that way. You can’t even add your own search engine on iOS. You pick from 5 Apple approved: Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia. Every one runs on Google or Bing indexes. Meaning every query you run on the “privacy phone” ends up at Google or Microsoft. Does that seem fair to you?

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

@rickygervais Please don’t do the ads 🙄… Happy to donate, especially if you’re going to build a sanctury 🐈

I've always turned down 'influencer money' on here. You know, stuff like, "Wow. I've just tried these safe, natural but really scientific tablets for 3 days, and now I'm not fat or mental anymore. #Ad" But now I think I should just do them & raise even more money for animals.

@tim_cook Maybe you could simply update older device OS’s for longer for even better environment results. I would happily pay a fee to update and on old device for longer when the hardware us still functional. I have old macbooks that go back to 2008 that still have their place

We’re proud to share the progress we’re making in our efforts to protect the planet, including our highest-ever use of recycled material in our products. apple.com/newsroom/2026/…

@magyarpeterMP 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

@CaolanReports I hope it goes your way 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Today, Hungary had the highest voting turnout since the fall of communism. An Orban party Mayor defected & voted for the opposition. All across the country, people told me they are done with corruption and Russian influence. Tonight is likely the end of Orban

@blue_eyedKeti 🇺🇦🫡

Supporting Ukraine isn't really about where you’re from; it’s just about being human. You can feel the strength of my country even from thousands of miles away, but you can’t force that on anyone who just doesn't want to see it. Honestly, there’s no point in trying to talk someone into feeling compassion. If there’s no room in your heart for Ukraine and our people right now, when things are this hard... it’s probably never going to be there. Love and empathy - they’re either there or they aren't. Simple as that.

If this is true… 🙄 #manchuriancandidate 🇺🇸🇷🇺👀

@ZelenskyyUa Don’t give an inch! You’re a remarkable leader, one that most other countries wish we had. 🫡

We cannot simply speak about withdrawing from Donbas as a matter of compromise. Our withdrawal from Donbas would open up opportunities for the Russian Federation to occupy our most fortified territories without losses. Some people say it would take a year to a year and a half to build new fortifications. But everyone forgets: first and foremost, that is a year and a half. And even if it were less, fortifications in an open field are a completely different matter from those in urban areas. They can never provide equally strong protection. A withdrawal would give the Russian Federation room for large-scale maneuver. They could advance either toward Kharkiv or toward Dnipro, destroying our cities. And two major cities would be at risk – cities that, incidentally, generate a significant share of our GDP. So many people have died there… The morale of our army would certainly decline. There would undoubtedly be a rift in society. The army – which would surely not support such steps – on one side, and society on the other. And division within society is precisely what Putin is aiming for. Moreover, there are currently 200,000 people living in the territories of Donbas that we are defending. Withdrawal does not mean preserving anything. You leave, and without any guarantees, you risk losing everything. And that is a major risk. From an interview with Rai Radio 1 (2/3).

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to. They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures. That is not how it works. Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America. Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf. Now imagine they hadn’t. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home. Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost. And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover. Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name. Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers. If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine. In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation. If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa. You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Good luck Artemis II 🚀 @NASA

@JamieBonkiewicz 😂

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

@_chenglou 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 take a bow sir!

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

This is why Ai still has a long way to go…. Google’s directly contradicts the accurate information contained in its own top result from the @BBC 🙄

@reformparty_uk @SuellaBraverman The more Reform takes ex-Tories the less likely they’ll be getting my vote. These moves are not a “success” strategy for Reform 🙄

Welcome to Reform UK, @SuellaBraverman! 🇬🇧

@10DowningStreet It will most likely be used for powering AI data centres, with AI use then going on to make most working people redundant.

Working people across the UK will feel the benefits of new UK-US commitments to fast-track nuclear energy: ▪ Clean, homegrown power ▪ Thousands of high-skilled jobs ▪ Lower bills in the long-term.