Day: 22 December 2023

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I asked AI to write a Christmas poem…

Father Christmas

And this is what it came up with… (exactly as it was written)

Christmas is a time of joy
A time to celebrate and enjoy
The birth of our Savior and King
Who came to earth to bring
Peace and love to all mankind
And hope for those who seek and find

Christmas is a time of grace
A time to forgive and embrace
The ones who hurt us or make us sad
And remember the good times we had
With family and friends who are dear
And wish them all a happy new year

Christmas is a time of light
A time to shine and delight
The world with our gifts and talents
And share our blessings and abundance
With those who are in need or alone
And make them feel they have a home

The image was AI generated too.

Merry Christmas and A happy New Year!

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UK recession risk

UK recession risk!

The UK is at risk of recession after revised figures indicate the economy shrank between July and September 2023.

A recession is defined as when the economy shrinks for two three-month periods in a row.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the health of the economy, contracted by 0.1% after previous estimates suggested growth has been flat. There was no growth between April and June 2023, after it was first calculated to have risen by 0.2%.

There have been concerns over the UK’s weak economic growth for a while now, but the UK has managed to avoid a recession so far. Whether or not there is a small recession, the bigger picture for analysts is that they expect real GDP growth to remain subdued throughout 2024. However, bear in mind that projections and forecasts do change, as already demonstrated.

Earlier this week, data showed that inflation, which measures the rate of price rises, slowed by more than expected to 3.9% in the year to November 2023, down from 4.6% in the previous month.

Forecasts do change…

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X suffers global outage

X outage

Social media platform X suffered global outages for just over an hour on Thursday 21st December 2023.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports, more than 47,000 U.S. users encountered issues with X and X Pro.

Some users in the UK were also unable to view posts on the site with the message ‘Welcome to X!’ X, (formerly Twitter), is owned by Elon Musk which he bought for $44 billion (£35 billion) in 2022.

The hashtag #TwitterDown started trending within minutes of reports of the outages emerging. But the outage was short-lived, with users able to access the platform again after just over an hour. Since Mr Musk bought the platform, it has been experiencing a loss of advertising revenue.

He has also been accused of allowing antisemitic posts next to advertising. X sued a left-leaning pressure group, Media Matters for America, which made the accusation.

Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform.

Unfortunately, X has been attracting the wrong kind of attention in recent months – the question is, can it weather the storm?