New Year celebrations: UK welcomes in 2019 bbc.com #

Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue techcrunch.com #

Louis C.K. Leaked Stand-up Set - Sure a lot of his material is risky but he also highlights important often uncomfortable truths about society - I find a lot of his stuff funny, are we bad people for laughing? I don't know - maybe he should do a show about surveillance and AI - might be worth doing before comedy gets deprecated/bypassed/irrelevantized - just a suggestion, it's pretty scary territory if you ask me vulture.com #

Reality Check - How many people seek asylum in the UK? bbc.com #

Muslim charity aims to deliver 7000 meals to homeless by New Year's Day - 1 out of every 52 people is homeless in London - Why does the article frame it as a sort of homeless people food delivery service? independent.co.uk #

Detaining immigrants is big business - ICE is requesting budget for 52000 people daily boingboing.net #

Woodstock 50th anniversary festival to take place at original site matadornetwork.com #

This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task - What if the worrying thing is that it wasn't "cheating" and we are calling it cheating, it might actually be safer if it was actually cheating techcrunch.com #