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James Hatts

@james-hatts.bsky.social
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My day job is with a major UK consumer website. By night, I look after @se1.news

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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Important perspective from @us.theconversation.com. As AI becomes part of more everyday decisions, helping people distinguish between confident responses and trustworthy guidance will be an important part of building AI literacy.
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When managing your money, take a chatbot’s ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’ve seen kebab shops with more appetising names
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The real story of London and its politics is a world away from the far-right fantasies of Donald Trump and his followers. Yet in other ways it is just as concerning www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/hollowed-o...
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Hollowed Out: How London Lost Its Political Heart
The real story of London and its politics is very different from the far-right fantasies of Donald Trump, yet in some ways it is just as concerning
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20/04/2026
Giles was so generous with his time and so helpful when it came to explaining to journalists very clearly and with quotable precision exactly how a wrong un landlord was being a wrong un. But mostly I just remember thinking he was a really, really kind human who cared about the state of others.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The thing is, a lot of LLM users actually think it’s capable of God-like intelligence, and that’s clear from the ways they interact with it publicly
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 19/02/2026
Another new low for Reach plc as the news is that… a newsreader read out… the news.
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Recently, @manchestereveningnews.co.uk started producing “premium content” created “exclusively” for paying subscribers. But we have found multiple paid articles written by reporters funded by the BBC license fee. The MEN is paywalling articles the public has already paid for. 🧵
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 27/01/2026
It's 10 years since @nationaltrust.org.uk removed public transport directions from the Handbook. Every year, I hope that (being a conservation charity) they'll change their mind. Sometimes I write to them. And, every year, disappointment. They promote car travel: parking revenues over the planet.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/10/2025
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Unfortunate error on the official Royal Diary of Engagements
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Just had this error message when trying to report missing components in an item bought from Amazon
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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Look at any Facebook group or online discussion. When someone asks a question, sooner or later someone else will post a screenshot of a google ai summary. People treat these summaries as tablets of stone, but they are often horrifically bad.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 10/07/2025
What strange bedfellows! Delighted to be at number 4 in You Gov's rather eclectic list. Thanks to all the brilliant work of the MSE team for keeping us there.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/07/2025
One of the strangest death rattles of corporate local newspapers has been the teams of “local journalists” employed to churn stories about Martin Lewis. So I gave Martin a ring to discuss the state of British news, plus where to buy chicken wings in London. www.londoncentric.media/p/martin-lew...
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"A swamp of muck and crap": Martin Lewis on how journalism is broken
Plus: Is London getting new Bakerloo line trains after all and the property billionaire's £3m scaffolding bill.
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Once went to a consultation event for a development near London Bridge where the people on the front desk denied any such event was taking place. Persisted + went to room on top floor where the consultants and architects were enjoying sumptuous refreshments free of any pesky members of the public
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I find this genuinely disgusting. ‘Hey your money worries are all solved…. ACTUALLY they aren’t but you clicked, ha!’
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How can any news organisation mislead their readers to this extent just to make clickbait? It means grandparents with full time custody of children but it makes it sound like grandparents helping out. And £79 a week is so much money, they will create and then destroy real hope - just for clicks.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16/04/2025
It’s seven months since i started London Centric and this is a real highlight. getting nominated for the Paul Foot is entirely thanks to the support of subscribers who have given me the freedom to do investigative journalism. Thanks to them for this. And all the people with broken legs.
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Simon Hinde @simonhinde.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
1 This is one of those stacked-noun headlines (“mushroom picking alarms forager”) that is hard to get the meaning out of 2 Louise Gather is an excellent name for a forager.
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The recent @londoncentric.media piece on what happens when your phone is stolen in London was spot on www.londoncentric.media/p/kitchen-fo... - my phone was snatched in Holborn on 30 January, and recently tracked in Shenzhen, China (via Finsbury Park and Waltham Forest)
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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
From today’s Blessing Of The Thames ceremony held jointly by Southwark Cathedral & St Magnus the Martyr, processions from each meeting mid London Bridge. There are Readings, Prayers & Blessings for those who work on the river, use it for recreation or have lost their lives in its waters 1/
Four photos showing images from today’s Blessing From The Thames. A procession leaves Southwark Cathedral and walks to London Bridge where it meets a similar procession from St Magnus the Martyr, and a cross is thrown in the river.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 10/01/2025
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Midnight Mass at St Peter's Bournemouth @spbchoir.bsky.social
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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Spoke to someone recently whose very nice pub was featured in a News Shopper (prop. Newsquest) piece - the journalist had never spoken to them and lots of odd inaccuracies had been introduced to the piece. They were surprised when I said it could well be AI...
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Filling in a survey about Tesco Old Kent Road - feel sorry for the staff being measured on their ‘festive spirit’. And it’s still November.
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 27/11/2024
We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
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Adam Tinworth @adders.blog · 22/11/2024
If you remember and still miss Nuzzel, and use Bluesky or Mastodon, have I got good news for you. This tool shows you the most shared links in your network. Hella useful.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 21/11/2024
Reach openly explaining how it's doing barrel-scraping clickbait targeting the links served up on browser homepages. If I wanted to put properly reported local journalism on Google/Apple News/MSN homepages, they won't take it as I'm not a corporate news outlet! pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/re...
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James Hatts @james-hatts.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
So refreshing just having a simple chronological feed of posts from people I’ve actually chosen to follow.
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James Cridland @james.crid.land · 16/11/2024
Now, look, I’m not casting shade at anyone, but if you have anything to do with tech and you’re joining BlueSky - or you’re a brand - then for goodness sake, use your domain as a nickname. Apart from anything else, it verifies your profile as definitely yours. It’s free! bsky.social/about/blog/4...
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How to set your domain as your handle - Bluesky
Using a domain as your handle helps with account identity, verification, and portability. Here's how to set your domain as your handle.
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Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is why London needs proper journalism, particularly at a local level as well as a city-wide level www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Ministers to oversee Tower Hamlets council amid concerns over leadership
Exclusive: inspectors raise alarm about mayor Lutfur Rahman, who previously served a five-year ban from office
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