Gary Willmott 🙌

I can't sleep after this shit... Claude Code just found 12,154 photos of my face on the old Android I used for 8 years. I never took a single one of them. The front camera was firing almost every time I picked the phone up. In bed, on the train, in the car, or when I just grabbed it to check the time. They were real camera frames sitting in a hidden folder, each one with a timestamp and a location. None of them were in the Gallery or in Recently Deleted. I plugged the phone into my laptop, turned on ADB and told Claude Code to look for front-camera files that weren't in my photos. It pulled a folder inside Android/data that belonged to a flashlight app I installed in 2019 and completely forgot about. 12,154 files. I started scrolling. Almost all of it was from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago, while I was still looking at the folder. The phone kept taking photos of me as I was reading this. On Android 8 any app with camera permission can shoot in the background, and you get no green dot or any other warning when it does. That flashlight app had camera and location access from day one. I uninstalled it, took camera access away from everything that doesn't need it and cleared the folder. How many of these photos already went somewhere else, I don't know. If you want to check yours, plug it in, turn on USB debugging and ask Claude Code to find front-camera files outside your Gallery and show which apps used the camera and when.

Hot Wheels’ 1980s crash series was built to smash and bend.

bro was getting a haircut and hopped on the mic 😂😂

AI generated music is 1000x better than real music. Today I canceled Spotify and SiriusXM because I finally tested Suno. What sold me was the first prompt I gave it: “My favorite artists are A Day to Remember, Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox, Bad Omens, and Sleep Token. Analyze all their hits and generate a song I’m likely to love based on those artists.” It one shots an absolute banger in 10 seconds. I'll link the song in the next tweet for anyone curious. Why would I ever go back to Spotify/SiriusXM when I can generate music perfectly tailored to my taste on command, for free? Not affiliated with Suno in any way btw, it was just one of those moments where I was so impressed with AI’s capability I had to say something about it.

Interesting how things change: 🇮🇩 Canggu, Bali at the bottom now and 🇿🇦 Cape Town is at the top!

I just became the mayor of Carluccis on @foursquare!

Not even Black Mirror could predict this level of dystopia.

🔴MARSx

So many people asked me to make it open-source, so here you go: MailCheap — Self-hosted newsletters on Amazon SES: 💸 $0.10 per 1,000 emails ✍️ Editor with live preview 📰 Multiple newsletters 📝 Signup forms + API 🌐 Public archive 📊 Stats & growth charts 🧹 List cleanup 📬 Bounce + spam protection → github.com/marclou/mailcheap 92% cheaper than Beehiiv (for me). Have fun!

28 years ago, Karl Bushby left the UK in an attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate the world on foot. Yesterday, he arrived in Dover for the final leg of his journey to his mother’s home in Hull.