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Sunday 13. October 2024

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.

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Monday 07. October 2024

Sue Gray’s ruthless ouster points to pivotal moment for Keir Starmer

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Is the Sue Gray debacle another Hartlepool moment for Keir Starmer? Let’s hope so | Rafael Behr

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Thursday 03. October 2024

The pointless battle for the Tory crown

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Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue

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Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

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Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness | Rafael Behr

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Friday 27. September 2024

NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules

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Misinformed about misinformation

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In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed

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Thursday 26. September 2024

TK, or the secret to effortless writing

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Monday 23. September 2024

Repeats and rewatches


When we settle down to watch a film together we generally take turns to decide which film to watch which means that, sometimes, we end up watching a film that one or more of us has already seen. Not all of these films are good enough to watch again, and some of them weren’t worth … Continue reading Repeats and rewatches


Sunday 22. September 2024

Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

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Sarcastic, sneering and sadistic: The voice of modern power

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Thursday 19. September 2024

In pictures: Europe’s car-free plazas reclaim their former glory

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LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

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Monday 16. September 2024

Links and sundry: 16/08/2024


Baldur Bjarnason argues that the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end. This is going to get automated, weaponised, and industrialised. Tech companies have placed chatbots at the centre of our information ecosystems and butchered their products to push them front and centre. The incentives for bad actors to try to game them are enormous … Continue reading Links and sundry: 16/08/2024


Friday 13. September 2024

Minister for police’s purse stolen – at policing conference


The very occasional Headline of the Day award goes to The Guardian, which reports on a purse stolen from Diana Johnson who said the government wanted to “restore respect for the rule of law on British streets”. She’s not off to a great start.