AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.

Just 2% of some key trains on London to Manchester line run on time: The worst offender being the 8:53am from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly.

£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support: Only 1.2% of council’s decisions to refuse to provide special educational funding for children are supported by courts when appealed.

making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.

Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state: A decent country would not rely on the whims of charitable donations to meet the basic human needs of its population.

Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community: Photos of the Massaco emerge - one of 60+ Amazonian communities who have no contact with the outside world.

Proud to be a blockhead: Doctorow covers several important concepts, including that of vocational awe: ‘People make art because it matters to them, and this trait makes workers terribly exploitable’.

Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance: Largely sensible advice from the US cyber defence agency on keeping your mobile communications secure.

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots: Public health agencies are no longer allowed to promote public health.

The billionaires are full of bull: ‘You don’t earn trust with “balance” – especially not between two imbalanced things – you earn it by consistently providing evidence to support your findings.’

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.

Starmer urged to change donation rules amid talk of Musk bankrolling Reform: Yep, it’s probably not a great idea to allow foreign billionaires to make huge donations to UK political parties by having their companies do it.

Chicken Farm: On the US healthcare system - ‘The “front line” of doctors and nurses are fighting a two front war: one against whatever ails you, and the other against the insurer’.

Vatican ‘on the brink of Bankruptcy’ due to dramatic decline in global donations under Pope Francis' Leadership: Even the Pope isn’t immune to worldly financial crises.

The end of life hacking: The rise and fall of life-hacking as praxis.

Retrospective, financial: ‘We long for the security that money brings, but to get it we must sacrifice what’s worth securing: our health, our relationships, our creativity.’

This is My Most Expensive Habit: Anxiety.

Is Protein Powder a Scam?: ‘Most people don’t need to consume this supplement, experts say, but it can be useful in certain situations.’

Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise: It’s seeming like patients on GLP-1 drugs don’t benefit a lot from explicit lifestyle interventions in terms of weight loss - although there may be other health benefits of doing them.

Why Romania’s election was annulled – and what happens next?: Romanian courts rule that their presidential election was too contaminated with social media manipulation, Russian interference, cyber attacks and illegal funding to stand.

AI’s Walking Dog: ‘AI itself has much to offer, but it has not lived up to its potential to serve the public good, and the context of AI’s development explains why’

I have a cunning plan…: Charles Stross comes up with a cunning business plan for a world in which Trump’s presidency leads to a reemergence of polio in the US.

The Race For the Best Stock Footage: Joe’s (skeptical) thoughts on the utility of AI video generators.

One big choice shapes a hundred more: ‘Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them?’

Going off the record with Trump? That’s just kissing his ring: Yep, Trump really doesn’t seem like the sort of person you need to be off the record with hear what’s truly on his mind.