Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI

The “Taylor’s Version” generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff

The real impact of the European Convention on Human Rights: The ECHR isn’t just some abstract notion, so of course we shouldn’t abolish it.

Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’

Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny: ‘Dry day spills will almost always be deliberate and illegal’

Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’

UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals: ‘The £40,574 extra, a premium of about 11%, can be compared with an average annual fee of £23,000 charged by private schools…’

Statins can reduce dementia risk by up to 15%, long-term study suggests

Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire: Cryptocurrency isn’t the only enterprise making Reform’s number one donor very rich.

From “lanyardians” to “Yookay”, the strange new language of Britain’s right: ‘Reform UK voters are far more likely than those of any other party to wrongly think they have public opinion on their side.’

Have you got 10 minutes?: ‘…we must present a firm, united front to the hordes trying to convince us that we do.’

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’

AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.

Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed: As ever, the reason the alt right claim to think there’s a ‘liberal establishment’ media conspiracy contaminating our mainstream news cycle is because they themselves are doing it.

Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’

Most English secondary schools are breaking healthy food rules, finds report

How Claude’s text watermarking works

Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI: It’s almost like these tech bro billionaires aren’t actually geniuses.

Stagnation: the norm: ‘Before 1945 trend growth was usually below 1% a year.’

Richard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered question: ‘This is a question that cuts to the core of who funds British politics - and who funds Reform.’

It’s the end of Reform as we know it: We can but hope, unless it gets replaced by something even worse.

Anthropic’s AI Claude hacked into three organizations during cybersecurity test

Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK: ‘Sources have described how staff at several different banks were so concerned about a range of transactions…that they reported them to the National Crime Agency’.

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog: This is clever, especially if most of your audience uses Bluesky.