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.

Trump’s Board of Peace drops full Gaza recovery plan in favour of tiny pilot scheme

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims: The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.

June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests: ‘…about 2,200 heat deaths occurred between 18 and 28 June, a period encompassing the peak 24-26 June period, the study indicated. About 38% were attributed to global heating, the result of the extra heat baked in by the climate crisis.’

For the Right, Playing Dumb is a Full-Time Job: ‘There are real criticisms you can make of any politician. Screaming “communism” at boilerplate heat-wave advice probably isn’t one of them.’

UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears: ‘The average parent or carer does not post a picture of a child online thinking that it might be scraped to be turned into CSAM’.

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show | International law: As well as demanding that Gaza gives them premises for free.

Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.

AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption: Seems a decent use of AI if accurate - the doc was all about Stoic philosophy.

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows