The Art of Working Loudly: Don’t hold back from talking about what you’re working on.

Armed man arrested near Trump’s California rally was plotting to kill him, police say: Are there usually quite so many assassination attempts on a US presidential candidate?

Induction chemotherapy followed by standard chemoradiotherapy versus standard chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer: Research finds that a bout of chemotherapy before the standard chemoradiotherapy reduces deaths from, and recurrence of, cervical cancer.

Expensive sci-fi dreck: The title refers to Elon Musk’s latest robo-stuff of course.

Starmer’s Brexit “Reset” is Not What the Public Wants: Starmer’s transition from committed defender of our previous European freedoms to someone content to make the most minor tweaks to the relationship.

Muscle matters: the effects of medically induced weight loss on skeletal muscle: Losing large amounts of weight, whether via using pharmaceuticals or otherwise, can cause substantial muscle loss.

28 things I’ve learned: Mainly about how to treat both yourself and other people.

Pure Blogger: ‘Pure blogging’ is ‘blogging because you have something to say’.

TikTok plans mass job cuts on UK moderation and safety teams: To be replaced by a mix of offshore workers that they can treat and pay a lot worse alongside cost-cutting ‘automation’ it sounds like.

Five Reasons People Who Claim PR Will Help the Far-Right are Wrong: Rebuttal to a common claim that well-meaning opponents of proportional representation in the British electoral system make.

TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show: All the social media companies either know full well the harms that using their product can bring or are wilfully ignorant of them.

Ribbonfarm is Retiring: The how and why of Venkatesh Rao - creator of the term ‘cozyweb’ I think - ceasing his 17 year old blog.

The future of live news online sucks: Why the TikTokization of the big social media platforms makes them ‘uniquely bad places to follow news’.

In pursuit of the Engineering Analyst: On the (fairly new) role of the analytics engineer.

The Essential Tools for Exploratory Analysis: The types of tools one might want at hand when engaging in exploratory data analysis.

Trump’s rampant lies about FEMA’s Hurricane Helene response, briefly explained: Once again, disinformation can have deadly consequences.

New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ bill: Big fan of anything that shifts the balance of employer:employee power away from the total dominance of the former.

Hurricane Milton: what causes such intense storms?: Largely climate change, unsurprisingly.

I’ve missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles): A wonderful written tale of what happens when your best friend starts to part ways from you in important ideological ways.

Democrats launch new campaign attack on ‘weird’ Republicans: Seems legit.

Why Privacy Matters: You should care about your privacy even if you don’t have any secrets.

Introducing canvas: A new interface for OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s designed for better “collaboration” when coding or writing.

Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh: Never really thought about customising my command line much before but now I’m probably going to waste half of tomorrow doing so.

Crowdsourcing the Monetization of Social Media: Social media could have been good if only we’d landed on a different incentive structure.

You Can’t Own The Social Web: Would the ‘Social Web Foundation’ better be thought of as an Activitypub trade group?