‘Nigel Farage feels real’: why young British men are drawn to Reform

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout: ‘Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly’

Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced: One way to cope when the world goes bad.

US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine: A further development in the US' attempts to help Putin win his war of aggression.

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters gather outside showrooms to rally against Elon Musk’s role with DOGE: Musk lost $52 billion due to the plummeting price of Tesla stock last month.

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds: ‘…it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient’

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

10,000 AI-generated tracks are uploaded to Deezer every day

Starmer slashes aid to fund major increase in defence spending

Countries with Birthright Citizenship 2024: 33 countries have unrestricted birthright citizenship, 32 others have a restricted form.

Trump’s birthright citizenship order shows how he is challenging the Constitution itself: He holds no more respect or love for ‘America’ than for anything else that isn’t himself.

Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?: ‘When you write, you think better’.

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.

I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own: Humans just hate boredom; our modern world being full of distractions doesn’t help.

Never Forgive Them: A long and eviscerating read from Ed Zitron on how and why the tech industry is making our lives substantially worse than they need to be - basically their incentives are no longer aligned with us, their users.

Revealed: ‘extremely concerning’ industry influence over UN aviation body | Airline emissions: The relatively secretive UN’s committee on aviation environmental protection (CAEP) seems to be dominated by representatives from the aviation and fossil fuel companies.

Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles: Food is harder to grow in a world ravaged by climate change.

Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel): The tech bros appear to have rewritten Christianity.

Is it okay?: Robin Sloan considers the ethics of generative AI models needing to slurp up the entirety of the internet to exist.

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift: An article from 2020 on Musk’s mission ‘to get unimaginably rich by maximally gaming the government’s largesse…taking advantage of programs meant to help people who earn in a lifetime what he earns every minute.’

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies: Old news, but let’s remember Musk’s success is at least partly down to government largesse.

More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin.