Linklog

2025-04-21

The Guardian view on City deregulation: a recipe for recklessness: ‘…the Treasury seems to have forgotten one of the major lessons of the 2008 financial crisis: when regulation is lax, risks accumulate’.

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

2025-04-20

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare: The rich ones, at least, could worry about their mission to educate the masses over preserving the size of their endowment.

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here: And their incompetence is seemingly the main hope we have of stopping it.

‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?: You suffer.

There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest: ‘If green policy is going to survive the culture wars, it needs a new pitch - cleaner air, cheaper bills and healthier cities’.

2025-04-19

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard: Perhaps the letter with their ludicrous demands was sent only by accident (or perhaps they just didn’t expect the pushback?).

Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’: ‘…rejecting the Trump administration’s demands on hiring, admissions and curriculum’

Inside El Salvador’s CECOT Prison, Where Abrego Garcia Was Held

Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools: ‘A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.’

2025-04-18

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

2025-04-17

Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back: ‘Net approval for Trump declined by 29 points among young men registered voters, a significantly bigger shift than any other demographic’.

A crack in the manosphere: Joe Rogan’s guests are revolting: Everyone has some limit, so I’d like to believe.

UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war: Special relationship becoming unspecial.

Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system: ‘Observations by the James Webb space telescope of a planet called K2-18 b appear to reveal the chemical fingerprints of two compounds that, on Earth, are only known to be produced by life.’

UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules

2025-04-16

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins: People might regret using their actual email addresses.

Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media m: No thank you.

2025-04-15

OpenAI is building a social network: More competition is better, but why is it always the torment nexus companies that want to do this?

OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report: Self-regulation doesn’t work shocker.

She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said: Is your cab listening to you?

2025-04-14

The rise of end times fascism: ‘…the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.’