Abortion rights: Amnesty International on access to abortion being a human right.

10 Things to Know About Abortion Access Since the Dobbs Decision: Some of the impacts of the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US.

Pluralistic: The housing crisis considered as an income crisis: ‘The American rich are the Spiders Georg of house prices.’

MrBeast Goes to Washington: Elon Musk failed to recruit MrBeast, so now he’s trying to be him.

The web and I: Ben Werdmuller on growing up during the time when the web-as-we-know it - with its ‘spirit of magic and possibility’ - was being born.

Intentional web: A name for the parts of the web you proactively choose to interact with.

Jokey reform ideas removed from NHS consultation website: Always dangerous to ask the British public about anything unless you want Boaty McBoatface style answers.

against brute forcing: Sometimes the correct response to being faced with a challenge isn’t to try and rise to it.

Ed Newton-Rex, who organised the recent anti AI ingesting everyone’s work for free statement that artists of all sorts of fame levels are signing makes a good point.

There are three key resources that generative AI companies need to build AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend vast sums on the first two - sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per model. But they expect to take the third - training data - for free.

Big tech AI companies aren’t stingy with their money for everything. That’s one reason why they’re so unprofitable. It’s just that magic third ingredient that often attracts the $0 compensation rate.

Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Even superstars are concerned about AI companies shovelling up the artistic output of humanity without constraint or compensation.

New commission may ban English water companies from making a profit: Good: water is both a life essential and a natural monopoly, normal rules of capitalism cannot apply.

Twelve Million Deportations: Timothy Snyder asks us to think seriously about what would happen if Trump became president and even tried to enact his ‘deport 12 million US residents’ plan.

It’s not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse: Researchers find that search engines are getting ever more flooded with nasty SEO product spam sites despite their best efforts.

Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die: Do we really need to trim every moment of silence out of our podcasts?

Haystacks of Needles: Situational overload vs ambient overload.

Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.

A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites: If you prefer getting your news in a format devoid of splashy migraine-inducing colour extravaganzas then this page will help.

Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away: Musk doesn’t believe block buttons should block.

Why Trump’s staged McDonald’s theatrics don’t count as work: Obviously, Trump’s mini-shift at McDonalds was extremely staged.

Online Safety and the “Great Decentralization” – The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media: Is the Fediverse in need of better tooling around moderation?

All What Is Delicious to Man: Today’s implausible vision of superabundance is a lot grimmer than the one that they were promised in the 1830s.

What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’?: Even if it wasn’t a terrible idea, it’s not clear that we know how to do it effectively.

Google moves to end geofence warrants, a surveillance problem it largely created: Geofence warrants require companies to hand over data about everyone that was using a mobile device within a given geographical region - a type of reverse search warrant.

The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator: Inevitably the centralisation and lack of encryption around push notifications makes them a useful source of surveillance material.