Linklog

2025-03-19

Do Republicans really believe this stuff?: Is the difference between the early days of Trump’s previous presidency and this one that they got high on their own supply and truly believe every unhinged tweet they see?

Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.

JFK Assassination Records - 2025 Documents Release: The final batch of government documents relating to the the assassination have been released.

2025-03-18

This thing will fail: ‘Trump will not restore the “strong gods” of community, family, and faith.’

The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: Big tech will start mistreating its programmers as much as its warehouse workers the minute it can get away with it.

The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.

Keir Starmer to unveil drastic disability benefit cuts despite opposition: Awful - putting people into poverty is not going to solve their health issues.

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order: The Trump administration openly defy the US courts.

2025-03-16

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.

2025-03-15

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic: Trying to end the practice of universal injunctions against the federal government when they lose.

2025-03-13

Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia’s Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits

2025-03-11

America is turning on Trump: Again, we can but hope - his approval ratings have certainly been dropping.

Inside the Reform civil war: Perhaps the Lowe/ Farage conflict and its drivers will weaken the party (if we’re lucky).

2025-03-09

‘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’

2025-03-06

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.

2025-03-04

‘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.

2025-02-27

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

2025-02-26

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

2025-02-17

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.