lol what an obvious conjob www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

@sbisson.com tells this joke about how the Moon landing was absolutely staged but they got Stanley Kubrick to do it and he insisted on filming on location but even joking about this stuff is an infohazard these days

Microsoft told me it's notified a "small number of customers" who may have pulled password-stealing malware from several of its GitHub repos, while many affected repos are still down. I've asked for a specific number. Even a "small number" of Microsoft's many, many customers could be significant.

unmute. absolute insanity

I tested out the “AI job centre in your pocket” that Starmer boasted about in his speech earlier. Look at these incredible insights it offered:

on the one hand, it's rare and welcome to have advances in women's health; on the other hand, any kind of reproductive tracking is intrusive and dangerous in places like the US

What time is Trump scheduled to be booed by thousands of people?

excuse me, fuck right off with calling London roads 'unruly'

“The Great American Experiment to discover if someone with no discernible talent, expertise or intelligence can run the most powerful nation on earth is being tested to destruction.”

I wish I’d thought of this

RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.

Apple is dropping support for 4 generations of Apple Watch models with watchOS 27. If you own a three-year-old Apple Watch Series 9 or the original Apple Watch Ultra, no watchOS 27 for you. Lots of iPad models getting dropped too 🤯 www.theverge.com/news/946147/...

“The Atlantic, for the record, prohibits writers from using AI-generated text unless it’s explicitly identified as such.”

It makes me really sad. Used to be, if someone wrote about a super-niche topic, it would because they cared—a lot. Their personal viewpoint would be interesting even if not entirely accurate. Now so much of it is meaningless digital effluent. Doing to fountain pens is just a twist of the knife.

This was a month ago.

Move over Knight Capital, there’s a new kid on the block.

they'll just never be able to match the risk tolerance of human drivers because the risk _to the companies deploying these_ of at-fault crashes is astronomically, existentially high. Uber can blame the driver, waymo cannot.

Extremely funny to watch the right coalesce around “I’m in a bubble of morons, so this is impossible!” as an explanation for the LA mayoral results.

"'Arold!" (One for the kids)

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

“As Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification, is fond of observing: you won’t be replaced because an AI can do your job, you’ll be replaced because an AI salesman convinces your boss that it can. If my journey to the marathon start line is any guide, that salesman will have an easy job.”

Trump very much of the “and now the enemy shall do this and then we shall do that” military school of tactics.

⚡️Update: Ukraine strikes oil depot, marine terminal in occupied Crimea, releases footage of attack. Ukrainian drones struck the Semikolodyansk oil depot near the town of Yedi Quyu in Russian-occupied Crimea overnight on June 7, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces reported.

How long before nations compete to attract not repel immigrants? With birth rates falling almost everywhere except Africa, aging populations will soon be crying out for the young people needed to keep their economies going. phys.org/news/2026-06...

Starmer project in a nutshell, that. Duck every actually hard choice by making bad choices instead, assuming that the electorate will reward you for cowardice in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2

New podcast series is great. I did a fist pump and shouted “Jutes!” when the Angles and Saxons didn’t get all the limelight #GoJutes

Morgan Stanley analysts calculate the effects of soaring memory chip prices on the cost of smartphones and other devices and...yikes.

Hang on. I thought the £5 million was for security upgrades? Or a reward for Brexit? Surely Farage wouldn't distort the truth... www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

“the next time you read about a Russian mass attack on Ukrainian civilians, (another one happened this week which killed at least 23), know that the US is helping the Russians in this murderous work.”

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

British journalists have a duty to our country, and to all they supposedly hold dear as fearless pursuers of truth, to hold Farage accountable and challenge far right disinformation. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates: 1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents 2. End exemption for charity shops. 3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.

So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

EU car makers want a solution as much as the UK but if nothing happens - and doing nothing is a specialty of the UK government - then UK consumers will have to pay 10% more for EU-made electric cars and UK car assembly will face a death blow. Brexit, the gift of the grifters that keeps giving.

Come for the fascinating overview of the latest in compressing AI models to run on a laptop, but stay for the mind blowing stats on the world’s memory chips fed into the maw of the data centre beast.

A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.

Watching Hunter speak so directly now, I wonder if he was given the same dogshit “shut up and say nothing” advice that so many others who went through political smear campaigns heard over the last few years. Advice from the 1990s.

welp

Perfect. Thank you, Governor Hochul.

The sinking feeling we have that none of these guys will ever spend a night in prison lies in the fact that, deep down, we know that if Democrats retake power and hint at prosecutions, Republicans will threaten violence and Dems will likely back down. The implication of that can't be understated.

"I don't think it's fair.” It’s not. Trump’s America is not fair. It’s arbitrary and capricious. That’s the whole point. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

UK law says that EV chargers have to take contactless payments so that you can just pay and go. We used to call this “shopping”.

It’s going to get soooo much worse.