Quite a good illustration of why mass surveillance isn't just a problem for people 'with something to hide'.

FACTCHECK: A guide to manufacturing headlines, by the Times 1) highlight upfront costs of an “eco” home (EV, heat pump, solar) 2) pretend that petrol cars and gas boilers are free (yes really) 3) count upfront “eco” costs twice, for good measure 4) that’s it!

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world #WomensArt #Monday

Can't wait to see how this looks in the middle of London

I dunno but maybe relegating any mention of climate change off your big homepage package, away from the heading and subhead, and after the eight-paragraph main story into a second bullet point — NOT the "why it's hot" one — is part of why it's hot.

@niemanlab.org with the headline of headlines. Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

Yukon Delta - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/cCg7QC

New Society for Hopeful Technologist newsletter out today with updates on our formation and hopeful recommendations plus follow us on @hopeful.technology buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Sorry not sorry for the next several months of relentless book promotion, I didn't create this system! But for real, though, if you've ever thought anything I do is any good at all, I hope you'll read this book I poured everything into: geni.us/broughttoyouby

We (adults) have created a world in which teens use smartphones to "navigate daily life" and "access to support networks" over exactly the same period that we have diminished the infrastructures that enable all this in 'real life' - accessible public space, youth clubs, reliable transport, etc etc.

Midday paintings Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter

Another Waymo hits a biker. On the Old Kent Road. Waymo turning right. Bike going straight with right of way…

This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

pretty bleak perspective on music and the sham and grift economy from James Blake on IG (posted by Pigeons and Planes on FB)

(A substantial evidence review recently found that the odds of being killed if you're hit by an SUV or pickup truck are 44% higher than if you're hit by a smaller car. For children, the odds of dying go up 82% injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1...) 3/10

i'm getting a bit annoyed with this "starmer didn't do anything" narrative ❌️ sweeping changes to the immigration system ❌️ biggest asylum reforms in 70 years functionally ending refugee status ❌️ moved from a reasonably tolerant regime to the most trans-hostile developed democracy

Finally finished @philipcball.bsky.social's wonderful "How Life Works"! When I hit the part on the 2nd Law felt compelled to share my comic on Entropy from a few years back, bits of which I'm expanding on in the new work (& one reason I read this brilliant book!) spinweaveandcut.com/sketching-en...

Yes. How to build that courage or social capital is the question. Or lower the stakes for people afraid of reaching out.

NEW ANALYSIS: Amid reports the govt is poised to water down EV targets, the UK's EV drivers are saving more than £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total Plug-in hybrids, which could be pushed to make up for lower BEV sales, save three times less ££ www.carbonbrief.org/...

Comic strip from 1995 by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social yet gender cranks seem to think it was something that never happened before circa 2016 or so

The quiet collapse of British universities www.arguably.uk?utm_source=n... - a horror story of vandalism and neglect

Nigel Farage’s hyperactive press engagement - which involved a weekly press conference - suddenly stalled after revelations about his mysterious secret £5mn gift from a reclusive Thailand-based crypto billionaire www.ft.com/content/2678...

Platform Regulation and Protecting AI Data Workers in the Global South We hope you will join Political Scientist, Adio-Adet Dinika (@dairinstitute.bsky.social) and our host, Meredith D. Clark for this discussion on Friday, June 19th, 2026 at 10am EST Register here us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Good on @heatmap.news for stating Raymond’s legacy so clearly. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Look after each other.

...and unfortunately there isn't a great understanding that part of what has delivered power into the hands of the big companies are the demands for endless regulation - yes they resist it in theory, but they also benefit heavily from engaging in reality

BTW, I am one of those people currently looking! Senior UX researcher and human-AI interaction strategic specialist. I've done the work at Meta, Accenture Labs, and with Fortune 500 clients. If you know of something, I'm genuinely open to conversations. DM me here.

More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven’t already.

Got into an argument on Sky a few weeks about about banning social media for teens. "But parents want it!" Sure, but that doesn't mean it will work or is a good idea! How about a serious conversation about what social media is doing to all of us, adults included? Or is that too difficult?

The Albanian government has suspended Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s luxury resort project after mass Flamingo Revolution protests, Politico reports. The protesters aren’t backing down. They want the development cancelled and a caretaker government installed.

Glad to see this from the FT, but many have been raising this for a long time and it's been disregarded as a sort of digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic. Labour needs a decent tech strategy and Blair and Mandelson's influence on policy needs to end with the change in leadership

Something hopeful from the world of academic publishing

The real “civilisational decline” here is the deliberate spreading of lies and contempt for the bereaved by the government of a once great democracy.

Wondering if this is not a good sign for the SpaceX grifters - www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

worth reemphasing who palantir is

This is very cool - an open source collaboration suite from the French Government. A response to the rising concerns around dependency on US tech companies. Can be adopted for use by anyone. Uses a bunch of different open source collab tools underneath I think lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

NEW: @elisethomas.bsky.social reveals multiple links between Viory, a video news agency supplying national press agencies across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and Ruptly news agency - a branch of sanctioned Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Mollusc Mix: Great Barrier Reef Edition (mostly slugs of course). These were a few of the wonderful molluscs I filmed while teaching my Coral Reefs travel course in Cairns, Australia. Music: Djapana by Yothu Yindi 🦑 #invertebrates #nudibranch #sluglife

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Listen I'm very loudly anti-AI but I think part of being anti-AI is also that you have to be AGGRESSIVELY pro-artist. Please support your artists, especially ones with marginalized identities.

This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.

Pretending that substantially lower migration is cost-free is no more honest than pretending migration has no consequences, writes Jonathan Portes

Despite the headline, this is the third paragraph in this article: “There is no consensus among the broader scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is also a generation whose entire lives have been lived in austerity, with playgrounds, youth services, libraries, community centres, high streets, etc. disappearing and disinvested. That doesn’t get a mention in this report on Milburn’s review. And even covid seems a bit of an afterthought.