Spotted on BBC Sport's boxing coverage. I mean... this is right up there with the "May contain nuts" warnings on a pecan slice.

Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MIT Study Shows Using AI 'Reduces Cognitive Function' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Google is taking legal action against SerpApi’s scraping blog.google/technology/s...

Oh, I'm sure that LLM tracking data is top-notch.... Right... -> Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations. The extensions harvest full AI conversations over months. As @lilyray.nyc said on X, "So that’s where (some of) the LLM tracking companies get their data."

It's empathetic but... feeling quite smug in that I'm *not* going to be sitting in traffic today. #christmasgetaway

Only 6 days to go! pop-the-bubble.xyz Hat Tip to @rhys.wales as 'twas in his newsletter!

Too many mediocre men talk over capable women. Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill. It's long past time to value competence over confidence.

And then it was done. After just one week of (honestly? Not *great* quality) satsumas and already @sainsburys.bsky.social are subbing in 'Easy Peelers' in our weekly food shop. @nonfictioness.bsky.social is devastated. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.

You will be visited by three spirits

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/08/t... "It’s similar in functionality... but without the hassle looking down at a screen." Oh the *hassle* of [checks notes] 'looking at a screen'. Forsooth! Thank goodness someone is tackling these big issues. 🙄

This is encouraging: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d... But it makes me question myself and my generation a bit. Are we relying on the next generation to 'save the world'?

That's Mrs. C-S's Christmas gift sorted for another year. Thanks @majestic.com & David Bain!

🔥🔥🔥 THIS IS FINE 🔥🔥🔥 PT. 342: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "It's almost impossible to know what’s actually going on in AI... You have no chance... to try to understand what is going on in the scientific literature. Your signal-to-noise ratio is basically one.”

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Absolutely awful and absolutely infuriatingly unsurprising. AI garbage poisons the well and then other AI and LLM systems reinforce the garbage machines 👇👇👇

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

Been a while since Fry had an outing so here you go: "The safety practices of major artificial intelligence companies, such as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Meta, are "far short of emerging global standards,"" www.reuters.com/business/ai-... 🙄

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This is a great example of the difference between £1m and £1bn. The latter is a *staggering* amount of money. Noone needs that much money (or assets or whatever). Inequality is horrendous and getting worse. Tax the billionaires.

Still one of the best (the best?) #SEO events in the world and the free ticket ballot draw is now open: forms.gle/HMnSVmmWy4fm...

Just discovered I am boyamigladiownanelectricblanket years old today. AMA.

"If Carlsberg made football matches..." #SCODEN

Chrome 143 will start rolling out today (most users get it next week). It includes a new set of options for your webperf traces — including saving sources & source maps: developer.chrome.com/docs/devtool... This makes it easier for those viewing traces outside of the page load to get more context.

It's this devastatingly handsome bastard's birthday today (the dog, obviously). Happy birthday Lupin, you little b*gger. ❤️😄

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

At the end of the day, Generative A.I. is nothing more than a plagiarism machine. It will never birth the next Dr. Seuss, Jim Henson, David Lynch or any other artist known for their unique and creative imagination and storytelling.

#TFW you get a piece of (fairly simple) regex to work first time, without even having to Google it. This is me. Still. Every time. 😄

Admit it. You find it funny it's called "Storm Cloudier" too. 🌧️ #ukweather

🔥🔥🔥 TIHS IS FNIE!!! 🔥🔥🔥 www.404media.co/openai-cant-...

When I read @joshtaylor.bsky.social's story on the misinformation driving laws in Google, I kind of got stuck in trying to work out how many sites were running the info. Turns out it's a deep hole. Every day, it grows a little more. Here's how and why. www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/au...

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"Judith Barker, the CPCA's executive director for place and connectivity, told the council no "commercial model" could support the plans." 🙄 What if the 'profit' of buses was: getting people to work and school on time; reducing traffic and congestion; and pollution? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This. Was prepared for this to be a bang average, Netflix-funded, cast-loaded parade of budget. It's such a great story (Shelley was a genius) and if Jacob Elordi doesn't win awards for his heart-breaking portrayal of the monster, questions must be asked.

ICYMI, we released the 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors yesterday. Tons of new insights and takeaways. This is the Local SEO bible. Read it below!

Recap of IMPORTXML bits SEOs should love: Fetch the title: =IMPORTXML(A2, "//title") Get the meta description: =IMPORTXML(A2, "//meta[@name='description']/@content") Get the H1 : text =IMPORTXML(A2, "//h1") Get the Open Graph Title: =IMPORTXML(A2, "//meta[@property='og:title']/@content")

SEO friends. Is there a tool/system to help with checking masses of redirect rules? I'm aiming to consolidate a LOT of them (it's a big site, with a lot of legacy stuff). I'm making headway manually but thinking "There must be an easier way." The first person that says "Ask AI." gets a prize.

Part 393 of 🔥🔥🔥 "THIS IS FINE!!!" 🔥🔥🔥

Bloody hell: apnews.com/article/fifa... Is this where we are now? Is this the new sport? International Sycophancy? World Series of Butt Kissing? And we find the sycophancy of chatbots weird.

This is a pretty crazy read: julianajackson.substack.com/p/chatgpt-sc...

No. Your Twitter traffic did NOT double overnight. What happened? Twitter's been stagnating/declining since 2023 The growth team growth hacked (making links auto-open in webview) They hope marketers will fall for it & pay more attention again. But, it's nothing more than smoke & mirrors.

If you're using a cloud provider to host images / videos / other content, you can and should verify the host in Search Console, so that you're aware of potential issues that affect Google's crawling & indexing, & Safe Browsing. Use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS. More: (1/n)

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

Still had this saved in ctrl v from the last one of my saltine sisters who pulled this shit. Yes all white people until white supremacy is no more. Racism & white supremacy will not go away every time we gotta pat an insecure white woman who needs a cookie on the head and go "not YOU Karen"

I just love this single purpose domains/sites. This one is golden. stopcitingai.com

Andrew Cock-Starkey (@optimisey.com) explains that using a .com gives you credibility and global flexibility, while a country-specific domain like .co.uk may limit reach if you expand internationally. maj.to/3Y0bS98

"Fixing hallucinations would kill the product" is a helluva quote.