Google co-founder Sergey Brin is accidentally making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax better than anyone else could.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

I was bought a book by a kind stranger. Can confirm this is a genuine thing. I very much enjoyed the book, too

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Going to start describing anything made with AI as a "token effort"

I'd go as far as to suggest that our outstanding university sector has been the lodestone of UK soft power since the collapse of empire. Think of all the cultural, financial & political leaders from all around the world who've been through UK universities

So Iran gets to carry on doing the stuff it's doing, and agrees not to start doing stuff it wasn't doing anyway, and in return it gets all sanctions lifted and $300bn towards reconstruction costs?

seems our new alien overlords also subscribe to the new yorker

Iran is awarding him the FAFO Peace Prize.

Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterday’s UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher

Hands up if you think this is an obscenity.

love it when a website unintentionally shortens something the wrong way

my stock response to anyone who says "i'm using AI to do [...,], why aren't you using it?" is "because it's shit and I have taste"

I don't really get what it takes to get an agent to actually read your submission. Have had 5 hard "no"s and 9 ghosts so far out of 27 agents submitted to. Either they're not seeing what I'm seeing, or I'm not seeing something that they are

and again, i find myself coming back to the question: why does he care? what is it about the far-right and hobbyhorses?

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

i don't really like this heat much. not a big fan

I hear Chris Nolan used actual cyclopses to avoid any cgi

Robot legs are here and they aren’t going anywhere. [booing begins] Whether you like it or not we are going to cut off all of your legs and arms [booing intensifies] and heads and replace them all with robot legs and only robot legs [shouting over boos] well I can see you aren’t ready for the future

am gonna lie, that hat looks really good on you

Breaking: World's 10 Richest Billionaires Now Worth More Than Poorest 50% of Billionaires

This is a great visualiser. Part of the inertia around extreme wealth, I think, is because it's just not possible to understand numbers with more than a handful of zeroes after them - it's too tempting to think that a billion is "a few million". Compared to £1bn, £1m is a rounding error.

sufficiently large polygons are the domain of lovecraftian horror

Slightly increase a band: The Same As Jake

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

A psa: you will never have a pint with Farage, his £5m security team would taser you before you got within 10 metres, so stop using that fantasy as a reason to vote for him

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

Been awake since 2am, so I finished the rest of David Szalay's "Flesh", which is to say, most of it. It feels the right way to have read it, lying alone in bed in the pool of light from the lamp with outside birdsong the only noise.

do I need my id to vote? or will my superego be enough

Ever find yourself reading the Wikipedia article for a well-reviewed book you didn't enjoy, just to check whether you missed something? I just did, and it seems that no, I didn't miss anything, and I'm now perplexed.

Trump has never made anyone a better person; he has only given bad people permission to show how bad they are.

graffiti at Sandycove, Dublin. 'Your phone makes the real world less satisfactory. It's designed to do that.'

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

"As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person..." This hollow motherfucker. There's nothing inside but doubt, fear and rage. He lays down in the dark and knows he's a moronic, posturing shit. And every morn begins an epic battle to convince everyone otherwise. It's mental illness.

Who could possibly have predicted this

Not from The Onion

The Atlantic did a fine job in trying to give Trump's side the right to reply, but I think that anyone writing about or investigating his administration now should just do it without bothering to ask, on the basis that any reply they give will be horseshit www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Even worth eating their shitty cookies for. Expect a pro-EU op-ed from the DM very soon....

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

But sure he is stark mad

After his tragic punctuation accident, he was in a comma for three days

Is this another example of vibecoding in action from @theguardian.com? It's on the android app.

Orban has conceded. Majority too big for him to try any nonsense. Tisza is going to have plenty of challenges in sorting out Orban's mess but this is a good day.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Right, that's 8 agents I've submitted my novel to today, and all I really want to do now is have a long walk and think about anything but querying.