Fog along the rowing course, Thorpe Meadows, Peterborough. A morning run view #morningrun

Well, that’s a bit embarrassing. www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Understanding Trump

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

The AI Slopification of the Internet continues - if people can abuse new tech for quick gains. They will. And so we'll all pay the price... how will people ever find anything out factually online in future, after the greedy duelling tech bros ruin everything?

To be fair, most of the human written ones were slop as well. Finding genuine authorative sources for just about anything on the internet has become more and more frustrating and time consuming, although AI is kicking that phenomenon into hyper drive.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

Re. #TheAshes Crawley as Test opener is BazBall personified, capable of great things+ of great failures. Main point for Crawley and the current leadership is, whilst we are going to lose games, and throw away good positions, comes down to this: are England winning enough series and/or big games...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

#TheAshes day1. Big twist: Panesar in final England XI @wisdencricket.bsky.social @tmsproducer.bsky.social @finalwordcricket.bsky.social

Having a lot of eggs in one basket isn't necessarily a great plan when it goes wrong. It can go really really wrong #Cloudflare (*not saying Cf is a bad service!)

Imagine being so mad about a broadcaster publishing a badly edited documentary about you, but waiting over a year, and until someone else mentioned it, before threatening to sue... in order to assert your bigly power over media coverage

Climate change is real, UK is committed to action... "Late last night Downing Street confirmed that the UK would not be putting taxpayers’ money towards a flagship global fund to protect the world’s remaining tropical forests" BBC News We've bottled it, and failed our children's futures again...

2028 is too late, our children need better online guidance now richardkendall.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/2...

“When the use is this concentrated — a.k.a tens of thousands of videos from one creator — it feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent," said progressive YouTuber David Pakman. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...

Who knew. The Web, built on links

I mean, who knew.... oh everyone

"the price rises Trump is so worried about will be dwarfed by those from crop failures and extreme weather if climate action is not taken seriously" - King Apprentice Trump is the biggest threat to all our futures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Working blog post title: The gamification of school homework apps

"OpenAI also announced the formation of a council on “well-being and AI” to help shape OpenAI’s response to “complex or sensitive” scenarios..." Surely. Horse. Bolted. But still, let's maximise engagement while we're here...

I think we've hit peak ladybird infestation. Presuming a seasonal/temperature related migration? They love our youngest's bedroom window, warmest part of the house, so having to regularly shepherd a group out😬🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

Spoiler alert: "this isn’t true, according to both the government and the company in question"

I've unsubscribed from so many email newsletters and connections this week it's been refreshing, so many missed or never returned-to emails just wasting away on servers, using up more data, energy, water etc...

Just dealing with the annual 🐞 autumn migration to our youngest's bedroom window. Adorable little creatures. Hopefully all safely back out in the wild #animalmigration

Short film from @ft.com.web.brid.gy by @realbaddiel.bsky.social Recall Me Maybe, on how we will use AI and the ethics involved, and what is truth, how we all need to understand bias in our own lives, our memory's version of our life, added to the guesstimating of AI tools www.ft.com/video/a4d2ba...

So we're ruling there shouldn't be a big tech monopoly by mildly restricting a big tech company... and thus keep its monopoly? What did I miss here??

"As things get worse online [an increase in misinformation], in other words, trusted news organizations may have more opportunities to forge strong connections with readers..."👀

Parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide in lawsuit against OpenAI

"surveys repeatedly indicate that the public would increase prioritization of NASA’s research in Earth and climate science above other areas, which currently receive significantly more funding at the space agency"

One for every editor who uses freelancers. Needs to be near the top of your to-read pile... Via @pressgazette.co.uk - dealing with chatbot written PRs is one thing, but another if the story and author are also an AI guestimating reality, or just made up: pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

"it’s not that we can’t focus; it’s that we’re trying to focus inside environments designed to fragment us. Too much structural noise... the attention crisis...: Can we trust the environments we spend our lives in to support the kind of thinking we value?" Rachel Botsman on Trust/distraction

Good 📰, on digital publishing's journey viewed from education: www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2..., HT @adders.blog "How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"

Good 📰, on digital publishing viewed from education, www.andydickinson.net/2025/08/04/2... by Andy Dickinson, HT @adders.blog "How can we get students and colleagues in academia to respect journalism for what it is and how we do it if the industry throws that against the wall for short-term gain?"

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

Rachel Botsman: "I’m not anti-AI... I’m using it to do incredible things in my own work. But research is mounting: AI, like many technologies before it, may be making us dumber and mentally lazier. I can see it in myself. It’s so easy to let the tool think for you": www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Some that think we should just give in to big tech's drive to monetise our children's attention as soon as possible, because a device-driven, video-driven future is... inevitable... spoiler: it's not, if we, the real people, don't let it - real world experience+perspective underpins tech use

The issues with our water and waterways won't be resolved (though better regulation might help) with a new Ofwat, because our water is managed by profit making businesses, rather than run ultimately for the benefit of ALL of US

RIP Felix, a beautiful BoC tribute to an incredible achievement youtu.be/ES02mWIJ2Tk?...

Seeing more and more Instagram video where the source video has clearly been produced for another platform, presuming TikTok/YT? And has captions overlaid bit because of the differing dimensions the captions are often cut off or unreadable 😒🤯 or is this just me??

Via @pressgazette.co.uk “Journalists need to develop ways to show their work is better than gen AI articles... public need to know whether they are reading ‘real articles’/gen AI content... regulators need to label gen AI content, penalise those who lie about that” pressgazette.co.uk/news/french-...

@dgquarterly.bsky.social hey, without any sense of irony, do we have an eta on issue 58? Yours, an avid reader

What do you mean given the go-ahead, they've been doing it for ages?? "Royal Mail has been given the green light to drop Saturday deliveries of second-class letters and provide services only on alternating weekdays from Monday to Friday from 28th July"

@bencollins.bsky.social could @theonion.com start a thread of articles and posts RE “There’s nothing we could have done to predict this...” on the latest climate crisis fuelled extreme weather event pls...?

The number of articles I'm seeing about optimising for agentic AI and it's just basic bog standard accessibility stuff that we should have been doing anyway.

Pondering AI Overview click-through rates for news publishers. One issue, aside from how attribution links shown/positioned etc. Is, if the AI crafted response is convincingly possibly true enough, do most people care if "AI responses may include mistakes." here disclaimer not even shown initially?

My latest TV watch: ‘Scandinavia with Simon Reeve’. Both enjoyable and horrifying, this touches on climate change, migration policy, intensive farming, geopolitics… I just wish there was an episode per country. BBC budgets though, innit. Recommended. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 #bbc #bbciplayer #simonreeve

Something really striking about the energy transition in the UK is that, despite having halved our emissions since 1990, very few people are aware of this success - only a quarter of the public think we've made a meaningful difference to cutting our emissions

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Just watched Marianna Spring’s brilliant but devastating Panorama - the sheer wickedness not just of Shemirani but those like Joe Rogan who spread anti medicine poison is enraging

Digital publishing, looking forward from 2025, in a nutshell: "What are the incentives for publishers to create content for them [search/social, e.g. Google] to train the models on, if those models never send traffic back to those publishers?" via @adders.blog onemanandhisblog.com/2025/06/digi...