The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables on.ft.com/4nOeeCn

NEW: Elon Musk keeps hyping Tesla’s FSD software, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored standard street signs and even a flashing school bus stop sign – squashing mannequin child “Timmy.” Why is it legal? www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

very complicated that interpreting the niche/dumb internet subculture references on the bullet engravings has real stakes "is this a reference to 20th century Italian anti-fascism or an ironic groyper reference?"/"which kind of pepe is this?" don't seem like questions most media can grasp well

NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

New data shows that illegally-parked cop cars are wrecking the Jay Street busway nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

I keep giving LLMs a chance to impress me, whenever I encounter a boring task that they should be good at, and they keep shitting the bed. Not like 'this was too hard a problem for fancy autocomplete' shitting the bed, like 'randomly deleting swathes of code' shitting the bed

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

NEW: The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed Our visual story on the relentless race for AI capacity: ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army. Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police. ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

these kinds of "skills"/tricks for interacting with an LLM are a bug, not a feature, based on unintended friction in the system. it's like having a Texting 101 class in 2006 that teaches you tricks for typing quickly on a T9 keypad

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

god the last two Alex G albums are so good

New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately. Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions. 🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

the thing about these kinds of arguments ("sure, you might like the guy, but lots of other people won't, so you shouldn't vote for him") is that it asks voters to engage in a kind of meta-politics on behalf of the party that I just have trouble believing most people would care about at all

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

By the way scammers have taken notice. Your must-read today. prospect.org/economy/2025...

Periodic reminder that AIs hallucinate, we have no idea if this is actually true

"brainwashed into nazism? nah, bro!" -a computer

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”. www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Since 2016 the mainstream media (self included) has spent God knows how many hours fretting and gaming out and strategizing the right and ethical way to cover hack and leaked information. I don't see any way to justify doing this story the way the NYT did here.

Hakeem Jeffries is still speaking but eventually Republicans are going to pass their megabill. And it hasn't been discussed much, but that is going to force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Not just Medicaid. Medicare. Here's why: prospect.org/politics/202...

I’ve removed the paywall on my piece about right-wing pollsters boosting Trump in polling averages (but not ones as smart as the model at Strength In Numbers): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-to-rig...

Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V

I could've sworn that our current mayor was indicted on corruption charges and that four deputy mayors resigned in protest just a few months ago? no mention of any of that in this piece about the dangers of New York being mismanaged though, I must be imagining it!

it is buzzing here!

Meet your new cosmic neighbors ☄️ Introducing a swarm of over 2100 new asteroids discovered by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! Rubin discovered these asteroids in about 10.5 hours of observing across 7 nights. They've never been seen by humanity before...until now.🔭🧪 youtu.be/DTuq-vBsDJE

NEW: Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider on.ft.com/4ncZcGJ

We know that #CongestionPricing is working in Manhattan. Recent research from RPA shows that it's working all across NYC — across all five boroughs, traffic is down and travel times are improving. See all the benefits in RPA's new lab post: rpa.org/news/lab/con...

most cursed gas station snack

NEW - Mexico’s cartels have been setting up shop in a new business: smuggled fuel. Using satellite, customs, and maritime data, we identified misdeclared shipments of millions of barrels per year in a lucrative web that evades taxes and stretches across the country. ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

Immigrants are falling victim to elaborate scams on social media while seeking legal assistance to avoid deportation under Trump’s most recent crackdown. In New York City alone, immigration-related scams rose by 27% last year. documentedny.com/2025/06/09/f... via @documentedny.bsky.social

NEW on the Wall Street backers supporting Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor and how his fundraising contrasts with Zohran Mamdani and other opponents in the race on.ft.com/4mUmKQF

A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Honoured to win two @amnesty.org awards for our visual investigations into Russia’s abductions of Ukrainian children and settler soldiers in the West Bank. 👏 @alisonkilling.bsky.social @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @samlearner.bsky.social @christopherjm.ft.com @jamesshotter.bsky.social

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

As called by Mark Boyle on Pacers radio:

alright, I'm positive now that this series is going to be amazing

honestly find it pretty charming that the Star Wars wiki page about "humans" just refuses to break character

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

Delighted to see our portfolio of investigations on Russia’s war in Ukraine shortlisted for @gijn.org Sigma Awards. The revelations contribute to mounting evidence of war crimes and show what can be achieved when forensic reporting is combined with visual storytelling. gijn.org/stories/sigm...

Alphaville x Weekend FT on.ft.com/3H2aWLC