A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

as ever: archive.org/donate?origi... The Internet Archive is probably the org I've supported/urged ppl to fundraise for the most, after my own org, #MEAction. Seriously, if you won't miss $5/month, it's always a good time to support the Archive.

Critics fear these tactics have a “chilling effect”, discouraging people from filming. The result? “These agents get to effectively be as unaccountable as any group in the history of our country,” says David Bier, of the Cato Institute. Read the full story in today’s #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/yAKlCgR

ICE agents are also invoking a federal criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 111, which makes it a crime to interfere with federal officers while performing their duties. Civil rights experts say the statute is being misapplied, as recording agents does not constrain their ability to carry out operations.

Over the past few months, hundreds of Americans have been pepper sprayed, threatened and detained for attempting to film on their phones the largest crackdown on undocumented migrants in recent American history. An #FTEdit video 🧵 on why ICE agents are so camera shy 👇

ICE agents hate being filmed [🎁 gift link] as.ft.com/r/4348e0f1-4...

in retrospect, it was probably a warning sign last tuesday when I overheard someone at the climbing gym telling their friends about all of the money they were making on gold. could have looked like a genius if I had called the top right at that moment

I gather some people think the FT has been neglecting its core for “woke nonsense” bla bla yada yada, which is news to this 12k word beast — an oral history of the Federal Reserve’s Covid-19 crisis made up of quotes from the recently released full transcripts. www.ft.com/content/cb9a...

Over the past few months, video footage circulating on social media has repeatedly shown US citizens who have tried to film ICE agents on their phones being pushed, pepper sprayed, threatened with arrest and occasionally detained. ft.trib.al/q3kzNQC

Patrick Bateman routine, without the dinner reservations

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

maybe I'm in the minority here, but I've never watched a video podcast on purpose and never really intend to? I was under the impression that the point of producing video podcasts was just to cut clips/take advantage of more passive video platforms, but this and the netflix thing are throwing me off

Keep Alphaville free* by investing in our Free** Jay Powell merch. * without cost ** not under the control of another as.ft.com/r/82db28aa-3...

on top of everything else, have to say again that underlining/circling two publicly-available numbers is an UNBELIEVABLY LAZY form of "data journalism", regardless of how many corny, theatric hand gestures you make

hmm, I've come across an AI-generated podcast that fully plagiarized a story of mine, slightly rephrasing it as a "conversation" between two fake hosts. not a big fan of this!

wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it) www.ft.com/content/1ac0...

The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling. www.ft.com/content/1ac0...

"everyone's mad at me, so I must be doing something right!" wow, how convenient that your mark of high quality is indistinguishable from the widely-understood mark of low quality

NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.

can't even take in whatever this poll is supposed to be saying because I'm getting so angry at whatever is going on with the sizes of the bars + the blue/red color scheme that is *not* mapped to party ID...

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

economists need to GET OVER THEMSELVES

"i htink weak thoughts?"

power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

the anti-Bushwick

definitely starting to feel like the special election results were a more reliable indicator than the polling...

making all of my friend's parents extremely jealous

Per court filing, a federal immigration agent pointed a gun at a U.S. citizen protesting and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal.” From a weekend Loevy civil rights firm filing

from 2020-2022, I put about a dozen open source projects on the web and every year since, I suffer for it with my time/money/energy long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Our story today on how storage is changing grids and extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution. A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power. Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social 🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social

I'm just a guy with £50 of cash that I took out at the airport, wandering around London trying to find places that will accept it in exchange for the stuff that they're selling. you wouldn't believe how hard it's been

first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas!

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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...

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

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...