www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWkT... reminder.

How the NYT is using AI for its investigative journalism digiday.com/media/inside...

Fortune following Business Insider's lead and having AI write the first draft of stories.... "For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing." fortune.com/2025/09/22/n...

Sometimes I think we underestimated how vital media "gatekeepers" were to a functioning democracy. Far far from perfect, but gatekeepers = quality, accountability, sanity. Tell me society is better when kids are watching IShowSpeed instead of professionally made television.

Always good to be cheered up by the new issue of The Economist…

Just came across this wonderful Richard Huntington quote on the strategist-creative-client service triad: "The healthy tension between people that want to make it right, people that want to make it magic and people that want to make it happen is the engine that generates our best work."

Lovely words from @ianleslie.bsky.social on buying sensibly: “consume stories” 👌🏼

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing #September11

Good service on all Limes

New data from @hardensbites.bsky.social on the London restaurant scene

Listening to a podcast with Meta’s CMO where he says Facebook and Instagram have gone from being 100% content from accounts you followed (mostly photos) in 2020, to 70% algorithmically recommended content (mostly video) in 2025.

According to Scott Galloway, the Pivot podcast gets 400k downloads per episode, while the average CNN show is watched by just 92k people (!). Crazy.

Seamus Perry’s review of Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very good thread on our new information ecosystem 👇

Two months on, we can see how this has shifted Britain's political conversation...

The food at Humble Chicken lived up to the billing. Spectacular stuff.

I really like this campaign

Security firm Netskope has filed for IPO. $700m ARR, growing at 33%. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

I don't normally give business advice, but recently I’ve found myself talking to a few people who are “starting their own thing”... so I wanted to share a few pointers I've learnt over the past few years: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

the lawyers coming in to write the swift-kelce prenup

cue: scene of baseball game getting cancelled in Inception

Trump is an old-school media guy and PR man at heart, it's all he's ever known, it's what he loves, it's how he sees the world

Tech doesn’t exist in isolation from politics - especially not right now. I talked to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social about why @wired.com is doing what we’re doing right now. www.status.news/p/wired-kati...

Some powerful words from Wired editor @katie-drummond.bsky.social on tech's political power

No matter how many times I am told it I still cannot believe Americans have screwed up saying Bologna this badly

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

How the tech elite’s conversations are changing (via @thebenedictevans.bsky.social)

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

“AI systems are encoded with the biases of their creators.” Exhibit one… 👇🏼

You don't heat much anymore about the terrors of big data and microtargeting, as @jamesrball.com points out here. Brexit won because of 25 years of eurosceptic media + austerity + immigration. Trump won because of 2008 fallout + social/demographic change + new media landscape.

Hmmmm...

An open secret of the media world is that in general the best-written and most accessible content any organization produces is its email newsletters. The simple reason is that there's no committee fussing over it; it's entrusted to a handful of the most bookish & thoughtful people in the newsroom.

Fascinating to me that over on Threads this post has 74k views and nearly 1k likes, and here it’s crickets. As a normie poster, Threads’ algorithm is a lottery but it occasionally gives you high reach that keeps you coming back.

From a discourse perspective, there are three ways to react to a transformational technology like AI (if you’re not part of the hype train). Normalise it, resist it, or call it a bubble.

One of the best pieces of work advice I got was “play loose”. Operate at 80%, and don't tense up over your work. You’re more open to opportunities that way, and have more fun too.

Duolingo's head of social media gets paid more than the Prime Minister btw

Bluesky — British journos Threads — random Americans X — rightwing Americans

From @caseynewton.bsky.social's dinner with Sam Altman

Book design, 2025.

What are the best books on the history of the internet? Particularly the early days in the 80s and 90s?

Staggering chart from the FT. Each of Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta (MAMA!) are set to spend over $100bn annually on capex by 2030, more than all four combined in 2020. All because of the LLM-triggered AI boom... on.ft.com/3HwH8Y8

Maybe if we give the far-right more facts and context, they’ll receive them in good faith and see the errors in their analysis

X is now a platform for aspirant white nationalist terrorists. No company or public organisation should be on there.

“Business has been forced to adjust itself to staggering acceleration in the rate of change” — McKinsey pamphlet, not from 2025 but from 1940! economist.com/business/202...

Tim Cook’s gold plaque is going to join the annals of symbolic Trump/Tech moments.

Excellent if depressing piece from @kyla.bsky.social about America’s three economies — AI (booming), healthcare (where real jobs are growing as society ages), and memes (giving hope to the disillusioned young). kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

in this week's newsletter! a super cheery essay on why I think I'm no longer in denial about AI shafting us all in the media and creative industries: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/not-half-f...

Had my first Waymo ride in Atlanta today. It’s interesting noting how much angst there used to be about Uber replacing drivers with self driving cars, which itself seemed like science fiction. Now it’s a mundane reality and the backlash seems like a fever dream. This AI adoption pattern will repeat

How do we get the mRNA researchers to the UK? Govt needs to be seizing the brain drain opportunities here!