Registrations are now open for Feburary! Come along and learn how to make maps and analyse geographical data with Python 🗺️ luma.com/kospxtu7

Registrations are now open for January! Come along and learn how to scrape the web with Beautiful Soup and Playwright! 🥣 luma.com/50ge2x1e

Registrations are now open for December! Come along and learn how to automatically categorise things with AI 🎁

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

Beth Rigby spotted that the OBR accidentally published their Budget papers too soon. It's down now, but I've archived a copy: buff.ly/SfFAiCu

Amazing. Bypass model safeguards and get helpful responses about nukes, bioweapons, cyberattacks, etc., simply by putting the adversarial prompt in a poem. Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...

Wtf: in the 18th and 19th centuries, green park and st James’ park were covered with cows and milkmaids, and you could buy milk fresh from the cow memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...

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...

Registrations are now open for November! Come along and learn how to use computer vision for AI image and video analysis with @roboflow.com 👀 luma.com/3928sgrf

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world. Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

Registrations are now open for October! Come along and learn how to track boats and see the seas with @globalfishingwatch.org 🌊

July September

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

Registrations are now open for September. Come along and learn how to tell stories with maps using @mapbox.com! 🗺️ luma.com/blz20uhu

Wired and Business Insider have removed features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated. Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.

i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...

Registrations are now open for August. Come along and learn about the art of data journalism! 🎨 We're covering all the basic skills you need to find and tell stories with data lu.ma/nr7euafr

How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

FT readers having fun in the comments

One of the funniest news diagrams I've ever seen.

Six years ago @zachweinersmith.bsky.social made a joke about a 24/7 AI podcast endlessly talking about polling numbers. I’ve made it a reality. open.substack.com/pub/techtris...

RSVPs are now open for July! Come along and learn how to use data visualisation for exploring and communicating with Let's Plot! 📊 lu.ma/shr1kete

In which I get to profile Christo (gift link). The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

RSVPs are now open for June! Come along and learn how to build interactive web apps with Streamlit! 🔥 www.meetup.com/journocoders...

Back in Mechelen for #eijc25

For the last year, I’ve been working on an investigation that’s left me staggered. It’s a damning indictment of the UK’s care sector, & the migration system which has allowed millions of ££s to be plundered from communities in developing countries. Free link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Free “most read with a bullet” feature idea for every national newsdesk: The UK’s longest direct train journey between Aberdeen and Penzance runs for the final time on Friday, send the reporter you hate the most to spend the whole day on it.

RSVPs are now open for May! Come along and learn how to find big stories in huge data sets with Google Cloud ☁️ www.meetup.com/journocoders...

RSVPs are now open for April. Come along to learn about space journalism! We'll be analysing the world using satellites with Google Earth Engine 🛰️ www.meetup.com/journocoders...

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

Roses are red Violets are blue

Here are the slides for our talk “Who’s Behind This Website?” that @acookiecrumbles.bsky.social and I just gave at #NICAR25. Slides: bit.ly/nicar25-behi... Repo with cheatsheet: github.com/jonkeegan/be... And here’s experimental “NICAR Website Sleuth” GPT that can help you: bit.ly/nicar-sleuth...

Thanks to all who came to my #nicar25 fuzzy matching session! The slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation...

Was listening to Bloomberg radio earlier. I didn’t realise “a Liz Truss scenario” was a term about the bond market that Americans used when talking to other Americans for a mostly American audience. Is this soft power?

Great to be in Minneapolis for #nicar25! Looking forward to meeting new people and learning new things

RSVPs are now open for March! Come along to learn how to visualise data with R and GGPlot 📊 www.meetup.com/journocoders...

A couple of brilliant quotes in the FT Bonus Survey.

NEW: This marmalade dropper is worth your time… 🤯 Gofer Mining's accounts looked unremarkable. But an investigation with @danneidle.bsky.social revealed an eccentric director, an invented country - & a very real attempt to seize a Ukrainian gold mine. Aided by lax Companies House checks. READ:

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Exclusive: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

The OCCRP is much more than just reporters: they make investigative infrastructure to support newsrooms. The true impact of the OCCRP is way larger and grander than the stories that have their name on it.

RSVPs are now open for February! Come along to learn how to use AI for practical data journalism with Hugging Face 🤗 www.meetup.com/journocoders...

www.ft.com/content/4e29... Mega mansion sells for big bucks. But who is the new neighbour? Draft regulation is set to make it harder for beneficial owners of properties to be shielded behind trust arrangements and bring more transparency into the ownership of property holdings in the UK.

NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...