‘The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power.” www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

The "very interesting afternoon" is dragging on a bit. youtu.be/2fQvZUIdhII?...

If you've pirated a book, love an author and their books aren't in your library request them, get them on the shelves. "You read that correctly: your book doesn’t need to be signed out even once for you to be compensated by the Canadian PLR program!" www.friesenpress.com/blog/2021/10...

Hey, Albertan regulated professionals, what do you think about Danielle Smith? youtu.be/HZJNxMjlYXg?...

Good.

BREAKING: A judge just dismissed the cases against NY AG Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. This was a political prosecution at the President’s direction—brought by a former White House aide appointed to overrule career prosecutors.

This is right. I sat through the programme for my posts. Other than the edit-fail, it was a boringly balanced programme.

Let’s never forget rationing ventilators and Zoom funerals. Boris Johnson and his cronies partied while our loved ones lay dying alone. COVID-19 was the worst public health crisis in a century. We should have locked down earlier. To some of us, PPE was not a get-rich-quick commodity.

NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game. @washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."

Well. Not only was the US peace plan not a peace plan, it was from Russia and not the US.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

Double secret declination memo?

I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.

And the BBC.

Another triumph for AI. (You’d think reproducing HR gobbledygook might be one thing the crappy tech might get away with, but no.)

I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them

look you're just not understanding how many dimensions of chess Labour is thinking along here

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 42: No one *needs* to work every day. But doing so - even for only a few minutes - ensures that you *think* about your work every day; solving problems away from your desk; keeping the plates spinning.

NEW: Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants. And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.

"QUICK! Bomb something!"

We should never have let Musk take the prototype Neuralink to the Oval Office show and tell.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia. Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts. Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

Political manufacturing. Big business today!

One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.

This puts the whole BBC kerfuffle into context. 5 years >> 50 mins

These are the questions BBC staffers weren't allowed to ask the DG and Chair at yesterday's town hall meeting. Spot a pattern?

Trumplejuice, Trumplejuice, ...

Nigel Planer has a memoir out at the moment. I'm very tempted www.waterstones.com/book/young-o...

Warren Buffett says he is ‘going quiet’ on.ft.com/4qXynbK

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

It’s time for Speaker Johnson to cut the ridiculous excuses and do his job. Adelita Grijalva won an election more than 6 weeks ago, and she still hasn’t been sworn in to represent more than 800,000 Arizonans. Read her op-ed:

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.

That lady should be a writer

Hear me out Blake’s 7 but Muppets, Vila the only human

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Two phones on the desk and they have to use Max's. 🤷‍♂️ youtu.be/hHrnLOb1hTA?...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Sudo, ... "

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

Parse the duchy, and he’s left outside. Encore.

I found one Wikipedia article that Grokipedia hasn't copied yet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipe...

"Microsoft’s VP for energy, Google’s chief investment officer, OpenAI’s Altman, Amazon’s VP for global data centres, & Nvidia’s senior director of corporate sustainability have all publicly supported the idea of their companies relying on natural gas as an energy source for AI data centres"

Elon missed a trick here. When he got Grokipedia to copy content from Wikipedia he should have told it to do so recursively so that all the related articles could have been included. The Grokipedia article has no connections. The Wikipedia article is one node in a highly linked network of knowledge.