Don't worry everyone, News Corp have a great track record of buying and successfully managing social networks.

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

Just saying you can house a tech worker in London for a whole year for far less than $100k. Europe should start quietly operating visa systems for these companies who have workers that frankly may not want to return to the US right now.

Very interesting that Twitter is now doing some fact checking community notes with AI sourcing (with success, this one is correct!)

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Having late night fun with @vercel.com's AI SDK, OpenAI's web search and some prompting for claim identification.

Would anyone else who the New York Times is repeatedly trying to upsell a Family Plan to like to take money away from them by signing up to a family plan with me so we don't get bothered again? (Really do not understand the rate the NYT pushes upsells on its paying subscribers).

“This lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims and instead is an attempt to stifle and discourage independent reporting. The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics.” www.nytco.com/press/the-ne...

Interesting: 20% have reserved their usernames with Bluesky. Even though the journey is a bit rocky and needs some work still (some out of our control). Love that. It’s good that we have a platform to share without getting punished for sharing, gasp, journalism.

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State of this absolute bullshit 'analysis' honestly.

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On this pont does anyone have any suggestions of good policy podcasts on UK politics? I love The Ezra Klein Show from NYT, the FT's Political Fix is generally very good, but the BBC's offerings particularly are just horse racing, sound bites, gotchas and gossip.

This is great reporting. This anaemic government needs to actually get to passing useful legislation. An easy one would be to make landlords liable for unpaid taxes up to the value of the lease. This would immediately make it unprofitable to lease to these phoenix companies. Why is that so hard?

This has got me so curious in the IPSA website that I've spent the last hour vibe-coding a database to work out if any other MP besides David Davis have expensed a top tier iPad. Literally, guy expensed £3077 on a single iPad. Clicked the maximum for everything. Absolute chad.

Why do we have to test this so frequently? Surely this increases the likelihood that people will just switch the alerts off entirely?

I am once again asking why they do not sell massive packs of McCoys Salt and Vinegar.

Why are Sky News blurring the faces of adults who are likely committing a racially aggravated offence in the process of their reporting? 🫠

Successfully followed enough tech (read: Cloudflare) people on the former bird site that none of my feed (bar Hasan Abi getting hyped) has even mentioned it. Blissful.

My current shortcut: 1. Go to ChatGPT 2. Ask literally anything 3. Find and copy an em dash.

The quality of preparation for this interview by the producers and interviewer is exceptionally poor given all the talking points have already been refuted by other outlets. "Afghans are 22x more likely to commit offenses" (a falsehood) was met by the equivalent of "no they're not".

The quiet part said out loud in this clip. "You're speaking more directly than you used to". "We left our jobs at the Washington Post."

Cloudflare have deployed a new, widely adoptable, video and data streaming solution to their entire network that promises to solve for some of the challenges embedded in how media streaming works today. The blog post on it is a pretty good read on what those are. blog.cloudflare.com/moq/

Am I being trolled by all these 'Claude Code on the server' people rolling apps by ssh-ing directly into a box and vibe coding live? I am right? Seems to be no benefit over doing the same thing locally and rapid deployment (eg. wrangler deploy, vercel deploy, alchemy deploy).

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This is a problem that newsrooms are likely to have so long as they compete with AI info startups, which I believe anyone looking a few years ahead should support experimenting in that space. If they don't it will be another startup regurgitating their reporting. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

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Claude Code can now do background tasks, which is awesome because previously commands like npx wrangler tail would need to be manually stopped after you produced the logs necessary, in tandem. Now Claude can itself monitor the logs whilst invoking APIs to trigger them, and stop when needed.

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New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

"There's so much more to software than just the emitting of the code" What an incredibly funny thing for the President of OpenAI to say immediately after a vibe coding demo.

My favourite part of any OpenAI livestream is the awkward banter they have to make up about how great everything is whilst they wait for the model to do something.

Attn: journalists in the creator economy, I'd love to show you something. 1/

Does your Slack look like this? Dozens of channels in the sidebar created by well-meaning employees months ago, forgotten and abandoned? But archiving them is too laborious and might be presumptive for you to do? I've been building a little solution. Reply or like this and I'll send you an update.

Does your Slack look like this? Dozens of channels in the sidebar created by well-meaning employees months ago, forgotten and abandoned? But archiving them is too laborious and might be presumptive for you to do? I've been building a little solution. Reply or like this and I'll send you an update.

Thoughts from the bajillionth time working with the Slack API: Whichever exec's idea it was to create Enterprise Grid as an entirely new layer on top of workspaces/teams I sure hope regrets that decision.

Perplexity are the worst AI company and Cloudflare is the biggest ally publishers have right now in the tech space. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Look what happens when you do a modicum of journalism

What if – hear me out – some people just sincerely think digital ID would be a good idea for public policy and that the trade-off with civil liberties is worth taking, and a weird quasi-conspiracy isn't required?

@bsky.app overtaking X for desired AND admired community platform for devs!

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

So the UK Government position is that Palestine is only a state if there are no Palestinians left? Just ludicrous policymaking🫠

I love that Today this morning is discussing Google's AI mode as a potential impact on our mental faculties when surely the more concerning and obvious problem is that it runs roughshod over the tacit agreements that underscore the internet as a source of information. Call it Google Zero.

So wholesome 🥲 well done! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

My favourite part of news publishers push notifying me of a US-EU trade deal with the sole source being the President of the US is that I have no idea if it's true.

Night Two

There is a "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition with over 100k signatures if you feel like adding your name to the list. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Ridiculous. The time Google is spending just on comms to deprecate this is likely an order of magnitude more than it would have cost to just keep these links working forever. One could implement this on Workers in 5 lines of code and never touch it again...

So much to be said about how not okay this is. With the Online Safety Act and the recent actions around proscribed organizations, we should really no longer count 'freedom of expression' as one of the values of this country.