AI Companies: it's outrageous that DeepSeek has ripped off our models to produce a cheaper, inferior version Publishers: uh-huh, sure

I have the opportunity to watch a movie in full tonight, for the first time in 10 months. What should I watch?

So where did we land on Nazi-punching this time around?

The BBC sends the entire country a notification for every single murder, and every single photo the royal family put on Instagram, and I don't know why

It's usually been quite easy to see the cynical/personal motives behind whatever Musk is doing, but I really don't see it with his anti-UK stuff (of AfD stuff). What's the best explanation beyond "he's radicalised himself"?

If the average person was spending £63 a month on news the media industry would be gold-plating their third Lamborghinis

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Do these people think the next few years are going to go well in the US

how have I ended up following a load of people who all seem to be obsessed with top of the pops. it's this a bluesky thing. I am just that far out of the zeitgeist

BlueSky has a user base with a very high proportion of people who have a history of leaving social networks that don't align with their values. That might be more of a challenge for them than I originally expected

This is what she should do

Some people say BBC News has lost it's urgency

This summary of the Eras tour is really something

I would be fascinated to know how many non-journalists are actually even aware of the difference between the observer and the guardian (and the idea that the observer is anything other than the Sunday Guardian)

don't think anyone from politicsjoe has heard of against me! before now

post-having-a-child cultural consumption change as measured by best of lists: - Music: I have listened to most of these - TV: I have heard of most of these - Films: These are all fake and you are trying to trick me

It is indeed a good deal from The i Paper inews.co.uk/subscribe?ut...

why don't people trust the media

Imagine the police investigating a stolen phone in 2024

one interesting thing about the return of links with bluesky is how many people are now using 3rd party syndication apps instead of actual news sites

The sensitivity over the possibility that BlueSky might be an echo chamber is more interesting than the idea itself

Yeah those unheard of modern artists Green Day, Missy Elliott and Kraftwerk

Maybe the most interesting Bluesky vs. Threads data. Yes, Threads is almost definitely a lot bigger when you include app data (which SimilarWeb doesn't). But Bluesky is getting all the Twitter referrals, Threads is IG. Bluesky is creating a second Twitter, Threads is a new IG offshoot instead

The Sandy Hook families have committed more money to The Onion takeover of InfoWars than the literal billionaire who owns The Onion

For all the issues with voters who can't agree on the basic facts of the reality they're voting in, when the facts make this little sense, you can't really expect them to

the success of Bluesky with an absolutely tiny team does sorta prove Musk had a point about Twitter having way too many staff

will never tire of people on this list taking it incredibly breezily: "yes I actually have revealed this BEFORE, you haven't caught me, I AM intellectually honest," as though they are the sole point of the list, and not simply representative of a cohort

fascinating the (non-RW) people sticking with Twitter. split between people terrified they got their following illicitly somehow and can't risk the loss of status, people convinced they're fighting for the soul of twitter, and the true posters who have only ever posted for themselves anyway

tomorrow is 1,000 days since the start of the war in Ukraine. In Kyiv, there are fears for what it the sacrifice meant, with the possibility of a Trump-Putin deal on the horizon inews.co.uk/news/world/1...

working towards a future in which every team has a winning record 💪

signing a 'Why I'm Leaving X' open letter is the most extreme dork energy

Got around to an i Paper starter park - follow here go.bsky.app/Qu14ij7

a YouTube channel. you are describing a YouTube channel

torn between thinking the onion thing is funny and ultimately good for killing off Alex Jones thing (for a bit), and thinking we really haven't learnt our lesson about billionaires buying media companies

also, two thought experiments: Would Trump still have won if he'd accepted the 2020 results gracefully?

a few things I think I think about this election: 1/ This was Trump as a 'normal' candidate. For a long time he'd been treated as an aberration, looking to con his way to an electoral college victory despite getting trashed in the popular vote. But this performance is of a normal, unifying candidate

In 2016 Trump needed a normal polling error to win, and got it In 2020 Trump needed a greater than normal polling error to win, and only got a normal polling error In 2024, Harris needs a smaller than normal polling error to win inews.co.uk/news/world/e...

Every time someone on the Trump campaign explains that they're relying on turning out non-voting young men and everyone treats it like a cunning strategy I feel like I'm losing my mind

Completely batshit that newspapers endorse political candidates Even more batshit to come to that realisation for the first time in 48 years, 11 days before an election

I'm doing a daily update of the latest polls here, and the polls are indicating that the election is a tossup, as it has been for more than a month now. We're at the point where you really shouldn't look at individual polls - just check the average. inews.co.uk/news/world/e...

Imagine if there'd been Taylor Swift tickets and glasses in there

Americans, notoriously, are always respectful about British politics

I can buy where these polls are now, but a 10-pt swing in Arizona and 0pt swing in Georgia has me sceptical

there are many good, legitimate reasons to hate Britain, but suggesting British people can't talk about British places in British publications reveals far more US insecurity than it does of the UK

Maybe 97% of the heat Ticketmaster gets is because it's frequently selling 100k tickets to 500k people, and 400k people think a 'fair' system would put them in the 100k instead

Chappell Roan tickets reselling for more than Oasis tickets rn

The cowards post

Oasis playing Knebworth was closer to when the Beatles broke up than today

where in the BBC's public service remit does "reposting the helmet cam footage of one of your presenters running into a minor celebrity" fit

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