How on earth did Carney allow this to become something he had to apologise for? on.ft.com/4outjtB Canada’s Carney says he apologised to Trump over Reagan anti-tariff ad

2030 for Virgin trains going London to Paris (up to 20 times a day apparently) ft.pressreader.com/v99e/2025110...

This “all hangs on a presumption that stopping Farage is the primary motivation for voters. And that is a problem. The constant message from voters since 2016 is that things must change. Labour still appears to represent a failing status quo” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Delighted to see a piece of news that is just fun on.ft.com/4owfQkE Eurostar places €2bn order for double-decker trains

Such a great interview with Tom Hollander, a distant relative www.ft.com/content/2a02... Lunch with the FT always a pleasure to read

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI (via Axios)

Interesting piece www.ft.com/content/9598... Data show citizens in the West have wanted more controlled immigration for a while and that moderate governments have been tone deaf on responding. This has encouraged the rise of Maga and Farage

Just saw #onebattleafteranother. Searing and absurdist and extremely topical. Wow. Agree with this piece I just read, too variety.com/2025/film/co...

Too many other institutions who can fight back have also failed us in this moment, as I have written about in the past — www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru... — and as Adam Serwer wrote about this week: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Something mercurially compelling about Ethan Hawke; always felt a real sense of depth from his performances www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m... Glad to read of this critic’s evolution of appreciation for him as well

Wonderfully barbed piece on Trump's UK visit www.ft.com/content/b119...

It's sorta like a fascist coup, I hate to tell ya

A protestor outside of Walt Disney Studios today after they suspended #JimmyKimmelLive “Did you even watch Andor?” (via westernwilder | TW)

Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner calls out Disney for suspending #JimmyKimmelLive “Where has all the leadership gone?  … who will step up for the first amendment?”

Another sad example of democracy being eroded, this time in India www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w... Voters were culled from lists (many pronounced dead who were very alive), and ID verification can’t be done with Aadhaar, most common and integrated ID

The US President claimed that 300 million people have been killed by drugs in the USA. The current US population is a little over 340 million people. It's unclear if stupidity on this level will lead to the release of the Epstein files.

Paris’ zinc roofs are not fit for purpose in a time of climate change www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/h... No agreement yet on what to do. I’m reading a book on history of Paris right now so it’s remarkable the extent to which people are trying to preserve a very specific time of Paris, basically 1850s

Um, oh, ok

Oh, you can do that?!

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

“I think it's worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal." - Charlie Kirk

Still the best explanation of Russian tactics and the difficulty of deterrence. From: Yes, Prime Minister.

I know Americans survive by an extreme practice of cognitive dissonance, but that on display every single time one of them says “this is not us” in response to yet another act of violence is insane.

What does this even mean

Meta is building an AI data center in Wyoming that would use more electricity than every home in the state combined (via AP)

I regret to inform you that this is a White House governmental website: www.whitehouse.gov/america250/a...

“France’s troubles reflect something broader too: a worrying sign that the tools of technocratic politics - an appeal to reason, the marshalling of facts, the forging of consensus - are feeble weapons against the populists’ angry certitudes” economist.com/leaders/2025...

When Ross Ulbricht received a pardon from Trump for running Silk Road, the dark web drug marketplace, we wondered what his next move would be. Over the past 7 months, he's gone on a speaking tour and received tens of millions of dollars in donations. It's a story tailor-made for the Trump era.

Law Dork, last night: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-step...

AI company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B to settle a lawsuit with book authors 📚 • Accused of training Claude on thousands of pirated books • Payout equals $3K per book • The largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history

First poster for the live-action 'Street Fighter' movie Releasing in theaters October 16, 2026

Vibes don't change anything, social media posts are only calls to action, not action themselves, petitions are worthless vibe driven events. The real action is the politicians bosses (US, calling them) here's the most effective way (read it all) open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

I must admit, I didn’t know this.

Really glad we have a department of war now. Really makes me feel so much more <insert whatever bizarre thing it’s supposed to make feel or do, other than roll my eyes at all the wasted manpower and time this change will take only to be undone in future>

Warner Bros is suing AI company Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement • The lawsuit cites multiple AI-generated examples of Batman and other iconic characters • WB is seeking $150K per infringed work • They argue generating copyrighted characters is a 'clear draw' for Midjourney users

Great win for Naomi Osaka. She’s been waiting for this for a while. Gets Anisimova next. Osaka up to No. 14 in the world. US open tennis #TennisSky 🎾

Wait, what? You mean there isn't a simple explanation and it isn't all the government's fault? Surely not? @chrisgiles.ft.com on the UK's public finances www.ft.com/content/bd3d...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Is this your country?

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

I know this comes across as preachy...but this is more a 'note to self' :)

Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t... As a management consultant helping firms improve the digital side of their business, this feels like it rings true. The work of building “the consumer internet” is ending, now AI is dominating, and that has a harder edge to it

So Long to Tech’s Dream Job - perks and ideology / ethics whither on the vine www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t... “We’re reaching the end of our economic life span… there’s a feeling of, I have to make whatever I do now count”

Every year the U.S. Open gives the players a platform to show off their fashion choices. The rest of the tennis community is starting to follow suit, and the players are embracing the change ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?

Yeah robots are definitely not taking over the world. Not the red one, at least. 🤣

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

i assume he was quietly transferred to another server