They are moving from Colorado.

of all my many questions, the absolute top is "why the hell is RFK Jr wearing jeans at the spa"

You may think me naive but this is one of the reasons I favour Claude! Some semblance of ethics, and pro-regulation/guardrails.

Well at least there’s that

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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

Was there ever a time when we needed tech reporters more? Tough day for many superb journos 😔

Listen, this headline is a better endorsement of the Digital Services Act than any 1000 words I could come up with.

Wow. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

New: Texas A&M University announced Friday that it is eliminating its women’s and gender studies degree program.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

"We desperately need clear, fearless [media] truth-telling that doesn't pull its punches and doesn't hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness. "We need the fact-based truth more than ever." -- Margaret Sullivan (@sulliview.bsky.social)

Same old playbook :

Glass says values of its current leadership don’t align with the theme of his Lincoln symphony

So much more productive to fight the forces of evil than to expend energy arguing with like-minded people about exact terminology or how best to do so.

Dublin City Council CEO Richard Shakespeare says "I have now taken the decision to suspend all posting by the City Council on the X.com platform. This applies to all City Council X accounts and will be actioned with immediate effect."

I’ll catch up with the Davos Amateur Dramatic Society’s production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui later. Not sure I can bear it live…

America, come take your deranged grandpa home, he's embarrassing you.

“Iceland” 🤦‍♀️

Human beings seem to struggle to focus on more than one crisis at a time

Woohoo. Northern lights from Greystones this evening #auroraborealis

Enoch Burke and his family are willing to see him imprisoned for the sake of gaining a platform. Why oh why does @news.rte.ie keep giving him that platform? I do despair

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Take a look at today’s Daily Brief for the latest sci-tech news, such as: 🏆 Dublin’s Coroflo wins four awards at CES 2026 🤖 OpenAI acquires health-tech Torch for $100m 🥽 Reports: Meta plans job cuts in Reality Labs division ...and more! mailchi.mp/siliconrepub...

From food security to emissions, disappearing data is making it harder to understand what’s really happening in the US.

Ah news of a Monday morning eh? “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist

Like many others I deleted my X account a couple of years back. There is no justifiable excuse for anyone to be on there. Not to mind our institutions.

I know I’ve said this before, but Tolkien lost almost all his friends in the Somme, and certainly knew the seductive appeal of despair, and built an entire epic with the constant theme of the power of hope to effect triumph. Aurë entuluva!

Indonesia. What the hell is everybody else waiting for?!

And it’s Kerry again! Huge congrats to Young Science & Technology Exhibition winner 2026 Aoibheann Daly. #yste

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Happy Nollaig na mBan to all you fierce, kind, aweome gals www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75048

So much in this headline - from first world problems to climate change

The albums that topped my year. Not a bad old year for music all the same (and an oldie in there too) #SpotifyWrapped. www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Can I just up this again? Perfect 👌

Good news Friday: Ireland’s National Parks and Wildlife Service have purchased 100 acres of forestry land beside the Glen of the Downs nature reserve. 👏 iwt.ie/goodnewsfort...

I knew Mamdani was good, but he’s even charmed this guy! Phenomenal politician

Gosh. What a surprise.