There is a paper that has been working on this story for longer than they did on Brand, here's hoping their well-sourced reporting now gets to see the light of day

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

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A superb piece by @lukewinkie.bsky.social in Slate, describing 'Slutcon', a recently-held event trying to train men to better relate to women. This is funny, sad, fascinating, and, weirdly, not gross at all: slate.com/life/2025/12...

We can but hope he has the same galvanising effect on OpenAI as he did on the Evening Standard. 'honorored'

@leerandall.bsky.social @andrewmale.bsky.social Can't reply to the original thread, but this site is the motherlode streema.com. See also www.freeformradio.directory and map.pirateradiomap.com x

Oh wow, for some of you this will be Christmas come early - 3d visualisation of planes in the skies over any airport in the world RIGHT NOW. Don't look at how close they all get to each other, whatever you do: objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html (via @puntofisso.bsky.social's excellent newsletter)

Listening to the Reith Lectures on BBC R4 and getting very strong LLM vibes from the speaker's constant, "it was not X, it was Y" sentence construction, which, given he's talking about the potential DANGERS OF AI, is unfortunate

Manage to create a post on LinkedIn so algounfriendly it was shown to literally two people. Strangely proud of this, aiming to hit 0 at some point in 2026

For the last time this year, here is this week's Web Curios. Maybe save it til later, though, it is GLORIOUS outside and you may not see the sun again until March: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Friday! Lunchtime! The final Web Curios of 2025! Enough links to tide you over til 2026, if you click REALLY slowly! Share, enjoy, and thanks (seriously) to anyone who has bothered to click, read or share in 2025 (now with non-BS-offending image ffs): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Friday! Lunchtime! The final Web Curios of 2025! Enough links to tide you over til 2026, if you click REALLY slowly! Share, enjoy, and thanks (seriously) to anyone who has bothered to click, read or share in 2025 (now with non-BS-offending image ffs): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

"media reinvents magazines" is high on my list of 2026 expectations

for those of you entering the work christmas party season, always remember: you will never regret having a drunken affair with a colleague, nothing can go wrong, everybody else who blew up their lives just had a skill issue

Guess we know how the OpenAI deal went down eh

Has anyone lost a robot dog in South Ken? Wearing a festive body warmer.

If this works the same as the current screening for students, a reminder that the list of sites that they are looking at include the now-defunct Vine and Google+. This is not a serious programme, by an administration that is thick as pigshit

The most important piece of data analysis of the year has dropped - the Pornhub Year in Review! Always fascinating, this year the UK drops 3 places in terms of use ranking, likely due to age verification. Also, we apparently really like bongo featuring cigarettes: www.pornhub.com/insights/202...

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A chance to look back and reminisce about how fucking stupid the NFT craze was, should you wish

@mattround.com hello man, friend of mine on a pixel8 getting this error on potatocam

RIP Martin Parr. You once photographed me holding two silly cocktails at an afterparty during Frieze week 2008, thankyou for immortalising me in a book looking like a twat

ngl, you probably ought to start thinking about Christmas shopping this weekend. That said, why not LIVE ON THE EDGE by, er, giving yourself the GIFT OF GOOD LINKS, via this week's Web Curios - practically self care! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

This is AI, btw - there are loads of pages on FB pumping this stuff out in increasingly-baroque variations

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to line your, er, mental stomach with as you careen from one drinks party to the next! All of the material you could EVER need to help you talk to that weird guy from accounts (unless YOU are that weird guy from accounts)! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to line your, er, mental stomach with as you careen from one drinks party to the next! All of the material you could EVER need to help you talk to that weird guy from accounts (unless YOU are that weird guy from accounts)! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

This is silly, pointless and IMMENSELY satisfying. Make sure you have the volume up, it really adds to the experience. boing.greg.technology

Your regular reminder that very viral posts/calculations like this are nothing more than guesswork because NOONE FUCKING KNOWS THE DETAILS because the companies don't have an obligation to disclose them. Yes, OpenAI are dicks; no, this energy use comparison is not a meaningful bit of analysis

This is Ongo, which, per the website, is an 'intelligent' lamp that, er, "lives, laughs and loves". WHY HAVE THEY GIVEN IT ANXIETY EYES????? interactionlabs.co?s=09

Someone has built a minimal webgame version of 'Race Across The World', and, honestly, this is SO much more fun than it really has any right to be: geo-racers.com

The yearly list of '52 Things I Learned This Year' has become an annual treat, and this year's selection by @tomwhitwell.bsky.social contains some typically-great facts; this year I was most struck by shrinking Americans and the possibility of a shrimp uprising: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

This says significantly more about the predictive ability of VCs than it does about AI imho

Fucking hell, WHY is so much journalism around AI so terrible? Fast Company is a famously-awful 'publication', but even by its low, low standards the disconnect between the study (see image 1) and the headline (image 2) is particularly egregious.

This is a really good read if you're in product/websites/that sort of thing. Very well-written, unflinching and clear-eyed. Direct link to PDF on OBR site:

I am in hysterics

A superb gift for the, er, slightly-weird person in your life (in a good way!)

My friend @joshglendinning.bsky.social was on holiday and bought me Italian brainrot trading cards and I am now slightly obsessed and want the set

It's not December yet, which means you don't have to start Christmas shopping (this is A Fact) and should instead spend the afternoon indulging in the best of the week's links and writing in Web Curios (or, dunno, read a good book or something): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-28...

Friday! Lunchtime! Slightly late due to Technical Difficulties, but packed FULL of the same terrible words and superb links as always (this week featuring some EXCELLENT old-fashioned smut). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, hang on because we are almost done! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-28...

Friday! Lunchtime! Slightly late due to Technical Difficulties, but packed FULL of the same terrible words and superb links as always (this week featuring some EXCELLENT old-fashioned smut). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, hang on because we are almost done! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-28...

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i usually find the heckling in parliament embarrassing but it would be funny if everyone went WE KNOW after she reeled off each bit of the budget

Oh fuck I used to be a political reporter, can't help myself. Here's the big tax policies from the leaked budget.

Fun game to play with the budget later - see if you can tell which analysis being provided by the armchair pundits on LinkedIn and Substack has been generated by feeding all the docs to The Machine and reproducing its interpretation verbatim! Extra points if you can tell which LLM is being used

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a rare chance to catch DRASS 'live' on the internet. 20:00 GMT Friday 28th November 2025 - put it in your diary now!

Had a massive grin on my face throughout this - 3 minutes of time travel grime as Roll Deep do the Steeze Factory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEX_...