Kev Durber

This ITV documentary going undercover in Reform is incredible journalism.

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Looking forward to seeing all the incredible images of the UK eclipse on social media, and having to figure out whether they're real or AI.

Football and podcasts are two examples of amazing human creations that have - so far - managed to resist the relentless pursuit of making them profitable to the point of destroying everything that's great about them.

Well this is terrifying.

The YouTube algorithm has never been particularly good for me but it seems worse than ever now. The videos it's recommending now are bizarre, and loads of them are from a decade or more ago. Has AI broken that too?

This is excruciating. #WorldCup

I skip them, I block the artists, I tick the negative button. Nothing works. I just do not know how to tell the Spotify algorithm that I don't want to listen to songs I know played by brass bands. They're in almost every discovery playlist.

Seriously, we don't need to *hear* football players singing their anthems.

RFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious Diseases https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-hosts-meet-and-greet-with-infectious-diseases/

Interesting analysis on the cost of Russia's war. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

But I AM a developer and I wrote the extension. So bugger off and stop nagging me every day.

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Gemini doesn't have a version number, according to Gemini version 3.1 Pro Preview.

An eternal fact of life is that if you find an old yo-yo in a box, you have to yo-yo the yo-yo.

My robot vacuum is busy inside. My robot lawn mower is busy outside. How is a humanoid robot a better solution than what we already have?

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Newsday.com/matt

"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that

I wasn't expecting a laugh while checking the Iran latest. 🙂

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In world first - Japan approves ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure u.afp.com/Su6H

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Surely I've either accepted or rejected the cookies on every website I'm ever going to visit by now.

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

I feel like it's time for the British people to accept that it isn't ever going to stop raining, and embrace our new lives as semi-aquatic mammals.

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

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Two decades of Arctic Monkeys eh. It was launched a few days before I left the UK to go travelling for a couple of years and their first album became a big part of the soundtrack of that trip. Great memories of them being played on Triple J as we drove around Australia.

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Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom - The Text Adventure. "Look" The road ahead is long. What now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0001% of your walk to freedom, what now? "Walk" You so far have completed 0.0002% of your walk to freedom, what now?

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Perfect.

I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

NEWS! Nobel Committee announces new "Golden Boot" Prize newsthump.com/2025/12/06/n...

Made a starter pack of all the accounts I run on BlueSky - Fesshole, B3ta, Anon Opin, Swearclock, Yore Computer, Random Smash Hits & Clickbait Robot. Make your feed entirely my bullshit. go.bsky.app/Ej3fmNR

If you're looking for a Sunday morning read, our website team spent a lot of time writing code to make the animations on this article work, so give it a look, will ya? www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...

2/ There are no provisions in the reported peace plan in which Russia makes any concessions, and ISW continues to assess that accepting Russian demands would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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The writer-activist argues that online platforms are getting worse, fast — and proposes radical regulation as the cure on.ft.com/46AfjYU

As Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society said earlier this year: "There have always been attacks on science, but today there are genuine concerns that we may be turning our backs on research and the values of calm, evidence-based debate and decision-making.

I have to say, @coolify.io is excellent. It's exactly what I've spent years looking for as a way to host my stuff. So far, it's handled almost everything I've thrown at it with barely any drama.

"Channel 4 Announces Night of TV Dedicated To Donald Trump Untruths"

Great investigative work here.