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- I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar | The Guardian
- ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | YouTube | The Guardian
- Russia launches one of biggest drone attacks on Kyiv since start of war | Ukraine | The Guardian
Russia's attacks on Ukraine continue and have escalated. Three years on and the people of Ukraine need our support . 💙💛
- How weight-loss wonder drugs are redefining the way our bodies work | The Guardian
I've been taking a GLP-1 drug for a couple of months now and have found it incredibly interesting. More on that for other blog posts, but the impact of these drugs in general is…
- ‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth | The Guardian
Never Let Me Go was the first Ishiguro book I read and thought it was great. A friend of mine commented that Ishiguro is "all pathos ". That might suggest Ishiguro is an astute…
- Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats | US national security | The Guardian
Cybersecurity programs will need to necessarily follow where attacks come from, and many of those come from Russia.
- Pay to get playlisted? The accusations against Spotify’s Discovery Mode | The Guardian
Ugh Spotify! 😤
- Everything you need to make great coffee – and the kit that’s not worth your money | The Guardian
I greatly enjoy my coffee and this article mostly gets it right. It is pretty simple. Really good beans. High quality grinder. Electric gooseneck water kettle. Dripper like a V60.…
- More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD | The Guardian
- Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of microplastics, scientists say | The Guardian
I’m wary of microplastics and I suspect we are going to learn over the next several years that they are particularly harmful for us. Great to see that there is progress being made…
- ‘By 8pm it is time to head home’: whatever happened to the big night out? | The Guardian
It turns out it is cool to go to bed early now? 🥱
- Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life | The Guardian
Iceland innovating and experimenting. 🇮🇸
- ‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge | The Guardian
This is insane.
- Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts | Climate crisis | The Guardian
All the indicators are in the wrong direction. The science makes sense. But the collective action required to do anything meaningful about it seems more impossible than ever. 😕
- Microplastics found in every human testicle in study | The Guardian
I feel like there is going to be a developing story about microplastics and a range of impacts to humans.
- Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere | The Guardian
I struggle with how to put any context around global warming indicators. It is all going "the wrong way" but even as someone that wants to understand it I don't know how to…
- The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’ | The Guardian
There is something here. Streaming everything is super convenient, but you own nothing and it is up to the providers what you can stream. I used to own 1,800 CDs, hundred of DVDs,…
- Cheap but lethally accurate: how drones froze Ukraine’s frontlines | The Guardian
Ukrainians have gotten very innovative with their use of drone technology. Ukraine even has an Army of Drones with people around the country assisting in assembling and in some…
- What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | The Guardian
Our kids have told me countless stories of kids in school using their cell phones all the time, not listening to the teachers. The problem is amplified when every student also has…
- The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | The Guardian
Everything is connected and it all becomes the same?
- Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso | The Guardian
The pursuit of the best coffee. I don't plan to start spritzing my coffee beans before grinding though. It seems like it would leave more residue in your grinder?
- ‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake | The Guardian
I've never read Finnegans Wake , and I’m not going to. This sounds like the worst version of Groundhog Day!
- Ultra-processed foods: the 19 things everyone needs to know | Food | The Guardian
- Stand on one leg – and 16 other life-changing daily moves that will keep your body happy | The Guardian
Wild how much just simply moving around is like medicine for us, even better. Nothing fancy, just move.
- ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding | Chris Moran | The Guardian
ChatGPT doesn't need to be bound by facts. 😬
- The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees | The Guardian
Being a Premier League ref would be incredibly hard. Maybe we should have AI do it? 🤣
- Social media firms ‘monetising misery’, says Molly Russell’s father after inquest | The Guardian
Social media is specifically called out as contributing to the death of 14-year old Molly Russell. Molly viewed more than 16,000 pieces of content on Instagram in the six months…
- Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians
I thought this only happened in crypto? 😬
- Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay | Arctic | The Guardian
I have a soft spot in my heart for Polar Bears. I often refer to them as my spirit animal. The only other animal that comes close for me are Bison. These photos of Polar Bears on…
- Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen | Psychology | The Guardian
- The life and tragic death of John Eyers – a fitness fanatic who refused the vaccine | The Guardian
These stories are tragic. Protect yourself.
- ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin | Anonymous | The Guardian
I don't understand the logic of not getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Neither does this Doctor. To be clear, I also agree with this Doctor that I don't like the idea of…
- The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history | The Guardian
Location data and keyword search data used without any other probable cause. In other words, with reverse search warrants law enforcement is still looking for their suspect and…
- I swallowed one of my AirPods | The Guardian
One of my common ways to fall asleep if I’m having a hard time is to put my left AirPod in and select a podcast to listen to. If I need a heavy hammer to get myself to sleep I go…
- ‘The system has collapsed’: India’s descent into Covid hell | India | The Guardian
The Covid situation in India right now is horrible. It is even more horrible that we now know so much more about treating it and we have vaccines.
- How a full moon and a ‘huge lever’ helped free Ever Given from Suez Canal | The Guardian
I found this entire story of the Ever Given surprisingly engaging. I love that the Moon was key to the rescue efforts: In the end the difference was made by two high-powered…
- DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding | DeepMind | The Guardian
This is an incredible milestone. To learn how proteins fold, researchers at DeepMind trained their algorithm on a public database containing about 170,000 protein sequences and…
- A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generator, wrote this article. It was given a prompt and some phrases. It did the rest.
- Praise for alleged Kenosha shooter proliferates on Facebook despite supposed ban | Facebook | The Guardian
Facebook continues to be an incredibly effective platform for spreading hate and bigotry faster and cheaper than anything that has ever existed before. It’s not too late to delete…
- If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention | Facebook | The Guardian
- Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook | Facebook | The Guardian
- Warning of serious brain disorders in people with mild coronavirus symptoms | World news | The Guardian
It is very clear that what we don't know about Covid-19 is far greater than what we do know. That shouldn't surprise us. And it’s not an indictment of science. It’s new. But a lot…
- Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured | World news | The Guardian
- Has Covid-19 mutated into a more deadly strain? Busting the coronavirus myths | World news | The Guardian
A good article addressing a number of claims floating around about Covid-19. 🦠
- The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism | Life and style | The Guardian
Dissatisfaction with materialism and the usual rewards of society is not new, but minimalism is not an idea with a straightforward chronological history. It is more like a feeling…
- Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos | Politics | The Guardian
What a mess…
- Read Sacha Baron Cohen's scathing attack on Facebook in full: 'greatest propaganda machine in history' | Technology | The Guardian
Sacha Baron Cohen , of Borat and Ali G fame, gave the keynote at the Anti-Defamation League Never is Now event. Honestly, you should take 25 minutes and watch the full video .…
- How our home delivery habit reshaped the world | Technology | The Guardian
All the stuff that makes that package arrive at your door. Moving activities outside of normal view, where nobody typically sees them, allows companies to automate and drive…
- I'm the Google whistleblower. The medical data of millions of Americans is at risk | Anonymous | Opinion | The Guardian
How is it that even with HIPPA and other regulatory requirements in place this still happened? What AI algorithms were at work in real time as the data was being transferred…
- Without encryption we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground | Edward Snowden | Opinion | The Guardian
Governments, particularly the US Government, has been fighting encryption for years. It wasn't a concern early on, until encryption got strong enough that the government couldn't…
- 'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia | US news | The Guardian
Good read on what Snowden has been up to in exile in Russia, drumming up some interest for his new book Permanent Record . Snowden is a smart, well-thought out individual. The…
- 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish? | Environment | The Guardian
So mostly plastic just gets sent somewhere we can’t see it and then, well, nothing really after that.
- USA's formidable women's team is no accident. It's a product of public policy | Moira Donegan | Opinion | The Guardian
- A cyclist's guide to biking the city – a cartoon | Cities | The Guardian
- Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted | Environment | The Guardian
Climate news just seems to be going from bad to worse, and at the same time the likelihood of governments, companies, etc. doing anything about it seems less and less likely. I…
- Olivia Laing: ‘I was hooked and my drug was Twitter’ | Technology | The Guardian
The emotions that Laing describe in this article are very close to what I feel from Twitter, but certainly not as strong as she describes. A 2014 study by Dutch neurologists…
- Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food | Books | The Guardian
Solid overview of numerous issues related to our modern food system. … it’s becoming abundantly clear that the way most of us currently eat is not sustainable – either for the…
- Not just a fad: the surprising, gut-wrenching truth about gluten | Food | The Guardian
I have a hard time understanding food ingredients that have been around for millennia that are all of a sudden bad. But this article does a good job highlighting how gluten in…
- The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian
I wonder how many AI services are augmented or in some cases just done by people. “Using a human to do the job lets you skip over a load of technical and business development…
- 10 weird and wonderful derailleurs – and how they changed cycling | Environment | The Guardian
I like bicycles 🚴♀️ and these photos of derailleurs and their backstory is fun.
- Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings' | Technology | The Guardian
Addictive software.
- Inside Nintendo's secretive creative process | Games | The Guardian
The headline is a bit overstated, but this is a little peak into how Nintendo approaches creating new game experiences. “We have the software team and the hardware team working…
- Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told | UK news | The Guardian
- A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman | Opinion | The Guardian
I really want to like Stallman 's perspective on privacy, but I find his positions to be disconnected from reality. I once got the opportunity to have lunch with Stallman when he…
- Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian
This should surprise nobody, but I hope it does. When I was building apps on Facebook I got to see how easy it is to get this amount of data from people. It’s shockingly simple.
- Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds | Technology | The Guardian
For all of the amazing work in the new digital economy , it’s a bit disheartening to see data like this. I worry that the lever of technology is so big that it’s going to cause…
- ‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use social media | Media | The Guardian
The title of this article did make me chuckle along with the hip-hop inspired pull quote: If this is the case, then social media executives are simply following the rule of…
- No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions | Technology | The Guardian
Am I supposed to feel bad that privacy features in Safari are putting a dent in privacy invading tracking networks? I don't. It makes me happy as it is market validation that…
- Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help | Technology | The Guardian
Facebook acknowledging downsides of addictively using their platform. Studies have repeatedly found that Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites can damage the emotional…
- Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' | Technology | The Guardian
The inventor of the web is very concerned about the direction things are going. I'd agree with him. We aren't guaranteed a free and open Internet. We have to make that happen.
- Big Brother isn't just watching: workplace surveillance can track your every move | World news | The Guardian
Employee monitoring is an entire industry in itself. I have usually seen this for monitoring website activity to protect companies against security threats and to restrict access…
- 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia | Technology | The Guardian
Read this article! I've had discussions close to many of the topic in this article with many of my most tech focused friends. There is something to take note of when the most…
- I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets | Technology | The Guardian
There are a lot of posts about all that Facebook knows about you — it’s interesting to see one on what Tinder knows about it’s users. This line at the end of the article drew my…
- Facebook’s war on free will | Technology | The Guardian
The long read: How technology is making our minds redundant
- I used to think social media was a force for good. Now the evidence says I was wrong | Matt Haig | Opinion | The Guardian
I think of social media like desert. A cupcake now and again is fine, eating nothing but cupcakes will make you sick and unhealthy. The pervasive use of social media is akin to…
- Encourage children to spend more time online, says former GCHQ head | Society | The Guardian
A contrarian view to the smartphones are terrible for kids comment. I think there is some truth here, being digitally capable is very important. However, I also think that we are…
- Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google | World news | The Guardian
- Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says | Technology | The Guardian
Assume Facebook knows every website you ever go to and has a massive profile of you. Facebook knows more about you than any other organization in the world. If you don't want that…
- Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans
Last March, my 71-year-old grandmother, Betty, waited in line for three hours to caucus for Bernie Sanders. The wait to be able to cast her first-ever vote in a primary election…
- John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts
The long read: John Horton Conway is a cross between Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. For many years, he worried that his obsession with playing silly games was ruining…
- Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’
The books interview: The psychologist and bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow reveals his new research and talks about prejudice, fleeing the Nazis, and how to hold an…
- Pope Francis warns of destruction of Earth's ecosystem in leaked encyclical | Environment | The Guardian
- How we sold our souls – and more – to the internet giants | Technology | The Guardian
- The smartest cities rely on citizen cunning and unglamorous technology | Cities | The Guardian
- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes in east Ukraine
Plane carrying 295 people may have been shot down near Russian border but government and separatists deny involvement
- Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy | Technology | The Guardian
- As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work
This issue deserves so much more attention. Engineers are behind government spying tools and military weapons. We should be conscious of how our designs are used
- A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water | Environment | theguardian.com
- The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication
- Big Media's failure to fulfil fourth estate function in 2012 election
If media organizations want to know why they are struggling they should be thinking about this type of coverage more. What's in those undisclosed tax returns? The likeliest…
- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the…
- Shocker: Arrington-Backed Startup Wins AOL/TechCrunch Contest
Second- and third-place companies too.
- Bull jumps out of ring into stands
Forty people, including a 10-year-old, were injured when a bull leapt over barriers at a Spanish bullring and ran amok among spectators.
- News of the World phone-hacking scandal - Friday 8 July 2011
If you're following the phone hacking scandal closely (and I am...) a sign that it's getting out of control for Murdoch:
- Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
- Wikileaks Task Force
You cant make this shit up: The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.
- Life aboard the International Space Station Science The Guardian
- Stanley Kubrick, on the Set of A Clockwork Orange
Great photo by Dmitri Kasterine. (Be sure to click it to show the whole thing; the web page defaults to showing just a small crop of it.)