On Tuesday, President Trump posted to social media, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Do you approve or disapprove of this statement by Trump? Published on April 7, 2026 Survey conducted on April 7, 2026 on 2970 U.S. adults BY: All adults Strongly approve 14% Somewhat approve 9% Somewhat disapprove 10% Strongly disapprove 54% Not sure 14%
Ah yes, somewhat
Front page of the Guardian 11/11/25 with story headlined "China's CO2 emissions may have peaked"
Front page in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ah, apparently the first linked to the wrong story
BBC News 5m ago Correction: Chris Mason - digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government BBC News 22m ago Chris Mason: Digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government
Can someone explain this BBC correction to me?
Gemini splash screen reads: Hi Nick Happy New Year! Let's make it your best yet Help me plan a New Year's party Create a 2026 financial reset plan Create image Write anything Create a video Help me learn Boost my day
It's easy to become inured to this kind of thing but every now and then I stop and marvel at how pathetic it is
not the point, but the “opinion” label made me laugh, like tomorrow they’re gonna have “quentin tarantino: rob reiner was *not* martin scorsese’s friend”
Sun headline reads "Holly Willoughby broke rider's neck after knocking him off scooter in her Mini"
Also "after", unless Holly Willoughby really was on a violent rampage
Headlines that read 'Robin Smith aged 62 as tributes pour in for England cricket legend' and 'Robin Smith dies aged 62 as England cricket icon passes away in Australia'
The use of the word 'as' in headlines is out of control
Ngram showing interloper "another thing coming" overtaking "another think coming" in 2016
Thinks fall apart
Less than a quarter of the readership on this one is from UK, and the biggest chunk is from US. It's also not appearing in the print edition, afaik
It's written by the European community affairs correspondent and the Guardian commissions things online from its various offices, not all of which are presented through a UK lens
A sign of how confusing Tories are as a political proposition that you have to guess if they are touting "the collapse of the old order" as a good or a bad thing
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
I want to note our appreciation for the reporting of The Guardian. Its reports were based in part on sources outside Microsoft that had information we could not access in light of our customer privacy commitments. This helped inform our review.
Can’t recall seeing anything like this from a tech company recently blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
I guess assumption #1 could be argued to relate to a world in which Google turns off search results below, akin to what a full switch to AI Mode would be, plus no option to opt back or user desire to switch to rival search engine. The second is more fundamental though: the baseline is 15%, not 100%
Graph showing how much Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with Al summaries
Here is the Pew research
Yes, to be clear the situation is bad with potential to be much worse but there are a couple of false assumptions in Rusty taking the 1% figure to mean that. First, the one you mention. Second, that pre-AI clickthrough was 100% to a link
Glasgow woman credits 'love of cheesy puffs' for long life after 102nd birthday
"That's my secret to a long life: custard, custard, custard." WW2 veteran, 106, puts long life down to custard
One day the secret of longevity will be unlocked and we'll know if it is cheesy puffs or custard
It reminds me of the bit in Serial s1 where they cannot establish whether there was a payphone at a certain Best Buy in 1999
Which episode of Absolutely Fabulous was broadcast on the 17 December 1992? It's unsettling how hard it is to pin down the answer, but John Hoare did www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/05/abso...
Well, damn. I'll have to export all those articles to somewhere else that I won't read them
www.theverge.com/news/672924/...
I just can't understand how this could make it through a serious newspaper's production process
Impact of Bluesky on referral should now get much clearer
@lynneguist.bsky.social I had to check after yesterday's Wordle to see if you'd ever mentioned scrum getting popular in the US. Don't think you have! Seems to be a 21C thing
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
AI Overview Google AI Overview: John Lennon's stepmother was Yoko Ono, a Japanese multimedia artist. Lennon married Ono in 1969.
Yes, that's right
