So we made a magazine…
Issue one includes macabre tales from stately piles used in different international versions of The Traitors, taking my mum and fiancée to Tangiers, work swim spots, best locations to get engaged, festivals, collocations and more.
#travel
www.portalnorth.com/magazine
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Are you an expert in lead pollution?
I’d like a chat for a UK b2b magazine article.
Thanks!
#pollution #journorequest
“When art is removed from its cultural and social context, it can be dangerously misunderstood, with real consequences for individuals and communities.”
The UK needs to stop using rap lyrics as court evidence.
#artnotevidence #music #politics
djmag.com/news/art-not...
Starting the year with a new interview for Juno Daily.
15 years after launching his Eglo Records, UK jazz-bass doyen Alex Nut can finally call himself a producer.
#electronicmusic #bassmusic #jazz
www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/20...
#Venezuela has the largest black gold reserves in the world.
Reopening its market to UK and US prospectors raises huge environmental questions.
#environment #economics #energy
environmentjournal.online/energy/venez...
Must be mad waking up American and seeing in Washington what
the rest of the world has been looking at for ages.
Profit over people. Corporations over community. Ethics subservient to everything greed.
This US war plan on Signal story is maybe the wildest yet.
Is anyone in the US government accountable to anything anymore??
Former VOA press freedom reporter @liamjscott.bsky.social writes in @columjournreview.bsky.social about his last days at Voice of America before Trump’s executive order to gut the broadcaster, alongside its sister outlets, and put their employees on an administrative leave.
Proud of my pals here. New dance floor, powered by custom L-Acoustics rig, with record shop, indie bookstore and upstairs club opening in Manchester.
renae, on Thomas Street, ISN’T A LISTENING BAR.
Instead, it’s a place for serious music and actual fun.
djmag.com/news/new-mul...
No good news: News avoidance is on the rise …
Via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-...
How long until AI can work out complex global problems and starts pointing out that 10% of the population have 85% of the money?
Will tech eventually save us from the tech bros?
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform MPs Are Most Boosted UK Politicians on Elon Musk’s X Despite Tiny Parliamentary Presence
Analysis shows Reform UK representatives benefit from half of all MP engagement on Twitter despite holding just 3.5% of seats in Parliament
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/06/n...
Doomsday Clock just moved forward by 1 second.
It has never moved just 1 second before. Now trying to work out if it’s slowing down, if this is the car crash where milliseconds become minutes, or the apocalyptic version of a Netflix series that should have been a film but rolls on for 12 seasons.
Information warfare by any other name.
The US regime continues to threaten global progress on major issues. This time #climate science is being targeted for ‘deletion’.
environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...
Trying to wrap my head around how the world’s most powerful country that has set the political and economic tone for a century can be so angry at its own rules it starts lashing out at everyone other than the people who imposed them.
I’m seeing a lot of posts about America being the laughing stock of world right now.
This is part of the problem.
There’s nothing funny - at all - about news coming from the world’s most powerful country.
Nobody’s laughing. They’re either jeering, gleefully waiting for a turn, or traumatised.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60e460...
The UK needs a ban on overseas and corporate donations to political parties asap.
If you don’t actually get a vote in the election you should not be able to contribute to campaigns.
“NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN” You delight, So it would seem, At making mince- meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince- meat Out of you.
Langston Hughes
I think this is a great point that needs amplifying.
‘Strongmen’ going after much more vulnerable targets. Again.
Mad that people on side haven’t acknowledged the fact this is weak bully tactics not great leader stuff.
The world is going backwards. We will not.
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We will not.
We are extremely proud to be a safer space where entertainment, inclusion and welfare take equal precedence - and we will always fight to protect this.
All forms of abuse will be met with immediate bans.
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Well at least January is over.
Who knows, it might even be our last.
The @manchestermill.bsky.social expose of Sacha Lord’s exploitation and dishonest abuse of UK Government Covid business support — resulting in him standing down as Greater Manc Night Time Economy Advisor — proves how important local media is.
Essential brief into @deepseek.bsky.social which effectively states the obvious… we cannot blindly trust any company and we really need to police tech properly.
Snivelling.
Desperate.
Friendless.
Vacuous.
You file work months after we agreed it and then chase me when I’ve not confirmed it’s usable within a fortnight!
Really don’t give a shit about how much pressure you’re being put under. Have a think about whether your chase is reasonable before you chase.
BBC News interview today about the new Starbucks CEO trying to turn around the coffee giant’s ailing fortunes by returning it back to everyone’s local place…
If a multinational that does shit coffee and treats workers terribly is a local place for anyone, we are in more trouble than I thought.
I’ve always been very wary of people who consider themselves to be ‘normal’.
I’m now 100% convinced of my rationale.
