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From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Hall of fame FT correction

When It Hits the Fan - Don't Panic!!! - BBC Sounds David Yelland and Farzana Baduel discuss how to keep the public calm in a crisis.

Excellent episode of When it Hits The Fan focusing on crisis comms and importance of horizon scanning.

“Identifying risk is the easy part but communicating it to the right people in the right way at the right time. THAT is where PR earns a seat at the top table.”

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

As if my contempt of the monetised “awareness weeks” wasn’t high enough already , #NationalCareersWeek has really reached a peak (nadir) of bigotry here.

My AI Agent ‘Cofounder’ Conquered LinkedIn. Then It Got Banned When social media is constantly pushing people to use AI, why not let AI agents participate?

This is a fascinating piece by Evan Ratliff for Wired (behind the paywall) about the muddle LinkedIn has got itself into over AI:

www.wired.com/story/linked...

Ooh, you don’t like fashion and don’t care what dresses people wear?

How fascinating of you.

Maureen’s top tip was: “Take notes and be seen to be taking notes because it inspires trust. You’d be appalled by the number of interviewers who rely on their memory for recall. No wonder people complain about being misquoted.”

Maureen Cleave's advice to journalists is still good advice. Most interviewees are perfectly relaxed when you write down what they say, and tell you all kinds of things. AI transcription apps make them nervous and guarded.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

What if AI just makes us work harder? Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

What if AI just makes us work harder? ft.trib.al/ZlSWAMm | opinion

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Doesn't Transport Focus have something to say about this or are they prioritising "simplification"? It can only be viewed as a reduction in consumer protection, surely?

Evergreen.

Poop is so mimsy, isn’t it?

I object to the use of bartender, tbh. This is Tulse Hill, not Tulsa!

(As Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine reminded us.)

Also v useful for muting, blocking and search reasons. As always what’s accessible for one group of people is accessible for most…

Another little thread on alt text, which I think is the bit of the iceberg we can see on accessibility. 🧵

1. Despite all the 'scolding' about alt text (talking about it quite reasonably) that goes on here, lots of people still don't add it to images. Is it because they are arseholes? Probably not.

Agree that note taking is a useful memory technique, but no one is going to ban pens even when we have AI...

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines.

If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends.

leeds.ghost.io

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

I’m v sceptical about LLMs etc, but the thoughtless, illogical arguments against it are incredibly maddening.

oh for fuck's sake stop writing these pieces. AI is not a knowledge engine. Using it as such is idiotic, and writing a gotcha piece about how it didn't know something very specific to you makes you look stupid.

the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile

by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein

they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time