A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

This after Springsteen begs the question: Is it only boomers doing the protest songs?

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Tom Waits has released his first new music in 15 years (am I that old?). It's a protest song in collaboration with Massive Attack

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🇭🇺 Hungarian elections:
The 9 a.m. turnout (16.89%) is a massive record; four years ago, the same figure was 10.31%.

Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting of his own.

New: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine.

So, the real @robert-faturechi.bsky.social did some reporting of his own.

If anyone's wondering how I'm doing

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She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card. After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.

She Spoke Out About Gaza. The US Turned Her Life Upside Down.

My profile of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for POLITICO Magazine.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Don’t make me chase you’: Leaked texts reveal how Russian spies recruit, pressure and run their informants A cache of messages and recordings offers rare insight into Moscow’s efforts to infiltrate opposition groups in Europe.

“We know everything already, but we’d like to know more." My deep-dive into how the FSB tries to recruit informants to keep tabs on Russian dissidents and foreigners helping them abroad

I'll believe AI has come into its own when it also has to search around online for how to insert an em-dash

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

‘I had a scalp in my hands’: An oral history of the Brussels terror attacks 10 years ago, a series of bombings shook the Belgian capital. Here’s how the day and its aftermath unfolded, in the words of those who lived it.

‘I had a scalp in my hands’: An oral history of the Brussels terror attacks www.politico.eu/article/all-...

My take on Sinners: Give me a sequel featuring the Choctaw vampire hunters

My take on One Battle After an Another: Give me a sequel featuring the foul-mouthed, revolutionary nuns

So great

Updating Clausewitz:

War is the continuation of politics by other memes

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

That's faster than me

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

The poll results are sobering.

I'm in minority, choosing with one exception the human passages -- but it wasn't a fair poll as I recognized some of the entries.

Why Vladimir Putin is the biggest winner from the war in Iran U.S.-Israeli strikes in the Middle East have driven up the price of oil, strengthening the Kremlin’s ability to fund its military campaign.

Why Vladimir Putin is the biggest winner from the war in Iran www.politico.eu/article/why-...

What happened in 2004?

Franz Ferdinand* gets involved in war *not that one.

Shots fired

Franz Ferdinand* gets involved in war www.politico.eu/article/fran...

Churchill is one of my fave content creators

Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT In a meeting with high-level clergy, Pope Leo XIV urged priests to avoid the temptation to use AI to generate homilies.

The holy father drew a fascinating line in the sand, declaring that despite AI’s capabilities now or in the future, a chatbot could never stand-in for a flesh-and-blood priest. “To give a homily is to share faith,” he said, and AI “will never be able to share faith.”
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I’m not a computers guy, is this a good thing?

Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed...

This manages to be totally unsurprising and WOW.

"In the fight against common childhood illnesses, scientists have turned to an unusual source: the blood of paediatricians. It turns out this is a treasure trove of powerful antibodies."

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie.
...
Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills."

bbc.com/future/artic...

Ok. The durian ice cream was a mistake

ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.

ICC judge sanctioned by US urges EU to fight back

Nicolas Guillou said the Trump administration’s use of sanctions undermines European democracy and called for Europe to curb reliance on American tech.
www.politico.eu/article/nico...

The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund

The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

www.politico.eu/article/maga...

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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