I love this - daily good news data visualizations. Because it's not good to just focus on the bad stuff!
informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/

So annoying that I have to load Bluesky in a VPN to see who sent me a chat message, because of our bizarre UK age verification rules. (It was only a bot anyway)

cant.stop.laughing

(comic) Data Loophole

I thought I'd blog about why I've stopped reading Twitter/X posts, even when 'anonymised':
blog.korny.info/2026/01/25/r...

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants WASHINGTON—In a statement calling for more guardrails around ongoing immigration operations, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives publicly condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thurs...

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

Crackdown.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Especially given that Wikipedia is under concerted attack from the right (see also: Elon launching his competitor) and we just saw a gunman storm their leadership meeting *days* ago, be mindful of anything trying to undermine the site while it’s under siege from all of the AI platforms.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Sorry I missed the alt-text on the image:
A Venn Diagram of the Lethal Trifecta of LLM risks, with three circles "Access to Sensitive Data" / "Exposure to Untrusted Content" / "Ability to Externally Communicate" with the word "Danger!" in red in the overlapping center

I've shared an updated version of my Agentic AI and Security article on @martinfowler.com's website:
martinfowler.com/articles/age...

(This is based on all the great research being done by others especially @simonwillison.net - my aim is to provide an accessible overview for others)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I also posted about a workaround to Claude Code's unreliable permissions, using a small rust hook: blog.korny.info/2025/10/10/b...

Last week I posted a new blog post about using Mermaid.js more effectively in Claude Code:
blog.korny.info/2025/10/10/a...
I'm also ditching Discus comments on my blog - instead I'll make social media posts (like this one!) and link them in the blog text.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Cry Ribbit and let slip the frogs of war

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Source
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sorry forgot alt text:
California
‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise

Am I the only person who reads this and pictures giant 5 meter sea urchins?

I can

I can

melania constantly refreshing the tl

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.

Or locked in the closet - I had a friend who started to transition at 40, because she had locked away her true self behind massive walls and it took her that long to start to tear them down.

For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible…

…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.