A reminder that a government that wants to get out of your personal life generally also wants to get into a different bit of your personal life

Excellent article that debunks the idea that Reagan's aggressive 'evil empire' policies ended the Cold War (with a modern lesson). Though to quibble I think it overplays Gorbachev as the alternative great man of history without context of how brittle the Warsaw Pact was getting.

I feel like all the AI work should be redirected to making the automated transcription on social media videos much more accurate

Oh no! All the super rich Farageist scumbag corporate fuckheads are going to leave Britain and go and live in Dubai because they don’t want to bay a bit more tax. How very terrible. Whatever will we do without them? thetimes.com/article/a8a240…

Hmmm, the king's schedule for his first full day in Australia hasn't been announced, and it's the day of the King Charles III Stakes at Randwick. It's a head-scratcher, I tell you.

Strong Harry Potter vibes from the debate stage. theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

Oh! Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris at debate’s conclusion … with a photo of her with her cat, no less.

Not only did she endorse Harris, she did it with a photo of her cat.

Before, and during

Hopelessly wrong about the vests, though

Photo taken 9/10/24 The Bridge Fire in the Angeles National Forest exploded to ~47k acres with 0% containment. The fire was quite visible last night from behind the Los Angeles skyline photographed the Baldwin Hills area. A sad reality of fire season in LA.

You’re never going to guess what this is in response to lmao

I recently sat down with a tough critic of mine. A fellow journalist, Gay Alcorn, who called my most well-known story, S-Town, "morally indefensible." We spoke for hours. She grilled me with questions. It was...illuminating. And it’s kicking off my newest podcast. 🧵

At least the Oz, SMH and Daily Tele can all agree that there was a party.

Outrageous

Big leap forward for OpenAI here.

Wait, every legacy media outlet in the city has spent years telling us the CBD was pretty much Beirut in 1983?