The "Notable People" map is a fun timewaster! tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people – it's the globe with thousands of notable people overlaid at the place of their birth. Zoom in on your town and see who comes up.

The Online Safety Act is a well intended but shoddily written and dangerous piece of legislation that damages the UK. I can’t blame sites that just block UK IPs now.

Not content with shutting down a forum for hamster owners, the Online Safety Act now prevents anyone from accessing forums discussing cider and quitting smoking without giving some random company a selfie. No wonder our political class are despised.

How I'm detecting entirely AI created READMEs on GitHub in 2025: ✨ Features * 🚀 Super Fast - It's amazingly quick. * 🔒 Secure - It's really secure. * ⚡ High Performance - It's amazingly quick. 🚀 Getting Started .. and so on.

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Just for fun I fed the questions from politicalcompass.org into GPT-4o and here's where its answers took it. Might try Grok next.. 😅

Anyone else in the email newsletter space encounter random oddities like where ALL of your subscribers using Outlook hosted email hit a random link in one of your emails? Like many thousands all hit the same link, all legit subscribers, but certainly not normal activity.