The Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism 2023 has been won by DAVID CONN of The Guardian for his entry 'Revealed: Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her family secretly received millions from "VIP lane" PPE firm.' Congratulations!

M2 Ultra Mac Studio review is live and one insane test result I found after posting: Transcoding 4k videos in Compressor M2 Max - 3 min 25 sec M2 Ultra - 0 min 47 sec

Find someone who looks at you the way B camera looks at a tight profile.

Thought I would try to pull together what I remember of the sequencing of the disaster that Musk has wrought on himself. None of this is really original. Probably a lot of it is contentious but maybe it helps just to tell a single linear story so you can fashion your own.

Super interesting.

PSA for all the editors out there...

Super interesting thread on Ukraine's use of drones

This has thoroughly distracted me this morning. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-1…

This feels like a clear-eyed look at the Ukrainian counter-offensive to date, well worth a read: warontherocks.com/2023/09/persev…

Raids on Crimea and oil/gas platforms to eliminate radar, then a complex drone/missile strike against Sevastopol. This is a very sophisticated approach to making Crimea untenable for the Russians. The Ukrainian General Staff is running rings around the Russian General Staff.

Apple ProRes Log is no joke. 10GB for a 2 minute clip 🫠

🎥 The Economist’s film on the Russians fighting back against Putin has won Silver, and the People’s Lovie, in the News and Politics category at the The Lovie Awards! Watch the film here econ.st/3sxCsd1 ⬇️

"Ukraine has made its European choice. Now Europe must make its Ukrainian choice. We need to decide and act fast, or face disastrous consequences for decades to come." Sobering analysis by Timothy Garton Ash prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/u…

Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2010 about how the best founders are naughty because they break the rules Then he has an interesting anecdote about Sam Altman... Interesting lens through which to view why OpenAI keeps showing up in the news for doing obviously bad things

"It is impossible to know what ideas never came into the world because someone couldn’t or wouldn’t accept an hourly rate that barely covers the babysitter." yalereview.org/article/christ…

John Burnside's last poem for the London Review of Books: