I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this. It’s such a frustrating waste of of energy, isn’t it.

Same way it’s somehow November.

Oh wow! That’s very cool

Really good article about a history I knew very little about.

But that’s not just me being ignorant.

As Dan put it (in DMs), ‘The Pact of Forgetting is a thing with capital letters and its own Wikipedia page.’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of...

“Franco died not in a ditch but in bed, as a victor, and he left behind this legacy: that justice would not to be served, that the amnesty law would be signed, that everyone would be pardoned and that his successors would sign up to a pact of silence – of forgetting.”

— Andrés Rebolledo Barreno

That’s quite a sentence

‘Every time there’s a startup with incredibly obvious negative consequences for society - another useless crypto ecosystem, a new part of life to turn into a sportsbook, a new way to use AI to undermine human trust - Andreessen seems to be the man funding it.’

www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...

More precisely, one and only one ethical concern is high status in the Bay Area, namely ‘Oh no superintelligent AI will kill us all’ — except that’s actually a) marketing and b) fictional.

Caring about actually existing human beings? Nahhh

A remarkable piece of reporting by Melvyn Ingleby - much of the brutality it describes really too grotesque to quote here, but it's a strong (and humane) narrative.

I know no-one wants to read a Syria story tonight when there's the 794th piece on the Budget (UK) or Epstein (US) instead. But do.

There have not been revenge attacks on Syria's National Defence Forces in the wake of Assad's fall; militia members simply fled or put down their arms.

Yet in Tadamon, in the south-east of Damascus, people still remember the smell of bodies being burned. Will justice come? How long can they wait?

P.S. in this house we pay for the writing we want to exist in the world.

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Really lovely piece – written from a fan’s perspective but all the better for it.

As @btoastie.bsky.social says

‘I’d prewritten a bunch of stuff about suicide statistics, but I didn’t even bother to revisit it; numerical analysis and the clinical gaze just felt gross in this space.’

This cover! 🖤🥹🤘

Photographer: Russel Daniels

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Did one guy just compare you to the Nazis for not expressing the required pieties? Gosh.

Stephen Bush: ‘It has left Labour MPs wondering: is the issue that Downing Street’s most senior aides are paranoid incompetents, or that they are hatching plots of their own? Neither are questions that any half-competent Downing Street should be inviting upon itself.’

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I get “can’t burn your sources” but there’s also such a thing as being a pawn of them.

Of course journalism has a trust problem: the job isn’t to amplify politicking bullshit, it’s to report on it.

Exception being Stephen Bush in the FT, who says look of course it’s Morgan McSweeny.