John-Paul Flintoff
@jp.flintoff.org
Writer and artist.
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
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Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
🏠 Flintoff.org
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
January 20, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Worth your time
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Worth your time
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
Hardly a surprise.
But worth remembering before any government creates revenge tariffs
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
But worth remembering before any government creates revenge tariffs
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
Study Concludes That Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs
Link to: https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2e?st=pw4q2j
daringfireball.net
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Hardly a surprise.
But worth remembering before any government creates revenge tariffs
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
But worth remembering before any government creates revenge tariffs
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
Farage + Trump pic, sorry.
“Europe’s rightwing parties squirm as Trump threatens tariffs”
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“Europe’s rightwing parties squirm as Trump threatens tariffs”
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Europe’s rightwing parties squirm as Trump threatens tariffs
Maga allies refuse to condone US president’s threats over Greenland, with many staying quiet or blaming Brussels
giftarticle.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Farage + Trump pic, sorry.
“Europe’s rightwing parties squirm as Trump threatens tariffs”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“Europe’s rightwing parties squirm as Trump threatens tariffs”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Mark Zuckerberg personally makes or loses billions of dollars based on how much you socialize with your friends on his platforms.
If you get into protracted, intense interactions he gets to show you so many ads and make so much money.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b...
If you get into protracted, intense interactions he gets to show you so many ads and make so much money.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b...
Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Mark Zuckerberg personally makes or loses billions of dollars based on how much you socialize with your friends on his platforms.
If you get into protracted, intense interactions he gets to show you so many ads and make so much money.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b...
If you get into protracted, intense interactions he gets to show you so many ads and make so much money.
pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/b...
“Everything (in tech, politics, sports, you name it) is is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever, usually the worst: do-what-I-say-or-we’re-all-gonna-DIE.
It’s the huckster’s standard rhetorical mode, and it has been the register of all social-media…”
blog.ayjay.org/normalizing/
It’s the huckster’s standard rhetorical mode, and it has been the register of all social-media…”
blog.ayjay.org/normalizing/
normalizing – The Homebound Symphony
blog.ayjay.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“Everything (in tech, politics, sports, you name it) is is either the best thing ever or the worst thing ever, usually the worst: do-what-I-say-or-we’re-all-gonna-DIE.
It’s the huckster’s standard rhetorical mode, and it has been the register of all social-media…”
blog.ayjay.org/normalizing/
It’s the huckster’s standard rhetorical mode, and it has been the register of all social-media…”
blog.ayjay.org/normalizing/
“I've watched this happen to people I know. Intelligent, curious, open-minded people who got deeply involved in online discourse…”
#joanwestenberg
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
#joanwestenberg
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
January 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
“I've watched this happen to people I know. Intelligent, curious, open-minded people who got deeply involved in online discourse…”
#joanwestenberg
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
#joanwestenberg
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
“The problem is structural. The total volume of things-you-should-have-an-opinion-about has exceeded our cognitive bandwidth”
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...
www.joanwestenberg.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:50 AM
“The problem is structural. The total volume of things-you-should-have-an-opinion-about has exceeded our cognitive bandwidth”
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discours...
Feeling the urge to diversify your tech stack and reduce reliance on US-based platforms?
Whether it's data privacy concerns, a desire for regional support, or simply spreading risk, Europe offers a wealth of robust, innovative, and GDPR-native alternatives.
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Whether it's data privacy concerns, a desire for regional support, or simply spreading risk, Europe offers a wealth of robust, innovative, and GDPR-native alternatives.
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January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Feeling the urge to diversify your tech stack and reduce reliance on US-based platforms?
Whether it's data privacy concerns, a desire for regional support, or simply spreading risk, Europe offers a wealth of robust, innovative, and GDPR-native alternatives.
🧵/1
Whether it's data privacy concerns, a desire for regional support, or simply spreading risk, Europe offers a wealth of robust, innovative, and GDPR-native alternatives.
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Honestly, I don’t understand why this idea isn’t getting more traction.
Best way to hit back at #tariffs.
@financialtimes.com @economist.com
#anticircumvention #enshittification
Best way to hit back at #tariffs.
@financialtimes.com @economist.com
#anticircumvention #enshittification
“it's a crime in virtually every country to modify America's defective, enshittified, privacy-invading, money-stealing technology exports.
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Honestly, I don’t understand why this idea isn’t getting more traction.
Best way to hit back at #tariffs.
@financialtimes.com @economist.com
#anticircumvention #enshittification
Best way to hit back at #tariffs.
@financialtimes.com @economist.com
#anticircumvention #enshittification
A little fix that would make social web a lot more useful and less hate-filled and abusive… Make replies visible only to the person being replied to. If they feel the reply should be public, they can RT it.
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@scripting.com
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@scripting.com
Scripting News: Friday, January 9, 2026
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
scripting.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
A little fix that would make social web a lot more useful and less hate-filled and abusive… Make replies visible only to the person being replied to. If they feel the reply should be public, they can RT it.
scripting.com/2026/01/09.h...
scripting.com/2026/01/09.h...
@scripting.com
scripting.com/2026/01/09.h...
scripting.com/2026/01/09.h...
@scripting.com
“it's a crime in virtually every country to modify America's defective, enshittified, privacy-invading, money-stealing technology exports.
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 17, 2026 at 7:09 PM
“it's a crime in virtually every country to modify America's defective, enshittified, privacy-invading, money-stealing technology exports.
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Why?
The US trade representative has spent 25 years using the threat of tariffs to bully trading partners…”
pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/e...
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?
US green energy growth is proving hard to kill.
One factor driving renewables is speed. A photovoltaic solar farm can be built and activated in under a year — a fraction of the several years typically needed to build a natural gas plant. @financialtimes.com
One factor driving renewables is speed. A photovoltaic solar farm can be built and activated in under a year — a fraction of the several years typically needed to build a natural gas plant. @financialtimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:55 PM
US green energy growth is proving hard to kill.
One factor driving renewables is speed. A photovoltaic solar farm can be built and activated in under a year — a fraction of the several years typically needed to build a natural gas plant. @financialtimes.com
One factor driving renewables is speed. A photovoltaic solar farm can be built and activated in under a year — a fraction of the several years typically needed to build a natural gas plant. @financialtimes.com
“By default, no Outlook reader will show up in your open rates, and every Gmail and Apple Mail subscriber will look like they faithfully open every single email you send.”
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Via @buttondown.com
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Via @buttondown.com
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Ask a Nerd: What are good open, click, and response rates for an email newsletter?
30% open rates and 2% click rates are good. But numbers can lie.
buttondown.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:29 AM
“By default, no Outlook reader will show up in your open rates, and every Gmail and Apple Mail subscriber will look like they faithfully open every single email you send.”
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Via @buttondown.com
buttondown.com/blog/target-...
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Via @buttondown.com
buttondown.com/blog/target-...
The truth Elon left out
The truth left out from Elon Musk’s recent court filing.
openai.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland
kottke.org/26/01/photos...
kottke.org/26/01/photos...
Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition
These photos by Chu Weimin show the mind-boggling scale of China’s green energy buildout.
Last year China insta
kottke.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland
kottke.org/26/01/photos...
kottke.org/26/01/photos...
Let me unpack that. By "managing other people's to-do lists," I don't mean that I'm deciding for other people what they will and won't do. I'm making sure that if someone fails to do something we planned together, it's because they decided not to do it, not forgot
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Let me unpack that. By "managing other people's to-do lists," I don't mean that I'm deciding for other people what they will and won't do. I'm making sure that if someone fails to do something we planned together, it's because they decided not to do it, not forgot
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
“Daily habits are superpowers. Once something is a habit, you get it for free.“
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
“Daily habits are superpowers. Once something is a habit, you get it for free.“
pluralistic.net/2024/10/26/o...
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“These people are rightly terrified that Trump will order his tech companies to switch off their governments, businesses and households” - Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: How the Light Gets In (15 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 15, 2026 at 8:59 PM
“These people are rightly terrified that Trump will order his tech companies to switch off their governments, businesses and households” - Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/h...
pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/h...
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by John-Paul Flintoff
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Sport England suspends X account over abuse of women and girls
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
Sport England suspends X account over 'abhorrent' output
Public funding agency Sport England suspends its account on Elon Musk's X, claiming it
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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