Nick Dastoor

Front page of the Guardian 11/11/25 with story headlined "China's CO2 emissions may have peaked"

Front page in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Ah, apparently the first linked to the wrong story

BBC News 5m ago Correction: Chris Mason - digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government BBC News 22m ago Chris Mason: Digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government

Can someone explain this BBC correction to me?

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It's easy to become inured to this kind of thing but every now and then I stop and marvel at how pathetic it is

not the point, but the “opinion” label made me laugh, like tomorrow they’re gonna have “quentin tarantino: rob reiner was *not* martin scorsese’s friend”

The very rarely-seen #journalese quadfecta. This is a back bench at the top of its game.

Sun headline reads "Holly Willoughby broke rider's neck after knocking him off scooter in her Mini"

Also "after", unless Holly Willoughby really was on a violent rampage

Headlines that read 'Robin Smith aged 62 as tributes pour in for England cricket legend' and 'Robin Smith dies aged 62 as England cricket icon passes away in Australia'

The use of the word 'as' in headlines is out of control

Ngram showing interloper "another thing coming" overtaking "another think coming" in 2016

Thinks fall apart

Less than a quarter of the readership on this one is from UK, and the biggest chunk is from US. It's also not appearing in the print edition, afaik

It's written by the European community affairs correspondent and the Guardian commissions things online from its various offices, not all of which are presented through a UK lens

Jenrick accused of racism over ‘no white faces’ comments as he also claims ‘collapse of old order is in sight’ – UK politics live Labour mayor of the West Midlands says Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth were racist

A sign of how confusing Tories are as a political proposition that you have to guess if they are touting "the collapse of the old order" as a good or a bad thing

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I want to note our appreciation for the reporting of The Guardian. Its reports were based in part on sources outside Microsoft that had information we could not access in light of our customer privacy commitments. This helped inform our review.

Can’t recall seeing anything like this from a tech company recently blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

I guess assumption #1 could be argued to relate to a world in which Google turns off search results below, akin to what a full switch to AI Mode would be, plus no option to opt back or user desire to switch to rival search engine. The second is more fundamental though: the baseline is 15%, not 100%

Graph showing how much Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with Al summaries

Here is the Pew research

Yes, to be clear the situation is bad with potential to be much worse but there are a couple of false assumptions in Rusty taking the 1% figure to mean that. First, the one you mention. Second, that pre-AI clickthrough was 100% to a link

Glasgow woman credits 'love of cheesy puffs' for long life after 102nd birthday

"That's my secret to a long life: custard, custard, custard." WW2 veteran, 106, puts long life down to custard

One day the secret of longevity will be unlocked and we'll know if it is cheesy puffs or custard

It reminds me of the bit in Serial s1 where they cannot establish whether there was a payphone at a certain Best Buy in 1999

Absolutely Out of Order I don’t want much out of life, you know. I really don’t. Just the basics. Like, for example, knowing which episode of Absolutely Fabulous was broadcast on BBC2 on the 17th December 1992…

Which episode of Absolutely Fabulous was broadcast on the 17 December 1992? It's unsettling how hard it is to pin down the answer, but John Hoare did www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/05/abso...

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket Pocket had a nearly two-decade-long run.

Well, damn. I'll have to export all those articles to somewhere else that I won't read them

www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist "I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

OK it was an insert, which makes sense

www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

I just can't understand how this could make it through a serious newspaper's production process

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...

Nazi cosplay getting out of hand
michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

Mirror, Sun and Express all wrapped in same Tesco advert

Media plurality #everytitlehelps

Impact of Bluesky on referral should now get much clearer

Scrum (software development) - Wikipedia

Though this seems to be partly responsible
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(...

@lynneguist.bsky.social I had to check after yesterday's Wordle to see if you'd ever mentioned scrum getting popular in the US. Don't think you have! Seems to be a 21C thing
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

The Telegraph has a special page for woke

www.telegraph.co.uk/woke/

AI Overview Google AI Overview: John Lennon's stepmother was Yoko Ono, a Japanese multimedia artist. Lennon married Ono in 1969.

Yes, that's right

Still, I suppose it beats "Laura Kuenssberg is going to be talking to a minister soon"