Outstanding failure of journalism by the Times: cold-mailing "Bill DeBlasio" and failing to check that it was the *correct* Bill de Blasio. This story also gets bonus marks for "interview conducted through Ring doorbell" www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

A view from the South London diaspora.

A note on how Geoff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived at the Cannes event where she will be feted for her environmental activism. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

Fascinated by this ad which (a) doesn't show the star/reason for the film's existence (b) looks like a PS3 cutscene.

In this episode I introduce Alice to a YouTube channel about sausages, which worked out perfectly.

New bad AI thing: people using it for item descriptions on eBay, so even second-hand furniture is described using the dead prose of an Amazon drop-shipper. Bleak and also totally useless because it doesn't add any useful detail, well done everybody

The @outsidexbox.bsky.social Quiz of the Year asks the hard questions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6v...

Solid nominative determinism.

Also, adorable to express this as "a risk" rather than something that already happened. That ship sailed, and sank, years ago.

Amazon Christmas present suggestions getting increasingly desperate.

Threads promo email makes it look like the dullest app on earth.

Bleakly amused to note a new tell for AI-sourced copy: it leaves in the ad read from the YouTube video the story is based on. www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news...

RETVRN

Sure, why not