The DM has now picked up the 'too many blacks on TV' story, related to the C4 report, using so much of the exact logic from The Spectator that I suspect it was either plagiarised in part or heavily cribbed from. The Daily Mail of course rachets up the "woke" hysteria. Archive link: archive.is/TQXu9

This is *extremely* disappointing from Rory Sutherland. The article is here: www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-t...

Points to note:

* it doesn’t link to the report
* I cannot find the claim that black people appear in 50% of adverts in the C4 summary

* even if it could, the argument that ‘if black

I was middle-aging through various Reddit threads about home improvement and noted the near ubiquity - inevitability - of ‘your mum’ comments. I think this has become almost formalised as part of a 21st century chivalric code. Honi soit qui mal y your mum.

'barbarossa'

Finally

Peak Grauniad?

Recommend everyone buys Refaat Alareer's posthumous work, a collection of his writings. He was killed a year ago, with family, because he was vocal on Twitter. His beloved daughter was killed in April 2024. If you've ever been angry about threats to Rushdie, the killing of Alareer should enrage you.

I don’t understand this image. It looks like the owl is lying down randily but there’s a face growing out of his behind. Is this like a linguistic Rorschach test?

It was all entirely worth it for this review

I don't like AI used to exploit artists, erase jobs and remove the soul from creativity... Buuuuuut I absolutely love that I, despite a large void of artistic talent, can send this to someone who had a St Pancras typo (St pancakes)

If I was 86 and doing packed movie schedules of probably be "lazy" too

When astronauts start giving their opinions about China's imperial dynasties

Some new books just in #ReadWithHamid

Rounding off Graeber's 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'

This is great (but also incredibly sad!) to see - what Liverpool would look like if it was a French city with a typical transport setup. 50km of metro/tramways. Nabbed from a chap called Todd Lithgow.

Me, taking photos of friends

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