Clever casting and a real feel for raw human feeling means SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 🎥 intrigues, but it surprises because its story of adult emotions achieves a U rating. Herbert Nordrum's life is about to change movieswetextedabout.com/sisters-befo...

“When I was younger, I imagined that one of the things that people in the publishing world would enjoy most was interacting with brilliant writers. I didn’t realize that people went to great lengths to avoid discussing texts with an author.” english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

Today’s the day! 🥳

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

All reasonably emotionally mature adults should ask themselves when they have ever made a good decision of which they are proud while panicked.

This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

EXCLUSIVE 🪩 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is a rock inspired fantasy nodding to David Bowie and The Who. “Narnia is literally a world made out of music,” she tells Empire. “And rock ’n’ roll to me felt like a world made out of music.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Reminder to ATproto/Atmosphere app developers out there: I recently had yet another conversation with someone who has been curious about one of your apps but intimidated by all the tech jargon & lack of non-techie user documentation. PLEASEplease read my post: debbieohi.leaflet.pub/3mrpuaxmkw22i

I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest

Adored New Arab Book Club chat with the lovely, eloquent Nur Turkmani - so much of what she says here and in the rest of the interview are things I’ll be thinking about for a long time 🫶 Full interview on YouTube: youtu.be/i9e5nRE_IKE?...

A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.

this is a remarkable, astonishing, visceral book, but i can only read a few pages at a time because wheeeeew

Far be it from me to perpetuate national stereotypes HOWEVER this is what a proper selection of potatoes looks like. Taken in a small Kerry supermarket with 2 checkouts. I counted 16 different types, sizes, and brands of spud. Which is about right.

By the by I'm re-reading how the 18thC master navigator of Oceania, Tupaia, who guided Captain Cook around Polynesia and to Aotearoa, produced maps that faithfully translated between the Pacific and European navigation systems, accounting for Mercator distortions, with an accuracy of <5 degrees.

“For generations now – and I think it’s especially true in the present generation – we’ve been told that our stories matter most. We forget that we can give centre stage to other stories without making ourselves disappear. It’s a question of focus.” fivebooks.com/best-books/a...

Too many nonfiction writers take the messiness of their subject as an excuse to make their writing a mess. Your job is to impose an abstract structure of order that makes the mess comprehensible!