Reposted by Max HarlowJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026Turns out, the author just ... made them up 🤷♂️. I can't get over this. It really doesn't seem ok to me for someone to draw some squiggles, claim that they're illustrative of something in the real world, then act as though it's akin to evidence. The vibes you feel aren't data! 1431529
Max Harlow @maxharlow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For those that know me for @journocoders.bsky.social, I'm going to be taking a bit of a break -- this is going to be the last one for a while: bsky.app/profile/jour... 011
Reposted by Max HarlowBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/08/2026Mike Ashley is a former squash coach turned retail billionaire, whose Frasers Group has built a $2.7 billion property portfolio. The company's now snapped up one of the most famous department stores in London bloom.bg/4bZ04uS 📷: Jose Sarmento Matos & Chris J.Ratcliffe/Bloomberg 142
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Registrations are now open for August! Come along and learn how to investigate with maps using QGIS 🗺️ luma.com/7rq6w3spluma.comJournocoders: Investigating with maps using QGIS · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to investigate with maps using QGIS. QGIS is a free Geographic Information System (GIS) — a tool for viewing, editing, and… 013
Reposted by Max HarlowSienna Rodgers @siennarodgers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026NEW: Lord Glasman Wrote A Song For The Exiled Crown Prince Of Iran And Played It To Him: www.politicshome.com/news/article...politicshome.comLord Glasman Wrote A Song For The Exiled Crown Prince Of Iran And Played It To HimExclusive: Labour peer Maurice Glasman wrote and recorded a song dedicated to Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, in support of his exi... 7129
Reposted by Max HarlowAndy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry press to the steps of Downing Street." bulk-distributor.com/2026/07/form...bulk-distributor.comFormer BD journalist set to become UK PM - Bulk DistributorFormer Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry pre... 1424180
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Registrations are now open for July! Come along and learn how to explore connections in text data with embeddings 🔭 luma.com/yzmafq4kluma.comJournocoders: Exploring connections in text data with embeddings · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to explore connections in text data with embeddings. Embeddings are used in AI to translate data into numbers that represent… 031
Reposted by Max HarlowDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026www.ft.com/content/7a0f... If I was a political aide with a conviction for fraud, under scrutiny about undeclared financial support… I simply would not write a book called “How to Launder Money”. 410134
Reposted by Max HarlowDamon Beres @damonberes.com · 06/07/2026You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing? 553404589
Reposted by Max HarlowEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 04/07/2026Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 5436288
Reposted by Max HarlowJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Buy 404 Media's course: www.404media.co/how-i-bought... 911614
Reposted by Max HarlowMolly White @molly.wiki · 14/12/2025Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft? A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget 57984123
Reposted by Max HarlowHugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026can strongly, strongly recommend a game of 'sit in the pub with your friends and try to guess the price of an item on Peter Murrell's Embezzlement List' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell spent the £400,000 he embezzledBBC Scotland News has collated all of the goods bought by ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell in his £400,000 embezzlement. 98516
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Registrations are now open for June! Come along and learn how about data reporting with R and Quarto 📰 luma.com/9artzr3aluma.comJournocoders: Data reporting with R and Quarto · LumaThis month we'll be learning about data reporting using R and Quarto. Quarto is a technical publishing system which allows you to produce readable and sharable… 001
Reposted by Max HarlowRobert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 12/05/2026Have to hand it to the WSJ, that’s a heckuva headline 0214
Reposted by Max HarlowAlice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026If you want to watch them like a pro then don’t call them midterms 519328
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Registrations are now open for May! Come along and learn how to analyse election data with Polars 🥶 luma.com/t1ylk0vmluma.comJournocoders: Analysing election data with Polars · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to analyse election data with Polars. Polars is a Python library for data analysis that's been steadily gaining popularity… 031
Reposted by Max HarlowKatie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 30/04/2026It’s extremely good. My new favorite podcast 1117319
Reposted by Max HarlowDónal Griffin @donalgriffin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Barclays says will recover +50% of £500m loan to MFS. Yet officials winding down the collapsed mortgage firm are far from certain on how much -- if anything -- can be recouped, citing allegations of widespread wrongdoing and limited access to information. Via @bloomberg.com. shorturl.at/1HffDshorturl.atBarclays Eyes Over 50% Recovery on MFS as Asset Hunt UncertainBarclays Plc hopes to get back much of the £500 million ($674 million) it lent to Market Financial Solutions Ltd. even as insolvency officials overseeing the now-collapsed mortgage lender remain uncer... 001
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Registrations are now open for April! Come along and learn how to solve mysteries with SQL 🕵 luma.com/h3cjxr87luma.comSolving mysteries with SQL · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to solve mysteries with SQL. SQL is a special language for communicating with databases using clear, readable commands. Well,… 011
Reposted by Max HarlowDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Four court hearings, probably £1m+ of fees, all to work out if large marshmallows are a "sweetened prepared food which is normally eaten with the fingers", and therefore subject to VAT. Spoiler: they are not. Because "A > B and C > D, (A + C) > (B + D)" 97319
Max Harlow @maxharlow.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Our look into collapsed UK lender MFS found much of their lending went to companies controlled by five people, allowing them to build up a £530m property portfolio. Many shared a registered address with MFS, and hundreds of the properties have multiple mortgages www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... 010
Reposted by Max HarlowDónal Griffin @donalgriffin.bsky.social · 27/03/202660 Ennismore Gardens, a Knightsbridge townhouse that once counted Ava Gardner as a neighbor, is at the heart of the meltdown at UK lender MFS. Owned on paper by individual with close ties to MFS owner, it secured 2 Wall St-backed mortgages on the same day. shorturl.at/hvadPshorturl.atTangled Web of Loans Brought Down a British Property EmpireThe collapse of Paresh Raja's property empire has left lenders facing up to $1.7 billion of losses and questions about their due diligence. 132
Reposted by Max HarlowDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026OK this is nuts. A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records. 21351125
Reposted by Max Harlownilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Couple things here: 1. What the fuck 2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen 3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 431854332
Reposted by Max HarlowDónal Griffin @donalgriffin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Indian rapper Badshah. Dancers performing inside a glass dome. A vast collection of sporting and music memorabilia that has since disappeared. Behind the scenes at MFS, the UK lender backed by £2b+ of Wall Street loans that collapsed last week. Story via @bloomberg.com shorturl.at/VKdK6shorturl.atMFS CEO Spent on Artwork, Parties, Indian Rapper Before CollapseThe walls of Market Financial Solutions Ltd.’s London offices were a shrine to the passions of founder Paresh Raja. 012
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Registrations are now open for March! Come along and learn how to produce exploratory data graphics with Altair 🧭 luma.com/2ibfrwr9luma.comJournocoders: Exploratory data graphics with Altair · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to explore data with charts and graphics using Altair. Altair is a Python library for building a wide range of graphics and… 021
Reposted by Max HarlowDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Simon Goldberg denied to me he’s running a huge tax fraud. He says he's an expert. Says he “studied under Winston Shrout” Shrout was convicted of tax fraud, got 10 years, fled, & was captured by US marshals 311122
Reposted by Max HarlowDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Is this what they call soft power? 1588
Reposted by Max HarlowThomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it 8748162123
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Registrations are now open for Feburary! Come along and learn how to make maps and analyse geographical data with Python 🗺️ luma.com/kospxtu7luma.comJournocoders: Making maps and analysing geographical data with Python · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to make maps and analyse geographic data using the Python programming language. In this session we'll be following a tutorial… 001
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Registrations are now open for January! Come along and learn how to scrape the web with Beautiful Soup and Playwright! 🥣 luma.com/50ge2x1eluma.comJournocoders: Scraping the web with Beautiful Soup and Playwright · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to scrape the web using the Python programming language and two libraries, Beautiful Soup and Playwright. Beautiful Soup is a… 001
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Registrations are now open for December! Come along and learn how to automatically categorise things with AI 🎁luma.comJournocoders: Automatically categorising things with AI · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to use AI to put data into categories. Categorisation is one of the most practically useful applications of AI for data… 022
Reposted by Max HarlowMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/11/2025don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take 632312339
Reposted by Max HarlowDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Beth Rigby spotted that the OBR accidentally published their Budget papers too soon. It's down now, but I've archived a copy: buff.ly/SfFAiCubuff.ly 65913
Reposted by Max HarlowStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/11/2025Amazing. Bypass model safeguards and get helpful responses about nukes, bioweapons, cyberattacks, etc., simply by putting the adversarial prompt in a poem. Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2511.153... 1155
Reposted by Max HarlowJess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Wtf: in the 18th and 19th centuries, green park and st James’ park were covered with cows and milkmaids, and you could buy milk fresh from the cow memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s... 261
Reposted by Max HarlowAlison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 06/11/2025NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...ig.ft.comEnd of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelledMohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance 56734217
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Registrations are now open for November! Come along and learn how to use computer vision for AI image and video analysis with @roboflow.com 👀 luma.com/3928sgrfluma.comJournocoders: Computer vision for AI image and video analysis with Roboflow · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to use computer vision for AI-powered image and video analysis with Roboflow. Computer vision is a field of AI that enables… 011
Reposted by Max HarlowMartin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 03/11/2025My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.martinrobbins.substack.comHow HS2 built a bridge to nowhereA state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road. 2129396
Reposted by Max HarlowAmanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 30/09/2025I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world. Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.not-ship.comNot-ShipA newsletter charting the age of uncertainty 1208
Reposted by Max HarlowJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 18/10/2025I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...londoncentric.mediaThe snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxmanTerry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges. 39505194
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Registrations are now open for October! Come along and learn how to track boats and see the seas with @globalfishingwatch.org 🌊luma.comJournocoders: Tracking boats and seeing the seas with Global Fishing Watch · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to track boats and see the seas with Global Fishing Watch. Global Fishing Watch is nonprofit that freely shares knowledge and… 011
Reposted by Max Harlowchristogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social · 16/09/2025More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980 716045
Reposted by Max Harlow👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped. 31682198
Reposted by Max HarlowJournocoders @journocoders.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Registrations are now open for September. Come along and learn how to tell stories with maps using @mapbox.com! 🗺️ luma.com/blz20uhuluma.comJournocoders: Telling stories with maps using Mapbox · LumaThis month we'll be learning how to tell stories with maps using Mapbox. Maps are a great way to tell a story which has a geographical element at its heart.… 021
Reposted by Max HarlowPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 21/08/2025Wired and Business Insider have removed features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated. Freedom of expression non-profit Index on Censorship is also in the process of taking down a magazine article by the same author pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...pressgazette.co.ukWired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articlesWired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name. 01911