Tom Hannen
@tomhannen.ft.com
BBC you’re encoding your dashes all wrong, and you’re optimistic if you think I’m going to watch all 33 years of that, it was bad enough the first time round… Also, it wasn’t me watching it was my son and god knows why he’s watching Colin Baker episodes instead of the Dalek eps I suggested #kids
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
BBC you’re encoding your dashes all wrong, and you’re optimistic if you think I’m going to watch all 33 years of that, it was bad enough the first time round… Also, it wasn’t me watching it was my son and god knows why he’s watching Colin Baker episodes instead of the Dalek eps I suggested #kids
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
“The largest user-generated database of rap crime on the planet” and now Spotify owns it…
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
“The largest user-generated database of rap crime on the planet” and now Spotify owns it…
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Every minute, each of the major AI models is asked to build an analogue clock face in HTML. Results are mixed… clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Every minute, each of the major AI models is asked to build an analogue clock face in HTML. Results are mixed… clocks.brianmoore.com
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
7 months after I closed our Sky Broadband account, I receive a cheque for the leftover account credit. Nice to know I’m funding their coffers interest free… Is this normal?
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
7 months after I closed our Sky Broadband account, I receive a cheque for the leftover account credit. Nice to know I’m funding their coffers interest free… Is this normal?
Stunning free-to-use colour palette synthesiser that looks like it was made by Braun and Teenage Engineering colorpalette.pro
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Stunning free-to-use colour palette synthesiser that looks like it was made by Braun and Teenage Engineering colorpalette.pro
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The Internet is entirely down. Well, not entirely. One small village holds out.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Internet is entirely down. Well, not entirely. One small village holds out.
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I still think about this little short film and just how utterly brilliant it is.
youtu.be/RSmjqss0XKQ?...
youtu.be/RSmjqss0XKQ?...
"THE BLACK HOLE" [HD] Short Film Pick Featured by NineJunctions
YouTube video by NineJunctions
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I still think about this little short film and just how utterly brilliant it is.
youtu.be/RSmjqss0XKQ?...
youtu.be/RSmjqss0XKQ?...
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Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities
The Reuters company is also one of the nation’s largest data brokers and they’re yet another corporation exploiting America’s lack of data privacy laws to power ICE surveillance.
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities
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Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
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I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
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Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Reeves in Zugzwang
Incremental politics no longer works
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.
It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.
open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...
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Historic vote in Isle of Man to end rights of Bishop to vote in Tynwald leaving UK in a strange club of three with Vatican and Iran where senior clerics have votes in Parliament.
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Historic vote in Isle of Man to end rights of Bishop to vote in Tynwald leaving UK in a strange club of three with Vatican and Iran where senior clerics have votes in Parliament.
I can%27t imagine any issues with using emojis in filenames
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I can%27t imagine any issues with using emojis in filenames
Somewhere in a parallel universe, a butterfly flapped its wings, Grossman took over from Paxman as main presenter on Newsnight, and the BBC didn't get sued
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Somewhere in a parallel universe, a butterfly flapped its wings, Grossman took over from Paxman as main presenter on Newsnight, and the BBC didn't get sued
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This from @lewisgoodall.com on the recent BBC mess is so good. Particularly this bit.
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This from @lewisgoodall.com on the recent BBC mess is so good. Particularly this bit.
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
I remember senior, tenured (male, ofc) colleagues at news orgs sneer at suggestions of unconscious bias as if they were immune to it.
How commonplace it all is.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
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Robert Ballagh — Woman and a Bridget Riley, 1974.
(The Faust Tapes)
(The Faust Tapes)
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Robert Ballagh — Woman and a Bridget Riley, 1974.
(The Faust Tapes)
(The Faust Tapes)
Lovely idea for a certain kind of nostalgic geek
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Lovely idea for a certain kind of nostalgic geek
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November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
Crisis at the CSC | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
From the desk of Lord Kronsteen, founder and proprietor of the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation. To all staff, It is with a heavy heart that I take pen in hand to inform you of the resignation of both…
thecritic.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crisis at the Critic Sketchcasting Corporation!
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30 yrs ago you could never think about abolishing the BBC, even though many fumed over bias then. Its quality stood tall. Since then, deep and severe cuts. Resources reduced, experience walked out the door. Mistakes get made. Weakening the BBC was a vital step in trying to get rid of it.
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
30 yrs ago you could never think about abolishing the BBC, even though many fumed over bias then. Its quality stood tall. Since then, deep and severe cuts. Resources reduced, experience walked out the door. Mistakes get made. Weakening the BBC was a vital step in trying to get rid of it.