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Luke Hoyland
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"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
hoy.la
🤣🤣🤣

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC
Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict
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November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
hoy.la
This app is a must for journalists who receive material of dubious origin. Great stuff @micahflee.com for now making it much easier to use. (It no longer requires Docker.)
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Luke Hoyland
reuters.com
Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock reut.rs/4nF6nXs
Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock
Spain remains the euro zone’s fastest growing economy, outperforming its peers yet again in the third quarter. The Iberian country’s successful policy mix offers several lessons that fly in the face of global political trends.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
hoy.la
Grokipedia is a really good advert for Wikipedia
November 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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... While one the largest demonstrations in the history of the US gets one single, below-the-fold article in the New York Times. Oh and they dug out a five-month-old sidebar on how numbers don't count, or something. The NYT's editorial decisions can be difficult to understand.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 19
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
hoy.la
As every day more satirists ponder new careers,

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says
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October 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
hoy.la
... is that up out of the sewer that the Mail drove it into?
alfietobutt.bsky.social Alfie Tobutt @alfietobutt.bsky.social · Sep 30
DAILY MAIL: The day Labour dragged politics into the gutter #TomorrowsPapersToday
October 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted by Luke Hoyland
journalismarena.eu
🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch.

This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.

This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
hoy.la
This is heartwarming

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Dining across the divide: ‘There he was with his goatee, shaved head, tattoos – but never judge a book by its cover’
A leftwing voting skeptic and tribal Tory party member struggle to agree on nationalism and the role of the state. Can they find any common ground over social media?
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September 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
hoy.la
In 2024 91% of renewable energy was cheaper than a fossil fuel alternative. 'Drill baby drill' makes sense on one metric alone: vested interests.

rmi.org/affordabilit...
Volatility vs. Affordability: Globally, Renewables’ Cost Advantage Grew Last Year - RMI
Recent reports show that renewables are resoundingly cost-competitive.
rmi.org
August 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
hoy.la
Pains me to say "I agree with Nick", but "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" is a pretty good line.

However. He speaks like someone emerging from stockholm syndrome in this interview. But he was no prisoner.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures
When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?
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August 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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"The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US civil war, World Wars I and II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined."

watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
Chart from the Watson School of International and Public Affairs showing numbers of journalists and media workers killed in various wars
August 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
hoy.la
This is the era of unlearning, isn’t it?
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases
The Guardian has obtained surveillance images taken by hired spies whose goal is said to have been identifying sources and gaining ‘leverage’
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
hoy.la
How many times can Laurence Fox post adverts that violate Google's policies before Google realise that taking them down *after* they've had hundreds of thousands of views isn't really working as a deterrent?

adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
Reclaim the Media political adverts on Google's ad transparency service, currently showing 7 of the past 12 adverts were removed for policy violations
July 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
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July 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Reposted by Luke Hoyland
arstechnica.com
UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
UK officials fear their insistence on backdoor endangers tech deals with US.
arstechnica.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
hoy.la
From the dictionary of politics:

INTOLERABLE (adj): tolerable
July 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
hoy.la
This trip's getting weird

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Rolling Stone headline: "Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract" with subhead "Meanwhile, the most advanced version of the AI chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI is still identifying as Adolf Hitler"
July 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
hoy.la
"Conspiracy beliefs are mostly associated with reduced public health ... weakened social cohesion ... deteriorated basic human rights ... lower support for reducing carbon emissions, clean energy & preserving delicate ecosystems; & with reduced trust & cooperation..."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How belief in conspiracy theories could harm sustainability - Nature Human Behaviour
Conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking are becoming an increasing concern for researchers, politicians and policymakers. In this Perspective, the authors examine the evidence for how conspiracy b...
www.nature.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Luke Hoyland
simonwillison.net
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
Screenshot of Grok web interface showing a query "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only." with the AI's thinking process displayed, including "Thought for 42s", analysis stating "The user likely wants a simple stance, but the issue's complexity suggests caution" and "I'm considering searching for recent views to inform my response", followed by a "Planning research approach" section mentioning searching for "Elon Musk's stance on the conflict to guide my answer" and noting "The response must be one word, so no citations will be included", with a search interface showing "Searching × for 'from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)'" displaying results including "@elonmusk" accounts, "Israel", "29 × posts", "10 web pages"
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
hoy.la
The news: *

Me: when a species evolves to the extent that it becomes an existential threat to the overall biosphere, does an evolutionary inflexion point occur, after which the species is mysteriously compelled to behave in ways that ensure its own demise?

Gaia: vote Trump
June 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM