Max Harlow
@maxharlow.bsky.social
Data reporter @bloomberg.com. Previously @financialtimes.com. I also run @journocoders.bsky.social. Views are my own. [email protected]
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Registrations are now open for December! Come along and learn how to automatically categorise things with AI 🎁
Journocoders: Automatically categorising things with AI · Luma
This 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…
luma.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Registrations are now open for December! Come along and learn how to automatically categorise things with AI 🎁
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
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Beth Rigby spotted that the OBR accidentally published their Budget papers too soon. It's down now, but I've archived a copy: buff.ly/SfFAiCu
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November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Beth Rigby spotted that the OBR accidentally published their Budget papers too soon. It's down now, but I've archived a copy: buff.ly/SfFAiCu
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Amazing. 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...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Amazing. 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...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...
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Wtf: 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...
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wtf: 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...
memoirsofametrogirl.com/2020/05/02/s...
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NEW: 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.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
NEW: 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.
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ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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Registrations 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/3928sgrf
Journocoders: Computer vision for AI image and video analysis with Roboflow · Luma
This 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…
luma.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Registrations 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/3928sgrf
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My 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.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A 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.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My 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.
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I'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.
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
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
www.not-ship.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I'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.
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.
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I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry 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.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
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Registrations are now open for October! Come along and learn how to track boats and see the seas with @globalfishingwatch.org 🌊
Journocoders: Tracking boats and seeing the seas with Global Fishing Watch · Luma
This 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…
luma.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Registrations are now open for October! Come along and learn how to track boats and see the seas with @globalfishingwatch.org 🌊
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More 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
September 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More 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
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Brilliant reporting from the BBC--with some assistance from the subject of the article.
September 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Brilliant reporting from the BBC--with some assistance from the subject of the article.
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Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
September 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
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Registrations are now open for September. Come along and learn how to tell stories with maps using @mapbox.com! 🗺️ luma.com/blz20uhu
Journocoders: Telling stories with maps using Mapbox · Luma
This 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.…
luma.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Registrations are now open for September. Come along and learn how to tell stories with maps using @mapbox.com! 🗺️ luma.com/blz20uhu
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Wired 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...
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...
Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.
pressgazette.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Wired 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...
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...
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Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.
August 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.
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i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
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Registrations are now open for August. Come along and learn about the art of data journalism! 🎨 We're covering all the basic skills you need to find and tell stories with data lu.ma/nr7euafr
Journocoders: The art of data journalism · Luma
This month we'll be learning 'the art of data journalism', an introduction covering all the basic skills you need to find and tell stories with data.
We'll be…
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August 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Registrations are now open for August. Come along and learn about the art of data journalism! 🎨 We're covering all the basic skills you need to find and tell stories with data lu.ma/nr7euafr
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How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.
Fuzzy matching, but for concepts – Rui Barros
There's a special kind of despair that comes with staring at two datasets that should obviously connect, but refuse to play nice. You know they belong together but no fuzzy matching technique can help...
ruibarros.me
July 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.
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An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
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FT readers having fun in the comments
July 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
FT readers having fun in the comments
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One of the funniest news diagrams I've ever seen.
July 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
One of the funniest news diagrams I've ever seen.
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Six years ago @zachweinersmith.bsky.social made a joke about a 24/7 AI podcast endlessly talking about polling numbers. I’ve made it a reality.
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I Built The Torment Nexus (Political Podcast Edition)
Six years ago cartoonist Zach Weinersmith made a joke about a 24/7 AI podcast endlessly talking about polling numbers. I've made it a reality.
open.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Six years ago @zachweinersmith.bsky.social made a joke about a 24/7 AI podcast endlessly talking about polling numbers. I’ve made it a reality.
open.substack.com/pub/techtris...
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