David Meyer

I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone

There are few things going on rn more obviously and explicitly degenerate than the online gambling industry

Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”

Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.

This is the story of basically everything that's being discussed in Europe ever. If we really wanted to we could, but we don't. So we keep talking until our hand gets forced by an even greater crisis or we just go back to debating vegetarian schnitzels. Repeat

All of this crappy and inaccurate AI just makes me think of Holly from Red Dwarf more everyday.

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Image of a January 31, 2025 tweet from Edward Snowden that reads "It's quite simple, Senator: if you're more upset at the whistleblower than you are at the lawbreaking they revealed, you're not in a position to be questioning anybody's judgment."

It's been 10 months since anyone heard from Edward Snowden.

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty : OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access

A Canadian court has ordered OVHcloud to hand over customer data from Europe. See theregister.com/2025/11/27/c...

Have you been able to find the decision, Mr. @privacylawyer.ca?

That's one I haven't heard in too long

YouTube video by The Toni Childs Toni Childs Stop Your Fussin'

A stone cold classic.

Regardless of what the facts may be, the CIA really shouldn’t be issuing finger-pointing partisan statements like this.

‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here

Bloody hell, this is insane www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

📞 💣 💥 Was hier veröffentlicht wird, hat Sprengpotential: Bloomberg hat offenbar Audiomitschnitte von Telefonaten von #Putin‘s Berater Ushakov zugespielt bekommen. Daraus wird klar: Der Friedensplan ist made in Moscow.

An Ushakovs Stelle würde ich jetzt mein Handy wechseln. | #Trump #Ukraine #Russia

What can we learn from RFK's 'erotic poetry'? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal | Marina Hyde The US health secretary’s ‘digital affair’ with Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only option, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde on particularly fine form today.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real Poisoning AI with disinformation

Did a video about poisoning AI with disinformation youtu.be/VnDUkngx6CU

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.

The Fed and Big Tech Lift Investors’ Spirits

I'm in today's NYT DealBook, writing about the US's latest anti-tech-rules threat against Europe www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

🗳️Again, a 2/3 majority backed the report condemning the Orbán government’s rule-of-law violations in the EP: 415 in favour, 193 against, 28 abstentions. As the abstentions aren’t counted in the tally, the 2/3 majority stands, just as it did 7 years ago with the @judithsargentini.bsky.social report

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real Poisoning AI with disinformation

Did a video about poisoning AI with disinformation youtu.be/VnDUkngx6CU

This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The European digital rule-book is not up for negotiation.
We, Europeans, have adopted our rules to ensure fair markets and to protect consumers rights while backing Europe’s digital future.
It’s our duty to preserve our values and to defend our people. 🇪🇺

COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION PRESS RELEASE No 147/25 Luxembourg, 25 November 2025 Judgment of the Court in Case C-713/23 | Wojewoda Mazowiecki Citizenship of the Union: a Member State has the obligation to recognise a marriage between two Union citizens of the same sex that has been lawfully concluded in another Member State where they have exercised their freedom to move and reside Two Polish citizens who were married in Germany are requesting that their marriage certificate be transcribed in the Polish civil register so that their marriage would be recognised in Poland. The competent authorities refused their request on the ground that Polish law does not allow marriage between persons of the same sex. The Court of Justice, in answer to a question referred to it by a national court, finds that refusing to recognise a marriage between two Union citizens, lawfully concluded in another Member State where they have exercised their freedom to move and reside, is contrary to EU law because it infringes that freedom and the right to respect for private and family life. Member States are therefore required to recognise, for the purpose of the exercise of the rights conferred by EU law, the marital status lawfully acquired in another Member State. The Court emphasises, however, that that obligation does not require marriage between persons of the same sex to be introduced under domestic law. In addition, Member States have a margin of discretion to choose the procedures for recognising such a marriage. Nevertheless, when a Member State chooses to provide for a single procedure for recognising marriages concluded in another Member State, such as the transcription of the marriage certificate in the civil register, it is required to apply that procedure equally to marriages concluded between persons of the same sex.

A huge ECJ win for many same-sex couples in Europe