Max Harlow

Journocoders: Exploratory data graphics with Altair · Luma This 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…

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Simon 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

Is this what they call soft power?

I 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

Journocoders: Making maps and analysing geographical data with Python · Luma This 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…

Registrations are now open for Feburary! Come along and learn how to make maps and analyse geographical data with Python 🗺️ luma.com/kospxtu7

Journocoders: Scraping the web with Beautiful Soup and Playwright · Luma This 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…

Registrations are now open for January! Come along and learn how to scrape the web with Beautiful Soup and Playwright! 🥣 luma.com/50ge2x1e

Registrations are now open for December! Come along and learn how to automatically categorise things with AI 🎁

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

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

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...

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

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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

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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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…

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

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.

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.

Not-Ship A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty

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.

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.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

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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July September

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

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

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.…

Registrations are now open for September. Come along and learn how to tell stories with maps using @mapbox.com! 🗺️ luma.com/blz20uhu

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.

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...

Slightly surprised to discover I've been referred to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes.

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.

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...

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…

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

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...

How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.

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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