The Other Paul

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

Cory again ... with this detailed explanation of why Amazon is a pile of poop with a business model that shafts its customers and suppliers (as well as governments by not paying its fair share of tax).

I'm proud to have boycotted Bezos’s creation for many years.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Cory tells it like it is.

Perhaps pleasing to some, but very bland and derivative.

Crackerjack!

CNBC Jeff Bezos says Al is in an industrial bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits from the tech 19 hours ago MarketWatch Al bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says 19 hours ago https://www.derekthompson.org/ This Is How the Al Bubble Will Pop 1 day ago Ars Technica Ars Live: Is the Al bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron. 12 hours ago ١---٦

Tech Brew What history tells us about an Al bubble 1 day ago Yahoo Finance Is the Al bubble about to burst? Think again, say these analysts 2 days ago PC Gamer Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the Al bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush,... 8 hours ago B Bloomberg.com GIC Sees 'Hype Bubble' in Al Ventures, Risk of Bond Selloffs 22 hours ago Reuters Al startup valuations raise bubble fears as funding surges 22 hours ago Financial Times The Al capex endgame is approaching 1 day ago

Remember when this was a fringe idea? When it was considered contrarian to say AI was a bubble? Yet people aren’t quite there. The markets have yet to fully accept it. But how long can they ignore this? It’s not going away. We’ve got Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg, Nadella said there’d be overbuild.

Sickening

ICE Agents Rappel From Blackhawks and Detain an Entire Apartment Building; It's America 2025 The Chicago Raid at 7500 South Shore Drive on September 30, 2025

Horribly reminiscent of events in the 1930s

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

Submerged beneath a sea of screens, it seems humans are doomed

"Just as the advent of print dealt the final death blow to the decaying world of feudalism, so the screen is destroying the world of liberal democracy."

He's a very naughty boy!

Yeah, but there's facts and then there's alternative facts.

And sadly it will make no difference to most of the people who vote for Reform.

A very long time ago I worked with a guy in Swansea who later went on to become a big noise in UKIP in Wales: it was reassuring to remember that years before I'd worked out he was a total plonker.

Paris is the only place I've ever had waiters be genuinely rude to me but not for in recent years. The French service culture still leaves a lot to be desired but is better than it used to be.

I've lived in Lyon for over 20 years and still mangle the language lots but mostly my friends, neighbours and even strangers tolerate it, they correct me but seldom laugh.

Absolutely not what the Labour Party needs right now.

Actually even better - not just brass bands but military bands.

Beautiful. I've walked some of those corridors and LOVE the fact that they had a special studio just for brass bands!

They charged for the rental of the gas meter!

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

And that's just the bits you can see, remember there's a whole lot more crow in other dimensions!

I can think of one ignorant clown who would probably hate these as much as he hates conventional wind turbines.

Amazing, but not sure how practical they'd be to eat, wouldn't those hundreds and thousands fire off in all direction on the first bite?

I miss lamingtons, discovered and used to scarf them down big time when in WA for the America's Cup. For some reason no one seems to sell them here in France.

Inside the Tony Blair Institute A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

More than worrying

"Maybe someone should ask [Farage] who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport."

Could they be very small madeleines, or even some kind of tortellini?

A lovely man, I used to occasionally read the news during his afternoon programme on LBC back in the '80s. He would sometimes take a "power nap" during the headlines and it was the newsreader's job to nudge him awake during the ad break after the weather so he could continue the show.

‘Kafkaesque’: teacher in Birmingham fights to clear his name after identity fraud Michael Bene is repaying £763 ‘advance’ despite evidence he did not attend face-to-face verification interview

DWP says: “We have robust processes to detect fraudulent claims using a hijacked identity and support for anyone who thinks that they may have been a victim of identity fraud."

Except this story shows that they don't and they don't.

DEEPER LOOK with Michael Sellers | Michael D. Sellers | Substack Former CIA officer, Russia specialist currently an investigator, taking a deeper look at things that matter. Click to read DEEPER LOOK with Michael Sellers, by Michael D. Sellers, a Substack publicati...

So Border Czar Tom Homan took $50,000 in a sting by undercover FBI agents, promising them access and contract approvals in a future Trump administration - and he can't be charged with any crime!

Full story at this site which is well worth checking out for more Trump admin sleaze revelations.

Your access to information online is changing forever There are so many angles and nuances and decisions about what facts to communicate, which voices to include. And this is the benefit of media plurality. In the zero-click world, we risk losing it defi...

"In the zero-click world, we risk losing media plurality definitively" writes my former colleague Duncan Hooper, who is very well placed to offer insightful analysis.

Something else to blame on Google

This happens to me a lot

Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11 In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

"...it used to be there was "show" and "business." They were equal - the size of the word "show" and "business." Now, you can barely see the word "show," and it's all "business." And the only things that they look at [are] how many followers, how many likes, what the algorithms are."