David Blood

Inside Tiktok's real-life frenzies - from riots to false murder accusations Former staff and users tell the BBC the app's algorithm has encouraged harmful real-life behaviour.

Called it. A feature not a bug etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet by Jeff Jarvis

Current non-fiction

They’ll have had actual crisis meetings about this. Twitter going to the wall will have scared the life out of them

The Walkmen at KOKO, London, tonight

Camden needs a wash

@nextjs.org is just really nice to use. Takes care of so much blah in exactly the ways I’d choose

Np, always happy to shill for Logseq! 😆

It takes a while, I’m finding new ways to use it all the time because it’s so flexible. If you’re just getting started, I recommend installing the Bonofix theme for a nice Notion-like UI, and getting familiar with the query syntax so you can start building your own auto-updating pages and stuff

Been using Logseq for nearly a year now and love it. I don’t remember all the ins and outs of how it differs from Obsidian, but the fact that it’s open-source was what swung it for me in the end. I’ve yet to encounter any serious limitations and am discovering cool new functionality all the time

Recommendations please: books about cults and the cult mentality. Particularly interested in how they arise and the psychology of people who fall prey to them

Current fiction. 90s-set grunge-inflected cosmic horror 🙌

Britain’s shadowy border A new army of drones, watchtowers and AI scours the UK coastline for small boats. But it didn’t stop migrants from dying

NEW: A hidden network of cutting-edge surveillance technology scours the UK coastline for small boats, so why are migrants still dying in the English Channel? Gripping investigation by Katie Polglase and Livvy Doherty (feat. my interactive graphics debut for CNN) http://cnn.com/britainsshadowyborder

Assume I haven’t seen any of them, because I haven’t

What are the absolute best Scandi noir shows/books not written by Stieg Larsson? The Chestnut Man on Netflix has whet my appetite

Wow, okay, so there should be stuff going on, that’s awesome. That changes the calculation a bit for me. Thanks for the info! 👍

I’m still weighing it up! But thanks for this helpful perspective. I haven’t been able to find much info on events aside from the screenings though, are there any?

Anyone buying FrightFest tickets today? Never been, is the full festival pass worth it? Saturday and Monday looking like the pick of the lineups for me

I’ll be taking this even less seriously than I took Twitter