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10 startups that excited you most over the past year Our rolling 12-month startup pulse check is back.

10 startups that excited you most over the past year: The PreSeed Now rolling 12-month startup pulse check is back...

Also at the moment, AI browser agents look like self-training RPA, rather than the future of the web.

Downloaded the ChatGPT Atlas browser out of curiousity and all the things that give it power, like remembering things from websites you visit, are things I just wouldn't trust being stored on OpenAI's servers.

Sure, Google and Apple probably have some of this data already, but it FEELS different.

they're calling him the most audited man in human history

I’ll be on the BBC Breakfast sofa in about 10 minutes to talk about the Amazon outage.

Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet Like we always say, read the terms and conditions, folks.

NOPE.

"The opt-in feature will also give Meta a chance to improve its AI using your camera roll."

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

I hope it drives more people to discover Live Through This, which is unquestionably one of the greatest albums of the 90s.

The Greens Now Have More Members Than The Tories As Support Surges Another 1,000 signed up this morning alone.

The Greens now have more members than the Tories, and say they signed up more than 1,000 this morning when Zack Polanski was on TV.

Now they've overtaken the Tories, they're targeting Labour.

Interesting times

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-gr...

Enjoying Riot Women and the role Hole’s Violet plays in it.

Go on, take everything.

This is good

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Calgie @christiancalgie · 30m I wish to apologise to Zarah Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X. It was wrong of me to do so and I am sorry. Taking a break from X to prioritise my mental health.

A lot that could be said about this but if you look on Twitter it’s noticeable that the replies and quote tweets are *overwhelmingly* telling him he shouldn’t have apologised and even attacking him for doing so. That’s the feedback loop certain users are plugged into now, and it has consequences.

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.

Although I suppose if you want to claim Alaska back, having a tunnel is quite helpful.

Like, it’s a rail tunnel but it would have to stop in Alaska and would probably require infeasible amounts of rail infrastructure to get from Moscow to… Juneau?

lol, who would even travel through this tunnel? There’s miles of cold, barren land at either end.

They’re still so good. Live shows next year!

Happy new:
Soulwax
Sudan Archives
AND Lovely Eggs

albums day to all who celebrate.

was looking for an old post of mine about gambling so i googled it and the AI summary spun up a bunch of incorrect information about me reporting on sports betting and such (i've never written about it). concerning!

Mercury Prize night tonight, but ‘A Sober Conversation’ by BC Camplight and ‘Vol. II: Splendour & Obedience’ by Decius are sadly missing, even though they should have been on the shortlist, says this amateur music critic.

How startup UAP wants to pull value out of thin air Can UAP (Universal Atmosphere Processing) supply valuable gases while making carbon capture more viable? We met founder Brendan Cornthwaite to find out more.

Pulling value out of thin air:

Can UAP supply valuable gases while making carbon capture more viable?

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

This is depressing. I'm editing a document to remove — em dashes (which I originally typed!) because naive folk will mistakenly think they are always a 'tell' for AI written content. They can indicate AI writing, but not always as AI uses them because people did originally.

I’m no prude but why go down this route

How trans visibility became a trap People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

How trans visibility became a trap. Grim stuff.

"She’s pointing to a cruel irony: the content that could help trans people is often the most vulnerable to disappearing, while the content that could hurt us gets preserved forever by those who wish us harm."

Can ATechX build stronger foundations for proptech startups? Meet Angie Mahtaney of Aroundtown's accelerator

Can this accelerator build stronger foundations for proptech startups?

I spoke to Angie Mahtaney of Aroundtown's ATechX accelerator to find out...