Matt Muir

What are weekends for? NO THEY ARE NOT! Instead, they are for stuffing whatever space remains in your already-bulging head with MORE INTERNET. All of the best links, and at least one of the worst ones, in this week's packed-to-bursting Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-01...

Friday! Lunchtime! A quantity of links that might reasonably considered 'too much' by most right-thinking people! Probably not you, though, you internet-poisoned content goblins, so get truffling. Web Curios! Share, enjoy and then regret! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-01...

Fixed! Thanks for the spot x

Friday! Lunchtime! A quantity of links that might reasonably considered 'too much' by most right-thinking people! Probably not you, though, you internet-poisoned content goblins, so get truffling. Web Curios! Share, enjoy and then regret! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-01...

a sign of just how far the UK press has sunk that the Telegraph and the Spectator are *still* publishing Nina Power a year after comments like this were exposed

Feels like Tom Lehrer could have put that to music

In case you're yet to hear it by the way, there is unlikely to be a filthier piece of music created in 2025

Genuinely devastated that this one passed me by

Really looking forward to the first Lora trained specifically to manufacture this 'authentic' vibe

Interesting point about this is the vocal flub ~1m in, which I am pretty sure was left in as a marker of 'authenticity' and proof that Mark is a real boy

Currently writing copy to file tomorrow for a magazine that hits shelves next Wednedsay and fucking hell can the news agenda STAY STILL for five fucking minutes please dear God

Addendum to this - a snapshot of the current Substack 'rising' list in the 'History' category. Does feel quite a lot like a Nazi platform!

Addendum to this - a snapshot of the current Substack 'rising' list in the 'History' category. Does feel quite a lot like a Nazi platform!

having read that whole article, no, it's just what fucking terrible prose by someone who can't write for shit sounds like x

Related to this is this very good post by @rusty.todayintabs.com www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

This is a very nicely-executed idea, if, fundamentally, a slightly terrifying one

"Doxxed by my smart dildo" is a near-perfect 2025 story

Thanks man, very much appreciate you taking the time to respond

Hi Josh - sorry to bother you, but just seen this; is the latest version of this data the stuff published in May 2024, to the best of your knowledge? The website is very unclear as to when the data was gathered/published (and sorry to ask, appreciate this isn't your job) x

Oh yes, don't get me wrong, the OSA is entirely dumb and wrong in this regard, and easily-bypassed - but also, the age verification services being used are not terrifying panopticon-feeders, at least not in this case

I am increasingly of the opinion that while this place is useful for news, 85% of the opinions expressed here are fucking dogshit

it's literally fine. the pearl-clutching on this site by people who don't know the first fucking thing about technology or its implementation is fucking insane

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

You all need to stop sharing this garbage. This incredibly flimsy piece is based on nonsense from Guido Fawkes bigging up bloviating from a backbencher. One idiot backbencher does not a policy make.

Guess ad strategy explainer

missed this, but thankyou!x

Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’ Copilot Appearance is live now

Very much enjoying the news that Microsoft has actually reinvented Clippy for the AI age, but this time around Clippy might age as you use it, adding a lovely note of decay, senescence and tragic mortality to a tool designed to help you write emails www.theverge.com/news/713715/...

thankyou! Also, WHY MUST THE TYRANNY OF THE MAC ENDURE???x

This is excellent btw and very much worth five minutes of your time

A slightly-grey Saturday means you have no excuse* not to read Web Curios, containing 179% of your recommended weekly allowance of internet: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25...

*I mean, you might have *some* excuse, fine, but it had better be a good one