elias isquith

eliasisquith.blog

16 October 2026 07:00

here's a great example: JACOBIN i'm old enough to remember when it started. the *idea* (at least) was to do good, smart, serious analysis from a decidedly socialist POV because mainstream media ignores that and too much leftwing media was basically slop for de-growth boomers. how'd that go?

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

16 October 2026 05:45

If you live in London, you benefit from the labour of a thousand years and a hundred generations that have lived here before. All they ask in return is that you spend five minutes of your day cleaning their bone juice off your shower screen, and that they intermittently wreck your plumbing.

Renee DiResta

noupside.bsky.social

16 October 2026 05:44

Cloudflare has now published a detailed analysis of the Yandex outage. They looked at search crawlers, malicious automation, AND social media traffic. Their finding… blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/

James Ball

jamesrball.com

16 October 2026 05:40

"All of which raises the question: if someone running an operation so basic that — while working for an AI company — they were asking their chatbot for assistance managed to operate for weeks without detection, what does that say about more competent operators?"