What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos
Sometimes, it almost feels like humanity deserves to burn.
I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some analysis. I’ve just been going through the analytics for the digital futures site I write for, and the posts that caught people’s imagination are fascinating.
Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.
Quite a day, down on the beach…
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My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of making online journalism pay?
Guess how this ended…
The house in the woods.
Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼♂️
I’m pleased with this for 49p.
I feel seen:
Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again
What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?
Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, claims laid off staffer.
Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in the goodness of the universe: British Nazi set self on fire trying to burn down synagogue
OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person
Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of - and often the first feedback you get is someone unsubscribing. Nothing wrong with them doing that, of course, but it’s almost perfect for shaking your confidence…
Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if it was going to work in an email. But I think actually capturing and curating investing stuff from social media is worthwhile:
Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
There’s a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I can’t decide if this slug is ambitious or has had a lucky escape from a bird…
Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃
This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to mainstream political journalism
Why aren't we taking Australia's bushfire apocalypse more seriously?
But the response to what’s transpired in Australia — again, over a period that has stretched into months — is unfamiliar, to me at least, and not in a good way. Those California fires transfixed the world’s attention, but while the ones still burning uncontrolled in Australia have gotten some media attention outside the country, in general they have been treated as a scary, but not apocalyptic, local news story.
It’s a harrowing glimpse into the future that awaits many of us if the climate crisis continues in its current direction. And we’re just not paying attention to it.
If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, this set of information and links will open your eyes.
And possibly your bowels.
Oooooh, Matron…
Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.