Daily insights page 8 of 11
- You can't install credibility
Looking serious and being serious are not the same thing.
- Friday links for May 22nd 2026
Avoiding dystopia, Google and more Google, and a robot comic.
- Google Just Killed Google
A brief service of remembrance for the blue link. 1998–2026.
- Arguing with the Internet
Your colleague has been replaced by a confident statistical echo.
- The game was always rigged
Turns out the referee was American.
- Fancy a treasure hunt?
You are in a maze of twisting databases. Your customer's data is everywhere. No exits are visible.
- Friday links for May 15th 2026
Copilot stereotypes, age checks are useless, your browser leaks, and Google hoards data.
- Nothing to worry about – says new American owner
You read the privacy policy, but you forgot to read the acquisition clause.
- The internet's landlord is cutting staff
20% of the web runs on Cloudflare and Cloudflare now runs on 20% fewer people.
- A very expensive way to annoy strangers
Somewhere, a data broker is buying a holiday home with the difference between what you paid and what the publisher received.
- Data brokers think you're a woman, or a man, they're not sure
They'll charge you full price for the information in any case.
- Friday links for May 8th 2026
Chrome fills your drive, creeps with smart glasses, shiny AI chatbots, and old-school shop signs.
- Marie Kondo your data
If it doesn't spark joy, it sparks fines.
- The nonsense maze as the only way out
Defence against scrapers can be amusingly petty.
- Escape the shadow
The EU AI Act says you'll need a list. Might as well start now.