1. Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the EU's Digital Services Act

(tags:Europe USA socialnetworking regulation )

2. How far away is quantum computing from affecting current cryptography?

(tags:cryptography quantum )

3. Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?

(tags:quantum mathematics )

4. What do AI fashion models mean for the future of beauty standards

(tags:ai fashion beauty )

5. Why Labour Looking Into Changing The ECHR Matters

(tags:Labour rights OhForFucksSake )

6. Who will win the Eternal Struggle?

(tags:war funny )

7. The Qweremin (a qwerty theremin)

(tags:music technology )

The kids take it in turn doing a variety of things, so that we don't have arguments every single night over who gets to choose teethbrushing things, who gets to be first to get put into pyjamas, who gets to check inside the parcel box when we get home, who gets to choose who gets out of the bath first, etc. This month, Sophia has odd numbered days and Gideon has even numbered days. Except that they swapped yesterday and today so that Gideon could have his birthday.

Except...that a few months ago we used the app Chwazi, where everyone puts their finger on the screen and then it picks someone (to be first player in a game, for instance). And Gideon loved it. So last weekend when I asked who should get out of the bath first he said "We'll play the finger game." - and I asked him if he'd be sad if he didn't win, and he said no, and then he and Sophia played it, and he lost, and I had to wash the hair of a sobbing child, who kept saying "I thought I would win!"

So this weekend, I asked him who was getting out of the bath first, and he said "Finger game!" and I said "Do you remember how sad you were?" and he said "Very sad!" and I said "So you should just choose." and he said "I have a plan, this time the person who loses will go first." And, of course, he won. And so, again, I had to wash the hair of a crying child who thought he'd found a way to beat probability.

All of which is to say that if you want to beat people at games of chance then I recommend 5-year-olds, who are both terrible at understanding it, and completely fail to learn from that.

1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song

(tags:music satire )

2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)

(tags:history UK TV review )

3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it

(tags:israel palestine satire politics murder children gaza )

1. Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him.

(tags:corruption oil globalwarming windpower propaganda usa )

2. Kpop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's most viewed film ever

(tags:movies korea music demon netflix )

3. Fraudsters are training AIs on a musician and then releasing songs in their name

(tags:ai fraud music )

4. Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

(tags:science socialmedia )

5. Liberty chief blasts Labour over ECHR tinkering

(tags:rights Europe UK labour OhForFucksSake migration )

6. Dreamwidth is forced to block Mississipi

(tags:dreamwidth mississippi OhForFucksSake )

7. Donald Trump state visit: Ed Davey to boycott banquet over Gaza

(tags:USA Israel UK libdem Palestine gaza )

1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line

(tags:edinburgh trams consultation )

2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition

(tags:history comic morality )

3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour

(tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )

4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework

(tags:ai students )

5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives

(tags:women politics voting reform )

Spent the afternoon being serenaded by a cinema full of kids at the K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-a-long.

As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.

1. Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was

(tags:viaNancyLebov racism history uk )

2. The public reject the use of ChatGPT by politicians (60% - 25%)

(tags:ai politics polls )

3. M&S insists bra fitting services are trans inclusive

(tags:shopping women transgender UK LGBT )

4. How much of your history do you have to share with someone before sexual intimacy isn't considered a crime?

(tags:assault transgender sex UK law )

5. Canada is getting new Covid vaccines. Place your bets on whether they reach the UK...

(tags:canada pandemic vaccination )

I've just discovered that Android has an option that lets you snooze notifications. You have no idea how happy this makes me.

So far today, I was woken up at 4am because the children had been playing with an old alarm clock yesterday (I got back over though).

And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.

Happy birthday to me!

Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.

1. Study: Giving cash to mothers in Kenya cut infant deaths in half

(tags:kenya money death babies )

2. Regina Valkenborgh's 8-Year-Long Photo Captures the Sun's Movement Through the Sky

(tags:viaSwampers sun photography )

3. Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your designs for AI

(tags:clothes ai )

4. Map Of European Cultural Superiority

(tags:maps Europe society )

5. Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

(tags:Pandemic immune_system doom )