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Former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith on the end of an era of the internet and what comes next plus his new book, Traffic.

On Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment

One man has used his unique side hustle, to help make an extra £500 each month to keep up with rising bills.

Some of the biggest names in tech, including Elon Musk, are calling for a pause on training systems more powerful than OpenAIs newly launched model GPT-4.

I admire the bravery and support the cause of the Iranian players competing in the FIFA World Cup competition in Doha, Qatar. The AP reports: Iran’s players didn’t sing their national anthem and didn’t celebrate their goals. Their silence speaks. The players are putting themselves on the line for a cause that is a matter of life, death, and basic human rights back home. Its not exactly akin to taking

Global warming was decried as the cause of the apocalypse until relatively recently. Now it is climate change, apparently because the data refused to comply. The UNs latest climate change jamboree was convened in Sharm el-Sheikh last week and produced what I thought was a widely heralded agreement to transfer funds from productive countries to unproductive countries. This is of course to ward off the apocalypse. Where is the Jonathan

It doesnt seem to have won over the internet, though.

Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.”

Rees-Mogg had signed off on a £15m public information campaign to inform how to save energy as we head into winter. But Truss blocked the scheme, because we are not a nanny state government.

An opinion piece by Tom Chivers in the paper and online included the statement: “If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it