Long reads

The man who saved the Internet;

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-thousand-feet-under-the-sea

Russia’s interference in 2016 may wind up remembered as the experimental prelude “that foreshadowed the attack of 2020.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/putin-american-democracy/610570/

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

For those like me who used Play.com way back when
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/business-and-finance/2020/09/record-shop-taxman-and-missing-billions

In 2005, Helios flight 522 crashed into a Greek hillside. Was it because one man forgot to flip a switch? (spoiler, no)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/19/in-2005-helios-flight-522-crashed-into-a-greek-hillside-was-it-because-one-man-forgot-to-flip-a-switch

Odd chat between Michaela Coel and Donald Glover.

https://www.gq.com/story/michaela-coel-donald-glover-in-conversation?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/11/how-2020-transformed-big-tech-the-story-of-facebook-qanon-and-the-worlds-slackening-grip-on-reality?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Amazing!

Good article, I’ve seen it happen for real

This, on Johnson, is quite superb:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/18/all-hail-the-clown-king-how-boris-johnson-made-it-by-playing-the-fool

Niamh McIntyre on LTNs:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/25/traffic-wars-who-will-win-the-battle-for-city-streets

I found this very interesting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army

I think Donald McRae is one of the best sports interviewers out there, and this interview with Rob and Lindsey Burrow is well worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/07/rob-and-lindsey-burrow

Motor Neurone Disease is an absolute bastard, but their attitude to it is heart warming. One of my best friends from school died from it last year, and wrote a book about it before he died that I still can't bring myself to read because I know it'll upset me enormously.

https://longreads.com/2018/05/31/somewhere-under-my-left-ribs-a-nurses-story/

A lesson in Abermankönntedocheinfach

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-of-the-driverless-tube-train/

Good article that; thanks.

Abermankönntedocheinfach

Is this now officially a loan word in English?

I’d be borrowing it if I could pronounce it!

PM me your phone number and I'll teach you. :)

We talk about little else in Ruislip.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/03/it-looked-like-an-alien-with-tentacles-wrapped-around-her-jellyfish-here-to-ruin-your-summer-holiday

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Just had this pop up as a recommended article and came to post it here after reading it this morning. Really interesting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics?srnd=premium-europe

How have I not seen this thread? Subbed. Double subbed.

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keep