Sam Neill has died(theguardian.com)

406 points by j4mie 3 months ago | 92 comments

Guardian obituary news article reporting that New Zealand actor Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, has died aged 78.

Alain Delon has died(theguardian.com)

75 points by xnhbx 2 years ago | 19 comments

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father(theguardian.com)

58 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 12 comments

‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein(theguardian.com)

81 points by webmaven 3 years ago | 94 comments

Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed(theguardian.com)

109 points by bryanrasmussen 2 years ago | 33 comments

Gloria Steinem has died(theguardian.com)

132 points by mellosouls 1 month ago | 56 comments

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)

395 points by 7777777phil 5 months ago | 210 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin essay on how Disney mismanaged and ultimately erased FiveThirtyEight's archive over ten years.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.

NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees(theguardian.com)

33 points by hebelehubele 13 days ago | 1 comments

Guardian news article reporting that Netanyahu ordered a criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in the Guardian-produced documentary NAZA.

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices(theguardian.com)

583 points by randycupertino 3 months ago | 295 comments

Guardian article reporting New York City will become the first US city to ban deceptive subscription practices and junk fees under a rule from the Mamdani administration.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.