Monbiot in the Guardian: England's children's care market is now so lucrative it's attracting operators with no care experience — some linked to organised crime. Children traded for £110k+, placed far from school and friends because housing is cheaper.

Wales has removed private profit from children's care. England could too.

I've written to my MP. Please write to yours: https://www.writetothem.com

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/child-care-councils-private-equity-companies

#ChildrensSocialCare #ChildrensRights #UKPolitics

🎙️ Spent ~35 hours reverse-engineering the Apogee ONEv2 USB audio interface on Linux:
• 2 kernel patches to sound/usb/
• Vendor init sequence found via Wireshark on macOS
• Hardware watchdog keepalive daemon
• ALSA sees Playback and Capture PCMs
• Playback PCM opens — stable streaming not yet cracked

Anyone want to pick this up?
https://github.com/stevebrodie/apogee-one2-linux
#Linux #LinuxAudio #ALSA #Apogee #KernelHacking #ReverseEngineering #OpenSource​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

I feel I'm preaching to the converted here, but it's a good video. 😂
#enshitification

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/17/tony-powell-gay-footballer-norwich-documentary-last-guest-at-the-holloway-motel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I remember watching Tony play alongside, Forbes, Stringer et al.
What a remarkable story of heartbreak, and a kind of redemption in being reunited with his family.
#otbc #canaries #NorwichCityFC

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Obviously glad they’re highlighting this but @ele, and I’m sure others from the open source community, have been raising awareness of this about this for sometime, so to claim ‘a Guardian investigation has revealed’ seems a bit disingenuous to me. 😐

https://peterhyman21.substack.com/p/its-time-to-end-the-moral-panic-and?publication_id=6005897&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=38ef3b&utm_medium=email

For anyone, like myself (middle aged +), with minimal contact with teenagers, this was a welcome insight into the experiences of young people today, which reassuringly bucks the usual media narrative.

#teenagers #socialmedia #influencers #youngpeople