"Η εξωτερική ανάθεση της μνήμης, πέραν της αλλαγής του τρόπου που θυμόμαστε, φαίνεται ότι αλλάζει σταδιακά και τον τρόπο που σκεφτόμαστε." "Η ανθρώπινη μνήμη αμφιβάλλει συνεχώς για τον εαυτό της. Τα AI systems όχι... " wired.com.gr/article/se-p...

"You start to question things that turn out to be true. It doesn’t help that reality itself has become so much stranger and more grotesque." www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

A superloser is a leader of a great power, or (onetime) superpower, whose disastrous choices lead to a crash. He possesses a combination of skills that allow for a rise to personal power and the collapse of state power. I spell out the phenomenon in this video: snyder.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

Female CPR manikin to help 'save more women' www.bbc.com/news/article...

[Λίγα πράγματα είναι τόσο προσωπικά όσο η φωνή. «Φέρει ιστορία, σώμα, μνήμη, πράγματα που κανένας αλγόριθμος δεν έχει ακόμα μάθει να πλαστογραφεί πειστικά», λέει στο WIRED Greece η Έλενα Παπαβασιλείου] wired.com.gr/article/akou...

"Υπάρχουν πάντα εκείνοι οι γονείς που κοιτάζουν κατά πρόσωπο την πραγματικότητα και δρουν άμεσα. Υπάρχουν κι εκείνοι που ξεπερνούν τις αντιστάσεις τους και κινητοποιούνται...Στις υπόλοιπες περιπτώσεις, όλα δείχνουν ότι οι έφηβοι παλεύουν ολομόναχοι." insidestory.gr/article/oris...

"Η Θεσσαλία εμφανίζει τα υψηλότερα ποσοστά νέων διαγνώσεων Πάρκινσον στην Ελλάδα, σε μια περιοχή όπου επί δεκαετίες επιβαρύνεται συστηματικά από τη χρήση φυτοφαρμάκων. " wearesolomon.com/mag/thematik...

“What we want in the publishing industry is for YouTube to be a partner and not passively let illegal content proliferate,” said Maria A. Pallante, president and chief executive of the Association of American Publishers. “This isn’t the dark web." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko receives 2026 Georgiy Gongadze Prize kyivindependent.com/kyiv-indepen...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Sam Hurt.

"In almost 40 years, Mako Nishimura never lost a fight. She told me this as if it were as obvious as night following day. Nishimura is 5ft-nothing and slight of build. She is also probably the only woman ever to have been a full-fledged yakuza." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Ένας χώρος που προοριζόταν για τη Δημόσια Βιβλιοθήκη Αίγινας βγήκε σε δημοπρασία για να γίνει Μουσείο Φιστικιού. Με ένα παρασκήνιο που γεννά ερωτήματα και καταγγελίες για αδιαφάνεια και προειλημμένες αποφάσεις, η υπόθεση διχάζει το νησί. insidestory.gr/article/apo-...

“The fact that Nauru’s original name was shaped by outsiders’ inability or unwillingness to pronounce ‘Naoero’ properly reflects a clear power imbalance that the country is now interested in rectifying” Derek H. Alderman www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

How estate agent firms are cashing in on housing homeless families in London www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

The research is the first national analysis to quantify how abortion restrictions affect people losing their pregnancies. 19thnews.org/2026/05/abor... via @19thnews.org

"the timing of Trump’s purchases coincides with several favorable government decisions benefiting the drugmaker’s GLP-1 business, including progress toward a long-held goal" kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Anderson Cooper's emotional farewell to 60 Minutes after 20 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0h...

"AI-generated videos depict roughly 70%+ of high-paying roles, such as CEOs, software engineers, and financial analysts, as male. Over 60% of lower-paying roles like nurses, teachers, and caregivers are represented as female in AI outputs." www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/male-doct...

«Η πρόσβαση στην κατάρτιση είναι βασικό δικαίωμα...Δε βλέπω, όμως, πώς θα μπορούσε να φανεί ωφέλιμο ένα πρόγραμμα που αγνόησε τις ανάγκες τους και το πλαίσιο στο οποίο θα εφαρμοζόταν» Αντιγόνη Ευστρατόγλου insidestory.gr/article/fias...

Democracy, Kleptocracy and more....with Steven Bartlett youtu.be/kwEtOyaFhCA?...

Water tank delivery in South Africa has stopped pipes getting fixed and opened the door to corruption – research theconversation.com/water-tank-d...

Our most-read story this week: Pennsylvania is hiring 18-year-olds as prison guards. The women living there are sounding the alarm.

Jailed journalist Frenchie Cumpio wins Annenberg Justice for Women award www.rappler.com/philippines/...

“As Taraneh said, this is what a revolution is—it simply finds its way to your door.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/dia...

"The Internet Archive isn’t just a way to access old web pages, important as that may be. It’s also a repository for information and culture that anyone can access, download, and do what they please with." www.fastcompany.com/91539598/int...

"Reading in Egypt today thus unfolds as an open field of plurality and experimentation, governed by no single law or definitive taste. It is a scene where bookstores converse with reading groups, memory with technology, pleasure with knowledge." worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/rea...

The 23.5 book, published by the 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory is now available in Turkish and English. Shaped around the themes of Memory, Truth, Confrontation, Action, and Hope, 23.5 invites us to think together about a future in which coexistence is possible. hrantdink.org/en/site-of-m...

«Η Ιστορία δεν βρίσκεται μόνο στα αρχεία, αλλά στα συρτάρια του καθενός από εμάς.» youtu.be/4ewG018fORQ?...

"The Antarctic krill fishery hit its catch limit early for the first time, driven by unregulated zone concentration. Governance failures, blocked protections, and industry diplomacy now define the crisis threatening the Southern Ocean ecosystem." oceanographicmagazine.com/features/kri...

Dua Lipa on the power of translated fiction | The Booker Prize youtu.be/jmFphhOPYI4?...

"Δύο βρέφη, ένα δίχρονο παιδί και ένα τρίχρονο κρίθηκαν ένοχα για εμπρησμό από αμέλεια, ενώ στον Βόλο 11χρονη καταδικάστηκε σε ποινή φυλάκισης 18 μηνών, με τριετή αναστολή, για συνέργεια σε απάτη" www.dikastiko.gr/areios-pagos...

“There are some assholes out there, but the majority of people, I think, given the right tools, want to do better.” Word. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

“That day, we realized the Russians had come to kill us” is how one theater survivor put it to me. “They didn’t come to fight with Ukrainian soldiers. They just wanted to kill us.” from James Verini, an excerpt from his book "The Theater" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

“To be clear on AI: All writing and visuals that freelancers submit to The Times must be the product of human creativity and craft, and all submissions must consist solely of their original reporting, writing and other work” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"The maker of Canvas, the software used by thousands of schools and universities around the world, said on Monday that it had reached a deal with the hackers that recently breached its systems for the return of stolen data and the destruction of any copies." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Deloitte and Zoom are among the employers reducing support for working parents, signaling a retreat from family-friendly benefits. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Markus Brunetti’s Monumental Photos Venerate European Ecclesiastical Landmarks www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/mark...

" A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

After Losing Two Sons, a Mother’s Painful Path Toward Happiness In just five months, Barbara Maxwell’s world was shattered twice. First, her son Justin overdosed in an Alabama prison. Then, before she could even process that loss, her youngest son, Jordan, was killed by gun violence.

"The growth of shady corners of academic publishing, where predatory journals publish studies without strict scrutiny and paper mills sell articles to authors, increases the potential of AI to erode trust in published science." thebulletin.org/2026/05/why-...

I am not really scared of AI, because I know it cannot do what I can do. What I am afraid of is the people who think that AI can do my job.” Marieke Heimburger www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Η Ασημίνα Ιγγλέζου πρώτη Ελληνίδα στην κορυφή του Makalu (8485 μ.) anevenontas.gr/i-asimina-in...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

"Less discussed is the historic shift that altered the nature of so many of our modern retellings of folklore, to wit: the idea that people on opposite sides of conflicts have different moral qualities, and fight over their values." aeon.co/essays/why-i...

Cities are rehearsing for deadly heat. Will it help when disaster comes? www.preventionweb.net/quick/102077

"One of the unique aspects of motherhood is that, even while you’re dealing with the immediacy of food, shelter, joy, love, raising a human also means having one foot in the future." wagingnonviolence.org/2026/05/moth...

In 2025, Trump declared English the official language of the US. he Language Access Board Act of 2026 will help ensure that all Americans have access to the services and resources their tax dollars pay for,without barriers based on English proficiency multilingual.com/reps-chu-men...

AI Geopolitics Explore global AI landscape and investments. Data: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026. www.postfactum.co.uk/pro/data-boa...

“When we are made to feel like we don’t matter, we can either withdraw or act out in extremes,” says Ms. Wallace. Teen takeovers “are a collective assertion of this need to matter.” www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...