The size of the Boreal Forest in Canada.... it can't be raked....hot dry weather and changing winds from climate change have screwed everything up

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

France and Germany pledged today to look at developing an alternative to military software provided by U.S. company Palantir, as European countries seek to lessen reliance on America.

The convicted criminal who funded Nigel Farage opened an account with an obscure overseas payments company days before it was used to channel an “unexplained” £500,000 donation to Reform UK

The lettuce supply chain in the United States really is something to behold.

Child safety advocates are sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence features now being used by millions of students in classrooms that rely on education tools made by Google. https://to.pbs.org/4yn3vVt

MSG: Flavour enhanced.

In the 1960s, the government invested heavily in technical universities for science and engineering. These universities have expanded to social sciences and humanities. My fear is that the current government wants to go back to those days by destroying capabilities in humanities & social sciences.

Dirty data.

"No normal political conference features the spectacle of a former UK prime minister proudly introducing a former spokeswoman for Andrew and Tristan Tate – brothers accused of orchestrating a global sex trafficking and grooming operation – onto its main stage, to polite applause."

When the grown ups were in charge.

I wonder whether we will look back in a few years and think of the government's industrial strategy in the same way as Beeching. Yes, keep the main lines and the main cities. But allow those branch lines and those branch cities and branch towns to wither.

This is a great thread. By someone who knows what they are talking about.

They DO feel a social contract has been broken

The current GM industrial strategy is a testament to that, as is his repeated mention of universities and growth

The list... is still going...

Water.

Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

You can't, as they say, park there. Mate.

This looks.... a bit 1960s A-road subway in design (and current state). Is it... finished??

Yes.

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow.

You have to wonder whose interests they serve. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Why don't they just build a wall to keep the Canadian wildfire smoke out.

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

Leaking As A Service

HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S. tech firm that insists on closed, proprietary AI models. 🎁🔗: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chea...

To add - should have put this in - one of GM’s priority industrial sectors is professional services: so my guess is “reindustrialisation” will be in the eye of the beholder, as is often the case with AB. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a particular focus on building other sectors

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy is, how shall we say, not equivalent to Fellowship of the British Academy.

Axel Springer just bought The Telegraph

Casually threatening mass rapes

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards. www.arguably.uk/p/can-andy-b...

Great piece from @hetanshah.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on the future of the Humanities. Hope the new Cabinet will read this! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Europe's booming solar fleet has saved €20 billion in gas imports since Iran war, finds new analysis" As oil and gas prices remain high due to the Iran war - solar power is cushioning the impact across Europe, investment needs to continue though. www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/s...

Live view of Lower Manhattan. There has been a significant deterioration of air quality in NYC in the last two hours. AQI now over 200, considered “very unhealthy”. NYC health dept is advising all NYers to take precautions, not just those with sensitive health conditions.

Not ideal.

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/

Yemen's Houthis are preparing to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key global shipping route, as part of a broader Iranian strategy to increase pressure on the US and its allies, The Telegraph reports.

Brian Leveson: was a Lord Justice but not a Lord. Was also a "Sir" but would be called "My Lord" in court. Now not a Lord Justice but a Lord. But not a Law Lord, obviously.

What's past is prologue.

Not that anyone cares but yes this is illegal

Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Technology is part of the humanities. People who work in tech-adjacent fields but do not understand that will plateau very fast in their careers. The parts of the job that vibecoding eliminates aren't the political ones.

Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence.