Once again Wired is doing the good journalistic work of this era

Canicule de juin : près de 3 000 morts en Ile-de-France, le double de la normale, selon Santé publique France

some universities still care that their students develop their minds

It feels apocalyptic

when you are reading the book that is supposed to be "important" and you discover that it is terribly written with a few insights mixed with summaries from secondary literature written by others.

the world is terrible but there's this face next to my chair

When did academic authors start using the word "educationalists" to refer to 19th century education reformers and pedagogical theorists? This is far too reminiscent of "technologists"--a meaningless word bandied about by far too many journos & uni marketing professionals

Remember when this guy was considered a presidential hopeful? Now he's just a war criminal and a grifter, whose soul has literally left his body. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You can also get to these places on a combination of tram and public bus, which is amazing you are traveling from abroad and don't drive in France. I love the Hérault so, so much.

The future cannot be predicted. SC will always be SC. But you can learn the name of the woman giving the good ol' boys a run for their money. And maybe throw her some. drannieandrews.com

Annie Andrews is a name you should learn. You could send her some cash too.

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

Trying to read about the history of blood transfusion while the plumber cuts a 100+year old pipe out of the basement. The entire house is vibrating.

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

How can this be possible? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Another man was shot and killed by a member of the "memphis safe task force," the second in four days. www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/u...

jet lag, day 5. Struggling to stay awake at 12:45 p.m.

That's quite a lot of faculty salaries ...

from the account that is both hilarious and deeply terrifying

Having recently had to explain the existence of the film "Desk Set" to several folks (only the Scots get a pass, the rest should know better), I can't help but feel that we are all I need of a watch/rewatch, especially in our current moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgT...

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The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.

Nothing to see here, obv.

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Woman working at the Paul in Roissy tells me she hasn't slept in two days. Me: same. Poor folks working the security line with tourists who seem not to understand basic rules about what to take out of bags. This is not hard. Everyone needs to stop yelling.

Good God! We are in deep trouble. “Parts of France are recording land surface temperatures above 55°C...approaching values commonly seen in the Sahara. The difference is that one is a desert. The other is supposed to be one of Europe's most productive agricultural regions.” @pdynes.bsky.social

there's something extraordinarily perverse about seeing all these videos of celebrities at expensive fashion shows in Paris while temperatures reach 40-41, the electric grid and train system are collapsing, and ERs are overrun with people with heatstroke.

NOOOPE

There's a reason I don't like my senator

Je me demande si je dois dormir sur la terrace

Now on Day 2 of the catalogue and Gallica being out of service. At least the AC is not en panne.

In case you are wondering how things are going at one of the most expensive libraries ever built, the AC works (thankfully) but the catalogue is down, Gallica is down, the wifi is spotty, and if you are lucky, you might get the catalogue to load long enough to order books. Or you might not.

When AI screws up even the World Cup!

Who said it best?

This is what wealth extraction looks like. The scammers are scamming you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Western NY right now feels like South Carolina in May, by which I mean hot and muggy. So unnecessary.

Amen

One of things that perplexes me the most about our current moment is the lack of solidarity I see among higher education faculty. Everyone is out for themselves, and no one is working together. It's mind-boggling, really.

Thinking back to that time when I asked a certain campus AI booster about students losing basic skills that they came in with, and got a word salad in response mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

People are not paying enough attention to this or to the class implications of all of this. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

Me: I should write this French paper I'm giving in a couple of weeks Also me: It's so beautiful out. I should work in the yard, take a nap on the couch on the porch, read a novel, walk the dog

“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

This is the most chilling thing I’ve read in a long while. See Alt. The takeover is imminent. “The studio is building a replacement for the country’s voter registration site without telling the agencies whose work it would replace.” thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

As someone whose parents both died, lemme tell how you how near impossible this. There are so many people notifying the SSA about deaths.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

THIS