Ultimately the missing element is respect for the person on the other end of the line.

i think a lot about how animals afflicted with illness lash out in confusion, unable to understand why their bodies are not working as a metaphor for how people unable to understand how their world is changing react to stress

go vote for the tiny awards! if you want a better internet you have to help make a better internet!!

De AFD, de Duitse combinatie van PVV en FvD, heeft afgelopen weekend op hun partijcongres een AI tool gepresenteerd om hun achterban volautomatisch haat te laten spuien op sociale media. correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...

“Er ligt nu een kans die links-progressief in 25 jaar niet heeft gehad.” is wel zo www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/ik-...

From: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

It is with great sadness that FIDE learned of the sudden passing of Woman FIDE Master, FIDE Arbiter and FIDE Trainer Beata Andrejczuk-Dudzińska at the age of 38. Beata showed her talent at an early age, winning the Polish Women's Blitz Championship in 2005 as a teenager. Many

Such a Dutch story…

the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

the many faces of someone who just lost a 2 v 3 after solving much harder problems earlier photog: Michal Walyusza

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Bluesky sending all their energy to Cabo Verde

Would be ironic for the Netherlands to fall to Japan while Germany overruns their colonies. Kind of a reverse world war 2 situation.

Whoa!

Dit land en haar tradities…

nou moe, wat verdrietig zeg. een parel, ze zal gemist worden. ook hier.

Probleem met DigiD is opgelost, nu hebben we een nieuw probleem, ontdekte ik: www.ftm.nl/artikelen/nl... @ftm.nl

This sort of bike lane technology isn’t legal in American yet… Call your local representatives today!

En wat niemand zal verrassen is de volstrekt tekortschietende reactie van het NL kabinet. Het is walgelijk dat het kabinet in staat is een compliment uit te delen aan oorlogsmisdadiger Netanyahu. Wij willen een debat met de premier en minBuZa over hoe Nederland omgaat met ‘t internationaal recht

Rising antisemitism is the UK is real, but mainstream commentary on its meaning and causes has been worse than useless. We spoke to Barnaby Raine about the moral panic deployed by those who claim to be "protecting Jews". www.equator.org/articles/goo...

This is messed up on at least two levels re Brown v. Callais: 1. The fact that the Court shrugs at open gerrymandering in the first place. 2. The fact that the Court is cynically ignoring that gerrymandering to favor Republicans is the same as gerrymandering to favor whites.

the blübaum sweep will be drawing sindarov twice #candidates2026

@chessdojo.bsky.social considers fabi dead lost...

brief summary of R1 in the open, pragg's win was the best of the three - a very interesting opening idea, and then calm increasing pressure after anish managed to stabilize, which eventually led to mistakes. fabi will get over the near misses - a point is a point, but it's not his best ever effort.

Some chess news from the women's candidates tournament. Susan Ninan is reporting that GM Koneru Humpy is unlikely to play in Cyprus because of concerns about the safety of traveling in the region www.hindustantimes.com/sports/other...

Met het verzet tegen het genocidale geweld in Gaza schudde Oxfam zijn degelijke imago af is een doodnormale take in 2026.

As good a time as any to remind people that the vast majority of deaths from the Iraq war were due to preventable disease from destroyed infrastructure and sanctions.

Repeat after me: being bombed to hell is not liberation or democracy. It is imperialism.

fell for it again award

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started