👇 I totally agree with him: #Wikipedia is a miracle! Wiki is what in the 80's we dreamed Internet could be, yet much of that internet has been absorbed by the toxic clickonomics of attention-farming. But not wiki. Happy to sponsor it on a monthly basis since a decade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26

Another elegant and sharp take by Ed Lucas on Estonia’s handling of the Wagner trolling. They met Russia’s psychological provocation with ridicule, not panic. A small stratcom masterclass the allies should adopt. "National security requires many things. A sharp sense of humour is one of them."

#Ryanair hypocrite complaining about a €7 tax, while being the same people that charge you £30, or more, for bringing along a cabin bag. I'd prefer paying €7 for the community of Bergerac or Strassbourg if that Ryan CEO just shuts up, thank you very much. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

A very worthwhile read! Critical approaches to AI use in research & education are needed, more than ever, in conjunction with human dialogue about results between researchers, and between student & lecturer!

“Being able to detect & counteract all these 3 together comprises the bedrock of skills in research methods in a time when AI is used uncritically (see Table 1). The inverse: not noticing these are at play, or even promoting them, could be seen as engaging in questionable research practises (QRPs)”

This track just powered me to a personal best 5k. Some of Eddie’s finest work.

A clear case of "salon socialists" my mum would have said ...

More evidence that “crisis” is performed and that “populists” are particularly apt at performing “crisis”, as @benmoffitt.bsky.social has argued forcefully.

11 November 1879 | A German Sinti woman, Alvine Blum, was born in Dolgelin. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 8 March 1943. No. Z-1476 She perished in the camp on 26 March 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

🚨🚨 I am very delighted to peer over my proofs to a new quite comprehensive article analysing the European Public Prosecutor's Office ( #EPPO) to be published in the December issue of #europeanlawreview. 🧵

Just a reminder that Europe, a country that got rich over 250 years thanks to oil, gas and coal, has signed up to "net zero" within a generation. Yes, you can focus on some fudging of interim targets on the way to zero, but I really think that's missing the era-defining change that is under way.

There are no nationalists left in Europe, only the local branches of Trump International

Yet, what does the RS do? It releases a statement that it has to accept the political leanings of its fellows. True, if these are based on democratic traditions. Falls, when they are promoting outright terrorism. 2/

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This is one of the best lighting jobs I've ever seen ... no the picture doesn't do it justice. Love Janssons paintings litterally 'glow' against the black background. Well done Helsinki Design museum 👏

Zeit, zu erinnern an Kurt Eisner, Anführer der Novemberrevolution in München, der heute vor 107 Jahren König Ludwig III absetzte, den Freistaat Bayern ausrief und der erste bayerische Ministerpräsident wurde. Am 2. Februar 1919 wurde er auf dem Weg in den Bayerischen Landtag erschossen.

Watch to the end

Tonight, the evil, terrorist nation of Russia is launching ballistic missiles and drones at civilians again, like they do every night. Putin will rot

Long live the sandwich tosser!

Breakfast between shadowtankers? Crossing to Tallinn for the day☺️

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Another unsurprising 'revelation' 🤷‍♀️

A good thread about a conceptual ravine between England and continental Europe that is widening and deepening since 2016. For any 'Rejoin' movement to ever be succesful, it needs to tackle this openly and determinedly.

After living in the UK for 15 years now ... my brain still silently goes "No!" whenever someone says "Let me be Frank!"

Imagine what this gift will be worth, box unopened, in a decade, to collectors 🤯

ThamesWater hasn't fixed the most recent leak yet. After a week of of uninterrupted flow, pavement cracks are forming as the water weakens the soil layers underneath the pavement. Long story short: accelerated capital depreciation & reduced productivity 🤷‍♀️ This type of stuff in endemic in the UK.

Trots: @jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl is zojuist gekozen als onzer nieuwe fractievoorzitter! 💚❤️ Jesse is één van de drijvende krachten achter onze linkse samenwerking, en we zijn dankbaar dat hij nu de verantwoordelijkheid op zich neemt om de fractie te leiden.

I am still waiting for the European political establishment to recognize the US is a hostile power currently.

It's for crap like this that NATO needs reforming/European alternative without the US. Being dependent on a country becoming more and more unreliable and hostile to their supposed allies (who aren't doing anything wrong) is no longer viable.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Entitlement 😬

😂 ofcourse they did!

I agree with the sentiment, buy the reality is: we are allowing precisely that as media and main political parties facilitate just that.

It's a pity when folks with fully justified concerns about AI are calling for *bans* that have failed with pretty much any technologival innovation. Critical engagement is the answer, not uncritical adoption, nor uncritical banning. At least we humans should try to retain the ability to reason🤷‍♀️

I would have thought self-identifying as ”MechaHitler” was a bit of a giveaway on the trustworthiness front

A film you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif.

Rachel Cohen Harvard/OSU educated attorney based in Chicago. never legal advice.

I bet she didn't ask him about this. A MUST watch: bsky.app/profile/koja...

Newsom: I cannot wait for all the punditry. Historic victories all across the United States of America. Proposition 50 winning by double digits. A new governor of New Jersey, a new governor in Virginia. I’ll end as I began: thank you for giving a damn.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

I'm pretty sure that's not a pepper ball gun, that federal officer has drawn his pistol and is aiming it, ready to fire, at a resident filming from the sidewalk (Chicago area)

I never thought much about the UK's "productivity puzzle" because before working in the UK I didn't care about it and after my first few weeks of working & living in the UK it was no longer a puzzle. And as I write this I am watching the 4th burst watermain in as many weeks within 500m from my home.

Goddammit, those evil ICE motherfuckers arrested one of my clients. I had won his criminal case completely! We are in the middle of pursuing a petition for wrongful conviction compensation, and now this. We must impose the harshest consequences for ICE agents and their collaborators.

"To govern is to lose". Discuss.

Talk about a Turning Point…

"It is up to us, a new generation, to carry our European flag with pride. We are a beacon of freedom and human dignity in a world on fire. Europe is the most beautiful place on earth" Rob Jetten, incoming Dutch PM, is a national leader speaking as a European; let’s hope he will also act as such

The peace president is about to start a war.

View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.