This seems unbecoming of the organization that oversees the FIFA Peace Prize.

I bleated on about FIFA arbitrarily rescinding Ronaldo’s red card against Ireland at the time This is the inevitable outworking Only a matter of time before a result is subsequently overturned for political reasons

“President Infantino, we’ve got the King of Belgium on line 1, the Prime Minister of Belgium on line 2, the Minister-Presidents of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region on lines 3, 4, and 5 respectively, and the Minister-President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium on line 6.”

Science has a communication problem. Like the quiet employee who assumes their performance will be noticed without ever advocating for it, science often expects evidence to speak for itself. It doesn't. In an attention economy, silence loses to spectacle.

“Drie gevluchte Syrische archeologen werken nu bij het Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden in Leiden. Daar catalogiseren ze Mesopotamische vondsten uit hun vaderland.” Prachtig.

If u want to know what the Tech Bros envision for the future, here is the kind of material they read: (1) The Sovereign Individual (preface by Peter Thiel); (2) The Network State: How to Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan blurbed by Marc Andreessen); (3) Patchwork by Curtis Yarvin/ Moldbug 1/

"It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K views in a day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf...

BREAKING: SCOTUS eliminates campaign finance limits, allowing dark money to flow directly to political candidates. Billionaires and political parties now have a blank check, right before the midterms and beyond.

Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

The UK "received intelligence that Ethiopia appeared to be supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war as far back as 2024 but did not go public with the news for fear of upsetting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a parliamentary committee will hear." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

“The textbook describes the Crusades as “part of Europe’s ongoing work of self-restoration” rather than an act of aggression. It claims there are no peoples who can truly be called native to America because everyone ultimately migrated there from somewhere else.”

Belgium's governing NVA deploys IA-generated videos of migrants looking like zombies on social networks, exercised over plans to open a reception center for asylum-seekers in the tony suburb of Uccle. I've observed an unprecedented flood of racist local content on Instagram and Reddit myself.

Civil servants can't attend pride, nurses can't wear a Palestine badge, but Hillary Cass can speak at Jordan Peterson's conference 👍

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

This is what Elon Musk and his orc lieutenants *know* they’re stirring up. They’re trying to get some psycho to do the deed(s) for them. It’s unbelievable to me we American taxpayers are funding this fascist scumbag (who comes from a very long line of fascist scumbags, to boot).

3 Scientists Talk Queer Ecology! 🐠🦋🪲 www.possibilities.news/scientists-t... thank you to @yessfun.com for interviewing me and my friends-coauthors. we chat about ecology, queer identities, biological sex, and the current science-policy landscape. #PrideInSTEM 🏳️‍⚧️

What happens to cities if AI hollows out the job market? Isabel N. Adler issues a call to arms for urban planners: fight to build cities that value residents over capital accumulation for the wealthy few. Imagination and resistance are needed now, before the shock arrives, Adler argues.

Wtaf?

I'm skeptical about how much the economics of "AI" actually matters. The Washington Post, Twitter, etc clearly weren't bought to turn a profit. If the main objective is consolidating power, dismantling workforces might be the end in itself, even if it's not "good business".

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

Even as my book heads toward publication, I remain amazed that someone else didn't write it first. More than a few marquee journalists at major publications were in much better positions to tell the world about Silicon Valley's dangerous radicalization. Even now, at this late stage, most are silent.

Hans Würtz fled Nazi Germany in 1938 carrying 7,000 paintings, photographs and figurines showing how disabled people had been represented through the ages. Nearly 90 years later, most of it is still in Prague. And hardly anyone has ever seen it. robjcameron.substack.com/p/break-the-...

Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.

NYT visual analysis suggests the US hit 2 drinking-water facilities overnight in s Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is war crime. When asked, Hegseth tenaciously refused to identify a legitimate military target connected with this attack.

Windows operativni sistem.

L'AFP vient d’annoncer la mort de Marjane Satrapi, l’autrice de "Persepolis". Elle avait 56 ans

Remigration is getting a glow-up. European far-right activists who advocate the mass deportation of immigrants and their descendants are getting a boost from Gregory Bovino, ex-US Border Patrol chief. They have been working on this for a very long time. www.politico.eu/article/afd-...

former head of the secret police (BIA) and the #SerbianArmy, now in charge of coordinating Serbia’s security services, has fully deservedly received decorations for serving the interests of the Evil, Kremlin and Putler 🤮

Sources say that if Kash Patel cannot stop binge drinking and spending taxpayer dollars on his personal travel, Donald Trump is prepared to fire the highest ranking woman at the FBI.

Glücksbringer.

Another example of how care work is systemically undervalued in our society

Trump's governing template, Project 2025, has unleashed a coordinated assault on democracy, rights, and pluralism both at home and abroad. Our hidden gem of the week maps the export of this Heritage Foundation–led playbook worldwide. By @globalextremism.bsky.social buff.ly/ymZeuo5

Those little girls didn't stand a chance!

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men." Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention “believes that the U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. & globally”

I really wanted to know more about Renee Good, killed by ICE in January. Fortunately, my editor allowed me to take some time to do a deep dive into who she was before she died. Read and listen to what I found out about her from her Colorado tribe here: www.cpr.org/2026/03/11/r...

The Russians are increasingly trying to destabilise the Baltic States, which they view as their 'provinces'. Currently, the narrative that the Estonian state is preparing a genocide against the Russian-speaking population is being circulated in Estonia’s Russian-language information space.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

"A classified report by the National Intelligence Council" completed a week before the war "found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment." Gift link: wapo.st/4lcrq3M

The Belgian Armed Forces, with assistance from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, have intercepted and boarded an oil tanker identified as part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.” The ship is now being escorted to the port of Zeebrugge, where authorities intend to impound it.

What a time to be alive

This is pretty much exactly what I expected and why I argued to my research group that to the extent we decide to use AI models, we must explore options to run them locally, maintain control and ensure that we can switch models easily. Large corporate providers fundamentally cannot be trusted.

A must-read if you haven't already: @kalish.bsky.social interviewed a dozen people, and sorted through 1,000+ pages of court documents and other records, to present a ton of new reporting re: ICE's cruel treatment of trans detainees. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...