Turn a movie into a linguistics article The Silence of the Lambda

Putin is waging war against mothers and their children. The Russian army cannot win on the battlefield. The Russians are not strong, they are cruel. That is why they launch daily attacks on the civilian population, trying to break Ukrainians' resistance.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I god sportsånd vart òg sentrale krefter på motstandarlaget hylla på Karl Johan.

For the trolls gaslighting those of us who've been playing or watching football our whole lives, here's the fucking video. VAR and FIFA knowingly allowed an England goal that they're well aware should've been disallowed. The game shouldn't have gone to ET.

VAR not around to take back England's goal. But it certainly was there to take away Norway's. 🤔

A goal deserves a dróttkvæð vísa: Haralds arfar hurfu hǫfði ok beinum í einu vængbrotinna engla viðfangs — víða með belli á velli — hvatir ok skutu héðan hátt unz Andrés mátti ljósta knetti með listum — liðit kann vel við leikinn.

Eit mål er vel ei drottkvæd visa verd: Haralds arfar hurfu hǫfði ok beinum í einu vængbrotinna engla viðfangs — víða með belli á velli — hvatir ok skutu héðan hátt unz Andrés mátti ljósta knetti með listum — liðit kann vel við leikinn.

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

På leikvollẽm vil dei oss rettno bjoda å spenna mote tiljune og roa; med snøggom rykk og langpasningar goda er ball-leik-folket visst på siger modat.

Eg har faen ikkje ord. Berre legg ned heile Klima- og miljødepartementet og gi makta til Fremspartiet. Dei er i det minste ærlege om at dei drit i alt. www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/mini...

Til lukka med skogfinnedagen frå denne skogfinskætta huslyden!

SNYDER: Trump is ludicrously weak, and everything he touches turns to loss. He went to Madison Square Garden and the Knicks lost. I mean, more seriously, he tries to help Russia win a war, and even there he fails. Like, he has sort of incredible power to turn people into losers.

What is important to understand about Russia’s night-time attack on a world-renowned Christian landmark in Kyiv. They deliberately struck the Lavra—built during the era of Kyivan Rus’, when Moscow itself did not yet exist—with a Russian drone.

New post: "Stolen Revolution" Coverage on Iran has focused on Trump, not what's going inside the country. So we talked to the authors of a brilliant new book on Iran's recent history about the war, the regime and the chances for change. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

#Papst Leo XIV. ist ein Schlag gegen die #KI​-Propheten gelungen! Die Enzyklika #MagnificaHumanitas löst die hohen Erwartungen ein. Sie stellt ein Manifest gegen die drohende #Technokratie dar, meint @ajournomento.bsky.social:

D’er fullgod kost, mi’sann, ei’kvan avskurden: Eg sit med koppẽm, smakar på uppburden som féll på meg, og ser d’er rått på jorden’; d’er gildt, då, vera innanfyri hurden’.

Russian narratives often describe the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children as ‘saving the children from war’. The war that Russia started.    Returned Ukrainian children describe armed supervision, intimidation, political indoctrination, and pressure to renounce their Ukrainian identity.

Calling it “techno-fascism” feels radical. It isn’t – it is imprecise, and imprecision is a luxury we cannot afford. What techno-oligarchy is doing to humanity goes beyond what fascism ever attempted. Eight points on a threat we are not yet naming correctly. shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/worse-than...

Nær vinnumannen gjerer verket alt, verd løda full og huset aldri kaldt, og bar so til at det um livet galdt, visst såg han til, at ingen annan svalt.

ICYMI: Peter Thiel is building an AI system to attack and discredit journalists who criticize Big Tech, and downrate them for protecting their sources. Yet another emergency for the open society and democracy.

Today's highlight in Norway: News shared about the discovery of the largest coin hoard from the Viking Age Norway. Exciting times for colleagues @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social and elsewhere! www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-...

Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Best ber so til at heile huset skjek av di dei gamle jardarskivurn’ ek på molten stein; men inkje vart det brek, og ingen mann fyr di skal vera sek.

Putin's regime doesn't have the cash to clean up the ecological disaster that's destroyed their coastal city of Tuapse, but they DO have the funds for another $150M missile and drone attack on the apartment buildings and sleeping families of Ukraine.

⚡ Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest. The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation. kyivindependent.com/russia-destr...

Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services. This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.

I had to read Palantir's Technological Republic thread twice because the first time I was certain this was satire: twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Yes. The brain doesn’t work like AI. It’s not a computer. We use metaphors for it from technology b/c it’s really hard to understand how the brain works and we don’t entirely understand how a pile of electrified jello does all this. But it’s definitely much cooler than AI.

The role AI plays in knowledge creation is the same one fake scholars have been at for centuries: making shit up. 👇 Here's what research really involves, and why we shouldn't be shy about laughing in the faces of AI slop merchants who claim their products are capable of doing anything like it.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought - Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas #AMOC #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spanish solar panels that convert both rain and sun into electricity ✅

Har en venn som kaller alle som insisterer på å tre KI nedover hodene på ansatte for New Age Management. OG JEG ELSKER DET.

😂 Byebye Orkban… 👋

Absurd! Gulating lagmannsrett gir oss RETT i at dumpetillatelsen i Førdefjorden er ugyldig, men vil likevel ikke stoppe dumpingen. Som "takk for innsatsen" dømmes Naturvernforbundet og NU til å BETALE 3,750 millioner kroner i sakskostnader. Et vanvittig brudd på rettssikkerhet og Århuskonvensjonen.

NASA releases new image of planet Jupiter captured by James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.

"Vance" is a useful new verb in the English language, and one consistent with our Latinate heritage. Compare: ➡️ ADVANCE: To move something forward. ⬅️ VANCE: To cause a situation to decline or devolve. In a sentence: "Donald Trump's second term vanced the American economy."

The conquer’d triumphs, The victor has the loss

It’s not even about land per se. Russians take the land in order for you to never have independent foreign policy, and then they ensure you die in the Russian swamp of corruption and rot. They steal everyone’s individual and collective national future.

I don't understand what the big deal is. Once sea level rise hits 140 meters, a new sea passage will open through UAE/Oman territory and the Hormuz thing will resolve itself

Foreign Involvement in the 2026 Hungarian Parliamentary Elections: US Interference, Europe’s Mischief, and Orbán’s Collusion with Russia shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/foreign-in...

First moments back home! Most of these Defenders have been in captivity since 2022. Some - since the first day of the full-scale war. 27 of them were captured exactly four years ago.

Scores of Palestinians have been assaulted and many killed, including three American citizens; homes and automobiles have been torched in arson attacks. Ancient olive groves have been cut down or uprooted and grazing animals stolen or killed. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

An Old Norse poem for Artemis II. Watching the launch I was put in mind not only of Norse explorers pushing past the known bounds of land, but of Huginn & Muninn flying to all inhabited realms to bring back their thoughts & memories, as the astronauts will bring back theirs from uninhabited realms.