Alarming. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

@writer.ia.net Why is your macOS app stagnating? Folding, automatic renaming etc. are long overdue on this platform (and on iOS etc.). Should I be cautiously optimistic about these features perhaps accompanying a Liquid Glass update?

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and the need to allocate that attention efficiently.” Endless information distributed through smartphones creates such a world … unlimited wants and scarce resources are the definition of an economic problem. economist.com/finance-and-...

Food for thought. I might expand upon this in a note later this week. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Well done @libdems.org.uk on calling for better balance in the BBC’s reporting ~ www.libdems.org.uk/bbc P.S. Join hands with @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social perhaps?

Precisely. You don’t debate by first acceding to your opponent on fundamental, critical differences.

Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."

A Labour Party spokesperson, responding to reports Nigel Farage is set to call on the US to inflict economic penalties on the UK, said:

#StandUpToRacism is organising a counter protest on 13 September at London ~ standuptoracism.org.uk/march-agains... #MarchAgainstFascism

Fantastic reporting from @bylinetimes.bsky.social on where the online support for Reform is originating from ~ bylinetimes.com/2025/09/01/i... And when you’re done reading it’s also worth following @reformexposed.bsky.social and looking into the @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social petition.

Our local paper - the Bishop’s Stortford Independent - just up the road from Epping tries to stem the tide of hate (and this RNLI fund raiser sold out overnight) but is relentlessly trolled by the deluded, ignorant and extremists.

From Empire to the NHS, this country has always relied on outsiders. The real crisis isn’t migration – it’s dishonesty Latest from The Bear

A timely new petition (thanks to @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social) to ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

How William N. Jennings captured the first photograph of lightning in 1882 boingboing.net/2025/08/07/h...

Surely that’s a compliment to Sadiq Khan given that it’s coming from Trump.

Whether it is sky-high bills or the destruction of our natural environment, it’s time these failing water companies were held properly to account.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Reform’s anti-renewables stance ‘putting jobs and energy bills at risk’ www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Good.

So where there are patterns, AI is better; and where there are outliers, requiring a return to the fundamentals, AI is much less effective. This speaks volumes about the Bayesian statistical nature of current AI models that can spot trends but lack understanding.

Great #WWDC Apple! 6 out of 5 stars.

Stumbled upon an interview with @seanmcarroll.bsky.social—whom Weinstein decided to call ‘civil’ but ‘nasty’—fighting pseudoscience. Misinformation should be fought like this, not after it’s spread. (Is @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social in the sci comm mafia too? Where do I sign up?) youtu.be/5m7LnLgvMnM

David Arnold on the rise of the microscope in colonial India where an environmentalist understanding of diseases means “the evidence even of expert microscopists was often contradictory, contested or seen as only part of a more holistic explanation.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With tech-driven echo chambers we ‘slipped into a new way of thinking, a kind of singularity, where both intellectual and emotional satisfaction came exclusively from a confirmation of the self,’ writes @aiannucci.bsky.social in his brilliant essay: www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The players recreated Thomas Müller's childhood photo in a Bayern shirt and gifted him a collage

🧪 UPDATE: Harvard Med School scientist Kseniia Petrova—who published a NYT op ed yesterday about her 3-month incarceration in ICE detention—is now in criminal custody. New charges came after the judge in her lawsuit set a bail hearing to consider releasing her. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If anyone doubts Farage’s endless ability to shift and reshape the contours of British politics, I’d invite them to watch Keir Starmer’s speech today or read the accompanying documents.…

It's a *choice* to copy Farage rather than challenge him; he's not a force of nature. The Labour party used to argue for its own principles, rather than someone else's.

Liberal Democrats are calling for the end of underfunding and neglect when it comes to young people's mental health. For too long, their mental health has not been a priority and that needs to change. @victoria-collins.bsky.social

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

Well-deserved. And congratulations @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social #miasanmia

It’s so odd to see an all-uppercase quote in the middle of an otherwise perfectly grammatically sound newspaper.

How far are we from the dystopian time when we can ‘demand’ an article from a magazine of our choice and it’ll be presented to us, produced for us, tailored to our interests and ‘written’ on the fly by some LLM to fit the editorial style of said magazine? I for one would rather it never happened.

Can’t put it any better: ‘You cannot out-Reform Reform.’

And so many Labour voting small cities/towns outside south of England that will be decimated by this Wild

The Olympia Tower in Munich lights up in red and white to celebrate the championship of FC Bayern:

For those wondering why Farage seems to be getting disproportionately more air time than other parties compared on the basis of electoral strength, these thoughts from the BBC’s Nick Robinson might introduce some much-needed perspective. ~ www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

People who vote for Reform are not becoming disillusioned and casting their votes for other parties in subsequent elections. Where Reform wins, it is continuing to win. @libdems.org.uk etc. should make Reform talk more about the small print in their claims/promises. ~ vhbelvadi.com/uk-council-e...

For years we asked for an edit button on Twitter and by the time we got it we also got way more changes than anybody asked for on that platform. Anyway, I’m now renewing my call for an edit button, but this time on BlueSky.

Hers some gold from @jdtonkin.bsky.social ~ predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

Great to see we’re brining #EdBallsDay over here from Twitter.

Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

I did not expect Cambridge to be the fastest growing city in England. Interesting thread.

‘We want to warn our researchers about this questionnaire, which violates our academic freedom and independent scientific research – values we firmly believe in.’ #academia #research www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

@writer.ia.net Say how long are you going to make us wait for folding on macOS?

This piece by @davidedgerton.bsky.social is worth reading for many reasons, one of which is the rhetorical use of root veg: "Delusions of science-superpower grandeur and false assumptions about innovation and growth may be comforting, but will butter no parsnips"