…as long as we’ve believed everyone should read, we’ve fretted that everyone doesn’t… they don’t read enough, and even if they do, they don’t read the right material… We don't invest in cultivating young readers because we don't actually want thinkers 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/end-over-end/

I kassene fant hun noe som skulle prege resten av karrieren hennes. Fire jenter, som en gang på 1300-tallet hadde blitt begravet i den samme grunne graven, under gulvet i den gamle stavkirken i Uvdal… – den tørre luften hadde bevart dem som en slags naturlige mumier www.forskning.no/arkeologenes...

Companies like Uber and Lyft get to shift risk to their workers, and insist they're doing a favor by offering ”flexibility”… Drivers who accept very low wages can be offered even lower wages in the future… passengers are gouged according to their ability to pay pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y...

On the exact same day that Israeli Jewish settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank held a US Congressman at gunpoint with US made rifles, they also attacked a CNN news crew

Ro Khanna: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of the Settlers. 21 & 22 year olds with guns, laughing that they’d detained us. The arrogance of those IDF soldiers... It is the arrogance of power. Of a power that has had no accountability. Total impunity. And it’s created a toxic culture of oppression.”

Rep. Ro Khanna says he was detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit.

White supremacists who are upset that a black woman was cast as Helen of Troy in the new movie The Odyssey “because it’s not historically accurate” have drawings of a blond, blue-eyed Jesus in their homes.

That night Toad looked out of his window. “Drat!” said Toad. “My seeds have not started to grow. They must be afraid of the dark.”

Det här är så coolt. Lasse Lindström❤️

Vänskapen började med att världsstjärnan kastaden ett munspel till honom på en konsert 1972… Lasse Lindfors och Gunnel fick äran att bjuda Johnny Cash med familj på lunch hemma i Åby… De bodde ovanpå Yngves Snabbtvätt… doktor Lindström skrev ut magsårsmedicin i pyjamas folkbladet.se/nyheter/norr...

A large language model is trained on a vast corpus of text that is overwhelmingly formal… We were trained to produce text with low perplexity and low burstiness. We were trained to write in precisely the way that these tools are designed to flag as non-human marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Israeli settlers detain American congressman @RepRoKhanna… and both the IDF and republicans in Congress back the settlers… 🤔

Pope Leo XIV sat down to lunch with 200 poor and vulnerable residents of Rome… “I came without a speech, because I’m hungry. I’m hungry for justice… hungry for a Church that truly knows how to open the doors, welcome, and receive everyone” www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/i-came-wit...

Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards. Working class hero.

Har offrat ett smådjur till Oden för Norge

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

Ha. @crampell.bsky.social ftw. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

My students get indignant when I give them a paper quiz and downright surly when I don’t let them confer with one another while taking it. “But you didn’t tell us it would be on paper!”

I do some handwritten quizzes on paper as a check and shockingly students do much much poorer when there is no access to the internet.

Researchers have found that people in their 80s who maintain an exceptionally quick walking pace, ”super movers”, are far more likely to stay mentally sharp compared to slower-moving of same age… data from 4,000 older adults… the fastest 9% qualified as super movers www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

Your monthly sleep score provides a better picture of sleep trends than your daily score… Daily scores are useful but obsessing over them can lead to orthosomnia, anxiety surrounding getting the perfect night's sleep www.tomsguide.com/wellness/sle...

…only some of the metrics wearables provide are clinically useful… some wearables can flag atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous heart rhythm abnormality… step counts can show doctors how active or sedentary you are… Basic sleep patterns can be useful www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w...

”The device identified that something was wrong… but it couldn’t determine the cause”… alerts worth taking seriously are suggesting an irregular heart rhythm, low oxygen readings during sleep or exercise, and sustained shift away from a person’s normal baseline www.latimes.com/live-well/lo...

…the proportion of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28% in 2004 to 16% in 2023… The books that people do read are simpler… just 35% of high-school seniors were “proficient” at analyzing complex themes and evaluating an author’s argument archive.ph/2026.07.10-2...

«Hvis du spør nordmenn om de alle pleier å gå med vikinghjelmer, vil de si: Nei, så klart ikke, vi er en moderne, sosialdemokratisk nasjon. Og likevel møter de opp i VM og er sånn: Okei, gutta, la oss late som vi ror» www.vagant.no/ro-ro-ro/

Mbappé (och andra franska spelare) har sedan flera år en konflikt med det franska fotbollsförbundet om huruvida förbundet förbundets sponsorer får använda spelarna i reklam. Särskilt att dyka upp i reklam för spelbolag och snabbmat har varit röda skynken för honom.

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

SD kalkylerar med att så många majoritetssvenskar eller ”etniska svenskar”, kodord för vita svenskar, känner sig så utsatta för rasism och diskriminering att de ska känna så mycket vrede (kanske hat) av budskapet att de lägger sin röst på partiet tobiashubinette.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/s...

Grammarly… offers an “authorship” tool that helps screen for A.I. misconduct… At the same time, the app allows students to generate writing from scratch, humanize text, replace phrases that could set off A.I. detectors… also instantly rewrites published text www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

I don't want to hear "AI" researchers complain that everyone now thinks AI = LLMs. It wasn't that long ago that y'all were calling logistic regression AI because it suited you to. You could have stopped this long before but chose not to. 😘

I have seen some of the same. I’ve had bosses who were nice, if not experts in the field, or bosses who were difficult (some were idiots, some were smart but lazy), and it always seems like I have to put in extra effort to summarize my reports, because they will NOT read the actual report. Ever.

…vilka barnen begravdes med går ändå inte att säga säkert… – När ett barn avled ville man kanske undvika att lägga det i en ensam grav… De döda kremerades inte som under vikingatiden, utan lades obrända på rygg i öst-västlig riktning www.dn.se/sverige/dna-...

The next big clue came when they unearthed pyrite… it had to have been intentionally brought there by early humans… “It’s incredible that some of the oldest groups of Neanderthals had the knowledge of the properties of flint, pyrite, and tinder at such an early date” mymodernmet.com/early-suffol...

En av de galnaste historierna om data-insamling är att Pokémon Go-data nu används för att militära drönare ska kunna navigera i krigszoner!

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Gordon is not the only player in the England team to have shown willingness to learn the language of the clubs they play for. Jude Bellingham took German lessons when playing for Borussia Dortmund and has shown his skills in Spanish since signing for Real Madrid theconversation.com/personal-goa...

“Good heavens!” said Frog. “That thing is Toad!”

My doctor sent a poorly formatted LLM summary in response to a question I emailed her, and it felt both reckless and disrespectful. But the worst part is that so many are going this way now, and the only thing to do is ask them to please never do that again, at least not to me. I hate it here.

En lärare som nyligen gått i pension skriver att han hade en lön på 35 000 kr i månaden efter 45 år. Han jämför med den lön, 34 470 kr, som krävs för att en ung människa som vuxit upp i Sverige, gått i svensk skola, pratar svenska och har sina vänner här ska kunna få stanna via arbete.

Quit giving all the backstory first before showing off the finished product. Start with the cake, then tell people how you got there… Open by introducing yourself and thanking people for being there, and don't end with anything that diminishes what you just did www.patreon.com/LucyBellwood...

Between 1988 and 2015 the share of older people being diagnosed with dementia fell by 13% a decade across six countries in North America and Europe. The question now is whether that drop will continue

If you’re ever lost in the wilderness, just build a cycle path because someone is bound to pull up in their car and park in it.

My password is so secure even I don’t know what it is

”Solitary animals could evolve large brains if their environment was rich and complex enough to reward learning. Octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish let us test that prediction and the data fit. It turns out there's more than one path to evolving intelligence” www.sciencealert.com/the-size-of-...

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

When researchers analyzed the 2018 dataset using BIGI, they found no relationship between gender equality and the percentage of post-secondary STEM graduates who were women… the gender-equality paradox depends on countries’ baseline differences asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-gender...

Brilliant piece: The only people who have been sent to prison [for climate change] are those who have protested against it. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Tänker på hur mycket fuffens Fållöknastiftelsen, Europaskolans styrelse och hela lobbyistentouraget hade hittat på om de inte granskats. Eller kanske snarare: Det vi ser har krävt en del grävande, tänk hur mycket av vad de gör som vi INTE ser.

…you could spend 10% of the money on an AI sleeve that takes over your arms to be the robot, and you can delegate your zombie limbs to do the chores while also attending your work zoom or winding down by doing your puzzles interconnected.org/home/2026/06...