Really good investigative piece on the absurdity of the fad of pushing AI into education. We have a non-violent John Brown, teacherless schools, and, of course, billionaires trying to profit from enshitfication.
Really good investigative piece on the absurdity of the fad of pushing AI into education. We have a non-violent John Brown, teacherless schools, and, of course, billionaires trying to profit from enshitfication.
Gah, awful.
Drie explosies in vijf dagen tijd in dezelfde straat in Amsterdam
went to Dublin 🇮🇪 to do my kind of tourism ie taking pictures of stickers and street art and watch people vomit in temple bar (not pictured)
“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division." Words that very much need to be said.
How it started How it's going (Vanochtend) (Vanavond)
⚡️ Poland launches its largest military drills as Russia, Belarus set to hold exercises. The exercises, spanning land, sea, air, and cyberspace, involve about 30,000 Polish and allied troops and 600 pieces of equipment, taking place amid mounting security risks for Warsaw.
Yall want the freedom to be mean to people without them complaining about it and it doesn’t work like that.
Behold! Postcard from my collection, no date.
A dock workers union from Genoa said if the flotilla gets intercepted they'll shut down all of Europe's ports. The Med having three of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, this could be huge! Especially if they get Union solidarity from North Africa
There is a lot of this type of AI-is-magic ‘news’ stories about.
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Frida Kahlo and her students, 1943. (Photographer unknown). The Mexican artist began teaching in the 1940s,. tutoring her students in painting and also the art of living #WomensArt
I'm concerned about the multi-state outbreak of vibrio vulnificus (flesh-eating bacteria) in the Gulf, with 60+ cases across 5 states, & 10+ deaths. On my travels along the gulf states, I didn't see any additional information on how to stay safe. I wonder how CDC cuts have impacted this response.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Belgium will recognise Palestinian state at UN General Assembly, says foreign minister
ICYMI: ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is pursuing a hybrid campaign directly targeting NATO states, including using GPS jamming and sabotaging military logistics in NATO members’ territory, and is likely using EW innovations developed in the war in Ukraine against NATO states at this time.
De Amerikaanse economie begint Trumps tarieven te merken. Wie betaalt de rekening?
It’s not “if we go to war with Russia” it is “when we go to war with Russia.”
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Russia expected to start its invasion as early as 2026. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are preparing trenches, booby traps and mine fields. Finland expected to help defend and has accepted giving refuge to the entire population of Estonia if needed. Evacuation routes prepared by air and sea.
Germany will not send troops to Ukraine, all German troops will be divided between Germany and Lithuania to help defend the Baltic front. Estonia ready to evacuate all citizens in the country and possibly Latvia when Russia invades. At least 16,000 Estonian troops expected to stay behind and fight.
It feels a bit more like homework, when it’s a board game about policy making on climate change.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
EU mulls 10-year tax holiday for jet and shipping fuels, draft shows reut.rs/4p0QxrV
Should you still have doubts: It is a genocide. And not putting maximum pressure on Israel (looking at you, Dutch government and EU) is complicity in genocide.
How many people did he have to pay back for help getting him into the White House? He never did show US his tax returns.
By whom? How much did it cost? And what happens when the technology makes a mistake. This reads like a press release.
While the US Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is designed to survive First Amendment scrutiny by regulating design features and business practices, the UK's Online Safety Act treats government speech control as a feature, not a bug, writes Matthew Allaire.
📺 Tune in to watch the announcement of our new leadership team live on YouTube from 11am, Tuesday 2 September. youtube.com/live/vdqz9Zv...
This weekend's round-up of toxic media and advertisers include a barrage of anti-migrant hate pieces in The Express (all were published in just one day). Supported by ads from #Specsavers, #MarellaCruises (by #TuiUK), #BritishGas, #Asda, #Tesco, #OakFurniture #RyobiTools, and #Yimbly.
They must have been bought.
Please democratic nations, take notice of what is happening now in the United States and use it as a warning to strengthen your own systems of governance and economics. Let our pain serve as your lesson.
It protects us from our governments.
This should be shared far and wide right now youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...
One of the things that gives me a flicker of hope for my country is when groups like the Quakers, the RNLI, the Women's Institute and the National Trust stand up for common decency. I just don't understand why the Labour Party can't.
The scariest and most powerful incantation known on the internet ;)
Is this breaking international law too? Seems contagious. 🙄
@berthubert.bsky.social !
“Framed as a proverbial ‘kill switch’ by many in Brussels, the debate has shifted from whether it could be triggered to when. This, in turn, has prompted renewed calls by the EU and member states to advance the continent’s 'technology sovereignty,'” writes Trevor H. Rudolph.
As right-wing oligarchs were buying up mainstream and social media, the mistake everyone else made was thinking that these purchases were based on a normal assessment of value. Remember when Elon Musk “overpayed” for Twitter? They understood that controlling the message and narrative is priceless.
Hence the troops in the cities.
Excuse me, but grocery stores have already jacked their prices up. They were not waiting for tariffs. Corporate greed, strikes again.
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
I agree with the essence of this but: there is a lot of privilege involved in a) having colleagues; b) having / building a scholarly network and community; c) being able to trust these people with your ideas. We need to think about how to help people build and access these types of networks.
Hands up! Who has played Daybreak board game? And what did you think?
Councils are hostages: Forced to fund landlords with public money Forced to seize land for SEZs Forced to pay above-market rents The result: bankrupt councils, broken communities, and booming dividends for Wall Street.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message. www.wired.com/story/china-...
Paper maps! Who knew ‘old’ skills matter. And after all that effort in digitalisation that has been done. #geosky #GISchat
Terminale zorg. ✏️ door Joep Bertrams. #Schoof #Willem #Alexander #kabinet #koning #BBB #VVD
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged leaders at a regional summit to leverage their "mega-scale market", while Russian President Vladimir Putin showed support for Xi's ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the United States. Read more ⤵️
Germany’s Merz prepares for long war in Ukraine “Diplomacy isn’t about flipping a switch overnight and then everything will be fine again,” the chancellor said in an interview.
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period ↘️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Israeli forces killed another Palestinian journalist, Islam Muhareb Abed, in an attack on Gaza City, bringing the total number of media workers killed in Israel’s war to at least 278, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/siqj7j
De voorpagina van NRC morgen en het commentaar.
The Trump administration has suspended all visitor visas for anyone holding a Palestinian passport, the NYT reports.
We should have been prepared since 2015.
I once asked a friend who was the treasurer of a large investment bank and now the chief operating officer of a large hedge fund whether hedge funds are a net good for society. He told me that they benefit no one but the people that are running them. I think the same of conservative politicians.
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Reminder for tariff doubters: WE PAY those tariffs, not foreign manufacturers or their governments bsky.app/profile/lesl...
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
#chalkcrime
Money is being channelled into an assault on rights across Europe – advanced by Americans and benefiting Russia. It is a dedicated campaign with long-term implications. Katherine Stewart reports
Europe is drawing up “pretty precise plans” for a multinational troop deployment to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees that will have the backing of U.S. capabilities, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the Financial Times. tvpworld.com/88649770/eur...
Precisely. If you think you have enough money to feel protected … you won’t. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
This is grim. Substack skews towards an ideology that is actively anti-science, in its support for centre right to far right commentators. Ideology aside: the site is artificially propped up on hollow VC money and when time comes to cash in, users'll get screwed www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🌍 1/3 of global emissions come from the food system. Even if fossil fuels are phased out, food emissions alone could push us past 1.5°C. We must transform how we grow, distribute, eat & waste food. Explore #SystemsChangeLab 👉 bit.ly/3SWc9qv
Temperatures in South African highlands reached 30C at nearly 2000m well outside the tropics and in WINTER. Nothing like this or even minimally close had ever happened in 145+ years of South African climatic history and this is a joke to what's coming 2 weeks >40C !
Norway keeps increasing its spending on exploration and extraction of fossil fuels.
They flood our streets with guns. Gut public health. Attack unions. Defund disaster response. Shield the powerful. Bury the Epstein files. Blame the rest of us. It's not dysfunction. It's design. Project 2025 is the plan. We still have a choice. Stand together. Hold the line.
Did you know? In Norway, facilities for children include: School & nursery outdoor green spaces are large & stay open through the summer. Large gymnasium halls have a wide range of indoor activities. Wooden apparatus, among the forest trees or in the sea, built for climbing & other adventures
The announcement came hours after overnight Russian strikes on energy sites left 60,000 Ukrainians without electricity.
⚡️Russia's war in Ukraine 'to last a long time,' Merz says. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in an interview on Aug. 31 that he expects Russia's war in Ukraine to last a long time, as most wars end in military defeat or economic collapse — a scenario he does not foresee for Russia or Ukraine.
A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.
”Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality.” Bioenergy is not a good idea. I hope new approaches have fewer trade-offs newatlas.com/energy/large...
It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
You know why the haters and the New Populists hate colleges, universities and archives? Because they are storehouses of memory - of difference, resistance, multiple identities. Take for instance The National Archives on queer spaces in the 1930s. (1/2) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Article 8 of the ECHR is the protection on which not only all positive trans law rests but also most LGB rights to, as well as those of families where one parent wasn't born in the UK. It prevents asylum seeking families from being split. It is utterly monstrous for Labour to want to weaken rights.
July 2025, European city temperature anomalies via @scottduncanwx.bsky.social
Just to be absolutely clear, this is the Labour government, categorically, and unambiguously, stating that human rights are predicted upon where you are born. That's the outcome of this.
Lots of shoulder/coulds/woulds/musts litter this article without concrete facts from people on the ground or in the know. A quote from a think tank doesn’t make an article.
A small but curious detail: how Putin and Aliyev were greeted in China.
BREAKING: At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ukxcfz
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You know what this means? Our children are going to go to war. :(
"Most existing capability gaps...should be filled by European nations, whose forces must be capable of responding to crises without immediate U.S. assistance." European strategic autonomy is also what's best for Europe. Worth reading 👇 @emmamashford.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/22/u...
The Grapefruit Gap: that period where you are old enough to enjoy eating grapefruit but not so old that the medication you're taking prevents you from eating grapefruit. Enjoy it while you can.
'Miep Gies, one of the Dutch people who hid and sustained Anne Frank and her family, commented: “We did our duty as human beings; helping people in need.” Is this a duty that, only two generations later, we have completely forgotten?'
Once upon a time, it seemed open and free links to reliable legal information would undermine such flights of political-media fantasy, but no. The links are there, un-clicked. People don't care what the actual law is and what judges actually said. They want to believe.
‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona #climatecrisis Vital reporting by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
„This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions.“ www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, prompting similar moves from other Western nations, angered Israel and its U.S. ally by putting a two-state solution back at the heart of diplomatic efforts to end the devastating war in Gaza.