I always admire Becca Rothfeld's nonfiction reviews. Here I particularly admire her persistence in reading the book. What a lede: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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I always admire Becca Rothfeld's nonfiction reviews. Here I particularly admire her persistence in reading the book. What a lede: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
Wall Street may salivate over a bull market amid a fascist coup, but Kiwis take into account other considerations.
It’s not clear to me how any educator can ethically use OpenAI in their class, given how often it cultivates psychosis, self-harm, and murder. A product with zero safety guardrails has no place in the market broadly, and certainly not in the classroom. Use other stuff if you have to, but not GPT.
What a photo! A young Iberian lynx outside an abandoned barn where he was born, Sierra Morena, Andalucía. By Sergio Marijuán. This camera trap image was a candidate for the 2025 Wildlife Photograph of the Year organised by the Natural History Museum of London
I've wanted to visit the Isle of Arran for some time, bookmarking this for next spring/summer (added bonus is the top-notch scotch made there 🥃)
Hah, it's worth a try 🌲🌇
I do think showing up to City Council meetings with those photos and saying "the French figured out how to do this and you're telling me you can't?" Would work in a lot places tbqh
Don't do brainworms, kids
Oof, that's a lot of plums. One year I had such a ridiculous bounty I got fed up stoning them before cooking and just cooked them whole. Didn't take too long to fish out all the stones once the plums were cooked, in case that's tempting...
Important to remind everyone that this is just not about power, or the rule of law (though it is about both of those things). A less independent central bank will mean a less stable economy, a weaker dollar, and higher costs of living for Americans.
Love a compote too. It's a forgiving fruit to cook or bake with
He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses.
Plum jam is woefully underrated, now that they're in peak season why not follow @joeatsandreads.bsky.social's example and give it a go?
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
I appeared in the accompanying podcast with @nickcohen.bsky.social where we discuss whether Trump is in fact a Russian asset? The very fact that this isn't a spoof or conspiracy episode is mind-blowing... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
do better BBC
Well said. It’s completely baffling how little they interrogate this open embrace of Trump/Orban’s authoritarian playbook. It’s not popular with the majority of the voting public 🤦♀️
The total lack of media curiosity about the Reform/Tory embrace of Orbán and Trump and what that tells us about how they will govern if they take power drives me mad. Instead of scrutiny, we get facilitation. One day, they’ll realise. But it will be far, far too late.
Guilty as charged, I love a punchy Nordic dill salsa (as quoted by Felicity in this feature) in a fish finger sandwich. Ketchup, tartare sauce, whatever floats your fishy boat, have at it 💁♀️🎣🍞
Aww they are sweet 🥰
Goodness, that’s bold! We’re used to the ducks, moor hens, herons, gulls and other bird life, and recently had a pair of Egyptian geese join the ducks but the arrival of swans is quite a novelty…
Breaking news from the Kenwood Ladies Pond this bank holiday weekend: a pair of swans have decided to join the swimmers. Needless to say we’re all avoiding mankind eye contact with them in case one or both decides to murder us 🦢
Indeed. A good litmus test too: if someone doesn't get the Muppets then, well, we have little to talk about 🫠
Impossible not to hum “We want you, we want you, we want you as a new recruit” (IYKYK, fellow Muppets fans) youtu.be/GoTb97syZ8o?...
It’s a bubble and when it pops things are going to get very ugly. The US has gone all in on gen AI. There’s not much else going on. fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
Roll of Honour.
Urgh, and they have Mearsheimer in the mix too. Hard pass
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Painful, no?
Did the LLM write this post for Mr “Effective Altruism”?!Because he seems to be hallucinating
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
Maine deserves better than Susan Collins. Good luck Mr Platner!
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
Sitting in the Oval Office alongside Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Trump launched into a tirade against mail-in voting, calling it corrupt and vowing to do “everything possible to get rid of mail-in ballots.” Trump voted by mail in 2020.
Volodymyr Zelensky wore a modified suit for today's meeting with President Trump. But where was his eyeliner? by J.D. Vance
Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive
Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces. www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
What a beautiful piece by Hepworth. So glad it's been bought for the nation. Congratulations @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social 👏 👏 👏 Looking forward to seeing it when I next visit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We tried watching a few minutes of this while it was broadcast and my blood pressure could not take it. How Zelenskyy manages to keep is cool is 🤯🤯🤯
Trump’s adoration is reserved for dictators, not defenders of freedom.
Also uncannily similar to psychopath grandson Eddie Harrigan in ‘Mobland’ 👀
a golden girls tv/movie crossover: thread
Just when you think Trump and his goons can’t sink any lower, they always do
Pathetic.
"showy" is such a wonderful put-down.
Looking forward to reading this issue! 💁♀️ If you’re a subscriber or buy a physical copy in a shop then yours truly has a Norwegian recipe in the new ‘Diaspora Dinners’ column. Do report back if you make it…🇳🇴👩🍳⏲️
The wholesome content we all need right now 🙌
I want to make this pickle — which is fresh salad in the winter. The scale of the garden is epic and the house is beautiful. Stay to watch the juices drip from a ripe cut melon.
True, although surely he can extort other nations to compensate for whatever the Kremlin has given him?! (Unlikely, I know)
Lord knows what they have on him but why on earth doesn’t he just call their bluff and release himself from Moscow’s iron grip? What does he really have to lose at this stage? 🤦♀️
they're not going to do what they've failed to do for years. Trump is a compromised patsy asset.
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The FT remains the only good global newspaper
Short stories, crime fic, spy thrillers and graphic novels always get me out of any reading slump 📚
How to break out of a summer reading slump: on.ft.com/3Hz1aRO
I called it!
Both Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris warned us, and here we are. Voting for Trump was always a vote for the humiliation of America 🤷♀️
This has been reported in a few outlets of late, I guess he must have developed quite a rapport with Stoltenberg while he was NATO Sec-Gen? (That phone call will no doubt have required a level of diplomatic skill most of us do not possess! 🫣)
A+ trolling from Newsom’s team
This really drives home that this isn’t a crackdown, or an occupation, it’s a propaganda exercise. Sure, it’s a terrifying one, but don’t let it get to you too hard - that’s exactly what it’s supposed to do.
🔴'Europe Has to Give Up Its Freudian Denial About What's Happening in the United States and Mobilise' @heidicuda.bsky.social speaks to Professor of Intellectual History Marci Shore on where Europe finds itself amid the aggression of Vladimir Putin www.bylinesupplement.com/p/europe-has...
Needy or what?
funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
And have some hungry Alaskan bears been included in the welcome party for this murderous dictator when he arrives?
Inevitably
Yet again, merely by being interested in economic reality, provable financial value and hard-headed market analysis, the FT has become a strong centre-left voice. The FT hasn’t changed its position; the right wing has just gone on a journey to cloud cuckoo land economically in the past 10 years.
Soil and spoil: hallmarks of the Trump era
American Taliban.
I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.
SPOIL, not soil (although soil is apt. His entire reign is soiling all that is good and decent about America)
No surprise at all that Trump will soil the Republic’s Semiquincentennial next year with his “interpretation of American history”
Incorporate this name into one of your future novels, pleaaaseee
Good grief
Incidentally, if you read the journal article, this is SUCH a misleading headline. The guy had this mad idea "everyone knows salt is bad for you but I can only find info about reducing sodium, what if the chloride is the real problem?" So he asked ChatGPT "what can I substitute for chloride"...
According to Lime: “their bikes are maintained to all required standards.” Interesting, because the last two times I hired a Lime bike the brakes were shonky. Hire them at your own risk because they are definitely *not* maintaining the fleet to a safe standard
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
"we used the copyrighted works of 7 million authors so we couldn't possibly afford to compensate them all" doesn't sound like a winning argument to me, but I guess that's why I'm not a billionaire LLM venture capitalist: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
Let’s hope so. Which is why anyone bending the knee or sucking up to the Mad King *now* when his ineptitude is on full display just beggars belief
❗️Everyone sees that there is no real step by the Russian Federation towards peace, – Zelensky. If the Russian Federation does not want to stop the war, then it is necessary to stop its economy. Sanctions are needed, pressure is needed.
What a delicious combo to soothe an ailing traveller’s brow 🪽
This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
strong Madness of King George energy
Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...
Oh my goodness! Yes that narrow slice of New Hampshire coastline is wonderful (my maternal grandfather retired to nearby North Hampton but spent summers up in NH from the 60s onwards)
Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.
Thanks dude! No cake today (and it’s a Monday so no rest for the wicked) but had a delicious pre-birthday brunch yesterday at Ottolenghi so can’t complain 🥰
If we follow their lunatic logic to its completion, then yes. Catapult the whingeing toad across the Channel!
Lolz
SEND THEM BACK. SEE ALSO: THE NORMANS. reclaim the land they stole for the common man. lets have a REALLY HARD brexit.
Thank you! My other half already treated me to a pre-birthday brunch yesterday at Ottolenghi in Hampstead. Delicious eggs and pancakes FTW. If I can get my work done in time today we may sneak into Soho for a bowl of Koya udon noodles, followed by gelato at Gelupo 🎉
Dear god 🤪
It’s my birthday and yes, I would quite like an adult-sized version of this shirt with Snoopy playing tennis, please and thank you. ( (Photo taken at Rye Beach Club, New Hampshire a few decades ago 🫠) #LeoSeason 🦁♌️👑
Ditto Farage & Co constantly badmouthing Britain.
Amen. Unless you’re using it to cure cancer I don’t want to hear about how you “just use AI to generate a hilarious image of my cat in a kimono”
That rings true. I recall someone saying shortly after the referendum in 2016 in a decade or two’s time very few people in this country would admit to voting for Brexit or want to discuss it in any meaningful way.
Understatement of the century, Dr Keith! People definitely strange 🫠