Have you heard about the mathematician who published her first paper in Nature at the age of 10?
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Have you heard about the mathematician who published her first paper in Nature at the age of 10?
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” struggle with decision-making.
The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale measures susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
I gave Facebook my biometric data, in an attempt not to lose my account. They delted it anyway. And has my biometric data. This ... This is so much worse.
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.
Across social media platforms, political posting is linked to affective polarization--extreme users post the most.
As polarized partisans increasingly dominate the conversation, casual users disengage and the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more extreme. arxiv.org/html/2510.25...
Behiiv? Ikke sjekka selv, men kjenner de som elsker plattformen. Ghost gir deg gratis test mnd. Migrerte den engelske bloggen min dit via Wordpress da Typepad stengte - men pt er den bare et arkiv jeg trenger å rydde i. Har ikke egentlig fått teste Ghost skikkelig
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel | Janine di Giovanni
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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I've been interviewed on Plutopia News Network!
Audio:
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Video: (if you need to see my untidy office):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciyL....
NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Project 2025 laid the groundwork for Wednesday’s raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/proj...
@sarahemarshall.bsky.social: “Reporters and editors are good at piecing together information. But they may have jumped to the wrong conclusions.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/a-my...
In a culture that prizes efficiency, sleep is often seen as a waste of time, or something to ‘hack’. But, as @saraprotasi.bsky.social argues, sleep is more than just a tool for higher productivity; it is intrinsically valuable and has its own aesthetic pleasures to be enjoyed aeon.co/essays/sleep...
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Across social media sites, political posting is tightly linked to affective #polarization - the most partisan users post the most
As casual users disengage & polarized partisans remain vocal, the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more ideologically extreme
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
British primatologist Jane Goodall visits a chimp rescue center on June 9, 2018, in Entebbe, Uganda.
3 Ways Jane Goodall Challenged What It Means to Be a Scientist 🏺🧪👩🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...
Here are three big ways that Jane Goodall transformed science
Hmm... jeg synes jo Linn har gode priser & er superflink, dog i Ski: linnrammerinn.no
The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...
Spot the North-American anomaly: only region where social media use is still growing.
Great work by the FT’s @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/a072... “Have we passed peak social media?”
Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
I love how Sam Altman is all "Oh, some silly start-ups might be over-valued, but not us, guv. Oh no, we're all value, we are."
“Norwegian journalism is famously vibrant and there is the highest willingness to pay in the world. At the same time, news in Norway tends to be very traditional ... Young men especially are gravitating away from traditional outlets.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
One of my favorite neuroscience lessons:
When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus. But it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic.
The brain becomes more efficient in a single hour: mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew...
