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"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

Serena Williams is back.
First, by teaming up with rising Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a straight-sets win over the No. 3 seeds in women’s doubles at the Queen’s grass-court tournament in London,
Williams sent a message to the tennis world that it may be in for an interesting summer.
Then she sent an even bigger message, by accepting a wild card into the singles at Wimbledon, which she has won seven times.
Williams’ comeback comes just under one year after she d…

Serena Williams and the coming reckoning with GLP-1s and performance enhancement
GLP-1s are not prohibited; the way they work means they might never be. Anti-doping authorities are still monitoring how athletes use them.

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

#FlyingLess puts you in iconic #trains, like this Polish-German InterCity. That’s a decent way to end the #EAAST conference. Including, of course,
VEGAN CABBAGE!🥬

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

I came across this short, factual documentary.
The video from is lifted from Instagram but I am re-sharing it here, as it is the type of daily interaction that all unicyclists can related to.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaWF2PkSrit/

Attorneys for Wynnie Savageford,
a woman who watched in real time as immigration agents shot Alex Pretti to death in Minneapolis this January,
revealed that she has met with the investigators from the FBI and Justice Department for a witness interview.
It’s been a hard road to this moment, her attorney James Cook told HuffPost on Friday.
Negotiations for the interview were in the works for weeks as Cook secured immunity for Savageford so she could testify freely an…

She Watched Agents Kill Alex Pretti From The Backseat Of An ICE Vehicle. Now She Can Share What She Saw.
She’s been experiencing some trauma,” James Cook, an attorney for Wynnie Savageford, told HuffPost.

Tour de Planet
Are bikes DEI, or are they a miracle? (Or both?)
BILL MCKIBBEN
JUL 11
The most useful thing I did this week was appear on Ezra Klein’s New York Times podcast to talk about the rise of clean energy. He framed the story well, and asked generous and sharp questions, and my only regret is that I was too jacked up going in (this is one of the very few remaining real forums in American journalism) and so I think I interrupted him at several points when I just…

Q&A with Ellie Austin about being the editorial director of Fortune's Most Powerful Women franchise, "journalist as a creator and entrepreneur" model, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)
https://meredithandthemedia.substack.com/p/…

An Interview: Ellie Austin, Fortune
This week, I sat down with Fortune’s Ellie Austin, editorial director of Most Powerful Women and anchor of Fortune Daily.

Women in the US army are more likely to be killed by fellow servicemen than enemy combatants,
according to an analysis by the Intercept.
This found:
“Between 2011 and August 2025,
at least 41 women died by homicide in the Army
– more than half of them at the hands of other service members or veterans.”
The analysis further noted “that active-duty Army women face a higher risk of homicide than male soldiers,
the opposite of national and global trend…

Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants
A first-of-its-kind investigation by The Intercept found that the greatest threats to women serving in the Army come at the hands of male soldiers.