Tootfinder

Ireland has been good to me this Christmas.

Dawn over Gothenburg

A nice piece of work, I hope it encourages improvements!
Towards a science of AI agent reliability
AI 'reliability lags capability, and that reliability will remain a barrier to deployment unless researchers and developers focus effort on improving reliability as a separate dimension from accuracy'
https://…

New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

Neben der blanken Verachtung für die arbeitende Bevölkerung sind es vor allem die vorgespielte Ignoranz und bodenlose Heuchelei, die mich anwidern.
Dieselben Leute wollen, dass Mütter zu Hause bleiben. Oder sind gegen breitere Angebote zur psychischen Gesundheit. Oder machen Kinderbetreuung teurer. Oder sind gegen gesetzlich garantierte Home-Office Tage.
Wie lässt es sich denn mit den klassischen CDU-Werten vereinbaren, wenn quasi alle Familien 200% arbeiten? Will die CDU jetzt d…

"Green spaces should be the norm for all new housing developments in England, guidelines say"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Houses

Ireland continues to be good to me this Christmas…

"Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit"
https://wiki.dnb.de/spaces/GND/blog/2026/01/26/483428935/Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit
"Anfang des Jahres wurden die

Did parkrun in the drizzle and now I get to cosy up at home in the warm and dry for a few hours with nothing more demanding than coffee, the newspaper and a sleepy dog

Interesting German project on granular tracking of renewable energy for (public) EV charging, and the use of data spaces to enable safe data exchange between various actors
https://www.dena.de/infocenter/gruener-strom-zum-mitnehmen/

Grüner Strom zum Mitnehmen
Wie sorgen virtuelle Bilanzierung und digitale Verbrauchsnachweise für Transparenz über grünen Strom bei Ladevorgängen? Antworten liefert das Factsheet.

Einstein & The Rise of Nuisance Tech - by Marc Watkins https://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/einstein-and-the-rise-of-nuisance

Einstein & The Rise of Nuisance Tech
AI may be one of the most transformative innovations of our lifetime, but not when it is treated as spam.

Moderators of tech(-adjacent) Discord servers: are y’all getting hit with spam of people advertising their services for AI or blockchain projects?
I ask because a few servers I mod have had a very noticeable uptick of such drive-by self-promo. It’s specifically webdev servers, and none of those servers have advertised themselves as spaces for AI or blockchain interests…

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

FT: 'Evid­ence that AI ‘mem­or­ises’ copy­righted nov­els brings cliff­hanger moment for labs'
'The top AI mod­els can be promp­ted to gen­er­ate near-ver­batim cop­ies of best­selling nov­els, rais­ing fresh ques­tions about the industry’s claim that its sys­tems do not store copy­righted works. ...
Mem­or­isa­tion could also have ser­i­ous implic­a­tions in other sec­tors such as health­care and edu­ca­tion where leak­age of any train­ing data could lead to pri­vac…

The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hollywood-film-tarantino-kill-bill/

The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino
With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

"Judi Dench backs campaign to protect London’s green spaces from developers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r

„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“

Regarding the Erasure of Iranian Uprising - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
The most recent state crackdown on Iranian protesters stands among the most violent suppressions of public dissent in Iran’s modern history. Protesters have been killed, blinded, and mass-arrested. As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence… Read More »

Conformal Einstein spaces and conformally covariant operators
Alfonso Garc\'ia-Parrado, J\'onatan Herrera, Miguel Vadillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17044 https://

Currently very unimpressed with Mikrotik. They introduced breaking changes to how containers work in RouterOS 7.20 last year, and now they're on 7.21, but their documentation STILL reflects the deprecated and now-unavailable <=7.19.6 mount syntax (`mounts=`) and does not document the new `mount=` and `mountlist=` syntax in any way.
What the fuck, Mikrotik? How is this any way to do releases?

Suit Argues for Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Spaces | THE CITY — NYC News https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/19/privately-owned-public-spaces-skadden-brookfield-lawsuit/

Suit Argues for Free Speech in Privately Owned Public Spaces
A Brooklyn attorney protesting the firm Skadden, Arps for its $100 million deal with the Trump administration fights for his right to send a message on the plaza outside its midtown office.

Those who have read #InfiniteJest knew that eventually all roads would lead to this: ONAN, the "Organization of North American Nations". #DFW #DFWwouldhaveknownwhattosay

On this Friday before @… 's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, there are 499 registered participants!
I expect it's a mix of fans, the curious and sceptics; old hands who've seen AI winters and newcomers finally dipping a toe in.
You're all welcome to #FF2025

One of the stupidest fixes I ever did (after two days of searching how to fix the problem).
The problem was Kobo Books iOS app opening links to book chapters inside popups, instead of jumping to the target page.
😞
#epub #kobo

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
toXiv_bot_toot

Firefox updated, and I can now block AI «improvements» with one click. Excellent that they came to their senses at Mozilla.

I guess I’m going to get to know the peeps at Norfolk Police quite well over the next few months. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/14/public-should-heed-forthcoming-rules-on-single-sex-spaces-says-uk-equ…

Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/seafaring-history-mary-ann…

SNC K\"ahler-Einstein metrics and RCD spaces
Martin de Borbon, Cristiano Spotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18741 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18741

"Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city"
#Vienna #Environment

Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city | The Optimist Daily
Vienna is replacing parking spaces with green areas to cool streets, cut traffic, and make room for people. Other cities are taking note.

Alle sollten dieses Interview von @… mit Gert Pickel lesen.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/d…

Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitor: "Autoritär verhält sich die AfD ja nur gegenüber anderen"
Ein Drittel der Sachsen-Anhalter will laut einer Umfrage eine Revolution. Ein Gespräch mit dem Forschungsleiter über fragile Demokraten und rechte Umsturzfantasien.

Det er snart 10 år siden jeg var med på å skrive denne kronikken om fremtiden for Den norske filmskolen. Jeg står fremdeles for innholdet, men dessverre virker det som de viktigste kampene er tapt.
Den norske filmskolen i et nytt fusjonert landskap https://www.

Den norske filmskolen i et nytt fusjonert landskap
Handlefriheten som Filmskolen på Lillehammer har vært avhengig av for å skape en fremragende utdanning, er under sterkt press. En rekke organisasjoner er bekymret i kjølvannet av fusjonen mellom høgskolene Lillehammer og Hedmark.

Språk er makt. Vi bŸr ikke la KI ta den makten fra oss. https://jilltxt.net/sprak-er-makt-vi-bor-ikke-la-ki-ta-den-makten-fra-oss/

Språk er makt. Vi bør ikke la KI ta den makten fra oss.
Readers who don’t read Norwegian: sorry. This is in Norwegian because it is commenting on a current debate in Norwegian media. Asle Tojes debattinnlegg «får KI-alarmen til å gå,» skriver…

And this is partly how it happens: 'Clarivate...defines anything that doesn't appear in [their] indexes as either non-existing, or "non-scholarly" ... Neither academia nor the tech industry are short on hubris, but even in that context, "anything not listed in our proprietary databases isn't credible" is a pretty eyebrow-raising claim.' @…

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening https://theconversation.com/ai-induced-cultural-stagnation-is-no-longer-speculation-its-already-happening-272488

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.

L1-2-type surfaces in 3-dimensional De Sitter and anti De Sitter spaces
S. Carolina Garc\'ia-Mart\'inez, Pascual Lucas, H. Fabi\'an Ram\'irez-Ospina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18019

Well, at least the people redacting the #EpsteinFiles categorized some of it. (Dataset 03, File EFTA00004800.pdf)
#Epstein #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/28/of-course-he-abused-p…

‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries - congratulations ArtUK! An incredible milestone
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/23/art-uk-online-public-art-database-ben-terre…

TIL @… is worker-owned. Yet another reason to switch.

Alondra Nelson giving a fascinating talk on Algorithmic #Agnotology @ #IASEAI @unesco in Paris. #IASEAI26 #Epistemology

'Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue..., had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes'
https://www.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

Replaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[1/1]:
- Weighted GJMS operators on smooth metric measure spaces
Ayush Khaitan
https:/…

The LIBER AI Taskforce has launched a series of short seminars! Friday's first seminar is very much a listening exercise to learn where European research libraries are with AI in libraries from participants https://libereurope.eu/article/liber-l

LIBER Launches a Webinar Series on Artificial Intelligence: AI Pulse - LIBER Europe

The Problem with AI “Artists” – O’Reilly https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-problem-with-ai-artists/

The Problem with AI "Artists"
Their emergence threatens creative labor and undermines what makes us human.

You might need to click 'view on web' to watch this, but it's worth it for a fuller understanding of life with a whippet https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU277SDjqnY/

Kurze Interviews mit Fiesen Männern

Great post from Lucie and ACMI folk: Making museums legible for machines (without breaking the human experience) | by Lucie Paterson | Jan, 2026 | ACMI LABS
https://labs.acmi.net.au/making-museums-legible-for-machines…

Making museums legible for machines (without breaking the human experience)
Background

Sometimes it’s all about taking a break and looking out the window at just the right time.

Evaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation | by Indigo Holcombe-James | ACMI LABS (from 2024 - how are these questions shaping up in 2026?)
https://labs.acmi.net.au/evaluating-the-multiplatform-museum-in-an-age-of-a…

Evaluating the multiplatform museum in an age of automation
I gave this talk as part of the Australian Museums and Galleries Association (AMAGA) Evaluation National Network panel convened by Lynda…

How far back in time can you understand English? https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough. | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mark-carney-davos-speech-aftermath/

Mark Carney Knows the Old World Is Dying. But His New World Isn’t Good Enough.
The Canadian prime minister offered a radical analysis of the collapse of the liberal world order. His response to that collapse is unacceptably conservative.

Velkommen etter! Hilsen venstresida | Klassekampen https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2026-01-24/velkommen-etter-hilsen-venstresida/HyJL

Velkommen etter! Hilsen venstresida
I løpet av få dager er relasjonene innad i Vesten totalt endret. Vi ba et stjernelag av stemmer fra venstresida dele sine tanker om skilsmisseoppgjøret i Sveits.

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ella Baron on AI at Christmas – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/dec/23/ella-baron-ai-at-christmas-chatgpt-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things

'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching the videos from the 2025 Fantastic Futures conference! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMW…

"If the US government is against #ai #safety, then #aisafety must be a good thing!" #iaseai

Between the Donroe and Carney Doctrines https://jacobin.com/2026/01/carney-davos-speech-international-multipolarity/

Between the Donroe and Carney Doctrines
At Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.

A Brief Survey of Canadian Political Thrillers https://reactormag.com/a-brief-survey-of-canadian-political-thrillers/

A Brief Survey of Canadian Political Thrillers - Reactor
You may be surprised to learn that "Canadian thriller" is not an oxymoron.

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy.
The current trajectory of AI may have similar effects on how people engage with computers as fast food has on how we engage with eating, writes David Brody.

Anybody going to #IASEAI #IASEAI26 in Paris next week (@iaseai.bsky.social)? @fnieser.bsky.social and myself will be there if you want to talk about AI & education, #digitalhumanities, epi…

Friends with teenage or young adult sons - do you talk to them about the language they see online and in person?
From: @…
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/

Nothing unusual to see here. Just the Canadian armed forces training for to meet the greatest military threat they currently face … [checks notes] … an invasion by the US.

'you can’t get enough of what you don’t need'
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/

The tragic life and principled politics of Trần Đức Thảo | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragic-life-and-principled-politics-of-tran-duc-thao?utm_source=rss-feed

The tragic life and principled politics of Trần Đức Thảo | Aeon Essays
How the persecuted Vietnamese philosopher became one of the first theorists of the divide between colonised and coloniser

En kanadisk bankmann har tatt livet av Vestens livslŸgn | Klassekampen https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2026-01-22/en-kanadisk-bankmann-har-tatt-livet-av-vestens-livslogn/d3En

En kanadisk bankmann har tatt livet av Vestens livsløgn
Mark Carney vil alliere verden mot amerikansk imperialisme.

The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/25/titanic-sinclair-c5-brexit-museum-of-failure-coming-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Truer words were never spoken. I will die on this hill too! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/25/the-hill-i-will-die-on-fruit-with-meat-cranberry-sauce-roas…

For #IIIF / digital collections folk, 'Requirements for core Annotation properties' need review/input 'to define the requirements for relationships like body, target, motivation, source... these four are very inconsistent in the way they're used in Annotation documents'

Requirements for core Annotation properties · Issue #2426 · IIIF/api
In 4.0, we are importing the annotation properties to IIIF as the 3d work requires a lot of extensions and processing rules. This means that we need to define the requirements for relationships lik...

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

RT: Diane Zorich
‪@dzorich.bsky.social€
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released a draft of the WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Stakeholders invited to comment on draft by March 22, 2026.
https://w…

Document Details

#FF2025 handing over to #FF2026!

I have, to date, only read one Discworld book.
I believe my antidote to 2026 might be reading the rest of them…

Megan Gooch and Amy Warner May on survey results - what staff want their CEO to know about AI, and what they're not telling their CEO! #ff2025

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts https://theconversation.com/would-you-use-ai-to-break-writers-block-we-asked-5-experts-271627

Would you use AI to break writer’s block? We asked 5 experts
A publishing giant believes AI can help break writers’ block. We asked 5 creative writing experts if they’d use it that way – and the range of results surprised us.

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/meet-veronika-the-tool-using-cow/

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow
Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, suggesting scientists have underestimated cow cognition...

I love this, from the National Theatre: 'On Thursday 12 March (7pm GMT), lose yourself in the hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest, featuring the brilliant Ncuti Gatwa, at our free YouTube premiere' - online for a week, with lots of accessibility features for the hard of hearing.
https://www.

How on earth do you *permanently* opt out of Dropbox moving file storage to MacOS' weird cloud location?
Failing that, are there alternatives with the same basic 'sync files across multiple devices and allow shared access' functions? I don't want to lose the ability to share folders with family

'Automate tasks, not jobs' - a great headline from a report on 'the AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services' https://stormid.com/research/

Automate tasks, not jobs: The AI opportunity for Scotland’s public services
Independent analysis identifying the highest value public sector workflows for AI driven productivity gains.

Nesta poll on public attitudes to AI in the public sector: 'Top concerns centre on AI inaccuracy, over-reliance and privacy risks'
https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/five-essential-insights-for-public-sector-managers-on-a…

Five essential insights for public sector managers on AI and public trust
Our findings highlight five critical areas of concern and support that should inform how public sector organisations approach AI adoption

Greier vi å utnytte det norske momentum? | Rushprint https://rushprint.no/2026/01/greier-vi-a-utnytte-det-norske-momentum/

Greier vi å utnytte det norske momentum?
Norsk film har nå et momentum internasjonalt som vi aldri har opplevd før. Er vi smarte nok til å utnytte det?

Just in case people didn’t realize before: the reason Trump is so obsessed with big things is because he himself is so very, very small.
Trump withdraws invitation for Canada to join his global ‘board of peace’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

How human is a humanoid? https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview/how-human-is-a-humanoid?e=13e1f839f6

I'm so tempted to write papers for high impact journals that basically say 'any literature review on practices in cultural heritage organisations / GLAMs that only uses scientific databases is incomplete'. After all, who has the time, energy and motivation to publish in those systems? Not practitioners!

Good People Also Get What’s Coming to Them: Revisiting The Twilight Zone’s Christmas Episodes https://reactormag.com/revisiting-the-twilight-zone-christmas-episodes/

Good People Also Get What's Coming to Them: Revisiting The Twilight Zone’s Christmas Episodes - Reactor
The Twilight Zone's Christmas episodes may seem like anomalies, but they get to the heart of the sci-fi series

Does your Friday need a burst of inspiration? Try @arnicas.bsky.social's 'Image Prompt Inspiration: 3 random nouns and CC images from Flickr (British Library scans as default)' (yay for open access images!)
https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/

Vi har lyst ut to stipendiatstillinger knyttet til doktorgradsprogrammet FILMART ved INN (https://www.inn.no/forskning/doktorgradsutdanning/filmart/). Stipendiatene skal knyttes til det nasjonale KI-senteret MishMash (

Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid i film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer - Universitetet i Innlandet
Ph.d.-programmet ved Fakultet for film, TV og spill er forankret i kunstnerisk praksis. Fagfeltet er «film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer», og det er åpent både for de som arbeider innenfor mer tradisjonelle filmfaglige disipliner og utøvere som utforsker nye teknologier og format.

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over: 'I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.
...know what you’re trading.'

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, who I always thought of as one of the more dogmatically right-wing columnists in Canadian media back when I lived there 20 years ago, delivers one of the most lucid and comprehensive analyses of Trump and his so-called administration I have seen.
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border

The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
A view from our neighbor

I’m confused. When did MTG become the voice of reason and the sane one in the US Republican Party…?
bird.makeup - Tweet https://bird.makeup/users/repmtg/statuses/2000597575901327850

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak. This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies. Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It’s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

Det er fŸrst halvveis ned i denne saker det kommer noen nyanseringer; fŸrste halvdel setter opp tradisjonell kateterundervisning og aktivitetsbasert læring som motsetninger — det er de ikke nŸdvendigvis. Det er helt klart elever (og studenter) trenger en lærer som kan stoffet de underviser i og setter rammene og grunnprinsippene for læring. Men det er også riktig at vi lærer mer og raskere gjennom å aktiveres; passiv klasseromsundervisning kan fungere på kort sikt (som å forberede til en eks…

Vil ha mer tradisjonell matteundervisning framfor utforsking i klasserommet
­

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

#SilentSunday

‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/21/paul-robeson-hollywood-blacklist-mccarthyism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
Very interesting essay about what does *not* cause a decline in our attention spa…