the degree of both autonomy and corruption inside tiny police departments in the U.S. is ridiculous.
Aaron Cynic@aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2d agoIncredible headline here (among other things)
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Personal account Assoc. prof - Org Studies Critical Management + memory and organizational history; Business+politics. EiC: MOH Ass Ed: @ ML PQ2@CNPq "Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world” (F. Pessoa)
Aaron Cynic@aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2d ago
We use the randomized lottery to break down the overall effect on US employment into part based on substitution (firms swapping natives & immigrants in the same role) versus scale (firms scaling up or down overall operations) The scale effect dominates—>
Firms allowed to hire immigrant manual laborers expand to hire more Americans
The US government has recently enacted the largest shift in immigration policy since 1924. As officials restrict unauthorized immigration, they face a stark choice: create offsetting lawful channels f...
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The family of a 37-year-old woman who died while pregnant filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, alleging state law prevented her from getting a potentially life-saving abortion.
Family of Texas woman who died after being denied an abortion sues Paxton, medical providers
“The basic principle here is you cannot take away someone’s life, as a state, and not be held liable for doing so,” a lawyer for the family said.
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This is the kind of headline opportunity which only comes along once or twice in a subeditor's career
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 11h agoNew evidence shows that you are only slightly hotter than a T. rex
Vinícius Jr fez provavelmente o ato mais corajoso da carreira. Junto com Mbappé e Konaté cobriu a frase de apoio à Ceita q o Real Madrid obrigou os jogadores a usar. A "invasão" de Ceuta está sendo usada por supremacistas como desculpa p/ a "remigração". www.noticiasaominuto.com.br/esporte/2413...
Vinícius, Mbappé e Konaté recusam gesto pró-Ceuta antes de jogo
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On Tuesday night, Wandsworth’s half-century era of ultra-low council tax came to an end as the borough’s Conservative administration announced plans for a 94% rise, Britain’s biggest ever annual increase. Read more: ft.trib.al/FOb8CCY
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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In February 2027, Tate Modern will present its first ever exhibition focusing on the work of Claude Monet. Staged 100 years after his death, the show will feature more than 60 paintings, it will be the UK’s largest presentation of Monet’s work in nearly a decade.
At least 14 have been killed after a bombed-out building collapses in Gaza. It underscores how desperate living conditions have grown for Palestinians as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas stalls.
A damaged building collapses in Gaza, killing at least 14, and other Mideast developments
A building housing displaced Palestinian families has collapsed in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, most of them women and children.
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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots. The bloc will now vote on the proposal, which could spark tensions with U.S. President Trump, who has long criticized Europe’s tech regulations.
EU chief proposes social media ban for kids under 13
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots.
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"Mamãe, por que você está azul?" Hj nos deixou Amelinha Teles. Quando foi presa na ditadura, levaram seus filhos, de 4 e 5 anos, para ver a mãe após horas de tortura na "cadeira de dragão", uma cadeira elétrica. Estava nua, vomitada, urinada e evacuada.
'Tortura é ferida que não cicatriza', diz Amelinha, vítima da ditadura
"Mamãe, por que você está azul?". A pergunta feita pela filha Janaína, aos 5 anos, ainda ecoa no ouvido de Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles quase 50 anos depois. Aos 77 anos, Maria Amélia é Amelinha Tele...
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Superb exposition from William Pettigrew of how slave trading (let alone the whole plantation complex that depended on it) was “enmeshed in the processes that produced the nation we know today”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/comm...
Freedom-loving Britain was at the heart of the 18th century slave trade – and this register proves it | William Pettigrew
Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture
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Is Harvard important? Yes. It’s it a useful reference point for understanding US higher education? Absolutely not. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem
An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?
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The world’s scientists breathed a sigh of relief this week as temperatures in the UK dropped below 35 degrees, meaning that everything is fine and we can go back to burning fossil fuels forever without any worries. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1682, August 2026.
They've spent 4 years chanting "The Future is arriving so fast/We are not prepared/We need more time." But their theory of governance (to the extent they have one at all) is "we build The Future. Society adapts." There is no "making wise use of the time," bc that's not how governance works.
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5d agoI resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
At our T&F journal we now sometimes get obviously AI-generated papers that we reject only to see submitted again after being "humanized" (whether humanly-humanized or bot-humanized, who knows) 😬 It's like being at war with our own publisher over what constitutes academic writing, bot or not 🤖
Everyone knows AI-written academic papers are embarrassing now, including their "authors", which is why even the publishers - who stand to benefit most from AI-amplified publication volumes - are now offering "Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts" 🤯
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d agoI will go back to drive thru before I hire a bot to edit the bot slop so it sounds like what bot thinks a human sounds.
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Says something that the author can’t imagine the super intelligent AI would want to learn about people instead of kill them.
Inspirada na figura de João Francisco dos Santos, a montagem do Grupo dos Dez combina teatro e música para refletir sobre marginalidade, preconceito, violência e resistência na sociedade brasileira almapreta.com.br/sessao/cultu...
Musical 'Madame Satã' tem apresentações gratuitas em SP
Itaú Cultural recebe o musical "Madame Satã", que revisita a trajetória de um dos personagens mais emblemáticos da boemia carioca.
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UK charges three times as much as other G7 countries for citizenship ft.trib.al/Jd9kxwS
UK charges three times as much as other G7 countries for citizenship
Think-tank says high cost combined with tougher settlement rules risks creating ‘an expanding subclass’
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This is sort of a Rorschach test -- do you see "interest rates spiking scarily due to unsustainable government debt/the breakdown of the dollar system/etc", or do you see "interest rates returning to historically normal levels after the extraordinary monetary easing of the GFC-pandemic period"?
The Weekday@professormusgrave.bsky.social · last wk.it's cool, so cool
One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.
The American Bar Association, the lawyers group that sets standards for the legal profession, eliminated on Tuesday a diversity requirement for law schools after facing pressure from the Trump administration.
American Bar Association Ends D.E.I. Standards Under Trump Pressure
The group that accredits law schools voted to eliminate a requirement that the schools show a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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A punishing combination of record debt and high borrowing costs has pushed the world's annual interest bill to more than $2tn, eating up tax revenues, destabilising governments — and creating a "doom loop" that some fear may be hard to break. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/vJh1NFE
After the landslide by Germany's right-extremist AfD, the head of the editorial board for Springer's Welt--and Politico and Business Insider in the U.S.--trumpets: "The left is over."
