Heartened to see that I am not the only one who was taken aback by agreeing with Bret Stephens. His NYT piece against AI is exactly right.

Aastha पास्ता@aasthauprety.bsky.social · 7h ago

ok go off bret stephens?? “We become better writers by the constant effort that mundane writing demands. We become better thinkers by investing into that writing a degree of attention we’d never give it if we relinquished the task to A.I.”

One of those very rare days when Bret Stephens gets something right! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

nytimes.com

big respect for Wenger dusting off the old "I didn't see the incident" about Infantino's plans www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Is there a "Cambridge change" plagiarism joke someone can make? It's beyond me, but I'm sure there's something there.

July 28 #OA spotlight: Kate Nave's A DRIVE TO SURVIVE @mitpress.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle

direct.mit.edu

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · last wk.

For next week's @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference at NYU, I'll continue to post highlights from the @mitpress.bsky.social OA platform, #D2O. Today's selection is EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE by @macrinephd.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Watching everyone at last turn on Infantino it’s reassuring to see there is a level of in-your-face institution-destroying corruption that will eventually get a person thrown out of leading a sport, and we can therefore hope that one day that standard might apply to people leading a country.

"Almost half of Serie A clubs offer an adult season ticket for €300 or less." Stares at my annual payment to Spurs.

Calcio England@calcioengland.bsky.social · 3d ago

🎟️🇮🇹 How much does it cost to watch Italian football in 2026/27? We compare season ticket prices across #SerieA - ranking each club by price and revealing where you can watch football for just £9.45 per game Read more 👉 calcioengland.com/2026/07/31/j...

The White House plan to attract manufacturing businesses with a volatile regulatory environment, new arbitrary taxes (subject to change on a whim), and sending secret police to harass foreign workers has not led to more factory construction in the US. Why didn’t that work? I was told it would work.

"Howe-away the lads" should surely be a headline somewhere

Eddie Howe did some impressive sporting things at New Castle, but he should also be remembered as a fine servant of sportwashing.

You simply don't get this sort of content on the Leiter Reports.

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · last wk.

Alex Rails again.

Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

Here's, roughly, how I see what FIFA are doing to us: Imagine you have a family tradition of going on holiday, and then your tight relative starts administering it and a bunch of extra charges keep popping up.

Andrew Edgar's excellent short piece "Super Leagues and Sacred Spaces" is an excellent read in the context of FIFA's absurd commercialization plans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Super Leagues and Sacred Sites

Published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2021)

tandfonline.com

The playlist at the gym is pretty standard and, frankly, I don't believe Sheryl Crowe's cover of *The First Cut Is the Deepest* should be on it.

Philosopher of sport here: clicking your fingers to get your opponent out is probably bad.

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

🎶 It's the CIRCLE OF LIIIIIFE!

Pops@pops131.bsky.social · last wk.

He should get the medal of freedom for what he did!

Bet their parents spent a fortune on windows.

no amnesty

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2w ago

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not convinced that this is a 5-minute crafte

This is the best looking loaf of bread I've ever made

Spent the afternoon (lightly) revising a book manuscript and this beer tastes all the better for it.

think what you will of the Amaury family, but the NYT's entirely negative portrait of their alleged greed & lucrative ownership of the Tour de France misses a crucial part of their business model while the Tour is the only cycling race around that generates 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Is the Amaury Family, Owners of the Tour de France, Hurting Cycling?

The Amaurys of Paris own the race, but won’t share any of the $170 million in media revenue. Sponsors and riders say their resistance is dooming the sport.

nytimes.com

Who do we think is getting the next FIFA Peace Prize?

Some of the internal offices/people I have to email at work have a system where it sets up a ticket every time you email them. So, if you just email with "Thanks!", it sets up a new ticket. It's an incentive against basic politeness.

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