I like this, I think

Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR)@fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 6h ago

🚨🇺🇾 More on the exclusive story of the day: Ronald Araujo will join Liverpool, it’s all done and documents being signed in 24h. The loan agreement includes a BUY OPTION clause, up to #LFC as it’s NOT mandatory. Barcelona already gave green light. 🔴✈️

A thing that is funny when we travel is that I broadly have a “we’re all in solidarity” attitude towards fellow travelers, even when I think they’re being dumb. A, by contrast, is strongly “f**k all these mf’ers, they should not be blocking me,” which is entertaining.

JOB: Director of LMS Administration, Penn Libraries Come be in charge of Canvas for us! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

tfw Betteredge’s Law of Headlines comes for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social (I have not listened yet, but my [vibes-only] guess is no more than 1 in 3 of these.)

how do the mountain goats release a new album every six weeks when it takes me three hours to send an email

Excited to connect thru here tomorrow morning

WCCO@wcconews.bsky.social · yesterday

JUST IN: All flights in and out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are halted Thursday afternoon due to apparent air traffic control system issues, the FAA says.

Have known since grad school that I write better prose if I stop every 40 minutes, go for a 4-block walk, and come back with fresh eyes. Unfortunately I just realized why this works. I'm compacting the context and restarting the session.

Hairy stile (sorry sorry)

I would buy the kit—home, away, and third—of any top-flight player who took their ‘flying in for the signing with my agent’ photo from the economy section.

Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR)@fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 2d ago

🚨🔴🔵 EXCLUSIVE: Maghnes Akliouche, just landed in Paris to sign in as new Paris Saint-Germain player. 🛬 €50m deal done last week and being formally signed today at the club. Here Akliouche with Hasan Cetinkaya (HCM Sports Management) and his camp. 🇫🇷

A fun leitmotif of the Double Pivot’s “remembering some guys” moment is they tend to say “you know who else fits this pattern,” which makes it sound like the youth pastor meme. And, to be fair, Jesus would be one of the most genuinely surprising Tielemans comps.

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3d ago

we mostly think Manchester United should be good next season, but on @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social we also talked about a few of our leading concerns

When AI models tell stories about animals, how are the characters gendered? And what does that reveal about model bias? Super fun to see this write-up about our FAccT paper. Led by Imani Finkley, and building on the Bears Will Be Boys story with the @pudding.cool! www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-b...

He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish

A new University of Washington study testing leading AI models across nearly 24,000 story completions found that AI guardrails designed to reduce bias have accidentally erased female characters — defa...

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I think the wildest lyric Car Seat Headrest have written so far is “And if you want to go home, you can call a taxi / And if you don’t want to talk, you can sit in the backseat.” AS OPPOSED TO WHERE?

I went to grad school with somebody from Minneapolis who told a believable story about canvassing for Kerry in 2004. Knocks on door of a nondescript house. Prince opens. Canvasser recovers, begins his spiel. Prince engages, but soon becomes evident Prince is mirroring his script with JW conversion.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

This reads like a reverse Jehovah's Witness encounter. Homeowner tries to push some literature and the door knocker nopes right outta there,

There are lots of AI assistants out there, but this is the only one where my son runs safety & security! hark.com/articles/int...

Introducing Hark Handoff | Hark

See Hark Handoff, the world’s best agent at using the web:

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Happy publication day to @robertjbennett.bsky.social, who never misses. I don’t think this is dirextly about that creepy anti-aging dude who infuses himself with his kid’s blood, but ig we’ll see!

Clay Shirky's piece in the Chronicle aptly addresses the wicked problem of AI in higher education. Instead of a solution, he revitalizes what campuses do best-face disagreement and uncertainty. My main criticism is we have stopped managing these challenges and instead endure them.

Opinion | The University Was Made for the Age of AI

Colleges have never been coherent. Their strength lies in managing disagreement and uncertainty.

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We’ve mostly enjoyed this Ride or Die show with Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham, but the de-aging they use in flashbacks will make you think the moving pictures were a mistake. It’s a *mess*

Think we can all agree this is a very accurately rated Chiesa card

Richard Hughes is so lazy

Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR)@fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 3d ago

🚨🔴 Liverpool have made contact with Ibrahima Mbaye’s new agent Jorge Mendes. Mbaye also has proposals from Bundesliga clubs — giving priority to #LFC project. Deal was close with Leipzig but collapsed after Diomande-PSG off. Talks will follow, as @FabriceHawkins reported.

Glad it’s only a misdemeanor because it’s very funny

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 4d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

OpenAI’s growth team: “We should do something for the education market” OpenAI’s product team: “Can I interest you in a Dollar-Store version of Khanmigo?” I track a lot of announcements and this is grimly under-imagined: openai.com/index/learn-te…

New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.

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DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 4d ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

Word to the wise: any president or board that responds to this letter without formally consulting their faculty and staff through established governance bodies and after a public comment period is abdicating their fiduciary responsibility. #MakeSharedGovernanceMatterMore www.ed.gov/media/docume...

One feature of the young-retiree homes is that they often have the equivalent of Little Free Libraries so your folks can pass their books along immediately after reading ‘em. It’s nice.

chilton 👁@chiltonm.bsky.social · 5d ago

(please….. if you have older parents….. encourage them to downsize their book collection WELL before they are forced to, and perhaps in stages to soften the blow)

I’m not sure Andoni considered I don’t really want to watch more than a half yet so why aren’t we playing all the bangers now 🤭

Also not a rhyme, but as the ancient prophecy foretold, Naomi is better than Ezra

I do feel, after all these years, that whoever normalized recliners in movie theaters is an enemy of the people

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

When you’re getting ready for a 5k but Apple Fitness knows you for the lazy slob you are at heart. (Credit to whoever decided “well above” is the correct phrasing here though)