Judging from this picture, I think I may have identified your problem
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoHey everyone! I'm on a train again! And after last week's debacles it's... late! My 0% punctuality run is still going!
Stephan Faris
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Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago
You can spot the France fans as you walk past the bars with the TV on
I feel like I've learned how to watch soccer/football. I used to think it was so fluid you had to watch every second to not miss anything. But now I realized you can basically not watch anything and it's just as good
Edited a piece that will never run today. (I just don't yet know which one)
Stephen Hawking's party for time travelers seems like it was pretty lame. I certainly wouldn't have gone www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ste...
"Science progresses one funeral at a time"
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Time to retire? A study of 12.5 million scientists’ careers suggests that older scientists are less likely to produce disruptive work and instead build on existing theories. Younger researchers are more likely to overturn established ideas or open entirely new lines of inquiry. 🧪
This seems premised on the European belief that there's nothing more dangerous than having a fan blow on you directly.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · last mo.Optimal fan placement
“Covered five British prime ministers” doesn’t carry the same weight on a journalist’s CV as it once did.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot (France’s first female helicopter test pilot) passed over Mt. Etna and then Vesuvius. Spectacular photos! 🌋 Photos via X (sorry): x.com/Soph_astro/s...
Is AI killing the self-help book? tim.blog/2026/06/12/h...
Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing thing...
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Jeanne 'd Arc as imagined by early 20th century photographers:
The war in Ukraine — which reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I
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Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."
I'm sure this is a huge problem, but as a former opinion editor, I can assure you that people have been submitting slop for a lot longer than AI has existed.
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2mo agoCity AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
The cool new shipping craze everybody's talking about www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Giant iceberg with shipping containers spotted off Antarctica
Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy #EUTech https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.
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“Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the “banality of evil” with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.
Stephan Faris@stephanfaris.bsky.social · 3mo agoDepressing: "Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Depressing: "Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
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