Where should I be looking for solid coverage of AI changing conditions in translation work?

Truth about the reference letter requirement—and a shame that more haven’t followed MacDowell in suspending it

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

Every day starts with the heart bleeding giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Russian bombardment kills 17 in Kyiv as Ukraine runs low on interceptors

Patriot interceptor stocks are depleted as retaliatory 40-day air campaign expires

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My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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Für den Umbau politischer Bildung braucht es keine AfD-Regierung: Laut RND soll die bpb sich künftig verstärkt um Linksextremismus kümmern. Zuständig ist das Innenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt, der 2018 in der Welt die "konservative Revolution der Bürger" ausrief. 1/2

Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel

Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...

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Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

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Ukrainian rescuers are now in France, helping to contain the devastating wildfires.

2,5 days passed, yet firefighters still struggle to put out a fire in the warehouses of Ukraine's publishing house Ranok and the bookstore Knygoland in Kharkiv. The russian army targeted them on August 1, burning 8M books, incl school textbooks — just weeks before the start of a new school year.

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

Ukrainian authorities have since launched an investigation to identify those responsible for storing explosives in a warehouse less than 18 meters (60 feet) from a residential house, a distance prosecutors say was prohibited by law.

After a Russian missile strike tore through a quiet suburb just southwest of Kyiv on July 6, entire streets resemble a front-line town. That night, a Russian attack hit an ammunition depot belonging to an enterprise under Ukroboronprom, triggering a powerful secondary explosion.

'They must face the most severe punishment' – How Vyshyneve's ammunition depot multiplied the toll of Russia's strike

VYSHNEVE, Kyiv Oblast – After a Russian missile strike tore through a quiet suburb just southwest of Kyiv on July 6, causing massive explosions at a warehouse near a residential area, entire streets r...

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The very online part of population is so stuck in the digital mirror that it fails to notice that the rest of us live analog lives. One hell of an undergrad paper (missed Sartre at the end)! Future historians will cite it as an exemplum of our age www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.

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🤡 Trump says the US never agreed to hand Ukraine licenses to build Patriot interceptors. He says you have to be careful giving out advanced weapons tech, since the people you give it to could turn on you.

Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real www.openculture.com/2026/07/why-...

Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real

Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the YouTube channel that teaches everything you need to know about subjects like world history, U.S. history, big history, literature, a...

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That was summer 2022–ChatGPT, for example, wasn’t even released yet. Please upgrade your crisis metaphors as the catastrophe goalposts shift

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 6d ago

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Russia’s Africa Corps airstrikes hit Kyrnia village in Mali on June 15, killing 8 civilians, including 3 children, in an indiscriminate attack on a chief’s home and cattle market. No militants were killed www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...

Zelensky confirms strikes on three logistics centers in Sarapul, Kazan and Volgograd, a marine terminal in Krasnodar, a refinery in Volgograd region, and hits in the Azov Sea. Farthest target was 1300km out.

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

I’m old enough to remember when refugee camps in territorial exclaves were enough to allay immigration fears for a substantial portion of the right and most of the center

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Allein in den letzten 24 Stunden wurden ein Baby (auf dem Bild: Ziad Nofal, 1,5 Jahre alt), ein achtjähriges Mädchen und zwei Erwachsene durch israelische Bomben im Gazastreifen getötet. Das israelische Militär greift täglich an, obwohl palästinensische Gruppen nicht auf israelische Kräfte schießen.

#jobopportunity 2 Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Neuere/Neueste Geschichte oder Zeitgeschichte (19.-21. Jahrhundert)" (DHI Washington) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

A road not taken where the all-American cheese product is Käespred

you say aren’t there pills for dread and I say it was it was it was things it was things in tears it was things in tears it was tears themselves it was fear of the tears in things for the things in tears ah well ‘Smile’, a poem by Anne Carson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’

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»Unbekannte haben in Berlin mindestens einen Brandsatz auf eine Gemeinschaftsunterkunft für Geflüchtete geworfen. Ein Bewohner der Einrichtung im Stadtteil Hellersdorf bemerkte am späten Montagabend Flammen an der Hausfassade, wie die Polizei mitteilte.«

Hellersdorf: Unbekannte werfen Brandsatz auf Berliner Geflüchtetenunterkunft

Im Stadtteil Hellersdorf hat es einen mutmaßlichen Brandanschlag gegen eine Geflüchtetenunterkunft gegeben. »Das war geplant«, sagt ein Behördensprecher der ZEIT.

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«Die AfD profitiert nicht nur von aktuellen Krisen oder spontanem Protest. Vielmehr fußt ihr Erfolg auf stabilen rechten Erzählungen, auf der Aktivierung neuer Unzufriedenheiten und auf der Banalisierung und Normalisierung ihrer Positionen. Wo viel AfD ist, da wird mehr AfD möglich.»

Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt@fgz-risc.bsky.social · last wk.

Wieso wählen Menschen in #Sachsen-Anhalt die #AfD? Diese Frage untersucht Jakob Hartl (FGZ Halle) im zweiten Teil unserer Blogreihe zur Landtagswahl auf Grundlage quantitativer Daten. Er zeigt: ökonomische Sorgen erklären das Wahlverhalten nur begrenzt. fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/8273

Having had to try one makeshift household fix after the other, I'm glad to know there's a proper awful-sounding name for it. Beats "yankee ingenuity" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...

Word of the Day: Kludge

As long as the origins of kludge (also spelled kluge) are uncertain, any attempt to pin them down will itself be a bit of a kludge—that is, a makeshift solution. The writer Jackson W. Granholm, once

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