Have never related harder (to forgetting something important when you absolutely need it, not to actually winning any race which of course I have never done)

TIL Sharon Lokedi realized she forgot her watch on the bus to the start line in Boston and had to borrow somebody else’s for the race and then won it. Love this for her

Safeguarding Scholarship in Emerging Autocracies: Preview of an APS Convention Workshop This article provides a preview of a workshop that will take place during APS’s Annual Convention in Barcelona. The workshop is scheduled for Thursday, 28 May 2026, 14:00–18:00.

Here is a sneak preview of a workshop that we will run at the APS meeting in Barcelona in May, about how to cope with autocratization. It will be based on our Anti-Autocracy Handbook. I will be putting it on together with Prof Christina Pagel and Vera Kempe:

'We must become less reliant on American tools': Windows 11 is so bad the French government is switching to Linux — and Microsoft should be worried Is 2027 set to be the year of Linux? There are signs that this might actually be the case, this time.

This article is weird. France isn't switching to Linux because Windows is bad - it's switching because Microsoft is a US company, US companies fall under US law, and thus simply cannot be trusted with EU data. Windows can't "solve" this. There's no "fix" here.

www.techradar.com/computing/wi...

I guess Tim Cook’s real passion is presenting gold plaques to fascists

Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village canceled for second year as immigration enforcement concerns persist The parade typically draws hundreds to Little Village to celebrate Mexico's victory over Napoleon III’s French army in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. But the parade was canceled this year as the Trump ...

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These are documented migrants who are now terrified of interacting with the state. It would take a long time to restore this broken trust with even the most zealous effort.

In case you think migrant families in blue cities are breathing any easier these days, my kid’s best friend is transferring to a school right next to her house because her mother wants to minimize their time in cars to avoid any interaction with the authorities

Never will I recover from the fact that a majority of US voters made this oozing dripping id of a consciousness the president of the world’s hegemon

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Banks are going to love losing deposits to mattresses over this because they’re too afraid to stand up to the fash

Lord Skidelsky obituary: leading historian of Keynes Historian and foremost authority on the British economist John Maynard Keynes who was founding chairman of the Social Market Foundation, dies aged 86

Sad to see that Robert Skidelsky has died. His three volume biography of Keynes is a timeless masterpiece, and so much more than the history of one (great) individual.

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Folks noting this is an obvious attempt to curry favor with the president. Yes. The means of currying favor is by devising increasingly shameless ways of interfering in the midterms. We’ll see more of it

Folks noting this is an obvious attempt to curry favor with the president. Yes. The means of currying favor is by devising increasingly shameless ways of interfering in the midterms. We’ll see more of it

This is forward- (not backward-) looking election interference

I saw that. Julian Casablancas used to give rise to uhhh intense reactions in late-teenage me

You WHAT

Presumably they can’t sell overpriced wireless if the state won’t replenish people’s pockets picked by AI robber barons

If you’re concerned about pitchforks you could simply add that to the firm’s objective function

Don’t worry, CEOs begging for public spending to prop up their excess returns is CEOs’ whole job

This is wishcasting

No one is posting quite like FT alphaville

I can’t wait till we have a special active labor market policy for anyone who makes a peep about raising interest rates during the AI rush

The FOMC among the white-collar workers to be made redundant by AI, says finance guy
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I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

This is forward- (not backward-) looking election interference

Me, an editor, getting all in my feelings here

In a different time I might have shared your enthusiasm but the politics of tech is so overwhelmingly directed toward social control and repression right now that it seems naive not to be wary. It’s a shame

True, there is literally no innovation that I do not expect tech companies to sic on labor or protestors for obvious reasons. So “look how our robots can outrun the best of you” is hard to read as benign

I mean sure! Just seems the comparison to human runners is not then particularly meaningful.