Simon H 🇪🇺 | أبــــو الســـوس

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[Simon H 🇪🇺 | أبــــو الســـوس @hallsp]

Levantine Arabic Plurals, now on sale! 😊 #arabic #books #language https://t.co/d6Rmo2rQoZ

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: A Russian online sabotage network was behind a series of arson attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s family home and other targets linked to the UK prime minister, an FT investigation has found. https://t.co/QojC6ifRP2

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

Scientific research is fundamental to advancing civilization and helping people globally to solve the most critical problems, from medicine to materials, from brain science to physics, and much beyond. This is only possible when scientists have access to the best tools of the time to conduct scientific research, including having access to AI-based tools.

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Russian FIMI outlets are amplifying the narrative that closer relations with the EU would be economically ruinous for Armenia and inevitably lead to mass poverty and unrest, suggesting that Moscow alone offers a ‘concrete’ path to prosperity. The specifics to back these claims, however, are conveniently missing.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months.

Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in some of these patients. Not responses. Remissions.

BioNTech’s pancreatic cancer vaccine has 6-year follow-up data. 8 of 16 patients who mounted an immune response are still alive. For a cancer that kills 95% of patients within 5 years, that's incredible.

Topol’s pyramid here maps the trajectory. From broad checkpoint inhibitors at the base to personalized neoantigen vaccines at the peak. The technology is climbing.

[Özgür Özel İletişim @ozgurozeliletsm]

Değerli yol arkadaşlarımız,

“CHP İletişim” hesabımız artık “Özgür Özel İletişim” (@ozgurozeliletsm) adıyla yoluna devam ediyor. Sesimizi daha güçlü duyurmak, dayanışmamızı büyütmek için hep birlikte takip edelim, çevremize de ulaştıralım.

Birlikte daha güçlüyüz.

#Lider

[Reuters @Reuters]

Turkish riot police fired tear gas and forced their way into the main opposition party's headquarters to evict its ousted leadership, deepening a crisis at the heart of Turkey's democracy https://t.co/Riv9nLhYiG

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Bienvenue à Paris, cher ami Premier ministre @MichealMartinTD.

La France est le voisin le plus proche de l’Irlande au sein de l’Union européenne !

En juillet, l’Irlande prendra la présidence du Conseil de l’Union européenne. Nous serons à ses côtés pour faire avancer notre agenda commun : sur la défense et la sécurité, la compétitivité, la protection de nos démocraties.

Pour une Europe plus souveraine, plus compétitive, plus protectrice. Nous serons au rendez-vous !

[VSquare @VSquare_Project]

A Russian diplomat working as an undercover SVR officer who spent years infiltrating the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and other think-tanks tied to the Orbán government was quietly expelled from Budapest. @panyiszabolcs https://t.co/BW3zFE4CX9

[euronews @euronews]

Russia's State Duma approved a law allowing the use of the armed forces “to protect Russian citizens abroad,” which de facto permits Vladimir Putin to invade other countries. #EuropeNews
➡️ https://t.co/YFPxOqJBJL

[RoyK @roy_kinsella]

⚠️Verona Murphy, the ceann comhairle, was given a rare national security briefing after garda intelligence uncovered a sophisticated Chinese influence operation attempting to target her last year.

https://t.co/LSPm5TslN6

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Unia Europejska jest niedoskonała, irytująca, nudna, ale niczego lepszego w naszej historii nie wymyśliliśmy. Czas pokoju, dobrobytu, wolności, demokracji i solidarności między narodami przez wieki walczącymi ze sobą to cud. Niech trwa jak najdłużej.

[RoyK @roy_kinsella]

‘You can’t move at night because of pumas and jaguars’ – Irish Air Corpsman is king of the jungle in Amazon survival course

The Irish Air Corp’s SERE programme is internationally highly regarded and runs one of the longest courses in Europe https://t.co/7it1B05idL

[Johann Spischak @SDGMasterglass]

ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou @nicopaulmichel has revealed that he is currently unable to use his bank cards even on European soil.

The reason? He is one of the judges who issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading the United States to slap him

[Jerome Foster II @JeromeFosterII]

It's really remarkable just how well climate predictions from decades ago have held up.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Human-to-human transmission suspected on board hantavirus cruise ship

-WHO

[Reuters @Reuters]

David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 https://t.co/VGdf3ewMVW https://t.co/VGdf3ewMVW

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

La Marseillaise ringing out last night on the streets of Yerevan, Armenia

Vertiginous
🇪🇺🇫🇷🇦🇲

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A generation growing up with the HPV vaccine may never face cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers the way previous generations did.

An astonishing medical feat - and
a reminder of what science makes possible.

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Karen Hao just revealed that laid-off workers are being hired to train AI on the exact job they were fired from.

A marketer gets laid off.
They take a data annotation gig.
They teach the model how to do marketing.

The model learns. The next layoffs come. The cycle repeats.

Here's the story:

Hao interviewed 300+ people for her book Empire of AI.

Data annotation is now one of the fastest-growing categories on LinkedIn. The people doing it are not who you'd expect:

- PhD and law school graduates
- Doctors who can't find clinical work
- Award-winning Hollywood directors annotating in secret to feed their kids

Hao says these jobs are "way worse than the jobs that were there." They "break the career ladder" from the middle out.

A New York Magazine investigation followed one woman in the system. She said the work was "mechanizing my life, atomizing my work, devaluing my expertise."

She said she had "become a monster."

The job that replaces your job is teaching the machine to replace the next person.

Anthropic's own data shows a 40% drop in entry-level hiring in the roles AI is targeting.

Hao calls these companies "empires of AI." Almost nobody is talking about who's absorbing the fallout.

— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao), author of Empire of AI, on The Diary of a CEO (@StevenBartlett) podcast

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