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[Byzantine Tales @byzantinetales]

Today, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated his name day in his native island of Imbros, specifically in the village of Agioi Theodoroi (Zeytinlikoy)

Many happy returns to the leader of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, one of the oldest continuously functioning institutions of Romiosyne, Hellenism, and Europe, which has maintained its uninterrupted presence for more than sixteen centuries.

Here’s some more photos of Zeytinlikoy and of the patriarch. On his left you can also see the Patriarch of Bulgaria.

[Bloomberg @business]

Turkey could soon reopen a Greek Orthodox seminary shut down more than 50 years ago, the patriarch of the Istanbul-based church said, according to Hurriyet, an act the US and the EU have repeatedly called for. https://t.co/h25pyTdefO

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

This is CRAZY.

Unilever stopped reading your resume years ago.

Instead, they make you play video games and it's working better than anything they've ever tried.

They put 250,000 job applicants through 12 neuroscience based games before a single human ever looks at their application.

The games were built by Pymetrics, a company founded by neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT. Harver acquired them in 2022.

The games don't test what you know.

They measure how your brain actually works, how you handle risk, how fast you adapt, how you decide under pressure.

It cut their hiring time from four months to four weeks and it saved over 50,000 hours of recruiter time.

JPMorgan, BCG, Accenture, Mastercard, and McDonald's all use the same platform.

Now here is where it gets serious and there is hard science backing all of this.

Researchers at three European universities, Liechtenstein, Rotterdam, and Münster ran 40 business students through Sid Meier's Civilization, then put them through a Fortune 500-style management assessment.

Students who scored highest in the game also ranked highest in problem-solving, organization, and planning, according to a 2020 study published in the Review of Managerial Science.

In 2013, scientists at Queen Mary University of London ran 72 volunteers through 40 hours of StarCraft.

The StarCraft group showed a massive improvement in cognitive flexibility, your brain's ability to switch between tasks and think on the fly compared to a group that played The Sims.

The statistical evidence was 40 times stronger than what chance would predict.

SimCity has been used in university urban planning courses since as far back as the early 1990s, when professors began assigning it to teach systems thinking.

Now step back and look at what this all means.

Your resume tells an employer what you have done while a video game tells them how your brain actually operates.

One is a highlight reel, the other is a live test.

The gamification industry is now valued at over $43 billion globally and is projected to reach $172 billion by 2030.

This market did not get that large by accident.

Companies figured out that traditional hiring was broken.

Cover letters measure writing skills, interviews measure charm and neither one measures whether someone can actually think.

Games measure thinking and that is why corporations are quietly replacing the old system not with interviews, not with degrees but with joysticks.

The Civilization study only had 40 students and that matters.

But it was one piece of a much larger pattern across multiple games, multiple labs, and multiple decades of research pointing in the same direction.

The resume is not dead yet but its days are numbered.

[Marios Karatzias @MariosKaratzias]

Greece is the first country to arrange a repatriation flight from the UAE specifically for pets and their owners ❤️👍🏻
#CatsOnX #DogsOnX #Cats #Dogs #IranWar #UAE

[DiaperDiplomacy @DiaperDiplomacy]

“We Need It for Strategic National Security.” Trump Makes the Case for Greenland at WEF

[Pat Yale @patyale]

Really hope the public will be able to see this. Other tombs with wall paintings have never been made readily accessible. #İznik

[Culinary Backstreets @CBackstreets]

No trip to Athens would be complete without a pilgrimage to Ariston, the home of some of our favorite pies in the city! We spend a few days exploring the capital before heading to Tinos on our Greek odyssey – happening now! https://t.co/0JTQ4ShWL7

[Soner Cagaptay @SonerCagaptay]

Greek Islands Welcomed Over 1 Million Turkish Tourists in 2024 https://t.co/fOCNA8MQf6 via @schengen_info

[EdoTourkia @EdoTourkia]

Απόφαση για ανάπτυξη οικοτουριστικών δραστηριοτήτων στο Ορφανοτροφείο Πριγκήπου,
https://t.co/1ZxTOcUdEo

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

🧵 In 2015, it came to light that millions of diesel vehicles on our roads were emitting far more pollutants into the air than their manufacturers claimed. The German carmaker Volkswagen was at the heart of the scandal.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Fidias has been amplifying insane Kremlin propaganda for months, so I confronted him.

🚨 He said abducted Ukranian children are happy in russia

🚨 He refused to answer why he is putting out lies

He got angry

This is a mask off moment

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

That’s way more than all the money the U.S. had given Ukraine, by the way.

[Mathieu von Rohr @mathieuvonrohr]

FT: Ex-Stasi-Mann & Putin-Vertrauter Matthias Warnig soll mit US-Investoren den Neustart von Nord Stream 2 vorantreiben – als Teil von Trumps Annäherung an Moskau. Über US-Geschäftsleute soll er Kontakte zu Trumps Team genutzt haben. https://t.co/iphXJD9htz

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING

President Trump just released this statement after meeting with President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

That meeting devolved into a shouting match with both President Trump and Vice President Vance berating Zelenskyy.

[BNO News @BNONews]

WATCH: Trump berates Zelensky in the Oval Office: "If you didn't have our military equipment, this war would've been over in 2 weeks! ... You have to be thankful, you don't have the cards"

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Greenland, the world’s largest island, could be at the centre of the greatest resource rush ever seen. President Trump has said he wants it. So why is Greenland so valuable? https://t.co/dbDeV3kNl8

[MAIRHbachtse @mbachtse]

Θυμάστε πότε γίνατε μέλος της Χ; Ναι! #MyXAnniversary

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

A journey back in time: The 1925 Santorini volcanic eruption, documented by the late Professor of Mineralogy Georgios Georgalas. The footage is featured in excerpts from ERT's show Traveling to Greece.

Via: Meteo Hellas