Skye Aspden

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[Uncle Chu @datchuguyy]

“There was a time we had 90 million turnover and we had to pay back 22 million per year for the stadium, I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the champions league to pay back the money. We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016”

Arsene Wenger

[Connor O'Keeffe @connorokeeffe]

Trump is trapped in a genuinely difficult situation as he tries to reach a deal with Iran. But it is a crisis of his own making.

Also, the establishment figures now condemning him should not be allowed to pretend they had nothing to do with it.

[Andrew Jonelis @AndrewJonelis]

"economists*" who have "done the maths" vs economists who have done the math.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

For many smart people, their favorite answer for every problem is: more policy.

When you look at how government tends to operate, first they turn to legislation. If that doesn't work, they move to economic incentives. And if that fails, they resort to persuasion.

You don't have to be a libertarian to see that this is probably the wrong way around.

Start with persuasion. If that fails, then look at incentives. And only if that fails should you begin considering policy. Legislation and economic incentives are often treated as magic bullets. If we pass this law or give people money, the problem will be solved. They are appealing because they promise quick fixes.

People also tend to shy away from persuasion because they don't want to be seen as coercive. There can be a fine line between persuasion and coercion. And yet some of the most dramatic changes in human behavior have come not from laws or financial incentives, but from shifts in social norms, culture, judgment, stigma, and other forms of informal social pressure.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

For two years, Israel struck or raided hospitals in Gaza, claiming Hamas operated from inside them.

Each strike produced a global outrage cycle: images of dead patients, condemnations from the UN, the WHO calling Shifa a “death zone,” genocide accusations at the ICJ. Israel’s counter-claim,that Hamas had embedded its military inside the medical system was ignored.

Almost every institution positioned to verify it, aid groups, UN agencies, much of the press,either stayed silent or actively disputed Israel’s version.

MSF repeatedly said it had “seen no evidence” of Hamas using hospitals , while accusing Israel of attacking healthcare. When the IDF raided Shifa and the early evidence looked thin, outlets ran fact-checks mocking the rifle count, and the skepticism hardened into a settled narrative that Israel had lied.

Then in February 2026, the least Israel-friendly credible witness imaginable,a Nobel-winning aid group that had accused Israel of genocide, documented armed men, patient arrests, and weapons movement at Nasser from the inside.

Did anyone really cover the correction? No. No they did not.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Ok. Finished reading it. The story of Europe's failure in AI is turned into a gripping story (congratulations to the authors on finding this way to write it) and an outstanding SHOUT for action.
I disagree with many things in this scenario (e.g. ASML cannot be used for leverage, I am afraid: all the EUV tech is San Diego-based (Cymer), and the chips are Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.) But the key insight is correct: (1) AI is THE critical technology of the future, and (2) Europe is falling badly behind on AI and running out of options.
Both the economic and strategic consequences are brutal.
We will write a reaction in Silicon Continent. In the meantime, please do read it. https://t.co/f0OoqGD2CZ

[signüll @signulll]

i’ve owned every iphone ever made & i can safely now say this.. the new siri is a few years late but absurdly good. really good. like what it should've been from the very start.

it's genuinely conversational. it has all of the context by default. it feels native as part of the iphone hardware itself. & the dedicated camera button finally justifies its existence as an instant visual intelligence trigger. the reactive layer is basically done. & apple did an excellent job here. lots of small elements to add over time though like custom instructions perhaps.

but what’s still missing is proactive & agentic siri which is the siri that acts before you ask. that's the siri that notices, coordinates, books, filters, negotiates, & kills half the reasons you open apps in the first place.

but that's also the version that eats the app store.

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Men tend to get lonelier as they age.

One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives.

There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to.

I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain.

By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known.

Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.

[shira @shiraeis]

who knew takeoff would be fun

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

The data out of Oregon really are astonishing.

A phenomenon once observed in about 1 in 20,000 adult men and 1 in 50,000 adult women (DSM-5) is now being diagnosed and medically treated in at least 1 in 250 17-year-old girls in Oregon.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Was struck by @Jason’s blunt assessment that the tech CEOs would be happy with a pure oligarchy.

[Codziennik z Mordoru @mordownik4u]

Reprezentacja Haiti na oficjalnych koszulkach w których zagra na Mistrzostwach Świata umieściła POLSKĄ FLAGĘ!

To nie błąd projektanta ani przypadek – to wyjątkowy gest pełen szacunku, który porusza serce każdego Polaka. W 1802 roku Napoleon wysłał kilka tysięcy żołnierzy z Polskich Legionów na San Domingo (obecne Haiti), żeby zdławić tamtejsze powstanie niewolników. Polacy jednak wybrali inną drogę. Zamiast walczyć przeciwko walczącym o wolność, wielu z nich przeszło na stronę powstańców i stanęło do walki ramię w ramię z Haitańczykami przeciwko wojskom francuskim. Po zwycięstwie rewolucji i ogłoszeniu niepodległości w 1804 roku, pierwszy przywódca Haiti – Jean-Jacques Dessalines – oddał Polakom wielki hołd. Przyznał im pełne obywatelstwo, a w konstytucji nazwał ich „Białymi Murzynami Europy”. Były to słowa najwyższego uznania i braterstwa w tamtych czasach. Część polskich żołnierzy (ok. 400–500) została na wyspie na stałe, głównie w regionie Cazale, gdzie ich potomkowie mieszkają do dzisiaj. Dziś, ponad dwieście lat później, pamięć o polskiej odwadze i solidarności wciąż żyje na Haiti. Kiedy ich piłkarze wychodzą na murawę, niosą na piersi symbol naszej wspólnej historii – historii walki o wolność, która nie zna granic ani koloru skóry.

[Skye Aspden @saaspden]

That this is even a debate is an indictment of modern discourse and brain rot that’s made it untenable.

Save Women’s Sports.

Duh.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

The best female athletes in the world know.

Men don't belong in women's sports.

Why can't everyone just say it?

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

Alan Partridge’s Countdown to World Cup ‘94…

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

steve jobs didn't drink athletic greens. plato didn’t take creatine. picasso didn’t wear a whoop. shakespeare didn’t own an eight sleep. einstein didn’t use an infrared sauna. they all did just fine.

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

Still get goosebumps

[dany @danywander]

a reminder that branding matters.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Do whatever the fuck you want, however the fuck you want to do it.

Interviews aren't bullet lists of do's, don't, or dogmas.

Be yourself, speak your mind, don't angle. Let whatever follows, follow.

(still love you @HarryStebbings!)

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?