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[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

This is brilliant news

[ZeeZee @ZeeZeeJAM]

@TheKentAcorn Time for a conspiracy theory.

[A Cambridge Diary @acambridgediary]

17th June 2024
With smoke still hanging in the air from Trinity May Ball's 2024 fireworks display, punters head home under St John's Kitchen Bridge. Always held on the Monday of May Week, Trinity May Ball draws hundreds every year who exploit the public access to the river ...

[sam 🇨🇮🇫🇷🇧🇪 @sambrazy]

How can you call 48 teams a mistake when Congo and Cape Verde are getting results against the Nations League finalists

[Sander Tordoir @SanderTordoir]

The frame Europe is starting a trade war with China is strange.

China has been waging trade and industrial policy battle against Europe, sector after sector.

EU diplos asked for change nicely for years

Now the EU wants to do something about it and it’s the aggressor?

Aha.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Child protection is one of the most important things for a society to get right. I’ve spoken to a few very good people in the sector - and they’ll openly say it’s a complete disaster in this country.

[Rutgers University @RutgersU]

The grass at @FIFAWorldCup 2026™ is backed by Rutgers University's world-renowned Center for Turfgrass Science. Ten of the tournament's 16 official pitches will feature natural turfgrasses bred by university experts.

⚽ MORE: https://t.co/gOxB285vDF

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Mythos is telling us there is the obvious — there no Special Relationship for tech. The UK will not be treated as “American.”

What I’m worried about now is this coupled with the inevitable European export controls and Buy European regulations. Without a much deeper game changing Special Relationship with Europe — the UK will not be treated as “European.”

What this means for the future of London as a global AI hub is nothing good. American and European frontier restrictions and British firms cut out of European critical AI infrastructure projects.

This is the logical consequences of being outside a major regulatory bloc in an age of great power competition.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

In retrospect, probably suboptimal that Trump administration's chief negotiators were in the pay of foreign governments

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Disinformation about London is spreading globally, fuelling fear for politics and profit.

We’re launching a major new campaign to challenge these misleading narratives head-on and set the record straight.

https://t.co/nRJ4Wbmx3F

[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.

[Andrew Matthews @LostinAylesbury]

Buckinghamshire council spent £819 million over a five year contract period on taxis. £163 million a year on average.

This is insane. The council could run an equivalent transport service for a fraction of this cost

[Lauren @laurennUTD]

There’s something so inherently wrong with a society that can’t go 45 minutes without an ad.

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

The EU Wall of Shame
https://t.co/T6v2dCibRY

[Christopher Shriver 🇺🇸 @CazadorDeWulf]

Wouldn't you know it, the EU Wall of Shame has made a return.

This collage demonstrates how the past WoS seemed to press the right buttons in a few countries, but others simply doubled-down and remain commercially embedded within Russia's war economy, indirectly... 🤷‍♂️ TY Robin!

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

The madness of transshipments to Russia is a problem that's unique to the EU. The UK (green) clamped down on this stuff early and the US (orange) has done the same. It's in the EU - especially Germany (black) and Italy (purple) - that this is rampant...
https://t.co/5dQwxb03pL

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

She couldn't have known. There were no signs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened right in front of her. What husband wouldn't shell out £4k for a pair of his wife's old shoes? Happens every day.
https://t.co/3qt8vP4q8G

[Jon Tonge @JonTonge]

Robert Crampton on the Makerfield by-election (The Times)

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

As I frequently tell my own students @uaustinorg, the job market is about to be saturated with people like this: people who have been cheated out of their own minds for the stupidest possible reasons. People whose teachers didn’t want to be a burden or a bad guy or worst of all, an elitist, so they just gave up in advance on literature the old fashioned way.

Sure, they made up a cock-and-bull story about how obsolete the classics were, how outmoded the old ways of teaching were, how impractical it was to sit with a pen and paper and run through verb conjugations or just puzzle over words. But the truth is they were scared of being that most valuable of beings, the kindly but stern authority figure. And then when the machines came for the books, they had not a leg to stand on.

The result is that maybe no other skill will be more valuable in years to come, or more rare, than the ability to sit alone in a room and follow a train of thought from beginning to end. All those drills and disciplines they told you were “useless”? Reading, rhetoric, contemplation? Poetry, philosophy, fine art? Turns out they’re the only training that can mold you into the scarcest resource on earth, which is a functional adult human being.

And to beat it all, that’s now just about the one kind of training that can make you proof against the disruptions of the AI economy. Forget who said it but it’s true: “learn to code” was crap advice. Learn to ode.

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

ECUADOR FANS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE 'ROCKY STEPS' IN PHILADELPHIA 🇪🇨🤯