My lukewarm take on data literacy is that teaching actual literacy up to 18 would be more useful than maths. Most people don't need trigonometry to work with data. They do need to know that e.g. "UK" != "United Kingdom" and will be treated as separate strings by any machine.

Ukraine cannot be safe until Crimea is out of Russian hands, writes former Ukrainian defense minister Andriy P. Zagorodnyuk. How can Kyiv retake the peninsula? trib.al/w80pGxc

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“The Germans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Can play this game with many other nationalities.

This might be the most hilariously bad graph I've ever seen

Google Bard sides with the Justice Department in the Google antitrust case “I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly”

It was an pleasure building this tool and getting to know our global allies--reach out if you're interested in building something else with this data or have corrections/additions!

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Trump imprisoned for his Stormy Daniels payment would be like Al Capone doing time for tax evasion

There is a very helpful and more in depth PDF/guide produced by Google on Google's generative AI. 'A new way to search with generative AI - An overview of SGE' (19 pages) static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.goog…

Twitter is now owned by the kind of person that Twitter used to try to keep off Twitter.

My head continues to explode. This detail was lost under the whole 10% thing. ...Google swapped winners & runners-up?? It increased revenue but *they don't know why* 🤯 Implicitly, the action was taken for other reasons (to suppress top advertisers) and had happy side effects

1/ In another indication that a fresh wave of mobilisation may be coming, companies in Moscow are seeking to recruit an unprecedented number of specialists in managing military and mobilisation records – twice the peak number recorded during the last mobilisation. ⬇️

1 million possible futures existed in 1991, and this is what they went with

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We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

The Grok 2.0 just dropped. It's now changing the AI Image game. Here are 10 examples you can't look away from:

I run a trade surplus with the Telegraph, which pays me to write, and a deficit with Tesco, which does not. I have absolutely no intention of quitting my job in order to work as a cashier, even though it would erase that deficit.

It wasn't just the tariffs, it was the flakiness of the "analysis" underpinning them. At that point, even sanewashing became impossible

Remember.. we talked about this tipping point.... looks like Trump's ridiculous tariff table was it