Congrats Peter Gumbel! Your book "Citizens of Everywhere" made it to the list of best Brexit books of all time! bookauthority.org/books/best-bre…

How sad. For EU students, for British Universities & our shared European culture. The Brexit damage is not just economic, it was a decision that makes us all poorer and young people who didn't want it pay the greatest costs. theguardian.com/education/2023…

This is quite a remarkable map from UnHerd and Focaldata

Great reporting by Maryse Burgot on the grim reality of life in #Bakhmut for the ~5000 civilians (including children) still there

🗣️ "I think that Brexit is a failure for the EU. And we have to think about this failure". 📺 Watch Michel Barnier in conversation with Anand Menon this afternoon, as he reflects on the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU.

From 2017 through the end of 2022, Meta spent about $97 billion buying back its own stock at an average price of $242/share. That's a $24.25 billion total loss (-25%) over the last 6 years.

"whereas chimpanzees make completely random choices, there is a pattern to humanity’s collective ignorance: people routinely show a more pessimistic view of the world than the one described by our statistics" - great stuff in Financial Times Alan Smith ft.com/content/f2775e…

22 February 1943 | Sophie and Hans Scholl & Christoph Probs were executed in Germany for their public resistance against the Nazi regime. They were members of White Rose movement called for active opposition to the Nazi party. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

Talking to friends about French schooling and one thing often comes up: Homework is wrecking childhoods and family relationships. If interested in how schooling can comprehensively fail children’s well-being, read Peter Gumbel’s “They Shoot School Kids…” petergumbel.com/en/they-shoot-…

This is brilliant: star costumes on #Oscars night and their resemblance to charts from the French national statistics office #Insee

Love reading Simon Kuper on France but really don't agree that constitutional reform is a priority; it risks being a huge distraction that will exacerbate the "millefeuille" state ft.com/content/b78f2a… #macron #retraites

incredible but true that the bank stress tests didn't test for rate increases.

Understatement of the century. He’s wrecked it.

This whole blue tick fiasco is going to be a treasure trove for behavioral psychologists and students of consumer marketing. How to turn a status symbol into something derisory overnight.

This is a thread about what was right and what was wrong in the recent Senate hearings on AI harms featuring OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as IBM's Christina Montgomery and Gary Marcus (one of the researchers in this field I respect most).

Well done Peter Gumbel! Your book "Citizens of Everywhere" has been featured in our list of best Brexit books of all time! bookauthority.org/books/best-bre…

Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide. Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25. Our teams will be ready for enforcement.

I asked #ChatGPT what it knows about me, and among other glaring errors, I am pleased to announce that it thinks I wrote a book in 2001 called "In the Name of Education: How Weird Ideologies Corrupt our Public Schools, Politics, the Media, Higher Institutions, and History" 🤣