What moral bankruptcy. Gift link.

Devinez qui c’est qui a commandé un livre depuis la Suisse la semaine dernière ?

If Jordan Bardella thinks it was a Nazi salute… gift link

Reading all this recent coverage on Musk’s “gaming” has made me want to reread Cory Doctorow’s stories about gold farming—which is all the more fitting given that Doctorow uses gold farming to talk about exploited labor. gift link

Here’s hoping the Senate shows some spine. Gift link.

There are countless GOP politicians and voters who believe Harris is unqualified for the job for lesser (and often exaggerated or fabricated controversies), and yet none of this seems to bother them. gift link

Like so many other things, this alone should disqualify him. Gift link.

I don’t understand why anyone would stay on Twitter at this point, unless they’re staying for the nonsense. gift link

This article was a one-two punch for me. I hoped that the death of a Michigander might draw more attention to victims of the conflict, but his daughter’s comment that “The fact that he was an American citizen should not make his story more important than others” quickly called me to task. Gift Link

Posting this as a bookmark. It’s mindboggling how overtly racist this is—and how much work the GOP will do to dismiss it as nothing. I want to be able to return back to this in the weeks and months to come, to remind myself and others just how bad things are. gift link

I had never heard of the tram driver Olympics before, and I love it. [gift link]

I’m not necessarily opposed to teaching the Bible in public schools, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it right: Compare and contrast the creation accounts, discuss different authors’ conflicting takes on issues, and treat it as literature. That’s clearly not what Walters is advocating for, and his approach is indefensible.

Sure, Midjourney is fun, but this is the price we’re paying for that kind of technology out in the world.

I don’t understand how this has a chance to win in November. gift link

Russia is in the wrong in this conflict, but that also means that Russians are among those being wronged.

Well, this sucks. Appreciate Ron Wyden’s diligence in this area. Gift link.

I was already fed up with Twitter before election season started. C’mon, Musk. Gift link.

My political views have shifted a lot over the past decade, and I think my attitude toward Macron demonstrates that pretty well. When he was first elected, I was pretty excited. I was fed up with the American right but not ready to identify with the left, and the idea of a new centrist party emerging out of nowhere was inspiring. In the years since, though, I’ve moved steadily leftward—not least because Macron has demonstrated the ways that centrism tends to cede ground to the right on important issues.

Don’t love it when platforms shut down tools because they don’t like outside research. Gift Link

Plagiarism is clearly bad, but its weaponization as part of a culture war could well he worse. I don’t love the idea of its escalation. Gift link.

Again, what’s going on isn’t bad because it happens to touch on things significant to Christians, and it’s bad when Christians only care about Palestine and Israel because it fits with their religious worldview. Yet, it would be a missed opportunity to talk about Bethlehem this Christmas season without asking about the West Bank, Israel, and Gaza, and how to make a better world for everyone there.

Joli article ! I mostly learned Parisian French from my school classes, and I’ve always been interested in the alternatives out there, though I’ll admit I’ve never fully appreciated African French. Time for that to change. link to gift article

I try not to post too much about this campaign because I find it overwhelming, but this is worrying stuff. Really worrying.

I had been reading and thinking about non-violence for months before the 2023 Israel-Hamas war started, but its outbreak is making me more committed to the idea than any abstract philosophical argument. I’m more inclined than ever before to believe that military force can never be justified, and I think that’s especially true in cases where civilians are deliberately targeted (or allowed to be caught in the attack). Hamas’s attack on Israeli civilians is unjustifiable, the IDF’s seeming disregard for Gazan civilians is unjustifiable, the U.

What a joke.

I’ve been reading a number of these stories as they’ve been coming out but without posting about them. This is as good a chance as any to express my concern.

What a mess Musk has made Twitter into.

Roth’s perspective is valuable here. Scary stuff.

Faudra que je visite la petite ceinture un jour !

A secular state is good, but French laïcité consistently goes too far.

I’d like to read the whole report before coming to definitive conclusions but wow, are there some important lessons in here for edtech—not least, that efficacy cannot be our only concern!

I’m in no way Team Meta, but this may not be a terrible thing?

Good coverage of a worrying development. I’m sympathetic to authors’ worries here, but I also think they’re wrong. If digital is different than the physical, copyright considerations need to be more generous, NOT stricter. The Internet Archive is an important service, and I’m worried about the future.

Facial recognition software is gross. What a good—but terrible!—example that just because it comes from an algorithm doesn’t mean it’s right. When will we learn that the risks of wrong decisions outweigh the purported promise of the right ones?

This is ridiculous.

Reddit’s response continues to feel tonedeaf and sketchy to me.