Why hasn’t Somali referee Omar Artan, who was robbed of his well-earned World Cup participation and denied US entry despite having the proper documents and credentials, been invited to referee World Cup matches in Canada and Mexico?
Seriously.
Tom Steyer: "It would be a travesty for Steve Hilton to win the governorship, and Californians must unite behind Xavier Becerra to ensure he does not." tomsteyer.substack.com/p/im-on-your...
very funny that City of Vancouver staff, who refused to obey a unanimous council vote to start providing real time updates on a platform other than just X, responded to X's new posting limits by giving up entirely
it's fun to just ignore the will of council
Claudia Sheinbaum just launched a national EV in Mexico that retails for $5000 US. This is after giving millions of people universal healthcare.
Meanwhile Mark Carney is fast tracking Canada into a dystopian AI surveillance state and Donald Trump is trying to go for the war criminal leaderboard
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This is a good practice—if you trip over your own sentences, your readers will also.
Incredibly dismayed to just learn that my university is now making Gemini available to all students using Google Workspace. So, that means that they now basically have carte blanche to use AI to write their assignments and term papers in Google Docs, and faculty have basically no way to stop them.
Despite not going to trial, my life and the lives of my codefendants have been completely upturned, emotionally, professionally, and financially. We’re still picking up the pieces.
But that’s the point. The process is the punishment. That can lead to securing indictments by any means necessary.
In unexpected good news: !!JOB!!
Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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The Canadian government is set to ban social media for kids under 16, but "is not expected to include the same type of ban for AI chatbots."
Sort of crazy that they're like "no Instagram, but sure, the children can still have the water-draining lying machines."
nationalpost.com/news/politic...
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
