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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

Not exactly charging on to the stage here. Looking somewhat embarrassed

I just looked at what AI has to "say" about my specialist area of archaeology (malt, ale, mashing, beer brewing in prehistory) and there's sensible stuff and also quite a lot of not so sensible stuff. I can tell the difference but most folk probably can't. True for all aspects of archaeology.

Fellow archaeologists out there can we have a conversation about the use of AI in the materials we produce for the public. I know that a lot of us are increasingly frustrated by the use of AI in media and all the awful stereotypes that we have spent decades trying to challenge creeping back in

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Absolutely crazy

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

I don’t know folks, it seems to me that the kids might have been right about their ruling class being full of deeply racist, misogynist sex offenders. Perhaps that whole Cancel Culture panic was badly wrong, and apologies are in order? Not least because it was obviously vexatious *at the time*.

Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization https://theonion.com/report-nations-gentrified-neighborhoods-threatened-by-1819569723/

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

This is Monday's #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 180. December 1994

we should all go through life more like Nanny Ogg, the world would be a much more enjoyable place

correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

Years Of Learning To Love Self Undone By Single Glimpse Of Body In Self-Checkout Camera https://theonion.com/years-of-learning-to-love-self-undone-by-single-glimpse-of-body-in-self-checkout-camera/

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Another way that America seems broken and confusing is all of this "Yes on number, no on number" stuff. Like, I understand that you need to number for bureaucracy. But how do you campaign on arbitrary numbers? Or remember which is which at voting time?!

This handy chart explains what side the billionaires are on.

the number of “yes on 42, no on 40” ads I’m seeing here in LA is depressing remember: yes on the billionaire tax (40), no on the ones canceling the billionaire tax (41 and 42)

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

Reclusive Deity Hasn’t Written A New Book In 2,000 Years https://theonion.com/reclusive-deity-hasn-t-written-a-new-book-in-2-000-year-1819576927/

Which would be great, but doesn't change that he currently presides over a government pushing the most racist and hostile anti-immigration policies in decades. This will play well with some, but does not change that this government is fundamentally anti-immigration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

I love Mamdani, I think Mamdani is an incredible communicator, I wish Mamdani could run for President, he has much better actual policies than Obama ever did he’s still not Obama as an orator

Obama is still the most gifted political communicator of my lifetime and it isn’t particularly close

forget cold fusion we need to build power plants based around whatever physics-breaking chemistry they’ve done to create the world’s most calorie-dense foods

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith “That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?”

This 19th c lady’s multitool was found in the pocket(!) of an antique (1872) garment donated to the historic clothing archive at my employer. It features a button hook for fitted gloves and a tiny corkscrew. The corkscrew is too small for wine & was probably intended to open apothecary bottles.

every male college professor apparently needs to be given a starter pack here is your office, here is your chair, here is a buzzer that will shock you every time you think about fucking one of your students

I'm the ideal person to lecture teachers on hard work, since I’m usually too busy with my 12 side grifts to bother turning up for the full-time job I’m paid to do and because I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 751 MEPs in the EU Parliament.

Today, in DD/MM/YY form, is 24/10/26, a Pythagorean triple, the last one this century apparently

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

It’s so weird how many of the scammy AI e-mails end with something like: “One word back is enough: ‘details.’” As though the major barrier keeping people from taking up their amazing offer is the need to choose and type multiple words. (I suspect it’s just to make the response filter easier.)