Romanticism, news, synths, serialism, spacepop, jazz-funk, politics, cake, coffee, architecture and everything in between. Screaming for the hills/Norway. Founder and supreme leader of the Ted Mountainé Orchestra.
There's the script! 😄 "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
Judah GrunsteinThe funniest part about the World Cup is that every four years, without fail, the losing teams engage in garment-rending rituals of mourning and soul-searching forensic postmortems of their national football ecosystem's structural deficiencies. 1/3
Conspiracy theory or shrewd observation: "These debates often frame Chinese e-commerce as a retail story. I increasingly suspect it is a power story."
Rest of WorldIn the Maldives, a 30% banking surcharge failed to slow down demand for Temu, overwhelming the national postal service and showing how Chinese e-commerce is creating deep consumer dependence https://restofworld.org/2026/china-consumer-dependence/?utm_campaign=row-social
It's such an odd notion when you think about it: Half a dozen high-stakes matches at the highest level to prove you're amongst the four best teams in the world. Then a chance to play an exhibition match with the whole world watching to showcase your talents for the fun of it. And everyone moans!
Le Monde in EnglishFrance versus England: The stakes of the World Cup match 'no one wants to play'
Sør-Korea og Norge føles som rake motsetninger ift. KI – de videreutvikler egen kompetanse og bygger teknologi for fremtiden; vi ofrer jorda for engangsbeløp, og gir bort strømmen til infrastruktur vi ikke har kontroll over for en håndfull vaktmester-stillinger. Hvem vinner i det lange løp, tro?
David“South Korea is cashing in on AI's appetite for memory, and its chip makers plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain their advantage. The Asian industrial powerhouse supplies most of the advanced memory chips helping power AI” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Mitt problem med begrepene er at så mange bunner i fordømmelse, negativitet og kroppsfokus, samt at de ofte er uttrykk for en importert kulturkrig som ikke gjenspeiler vårt samfunn. Psykologens ord: "Språk kan skape en ny forståelse som inviterer til nye måter å tenke på." This is not America.
Han er «ick», de «gaslighter» og hun har bra «aura». Gen Z har et begrep for omtrent alt– Det kan være vanskelig å forklare hva ordene betyr, fordi vi er så inni det.www.aftenbladet.noDiskusjonen er utrolig tåpelig. Har man ME, er man både sliten, trøtt, utmattet og overveldet. Det betyr ikke at friske ikke kan kjenne på det samme. Ordene avgjør ikke alvorlighetsgraden. Man kan bli hås både på grunn av fest og strupekreft. Overdreven bruk av 'hås' er uansett ikke hovedpoenget.
– Vi misbruker ordet «sliten»Tonje Brenna mener man skal være mer forsiktig med å si at man er sliten.www.tv2.noI'm not an expert, but this reinforces my suspicion that Labour's organisational culture will be the downfall of any prime minister from the party.
James BallInstead, the FT reports that Andy Burnham will start of his premiership by promoting Shabana Mahmood. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Another one. Nothing's changed, of course. No rhyme, no reason. But sure, explain how this is "standing in solidarity with Ukraine"?
IHF Council approves full reintegration of Russian and Belarusian teams and officialsFollowing the decisions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board on 7 May and 7 July 2026, the IHF Council decided to align the IHF’s position with the IOC’s latest recommendations...www.ihf.infoI was thinking about this at the time: if there was any attempt at all from the writers to paint any of those characters in a sympathetic (or competent, attractive, or positive) light, the writers are as f**ked up as the Roy kids were.
Joe StiebDid we watch the same show? The Roy kids are sociopaths or failsons.
I imagine that for real football fans, this is the equivalent of a trick-shot break between every movement of Shostakovich's Fifth.
The Times and Sunday TimesThe half-time break at the World Cup final is expected to be around 30 minutes long in order to accommodate Fifa’s star-studded show — breaching the maximum time of 15 minutes permitted under the Laws of the Game
What band or artist do all your music tastes suggests that you probably should like and yet you don't? Brian Eno Al Di Meola Brad Mehldau James Brown Berlioz Diana Krall The Brand New Heavies Could be a long list when I think about it.
Declan GaffneySun Ra Jimmy Hamilton Albert Ayler Philly Joe Jones Scott LaFaro All musicians I find admirable in many ways but just don't like listening to.
"Thinspiration" and "subliminal weight loss". I'm starting to forget what attracted me to the English language in the first place.
Center for Countering Digital HateYouTube still recommends harmful content to teen accounts, including thinspiration, extreme calorie restriction & subliminal weight-loss videos. Our new findings show the platform can reduce these harms when it chooses to. The problem isn't that YouTube can’t act. It's that it hasn't done enough 🧵
Å bruke USA som en slags standardmodell, og generalisere den til resten av verden i forskning på affektiv polarisering kan være misvisende. Hvorfor er jeg ikke overrasket?
Er politisk polarisering farlig? Ny studie gir klarere svarFolk blir mindre tolerante og dårligere til å inngå kompromisser når de misliker sterkt folkene på den andre siden av den politiske skalaen.www.forskning.noDette kommer ikke til å fungere, spesielt ikke med så reduktive definisjonsforslag. Ren prompt-basert AI-musikk kan fortsatt stort sett gjenkjennes, med mindre det er enkel lo-fi eller produksjonsmusikk. Men hybrider med AI som mer eller mindre dominerende produksjonsverktøy er allerede standarden.
Musikkbransjen vil merke sanger laget av AIStore aktører vil samarbeide med strømmetjenester for å merke AI-generert og AI-assistert musikk.www.tek.noI mean, all the terrible people locked away on a "muddy stretch of floodplain" in the middle of nowhere, stewing in their own juice in an "authoritarian structure that sits somewhere in between a corporation, a monarchy, and a blockchain"? I'm not against that.
Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne UniversityMeet the cryptocurrency billionaires who are building a world where money entitles you to a vote. A BBC report showing how illiberalism is shaping society in its own way: money is power! And democracy is a thing of the past - www.bbc.com/news/article...
Silence wins more often than you think – you just don’t hear about it.
Social Media LabIn an attention economy, silence loses to spectacle. It's not ideal. But I don't make the rules. But that's the world "we" have built and are living in.
Why do we even experiment with suit cuts anymore when Astaire answered all the questions in 1955?
derek guyAstaire's tailoring is so good in Daddy Long Legs (1955). It's said that he used to dance, jump, and twirl in his tailor's fitting room to make sure the his jacket's collar never lifted off his neck. To me, he embodied American elegance.
He asks the important questions, though! "Do you want a country that can sometimes be difficult as your partner, or do you want a country that has no tech scene as a partner?" If he'd said he was the most publicly indifferent CEO to human suffering, it might've been more to the point.
The New ArabPalantir chief executive Alex Karp has said he is “the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel,” while defending his company's backing of the country during an interview with CNBC: