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Grandparents in the 1920s - occupation: schoolchild Great grandparents? Journalist & housewife; shoe manufacturer & housewife; bus business & housewife; department store owner & housewife. Yeah, I come from privilege

Margaret Atwood Lois McMaster Bujold Gillian Bradshaw Marge Piercy Piper Huguley

Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

Chinese university investigating 6-year-old’s death in gene-editing trial 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/27/c...

To supplement a replied below who posted XKCD 1643, I bring you XKCD 3001 xkcd.com/3001/

This was published last year: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/erik...

This is who @apnews.com is doing glossy interviews with in 2026

🇭🇰 🌀 🔜 T 9️⃣ The Observatory will issue the Increasing Gale or Storm Signal, No. 9 at 1:10am.

An unfortunate bystander in Kwun Tong on Saturday afternoon as Typhoon Noul's outer edge passed through the city. 📽️ : www.threads.com/@wtfhahameme

🇭🇰 🌀 🔜 T 🎱 The Observatory will issue the Gale or Storm Signal, No. 8 at 10:10pm tonight.

Missing from the list (due to it being too long)

HKIA flight arrival cancellations Sunday, July 26th: (Currently 176 flight cancellations)

Current flight departure cancellations at HKIA for July 25th, with Typhoon Noul off the eastern seaboard:

Bamboo scaffolding collapse in Cheung Sha Wan at 4.10pm 📽️ : www.threads.com/@fish_.csy

It's still only Strong Wind Signal #3 but the panic buying looks to have commenced. Went into a DS Groceries and 2/3rds of its shelves were empty! Would have thought it had had a closing down sale, only the staff were restocking some items!

Yeah, that was my first thought

24 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellows urge #Yale not to cave to Trump: "These concessions are not required by federal law. Some are unlawful or unconstitutional. The generational impact of these potential concessions on the foundations of Yale University cannot be overemphasized enough."

This gets to something profound: both positive and negative (null) information are valuable for scientific progress, but our story-telling minds value positive information more, and this carries over to the kind of heroic narratives we tell about scientists.

FT analysis suggests the US has collected $13bn from sales of Venezuelan oil but no one knows where it has gone, even as Venezuela seeks to recover from recent earthquakes… www.ft.com/content/0e56...

Wu Chi-wai, the former leader of Hong Kong's Democratic Party who was released from prison this year after serving his 4-year sentence for subversion, was detained at Heathrow Airport and told he would be deported in 7 days ... www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...