Natasha Loder

They are eating the dogs. They are eating the cats.

Just 36 aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday, Palestinian officials claim - short of 600 needed — Sky News Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is refuting the claims - and accuses Hamas of

There is no “claim”. It is a fact that the WHO has been stating since the war began 600 a day. 600 a day. That is what is needed and must be allowed in.

Just 36 aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday, Palestinian officials claim - short of 600 needed - Sky News

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Yes. This is a US number. And so is the grade range but I would assume the problem is similar in most countries

..more tailored and less repetitive instruction. Using the word AI makes it sound like it is really all new. But mostly we are talking about smarter learning modules. So much of education is actually online/digital these days.

Kids sit regular tests so you can see almost immediately if they have retained and understood the curriculum—whether learned from Edtech or human. You don’t need an RCT over five years to figure this out. We have been using Edtech for years, adding AI will just mean that children get..

I genuinely believe this. Parents, children and society needs to decide how education needs to change for the better.

Teaching one lesson to 30 kids (with a typical grade range of 2-3 years) isn’t about interpersonal relationships. It’s crowd control. We need to reimagine equation and we can’t rely on the teacher’s union to tell us what the best future for our kids looks like.

Teaching one lesson to 30 kids (with a typical grade range of 2-3 years) isn’t about interpersonal relationships. It’s crowd control. We need to reimagine equation and we can’t rely on the teacher’s union to tell us what the best future for our kids looks like.

Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester — The Guardian Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon

Absolutely insane story.

Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester - The Guardian

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'No other drug does this amount of damage so quickly to your kidneys and bladder': How party drug is ruining lives — Sky News Nicole's journey from recreational use to a deep addiction that caused her severe bladder and kidney problems may be just one extreme case, but ketamine use is now at record levels.

Gripping story about how recreational use of ketamine by those with mental health problems can go horribly wrong. This is a treatment that needs to be offered under medical supervision—not accessed as a street drug.

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A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

In this NYT article about AI education note how the vague assertions about how teaching should be done by the teaching union comes ahead of what the student says about how well it works.

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

The most important story in the world right now.

warp cartoon: a cat sitting up next to their sleeping human in the couch. they are holding the humans phone. caption reads "Wait, what? What are all these videos of other cats doing on her phone?” and they look shocked and sad

my dad just texted me this

it doesn't matter at all. But even if it had mattered then it would still be no reason to reveal private personal medical information. I can think of very few circumstances where this would be justified!

A sad day when someone’s use of prescription medication is being publicised as a distraction for an unwelcome news story

Yeah! That too.

But in fact what we will see is more lecturers penning personal reminiscences about how students are no longer learning to think.

Mis(sing)information: The impact of disappearing archives and data sources – Full Fact In an age of digital and big data, archives are extremely precarious. This is why they need to be protected...

Hey @archive.org, we think you are pretty cool

I have to say that a curfew would be extremely welcome and would allow normal stuff to happen without drama. Like supper and bedtime. And there is always TV in the evening. These apps are sucking away everything.

Random hot take for teaching professors. Stop fretting that students are cheating and figure out how to teach in an AI era. Maybe assign homework to learn about what you used to lecture on, and have them write the essay in the classroom? Is it really so radical???

About 500 trucks per day are needed to stop the population from starving. And for long periods of time this has not been getting in. Please wake up to the fact that a major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in front of your eyes and it is entirely preventable

This story is almost certainly bullshit and I don’t even have to click on it to know.

This is actually happening.

Since this started many have highlighted how aid was being deliberately restricted to meagre amounts. This was entirely predictable and it is very clear where the blame lays and how it can be fixed. Although it is sadly too late for this baby boy.

The situation in Gaza is devastating.

How awful.

Map from The Economist showing Russian hybrid-warfare attacks in Europe, by target, Jan 2018-May 2025. There are a lot.

Russia has carried out dozens of attacks in Europe since the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on British soil in 2018
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“Furthermore, the time between scans was much shorter in the people scanned before and after the pandemic, compared to those who had both scans before the pandemic. We therefore don’t know if brain aging would have recovered if more time elapsed.” Prof Husain, University of Oxford

“It is important to note that the majority of people showed brain ageing at the expected rate. However, a higher-than-usual proportion showed striking increases in brain age of an extra 15 to 20 months per year”—Maxime Taquet, University of Oxdord