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It seems that literary magazine @themothmagazine has awarded its 1st prize to a short story that is 100% AI-generated, according to @Pangram: https://t.co/5kJJrTMIAw I read the story. I ain't no literary critic, but it's kinda lame. It's superficially poetic and atmospheric, but https://t.co/vr4vTCT14N #AIGenerated #Literature #ShortStory #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and related gender ideological-belief measures were strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) was not simply standing in for being politically left-wing” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Support for coercion, punishment, and violence appears to be tied less to liberalism generally than to an authoritarian disposition organized around left-wing ideological content” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may supply authoritarian psychology with a structured map of perceived outgroups, threat sources, and oppressor classes” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Dissent becomes not a legitimate position but a failure of professional duty or an act of harm” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left”- Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence can come to seem permissible or necessary” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Three findings pull in the same direction. People who strongly endorse gender ideology positions score dramatically higher on left-wing authoritarianism than their political identity alone would predict. Furthermore, both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) predicted support for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and—in those already disposed toward force—that violence is legitimate” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “One mechanism by which clinical content may translate into violence permission deserves note. Trans-Genocide Belief—the perceived likelihood that a genocide of individuals that identify as transgender is currently underway in the United States—is predicted to more strongly relate to CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) than to political identity and to be associated with elevated justification for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “This prediction is consistent with broader research showing that perceived threat, existential threat, and collective victimhood can increase support for hardline, punitive, or exclusionary action against outgroups, particularly when paired with authoritarian dispositions or strong moral conviction (Armaly & Enders, 2022; Carriere et al., 2022; Hirschberger et al., 2016; Kljajić et al., 2025; Schori-Eyal et al., 2014; Skitka, 2010)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Related work on moralization and violent intergroup conflict further suggests that when a political conflict is framed as a moral emergency involving dangerous or demonized outgroups, violence can come to seem permissible or necessary (Mooijman et al., 2018; Saguy & Reifen-Tagar, 2022)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The practical stakes are straightforward. Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention. Yet federal agencies and public safety officials are concerned not only with ideology in the abstract, but with radicalization pathways: the content that tells people who to fear, why the situation is urgent, and when force becomes acceptable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology “This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels—clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise—that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) were significantly positively correlated with justification for political violence across all six targets” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with blockers include: At baseline, about one-quarter of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About one-quarter reported having thought about suicide, and 8% reported having attempted suicide in the past. These numbers are on par with the population of middle school youth at large” - The Trans Youth Care - United States “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with GAH include: At baseline, about half of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About two-thirds reported having thought about suicide, and one-quarter reported having attempted. By two years after starting GAH, these youth showed increased scores for life satisfaction, appearance congruence (having the physical appearance of one's body match one's gender identity), positive emotions, and psychological well-being and decreased scores for depression and anxiety” - The Trans Youth Care - United States

AI will do to minds what the decline in manual labor did to bodies. The privileged few will keep exercising their minds with literature, art and science, just like they kept exercising their bodies despite escalators, elevators and desk work. The many will suffer something akin #AI #Inequality #FutureOfWork #None

A nation is more than a territory, a government or a passport. It is a shared story, and culture is the language in which that story is told. So how should a country tax the very culture that defines it? What makes Estonia; Estonia? It is not simply the borders on a map or the institutions of the Republic. It is the Estonian language, the songs people know, the literature they read, the traditions they preserve, the architecture they recognise, the stories they tell their children and the artists who continue to reinterpret all of it for a new generation. Estonia is not the only country with high VAT There is an important misconception in the current debate. Estonia’s 24% VAT is high, but having a high standard VAT rate does not mean that a country has to apply that same rate to culture. The European Union leaves member states considerable freedom to establish reduced VAT rates. Under the current framework, countries can apply reduced rates as low as 5% to eligible categories. #culture #Estonia #Tax #CulturalTax https://tunitemusic.com/post/24-vat-on-culture-how-estonia-compares-with-europe/

Whit if readin Jane Austen wis also a kind o investigation? The reader notices the wee details, compares whit folk say wi how they behave, spots contradictions, an tries tae understand whit isnae said outright. Wha’s tellin the truth? Wha’s hidin somethin? Which wee details turn oot tae matter later? Readin a classic can feel a bit like detective work: watch closely, piece the clues thegither, an draw yer ain conclusions. #0026= #JaneAusten #Literature #Readin #Classics #Detective #Books #ReaderPsychology #Curiosity #CloseReadin #CriticalThinkin #ArthurWren #Scots

What if reading a classic began with a question, not an obligation? Instead of saying, “This is an important novel. Read it carefully,” imagine starting with a mystery: Why did this character stay silent? What is hidden in that letter? Who misunderstood whom — and why? What does money change here? What is never said directly? Suddenly, Jane Austen or Charles Dickens is no longer a monument to admire from a distance. It becomes a world to investigate. Maybe classic literature works better when curiosity comes before reverence. #ClassicLiterature #JaneAusten #CharlesDickens #Reading #LiteraryMystery #Books #Curiosity #ReaderPsychology #ReadingMotivation #CriticalThinking #ExploratoryReading #English #0010= #ArthurWren

What if Charles Dickens could also be read as an economist? In Hard Times, wages, employer power, education, debt, inequality and collective action are not abstract concepts — they shape the lives of the characters. Literature can reveal how economic systems feel from the inside, and how microeconomic forces influence everyday choices, opportunities and power. #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #Victorianliterature #Microeconomics #books #reading #ReaderPsychology #CriticalThinking #EconomicsAndLiterature #ReadingMotivation #English #0004= #ArthurWren

What if Charles Dickens could also be read as an economist? In Hard Times, wages, employer power, education, debt, inequality and collective action are not abstract concepts — they shape the lives of the characters. Literature can reveal how economic systems feel from the inside. #ReaderPsychology #CriticalThinking #EconomicsAndLiterature #CloseReading #English #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #Microeconomics #literatureandeconomics #Victorianliterature #0003= #ArthurWren

What if reading Jane Austen were also a form of investigation? Her novels are full of social clues, letters, decisions, silences, rooms and hidden paths. Reading classic literature can also mean observing, interpreting and discovering what is never said directly. #JaneAusten #classicliterature #literarymystery #reading #ReaderPsychology #CriticalThinking #CloseReading #LiteraryMystery #English #ArthurWren #0002=

„Dnes odešel Vladimír Páral. A skoro jako by si to napsal sám: v den svých 94. narozenin. Chemik, spisovatel, ironik a skvělý pozorovatel lidí. Uměl vzít obyčejný život, vztahy, práci, touhy i naše malé slabosti a napsat o nich tak, že to bylo chvíli vtipné, chvíli nepříjemné a často až podezřele přesné. Knihy, které četly celé generace a které už v české literatuře zůstanou navždy,“

What we are seeing in maths now is that AI ties up loose ends in the literature, using its advantage in memory capacity and knowledge and the ability to quicky go through many possible conjectures and examples. There is a lot of this unused potential in the scientific #AIinScience #MathInnovation #ResearchPotential #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweetyouprovided.

If you want to establish laws to prevent AI systems from reading medical or mathematical literature, or from driving cars, you are harming a great many people for the financial gratification of a few. This is a negative sum game and makes the world worse. #AIethics #TechRegulation #InnovateForGood #Nocountrycodesarepresentinthetweet.

In the Dutch newspaper @NRC, a reviewer calls the mass displacement of Arabs in 1948 a "taboo" in Israeli literature — and then proceeds to review an influential Israeli novel that appeared no less than a year later, was placed on the Israeli high school reading list in 1964, and https://t.co/t19UsduN1O #IsraeliLiterature #1948 #TabooTopics #NL #IL #PS

W 2002 roku norweski klub książki Bokklubben oraz Norweski Instytut Noblowski opracowali listę 100 najważniejszych książek wszech czasów, w której jednozelekcjonowane dzieło, „Don Kichot” Miguela de Cervantesa, otrzymało szczególne wyróżnienie za swój znaczący wpływ na literaturę światową. #literatura #książki #DonKichot

Welcome back to POLYPHONY, an independent publication from Sweden exploring world affairs, global cultures, literature, art, and history. We look beyond headlines to examine the deeper currents shaping our changing world through rigorous analysis and storytelling. This week’s POLYPHONY Notes explore a world of opposing currents: Europe’s evolving security role, intensifying conflicts, global power competition, and the strategic shifts reshaping an uncertain world. Explore “World affairs | This week” and our latest literary memoir, “The weight of a single word: Woman.” Read, share, subscribe and contribute to POLYPHONY. https://polyphony26.substack.com/p/world-affairs-this-week

Na knižnom festivale Arsenal v Kyjive, ktorý sa konal v čase ruských útokov, sa zdôraznila odolnosť ukrajinskej kultúry, keďže program musel byť prerušený kúskami leteckého poplachu, ale napriek tomu prišlo desaťtisíce návštevníkov debatovať o literatúre a umení. #Knihy #Festival #Ukrajina