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Ultras Clips reported that supporters of Hamburger SV and FC København paid tribute to 26-year-old FC København fan Mathias Blindbæk Schlüter during a friendly match. The author said Schlüter died in a traffic accident on September 22 and had helped foster a close friendship between the clubs’ fan groups. Supporters of both teams displayed banners honouring him, with messages in German and Danish that meant “Mathias forever,” Ultras Clips wrote. #Fodbold #SupporterKultur #Solidaritet (translated)

The author described the report as essential reading and said it presented therapists’ views on the dangers of the government’s draft bill to ban what it called “conversion practices”. They claimed the bill would cause untold harm to the vulnerable young people it was intended to protect and urged readers to read and share the report.

1/ 86% of Americans told the Washington Post they want every Epstein file released. Nearly 3.5 million pages already are. But the problem is that almost no one has read or thoroughly evaluated them. I’ve spent nine months reading them, with my team. Here is what’s in the public record, with the documents: 🧵👇 https://x.com/sayerjigmi/status/2104270871300915647

If we let basic cognitive skills erode, we don’t just lose math or reading. We lose resistance. We lose sovereignty. And we become an open field for behavioural manipulation by anyone with access to the models. #CognitiveSkills #Manipulation #Sovereignty #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

New! Out in October! Dark Reading Matter : The Last Thursday Next novel by Jasper Fforde The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending? Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure: 'Dark Reading Matter' and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: To disrupt the narrative and make Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can't let that happen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists and guide the series to a satisfactory conclusion. It won't be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's Shakesmania, the nation's second to worst Shakespeare theme park and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hi-jacked by Ultra Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion. It's a tall order, but Thursday has a secret weapon: Her own adaptability, her husband Landen, a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon: Her readers.

The @IMFNews’s new annual report is worth reading carefully. Especially because if we ignore the warning and they turn out to be right, we may end up getting their shock therapy too. According to the IMF, the global economic environment has fundamentally changed in recent https://t.co/Ke0XxvmwLc #IMF #GlobalEconomy #EconomicWarning #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

The Return to Feudalism in 21st Century Garb A simple observer's viewpoint, with no claim to hold any absolute truth. The Veneer Cracks There is something strangely archaic about the world unfolding before our eyes, despite its satellites, artificial intelligence, and promises of infinite progress. Here and there, we witness heads of state behaving like feudal lords of another age, patiently nibbling away at the neighboring territory, redrawing borders through force rather than law, as if governing a nation mattered less than expanding one's fiefdom. No names need be mentioned here: current events provide plenty of illustration, and each reader will recognize, according to their own geography and moment of reading, the faces that embody this observation. But this return to the archaic is not confined to grand geopolitical stages. It also permeates the most ordinary daily life—that of social media, where anyone can pour out venom against another without filter, without form, and often without the slightest argument. The verbal jousting of yesteryear, with its codes, its rhetoric, its tacit limits, has given way to raw invective, snap judgment, instant condemnation. We no longer debate: we execute, verbally—and sometimes it doesn't stop at words. The Vanished Inhibition What strikes one, in this dual observation—macro-political and micro-social—is the lifting of an inhibition we thought firmly anchored. Centuries of cultural construction, education, philosophy, sometimes religion, had patiently shaped mechanisms of restraint: politeness as social ritual, argumentation as a mode of resolving disagreement, respect for one's opponent as the very foundation of democratic debate. This civilizational veneer, however fragile it always was, seemed to hold. Today it is cracking, and the question—which for me remains a simple hypothesis, not a certainty—is why. A convenient explanation would blame social media: anonymity, the distance of the screen, the instantaneousness of publication would favor verbal acting-out without the usual mediation of reflection. This is probably true, but likely insufficient. For technology here is only an accelerant, an amplifier—not necessarily a root cause. A Poorly Formatted Neocortex? The more unsettling hypothesis—and I frame it explicitly as hypothesis, not scientifically established fact—is that of a failure in the formation of moral judgment and tolerance toward otherness. The human brain possesses the neural structures enabling empathy, the distancing of impulsive reaction, the acceptance of difference—but these capacities are not innate in their full exercise: they must be built, educated, cultivated, like a muscle that needs patient training from childhood onward. If this education in otherness, nuance, and tolerance of disagreement erodes—for multiple and undoubtedly complex reasons that are not mine to settle here—then older reflexes resurface: instinctive distrust of the stranger outside the clan, the law of the strongest, the logic of territorial or symbolic predation. The other ceases to be a possible interlocutor and becomes once again a potential threat, unless they belong to my tribe, my clan, my party, my digital bubble. Two Scales, One Logic What is striking, in this deliberately provocative reading, is the structural similarity between these two scales. The leader who invades a neighbor in the name of a rediscovered greatness or a reinvented historical right, and the anonymous internet user who insults a stranger in the name of an unnegotiable conviction, may obey the same underlying grammar: that of territory to defend, clan to protect, the other to subdue or exclude rather than understand. The form has changed—satellites instead of horses, tweets instead of heralds—but the substance, in this reading that remains mine alone and commits no one else, seems strangely identical to that of feudal rivalries: the absence of a recognized third party, of an accepted common rule, of a respected arbitrating authority. Everyone becomes judge and party, lord of their own digital or territorial fiefdom. A Civilization on a Knife's Edge Norbert Elias, in his Civilizing Process, showed how Western societies had historically built, with remarkable slowness, an increasing control over impulses and direct violence, in favor of more sublimated forms of social regulation. What we may be observing today—and I stress again the conditional—is a form of regression in this process, or at least a fragilization of the veneer it had patiently laid down. Should we see this as an effect of great technological accelerations, which shake up our cognitive rhythms without leaving education time to adapt? A deeper crisis of the institutions tasked with transmitting these values of tolerance—school, family, religion, the rule of law? Or simply a cyclical movement of human history, where phases of policed civilization alternate with darker backlashes? I have no certain answer, and I would be wary of anyone claiming to hold one. In Conclusion, a Shared Concern This text is only a viewpoint, necessarily partial and subjective, on a world that sometimes seems to replay ancient logics in new clothing. Perhaps I am wrong to perceive a continuity between the feudal lord and the contemporary dictator, between the anonymous online insult and the absence of education in nuance. Perhaps these phenomena are unrelated, or too complex to be thus summarized. But if this reading, even partially, hits the mark, then the question that arises is less one of technological regulation—though necessary—than the far more arduous question of how to rebuild, generation after generation, this capacity to accept the other in their difference, to debate without destroying, to coexist without necessarily dominating. This undertaking, if it exists, will not be resolved by an algorithm nor by an international treaty. It plays out, patiently, in the most elementary education—the one that teaches a child that the other is not a threat, but a possibility. Bibliography Elias, N. (1939). Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process]. Oxford: Blackwell (Eng. trans. 1978-1982). Lorenz, K. (1963). Das sogenannte Böse [On Aggression]. London: Methuen (Eng. trans. 1966). Arendt, H. (1970). On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Han, B.-C. (2013). Im Schwarm [In the Swarm: Digital Prospects]. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Eng. trans. 2017).

Almost every culture has modernised editions of older authors, along with debates about spelling, vocabulary, editorial notes, and adaptation for contemporary readers. An antiquarian once told me that “the patina of time adds value” and can make the difference between an original and a cheap copy. I open Constantin Noica’s “Sunday Essays”, turn to the publisher’s preface in the 1992 Humanitas edition, and discover that “the spelling has been updated”. Reading Noica could have been a walk through the 1930s and 1940s. Instead, we are taking that walk wearing modern glasses, comfortably seated in an Uber, with no fear of getting lost — that is, of not understanding the words of the period, which could simply have been “translated” in footnotes. What if we took newspapers from the same period and “updated” them too? And perhaps we should rebrand their advertisements as well, so that our neurons do not have to work too hard, as if we were trapped in an escape room. Why stop there? We could update history textbooks too, and describe Archimedes of Syracuse as having been killed by a Roman soldier while doing math on his tablet. The basic idea remains, doesn’t it? Only the period disappears. And one more thing: why don’t mathematicians “update” Pythagoras? They can change the notation. They can explain the proof differently. They can even build the diagram online, through an animation unfolding before the students’ eyes. But the Pythagorean theorem remains the Pythagorean theorem. So when we read an older author, why not preserve the language of their time — and place modern explanations in the notes? And one final question for Humanitas and the people in university literature departments: if today’s schoolchildren “update” you a few decades from now with # and emoji, would you be happy with that? #Humanitas #ConstantinNoica #Noica #SundayEssays #Archimedes #Pythagoras #Hashtag #Emoji #MrStorywise #UpdatedSpelling #HistoryOfLanguage #20260920_1926 #English #Literature #History

This is a very thoughtful essay from somebody close to the actual frontier, seeing firsthand the growing problems we have in making AI safe. Very worth reading. Also, it might help outsiders understand that uncontrolled superintelligence is something insiders take seriously. #AI #Superintelligence #Safety #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseis:

Reading tonight of the Irish who died at Ground Zero in 2001. Of the 3000 victims, a third were Irish, or of Irish heritage When a mother tried to locate her son by his Claddagh ring, the rescue team informed her that they had found “hundreds” of the Irish rings in the rubble https://t.co/AMQ0sa3spi #IrishHeritage #GroundZero #RememberingVictims #IE

I will follow tomorrow’s commemoration at Ground Zero, where New York will mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m., with family members reading aloud the names of the 2,983 victims of the September 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. https://t.co/Yh8Lj2YUGs #September11 #GroundZero #911Anniversary #US

📉 Luxembourg’s PISA reading score fell from 488 points in 2012 to 443 today. Thirteen years of declining PISA performance should lead to uncomfortable questions about educational policy, teaching methods and political responsibility. #Education #PISAResults #Luxembourg #PISAResults #Luxembourg #Education #LU

Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students https://t.co/3uE2V588QG "Crollo dei punteggi di lettura: la “distrazione digitale” danneggia gli studenti. Uno studio dimostra che l'ampia diffusione dell'IA e dei social media ha fatto arretrare il rendimento https://t.co/5UsawvKsA3 #DigitalDistraction #ReadingScores #StudentPerformance #IT

Today’s PISA results confirm Ireland leads the EU in reading. 📖 This demonstrates that consistent, targeted education policy delivers real results. It is a testament to the dedication of our students and teachers. 🏫 We will continue to build on this strong foundation. https://t.co/az2q97S4HY #PISA2023 #Education #IrelandLeads #IE

Literacy today is more than reading and writing. #MediaAandInfoLiteracy is today’s literacy, helping us question information, spot misinformation, navigate AI and digital media, and participate responsibly online. @UNESCO is working to make MIL accessible to all. #LiteracyDay https://t.co/txNuadpwz9 #MediaLiteracy #InformationLiteracy #LiteracyDay #UN

Legacy media -especially in countries with strong proApartheid pressure groups- have played a very distinctive role in framing Israeli policies and Palestinians' reality. My upcoming report on media in times of genocide will be a revealing and often disturbing reading for many. #MediaBias #GenocideReporting #IsraelPalestine #IL #PS

Today, the OECD published the PISA global study that evaluates 15-year-old students’ abilities in reading, mathematics, and science to solve real-world problems. For us, this year's results send a clear signal: too many young Europeans are falling behind in essential skills. We https://t.co/68yZtDLSbl #PISA2023 #Education #SkillsGap #EU