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Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.

• MastodonReview of a new book on Stephen Hawking. “The uncomfortable truth is that Hawking’s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge the work of others, his sexism and controlling behaviour were largely ignored…”

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• BlueskyReview of a new book on Stephen Hawking. “The uncomfortable truth is that Hawking’s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge the work of others, his sexism and controlling behaviour were largely ignored…”

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• BlogReview of a new book on Stephen Hawking. “The...

  comfortable truth is that Hawking’s overweening ambition and self-promotion, his repeated failure to acknowledge the work of others, his sexism and controlling behaviour were largely ignored…”

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President of the French Republic since 2017.

• Très fier de rencontrer à Orange les jeunes de la première promotion du Service national. Se former. Faire corps. Se dépasser. Servir la France. Pour cette année de lancement, 3000 jeunes volontaires de 18 à 25 ans serviront pendant dix mois sous l’uniforme, avec le statut militaire. Face au retour des menaces, nous continuons de renforcer nos armées. En dix ans, leur budget aura doublé. Nous renforçons aussi notre capacité à tenir ensemble. En assurant des missions utiles à notre défense, le Service national y contribue. Il rapproche notre jeunesse de ses armées et donne à une génération les…

  English, from FrenchVery proud to meet the young people of the first cohort of National Service at Orange. To train. To bond. To push themselves. To serve France. For this launch year, 3,000 young volunteers aged 18 to 25 will serve for ten months in uniform, with military status. Faced with the return of threats, we continue to strengthen our armies. In ten years, their budget will have doubled. We are also strengthening our ability to stick together. By carrying out missions useful to our defense, National Service contributes to this. It brings our youth closer to its armies and gives a generation the…

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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

• I've added @sapinker's Sense of Style to all my notebooks with writing projects, asking for a Pinker edit with each draft. I don't always agree with every suggestion but it's invariably productive and stimulating advice. Plus if you're in the US, you can get a free copy of the book, which you can both read and use as an on-demand editor in @Gemini_Notebook. There are twenty other great titles in the promotion as well, though it's a limited time offer, and you can only choose one book. (And yes, Google is paying for the books so authors/publishers will be compensated!) Full list and details he…

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  Quoting@sapinker"Expert intelligence" - new feature of Gemini that allows buyers of an ebook to apply the knowledge in the book to their own projects. In this case, the advice in my writing style manual, The Sense of Style, is applied to a draft of the user's writing. I checked it out and it's really good -- the a…

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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.

• you can take the man out of the net zero dept, but you can't take the net zero dept out of the man what a great re-framing: climate as a security issue, and using his new promotion to one of the Great Offices to push it love Miliband for this.
  Quoting@Ed_MilibandThese heatwaves are sending us a message.

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