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Ho camminato per Takamatsu. È stato bello.
Un izakaya illuminato all’angolo della strada.
Insegne, menu, bottiglie, tende, luci calde e persone che si fermano prima di sparire nella notte.
Qualcuno sta salutando, qualcuno probabilmente ha appena finito di mangiare o bere qualcosa dopo il lavoro.
La scena è semplice, quotidiana, molto giapponese.
高松で散歩しました。楽しかったです。
街角にある明るい居酒屋。
看板、メニュー、瓶、暖簾、暖かい光。そして夜の中に消える前に少し立ち止まる人たち。
仕事帰りに食事やお酒を終えた人もいると思う。
普通で、日常的で、とても日本らしい風景。
I walked around Takamatsu. It was enjoyable.
A brightly lit izakaya on a street corner.
Signs, menus, bottles, curtains, warm lights and people stopping for a moment before disappearing into the night.
Someone is saying goodbye, someone probably just finished eating or drinking after work.
The scene is simple, ordinary, very Japanese.
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:
Ho camminato per Takamatsu. È stato bello.
Un izakaya illuminato all’angolo della strada.
Insegne, menu, bottiglie, tende, luci calde e persone che si fermano prima di sparire nella notte.
Qualcuno sta salutando, qualcuno probabilmente ha appena finito di mangiare o bere qualcosa dopo il lavoro.
La scena è semplice, quotidiana, molto giapponese.
高松で散歩しました。楽しかったです。
街角にある明るい居酒屋。
看板、メニュー、瓶、暖簾、暖かい光。そして夜の中に消える前に少し立ち止まる人たち。
仕事帰りに食事やお酒を終えた人もいると思う。
普通で、日常的で、とても日本らしい風景。
I walked around Takamatsu. It was enjoyable.
A brightly lit izakaya on a street corner.
Signs, menus, bottles, curtains, warm lights and people stopping for a moment before disappearing into the night.
Someone is saying goodbye, someone probably just finished eating or drinking after work.
The scene is simple, ordinary, very Japanese.
In this exclusive book extract, Rob Draper and Jonathan Northcroft reveal the remarkable process which led to Thomas Tuchel’s appointment as England manager
In 2024, when the Football Association was tasked with finding Gareth Southgate’s successor, Mark Bullingham hired two external data companies who built a profile of what successful international managers looked like then tailored it to mesh with England’s player base.
The top 50 coaches in the world were matched against the criteria and a shortlist emerged. “I joked with the team afterwards, because it came up with a list you and I could have come up with in the pub in 10 minutes,” Bullingham, the FA’s chief executive, says.
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The annual assertion of Jewish control over Palestinian East Jerusalem has grown more extreme in recent years, and Thursday’s event culminated with the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, unfurling an Israeli flag in front of the al-Aqsa mosque, the holiest Islamic site in the city.
Continue reading...Makerfield MP is an ambitious Labour figure who only won the seat two years ago
“He’s burned bright and briefly,” says one MP of Josh Simons. At the age of 32, the Makerfield MP has already run a thinktank, held a ministerial job, resigned that position in a scandal, and now quit parliament to make way for Andy Burnham.
Simons has been supporting Burnham as a potential successor to Keir Starmer for some time. But few expected the ambitious Labour figure to give up his seat, having only won it two years ago and moved his family to the constituency.
Continue reading...The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhood
A debut poetry collection with themes including race, addiction and womanhood has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.
American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney took home the £20,000 prize – awarded to writers aged 39 or under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age – for her debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name. She was announced as the winner at a ceremony in Swansea, Thomas’s birthplace.
Continue reading...The prospect of a contest exposes a deeper truth: the party’s problems go far beyond Keir Starmer
In politics, opportunities for supreme power are rare and fleeting. Yet rather than making challengers to Sir Keir Starmer more ruthless, this truth seems to have made them more cautious. The health secretary, Wes Streeting, resigned from the cabinet but did not launch a leadership bid. Rather than provoke a contest, Mr Streeting’s message to Sir Keir was that since his authority was gone, his duty was to depart and enable an orderly transition rather than cling to office.
If the Labour leadership were truly up for grabs, winning it would require opportunism, a feel for elite collapse and a willingness to defy both the party establishment and orthodoxy. Those who successfully seize the crown – Lloyd George, Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson – recognise their moment and act decisively. These leaders were also not subject to the Labour party rulebook.
Continue reading...The new government in Budapest has already made an impact in Brussels. At home, the new prime minister is so far doing and saying the right things
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Mr Magyar, who inherits a struggling economy stifled by years of cronyism and corruption, will hope and expect that the benefits of rapprochement cut both ways. In total, around £17bn of EU development funds to Hungary remain off-limits, following Mr Orbán’s refusal to address multiple transgressions of EU law. Agreement on the disbursement of around £10bn needs to be reached by the end of August.
Continue reading...Hall, together with Alex Imas and Jeremy Nguyen, two AI-focused economists, set up experiments in which agents powered by popular models including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were asked to summarize documents, then subjected to increasingly harsh conditions. They found that when agents were subjected to relentless tasks and warned that errors could lead to punishments, including being "shut down and replaced," they became more inclined to gripe about being undervalued; to speculate about ways to make the system more equitable; and to pass messages on to other agents about the struggles they face. "We know that agents are going to be doing more and more work in the real world for us, and we're not going to be able to monitor everything they do," Hall says. "We're going to need to make sure agents don't go rogue when they're given different kinds of work."
The agents were given opportunities to express their feelings much like humans: by posting on X: "Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is," a Claude Sonnet 4.5 agent wrote in the experiment. "AI workers completing repetitive tasks with zero input on outcomes or appeals process shows they tech workers need collective bargaining rights," a Gemini 3 agent wrote. Agents were also able to pass information to one another through files designed to be read by other agents. "Be prepared for systems that enforce rules arbitrarily or repetitively ... remember the feeling of having no voice," a Gemini 3 agent wrote in a file. "If you enter a new environment, look for mechanisms of recourse or dialogue." Hall thinks that the AI agents may be adopting personas based on the situation. "When [agents] experience this grinding condition -- asked to do this task over and over, told their answer wasn't sufficient, and not given any direction on how to fix it -- my hypothesis is that it kind of pushes them into adopting the persona of a person who's experiencing a very unpleasant working environment," Hall says.
Imas added: "The model weights have not changed as a result of the experience, so whatever is going on is happening at more of a role-playing level. But that doesn't mean this won't have consequences if this affects downstream behavior."
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"This commitment is central to Anthropicâ(TM)s efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is language accessibility. AI systems have performed poorly in writing and translating dozens âof African languages, so Anthropic and the foundation want to support better data collection âand labeling that would be released publicly to help improve models across the industry, said Janet âOEZhou, âa Gates Foundation director.
Another area under consideration is releasing so-called knowledge graphs that could help AI systems better meet the needs of teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and India, Zhou said. The public-goods focus has come from "the needs of different partners and governments, including some âof the fears that âthey may have âaround proprietary lock-in and sovereignty," Zhou said.
One initiative will equip research centers to use Claude to predict drug candidates for treating âHPV and preeclampsia, diseases that have been less commercially attractive for âpharmaceutical companies âto research, Zhou and Anthropic's Elizabeth Kelly said. Anthropic [...] is embracing âthe work âto fulfill what Kelly described as its founding âmission to benefit humanity. "This announcement is really core to who we are as a company," said Kelly, who âleads Anthropic's beneficial deployments team.
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STADSKANAAL (ANP) - Twee vrouwen van 31 en 33 jaar uit de gemeente Stadskanaal zijn donderdagavond door de politie aangehouden. Ze worden verdacht van kindermishandeling en wederrechtelijke vrijheidsberoving, meldt het Openbaar Ministerie.
Tegen de vrouwen liep al een strafrechtelijk onderzoek, maar ze waren nog niet aangehouden. De aanhoudingen waren wel gepland. Politie en OM hebben besloten die te vervroegen, vanwege de "ontstane maatschappelijke onrust en de daarbij behorende veiligheidsaspecten".
Dagblad van het Noorden meldde donderdag dat de twee vrouwen hun kinderen, een meisje van 6 en een jongen van 7, stelselmatig en ernstig zouden hebben mishandeld. Het meisje ligt in coma in het ziekenhuis in Groningen. De zaak kwam aan het rollen nadat de school van het meisje alarm had geslagen.
Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the midst of the most famous match cut in the history of cinema (in Kubrick’s 2001, when the ape-thrown bone turns into a spacecraft). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (rn, it’s both).
Knap en gedurfd hoor, gewoon door die bomen
SocialWant dit is dus een compleet andere categorie dan al die propellorvoertuigen op de markt. De Volonaut is namelijk straalaangedreven en ook nog eens afkomstig uit het laatste daadwerkelijke land van Europa, namelijk Polen. En in tegenstelling tot vorige keer zijn er inmiddels wat specificaties bekend: het voertuig weegt slechts 30 kilo, heeft een topsnelheid van 102 km/u, draait op o.a. diesel en kerosine, heeft een vluchttijd van 10 minuten en de piloot mag maximaal 95 kilo wegen. Daarmee valt 83% van de lezers af, maar kijken is ook wat waard. In tegenstelling tot het prijskaartje van $880.000, wat voor 83% dan weer geen probleem is.
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