Frankrijk is na een 2-0 overwinning op Marokko de eerste halvefinalist van dit WK voetbal. De goals in het Gillette Stadium van Boston werden gemaakt door Kylian Mbappé en…

Volgens de Onderwijsinspectie schiet het islamitische Cornelius Haga Lyceum in Amsterdam ernstig tekort in de kwaliteit van het onderwijs. Inmiddels is de situatie op de school volgens de staatssecretaris zo slecht, dat het ministerie kan besluiten de financiering stop te zetten.

Thomas Hogeling beschouwt wekelijks de publieke opinie. Wat wordt er gezegd en vooral niet gezegd? Dit keer: zogenaamd neutrale voorstellen van Kamerleden.

Claxoneren! #France

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handwritten on negative envelope, "Jr. High Camp, Aug 17-23, 1958". handwritten on back of photograph, "Camp Ceder Crest, August 23, 1958, L to R. Kathleen Garrislimo, Linda Kelly, Sandra Orchard, Eileen MacArthur, Louise Quade (counselor) Sharson Telecke, Pat Sparks, Barbara Rogers, Sandra Horn"

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BrianFagioli writes: The Linux Foundation intends to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation, a new vendor-neutral home for the Google Open Health Stack project. Google is contributing the project code and assets while Google.org is providing a $3 million grant. The initiative is also backed by Microsoft, Anthropic, and the World Health Organization, with the goal of building open source, AI-ready digital health infrastructure. Will moving the project under Linux Foundation governance accelerate adoption, or is this simply another foundation that most developers will never interact with? The new project will focus on core HL7 FHIR technologies for healthcare interoperability, the Open Health Stack Player deployment toolkit, and AI Commons -- a model-agnostic healthcare AI initiative being co-developed with the World Health Organization.

A notable part of the announcement is its planned Implementer Program, which aims to give startups, small businesses, and local developers in low- and middle-income countries a formal role in governance. In other words, the effort is not just about building healthcare software standards, but about making sure the people implementing them in underserved markets help shape the project too.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The [San Francisco international airport] is hoping to build a brand-new terminal exclusively for passengers who pay a premium, gaining access to a luxurious airport experience complete with private security lines and valet service from terminal to tarmac. It will service commercial flights, not business or corporate jets, and the terminal will have its own Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) lines for international travel.

SFO is seeking bidders to take on the development, construction and operation of the private terminal, which is planned for a 75,000-sq-ft site located across the runway from all current public terminals. The airport will accept proposals between late September and early October, and is looking to award a contract by early December with hopes of opening the terminal in late 2028. [...]

If SFO is successful, it would become the next major American airport to open a luxury terminal. Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth, Miami and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airports all offer a private terminal through PS (formerly known as the Private Suite), a company owned by security firm Gavin de Becker and Associates. Multiple representatives from PS and Gavin de Becker and Associates attended a June conference hosted by SFO about the private terminal, and PS has said it hopes to open a private terminal at every major US airport by 2030. The report notes that access to existing PS private terminals "can cost passengers $1,295 for a one-time experience, or up to $4,850 for a yearly membership."

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How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection. “6. I have to give up on some of my little projects.” (I am mid-cull right now, making some tough calls. But also: many books I haven’t so much as touched in 10 years.)

Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet. “I am the pinnacle of technological innovation, and yet they force me to moonwalk.”

No surprise here. A study from AI detection platform Pangram suggests that social media posts are teeming with AI-generated slop, particularly if the posts are long and especially if they live on LinkedIn or X. If you’re sick of reading non-human prose, we’d recommend getting off the platforms altogether. Along with offering your typical AI-content detection services, Pangram released a Chrome extension at the end of April that, with a $20/month subscription, will automatically scan a user’s LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, X, and Reddit feeds to check for AI-generated or assisted content. With more than one million posts analyzed from users who opted in to share data through the extension since its launch, Pangram has concluded that, while AI slop is flooding social media, it’s hitting longform content particularly hard. With longform content defined in its study as any post over 250 words, Pangram found that a full 25 percent of such posts across all the platforms it studies were fully AI-generated. Fully, mind you, meaning that doesn’t include posts in which users got the assistance of an LLM to gussy up their bland prose. That average across platforms was hardly evenly distributed, though. Leading the way was LinkedIn, where 41 percent of longform content was fingered by Pangram as being AI-generated. That’s likely unsurprising to anyone who's ever bothered to read a lengthy professional diatribe from the Microsoft-owned slop shop, or for El Reg readers - a prior story we reported on in late 2024 from AI detection outfit Originality.ai found that 54 percent of LinkedIn longforms were AI-generated. Originality’s definition of Longform was a bit looser, however, with anything over 100 words counting in its analysis. Per Pangram, shortform content on LinkedIn isn’t much more likely to be human authored - they found 30 percent of posts between 50 and 250 words were fully written by AI. For LinkedIn thought slop leaders, it’s generally all or nothing when it comes to using AI to write posts, with a mere 4.3 percent of longform content written with AI assistance. On the other hand, only 55.2 percent of longform posts on the platform, Pangram concluded, are actually written by humans. While LinkedIn may take the cake in terms of the volume of full-slop longform posts, Elon’s X has it beat when adding partially-written AI garbage into the mix, but not by much, honestly. A quarter of posts on X are fully AI authored, and an additional 23.2 percent are believed to be written with AI help. That leaves 52.7 percent of Twitter posts attributed to humans. In effect, you’re roughly batting .500 on either site. Pangram found that Medium isn’t that much better, with roughly one in three posts likely to have been written by, or with the aid of, an AI. Substack was far and away the least likely place to find AI slop in disguise, but even then, nearly a quarter (21.9 percent) of posts analyzed by the Chrome extension were written by or with AI. Reddit is a slightly more complicated situation, with comments on posts making up a large portion of Reddit content. According to Pangram, 11.6 percent of Reddit posts are AI authored or assisted; 98.1 percent of comments were found to be human authored, and the sheer quantity of comments vs. top-level posts meant that Reddit appears to be the place to go if you want to avoid an intrusion of AI thinking. All said, Pangram concluded from its data that AI writing is flooding social media, just like it’s flooding websites and basically everywhere else online. “An internet that is completely flooded with undisclosed AI content is bleak, but we don't believe it's inevitable,” Pangram CEO Max Spero said of his company’s findings in the report. Pangram believes letting internet users know what’s been AI-generated so they can ignore it is a solution to the problem, but you’ll have to pay $20/month if you want the Chrome extension to provide that service. It’s still usable without paying, but content has to be manually input, and the daily limit is just 4,000 words. In other words, unless you want to pony up and see who’s bullshitting you on social media, you’ll have to just assume everyone is. Like we suggested up top, maybe it’s time to disconnect from those feeds entirely. ®

“Improbable but not impossible” is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her vibrant still lifes. Combining the architectural motifs, animals, and fare common in her native São Paulo with elements from abroad, Egreja positions domestic spaces as sites of change, where migration and cross-cultural pollination come to bear.

In a new suite of 15 oil paintings, the artist draws on the long tradition of Dutch Golden Age still lifes alongside the contrived qualities of collage. Tablescapes filled with fresh flowers and shiny produce also contain cellophane-wrapped snacks and canned goods. Egreja acknowledges flight as a rich symbol of freedom and migration, and birds swirl overhead and perch atop the uncanny objects. There’s also a pair of window pieces, blanketed in 24-karat gold leaf and decorative wrought grilles, which serve as an interstitial spot for the winged creatures to pause as they move between interior and exterior.

Egreja’s focus on bridging these divides emerges in her renditions of sunsets, too, with their bold gradients rippling from crimson to amber across living spaces. This glowing feature backdrops both “Interior with a Jaguar and Sun Conure,” in which a forlorn feline lounges on an Art Deco sofa, and “Interior with Five Cats at Sunset.” The latter also contains a sculptural element as the vibrant light streams through a beaded curtain mounted to the painting’s edge.

Taking a magical realist approach to migration, Egreja questions the hard boundaries we perceive between private and public space, wildness and domesticity, as well as international borders. She also renders these lines illegible to our non-human counterparts, nodding to an ongoing organic exchange between seemingly disparate entities.

The works shown here are part of the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S., titled The Flight of Color, which runs from July 16 to September 5 at Jessica Silverman in San Francisco. Explore more of the artist’s practice on Instagram.

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Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital Meet Zee (or Zed? or Zeke on the captions?). He's got black hair, he shot a guy, and he got slapped.

John Oliver Bags Two Roles After 'Publicly' Urging to 'Appear on a Soap' His "Days Of Our Lives" stint will be in August.

The Loop: A picture puzzle game from the Britannica Arrange the pictures so that each one is connected to the previous and the next (semi) logically.