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‘The vessel was found piled high with hundreds of well-preserved containers, which were used to transport goods such as wine and olive oil.’ So cool www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ancient Roman shipwreck discovered off Sicily coastItaly's culture minister says it is one of the most important underwater archaeological finds in years.www.bbc.co.uk

Annoyingly sweet story www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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‘Afghanistan is the only place on Earth where girls are banned from high school and university. Women are banned from parks, gyms and most jobs and not allowed outside without a male guardian’ Important reminder from the great @christinalamb.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/83bb...

Taliban are cheering five years in power while Afghan women starveGlobal aid cuts mean malnourished families — already suffering under ‘gender-based lockdown’ — are being turned away from barren clinicswww.thetimes.com

“There’s a kind of pay-to-play system . . . that Trump is trying to bring back — a traditional form of corruption, if you will,” says Martin Gilens, professor of public policy at UCLA Good longread this www.ft.com/content/2472...

America’s new oligarchyUnder Trump an ultra-wealthy clique has infiltrated government, raising concerns about democratic integritywww.ft.com

Russia using Maga supporters as useful idiots to try and influence the upcoming German state election in favour of the AfD www.ft.com/content/5a63...

‘But what kind of future are we really hurtling towards? Increasingly, it is looking… like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds & political breakdown’ www.ft.com/content/bdcf...

Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technologywww.ft.com

Oh this is a great piece from @add-hawk.bsky.social making the case that play and games are the meaning of life, drawing on The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits www.ft.com/content/7b95...

‘Polish drivers are getting old and the young generation is just not willing to do this job because they believe that they can find easier ways to earn money without having to spend weeks abroad on the road’ Very interesting piece www.ft.com/content/75af...

Wanted: Polish truck driversHalf a million missing European truckers spell trouble for supply chains and economies, unions warnwww.ft.com

Grateful if you could spread the word on this one

We’re launching a major new programme on Humanity, Climate and Nature. We wish to commission discussion papers from researchers/policymakers/practitioners to provide fresh insight into these themes. We’ll pay £2,500 for around 4000 words. Apply by 16 Sept www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

Pick your version of the good life

Walking, Justice PS Narasimha wrote, is "the simplest of the simple human activity, inextricably connected to life. The fundamental right to walk on demarcated footpaths shall override the privilege of a motorised vehicle," Poetry from the Indian Supreme Court www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Supreme Court on walking: India is a nation of walkers - but its cities forgot themIndia's top court has put the spotlight on unsafe footpaths and the country's forgotten pedestrians.www.bbc.co.uk

Despite the happy gloss, Demis Hassabis stepping down from running Deepmind is causing concern that it will now lose the research culture which he had built www.ft.com/content/1453...