📹 ”I wanted to come down and support the girls”
Chloe Kelly is the epitome of what it means to be a humble champion and a team player.
The England women are consistently making it about “the team” — in their own sport ⚽️ and other ones too 🏉
We need to take heed of this blueprint.
Inspirational.
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People are starting to believe that hard work doesn’t pay… It’s a dangerous message to send out when you’ve promised to put more pounds in people’s pockets by driving up growth.
— Ben Wilkinson, 📝 This anti-aspiration nation has become a bucket of crabs
GB’s Morgan Lake becomes the first British woman to clear 2 metres at the Diamond League in Zurich. 🏃♀️🇬🇧
Lake is coached by her father and attended Wellington College, a pioneering school with a rich history – and the first in the UK to introduce a course in happiness and wellbeing back in 2006.
Healthy competition. I continue to observe and learn from these creatures.
The UK govm’t has won its case in the Court of Appeal, meaning asylum seekers being housed there can remain.
Whilst human rights are important, the financial impact on the UK is huge.
These governmental contracts with the hotels are quite lucrative, I’d imagine.
Such a tricky issue to navigate.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has made an announcement that indicates a move from its existing privacy-first approach.
It will train its AI models on transcripts and sessions from user accounts, with data to be retained for up to 5 years, unless users opt out. More here from Perplexity.
Some thoughts on short-form vides, having watched a debate last night.
Short-form social media, whose “rules” (length of video) and “algorithms” (who sees what and when), continue to change.
The platforms are trying to incentivize creators to “win quick” on these platforms.
We’re not winning.
Further to the last post on this week’s ONS fertility data, today’s Times newspaper reports:
”A study, published by UCL’s centre for longitudinal studies in October last year, found that 2/5 of 32-year-olds in England wanted children. However, only 1 in 4 of them were actively trying to conceive.“
Data from the ONS shows that fertility rates in England and Wales are at their lowest since records were first taken in 1938.
The biggest dip in fertility rates was among women and men aged 25-29; the largest increase was for mothers aged 30-34 and fathers aged 35-39.
Read the full report here.
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Lucy Bronze, captain of the winning England Women’s team at the Euros, who played through it with a broken leg, was on The One Show this evening.
She continues to talk about her ADHD and autism diagnosis; this short clip with former England footballer and presenter Alex Scott was shared in March. ⚽
Michael Gilbride is worth keeping an eye on if you’re into innovation and the creator economy – with MAD Records, he’s doing interesting and innovative things in the world of independent music.
📝 The United Report, #5 // A Harvard Dean’s letter + the decline in social manners
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“The human relationships you form in unstructured time with your roommates and friends may have a stronger influence on your later life than the content of some of the courses you are taking.” — Harry R. Lewis
“The first one I was, like, what it that? I thought it was just… Then I heard it again and I ran under the pew. And then I covered my head.
My friend Victor, like, saved me though because he laid on top of me. But he got hit.”
— A 10-year old who survived a shooting in Minneapolis (via BBC)
Come on hold my hand
I wanna contact the living
Not sure I understand
This role I’ve been given
I sit and talk to God
And he just laughs at my plans
My head speaks a language, I don’t understand
— Robbie Williams, 'Feel'
With God’s grace, I’ve completed the draft of my book today.
There are many people and places to thank.
My journey with and understanding of neurodivergence continues, but this book is over a decade in the making.
It’s now off to the printers, to be double-checked, before its release.
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source: TheNotoriousMMA on X
Congratulations to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. You know you’ve made it when Google creates a graphic for your forthcoming nuptials… (type “Taylor Swift” on google today).
Perhaps we can now all stop speculating as to whether it this is all “just a PR stunt”.
Wonderful news. Love always wins. 🎊
Anyone who has published a book knows that the inner critic gets louder the closer one comes to publication.
This was the case with my first book and it’s happening again with my forthcoming one – not least because this one consists of words I’ve written.
Its working title continues to evolve. 📖
📝 On patriotism + waving your national flag
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I had never thought the situation in the UK would follow the situation in the US so starkly in terms of the deep divide that’s emerged between the so-called “left” and “right”.
If the AI evangelists are right and AI replaces art for consumers, you might not have a way to make a living doing your writing in the future.
Would you still sit down and put words on the page anyway?
I will.
No AI company can take that away from me.
— Audrey Knox, 📝 Why I’m betting against AI
“The commercialization of what’s happened in college sports, I wonder whether many kids these days will learn those sustainable traits that I think are invaluable to their… life experience.
Are we doing them a disservice because we’re tempting them with some money in their pocket?”
A friend today has introduced me to the work of Dr. Zachary Stein.
I would thoroughly recommend the piece below. We are in a crisis, and it is not going to disappear without deep awareness and education.
It is reversible. But it is going to take conscious effort.
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Reading news of the expansion plans for Wenzel’s bakery this morning, I’ve been reading about the origins of the Southern Co-op whom they are going into partnership with and which has its roots in southern England.
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Southport-born, Everton fan Tommy Fleetwood wins a PGA Tour at the 164th time of asking at the East Lake course in Atlanta, GA. ⛳️
Chants of “Tommy! Tommy! Tommy!” ringing out amongst the crowd.
With Everton FC winning well at their new stadium earlier today, it’s been a good weekend for Merseyside.