Interesting Links for 26-08-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Consultation opens on Edinburgh's proposed new tram line

(tags:edinburgh trams consultation )

2. How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition

(tags:history comic morality )

3. Trump is turning into Liz Truss but with more dictatorial behaviour

(tags:USA economics authoritarianism doom )

4. OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework

(tags:ai students )

5. Fixing the voting system brings in more women representatives

(tags:women politics voting reform )

Comments

[anna_wing]

I strongly suspect that many schools and universities will eventually return to pen and paper, written, closed-book, in-person invigilated exams ( possibly with the addition of mobile-phone jammers), as the only way to be sure that pupils and students have learned what they are supposed to learn.

[calimac]

"Trump is turning into Liz Truss" - if only his existence were as fleeting, but things don't work that way in this country.

[melchar]

Point 2 makes more sense to me than many other justifications for colonialism. It's not a valid one IMO, but still better than conquering a people for reasons of skin color or worship.