According CBS News, a former employee says Facebook is lying to the public and investors about the effectiveness of its campaigns to eradicate hate, violence, and misinformation from its platforms.

The moon is drifting away from us with about 4cm a year, The Atlantic reports. 🌝

It’s a trend among royals. Harry, Megan, and now Mako. Good for them.

“The more the Mullahs spread hate speech against the Jewish State of Israel, the more Iranian people realise that Israel is our friend because the regime in Iran is the only enemy that we have,” Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident, says.

One of Sweden’s most controversial artists, Lars Vilks, has died in a car accident. He was the target of an international fatwa after drawing the prophet Muhammad as a dog.

The increase in the explosive activity of the La Palma volcano has caused the structural collapse of a part of the cone, La Provincia reports.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage after yesterday’s 7-hour downtime. I don’t mind Facebook as much as I used to, but life before it was in many ways better.

According to this graph, the Swedish far-right voter is an unmarried, low-educated male.

The coin could be minted within hours of the Treasury Secretary’s decision to do so, a former director of the United States Mint says.

I want one!

It’s in the making. And it might be good, but overall I think great shows are best left when they are good and finished. No need to milk the idea any further.

It seems the prime suspect of lats week’s explosion in a residential building has been found dead. The man appeared to be a querulous person. I’ve met many such people, and they often tend to let minor wrongs eat away at them.

Fascinating information shared by El País.

Gurnah grew up on one of the islands of Zanzibar before fleeing persecution and arriving in England as a student in the 1960s. He has published ten novels and a number of short stories.

I, personally, know nothing of his work, but Alison Flood has written more about him in the Guardian.

I just read about the link between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease that made me want to brush my teeth twenty times a day. A periodontal pocket of 5mm contains 800m bacteria that could enter the blood stream at any moment.

Jimmie Åkesson became a party member in 1994 when Anders Klarström was leader. Klarström was a Nazi. When Mikael Jansson took over the Nazism was toned down, but the racism remained. Jansson is now a member of the openly racist Alternative for Sweden. Changes have taken place in the Sweden Democrats, and I’m not saying Åkesson is a Nazi today, but it’s a fact that he became a member of such a party.

DC Comics announced yesterday that the new Superman, Jonathan Kent—who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane—will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend.

This past weekend, tens of thousands of Poles demonstrated in support of EU membership after a court ruled that parts of EU law are incompatible with Poland’s constitution.

Good news! Poland news Europe and Europe needs Poland.

Yesterday evening, a man armed with bow and arrow killed five and wounded others in Kongsberg. It appears the Danish man had converted to Islam and been radicalised online.

Needless to say, this article in the Onion is satire:

Sending motorists and pedestrians alike into a sea of confusion, Atlanta was reportedly in chaos Tuesday after officials changed the names of every street to “Maple Drive” in an effort to distance the city from its Confederate past.

🤣

Layla Boroon, Babak Abedin, and Eila Erfani list several things harmful with social media in their new study published by the Journal of Global Information Management.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Conservative MP attacked at church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, the Guardian reports.

The eruption has now gone on for one month, in which it has destroyed 1,835 buildings and buried 743 hectares of land, La Provincia reports.

America’s first black foreign minister has died after complications from Covid-19, CNN reports.

“During an appearance at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Raab said he wanted to rework the Human Rights Act to reduce the power of the European Court of Human Rights,” Pink News writes. “Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph this weekend, Raab doubled down on his suggestion that the Human Rights Act should be overhauled.”

“Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally,” DNyuz reports.

Finally, a map that explains it all.

Much media attention today about the murder of 19-year-old Einár, whose full name is Nils Kurt Erik Einar Grönberg. He was shot multiple times outside an apartment building shortly before 11pm yesterday. He was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019.

At Religion News Service, Jeffrey Salkin writes about progressives who betray their Jewish allies on Israel. It’s a sad spectacle when Jews turn on the only life insurance we have—the State of Israel.

There’s something very beautiful about people who are prepared to lose everything for true love. ♥️

Someone just blocked me on Twitter for something I wrote in 2013. It made me think of an article Viktor Mayer-Schönberger wrote in The Conversation:

Humans are accustomed to a world in which forgetting is the norm, and remembering is the exception. This isn’t necessarily a bug in human evolution. The mind forgets what is no longer relevant to our present. Human memory is constantly reconstructed—it isn’t preserved in pristine condition, but becomes altered over time, helping people overcome cognitive dissonances. For example, people may see an awful past as rosier than it was, or devalue memories of past conflict with a person with whom they are close in the present.

Source: SKOP.

Social Democrats	24.3%
Moderate Party	22.1%
Sweden Democrats	18.9%
Centre Party	9.5%
Left Party	11.5%
Christian Democrats	3.7%
Green Party	4.4%
Liberal Party	3.1%
Other	1.5%

I’ve been watching a documentary on Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić. It shows how ugly nationalism can be.

One of Sweden’s top intellectuals has passed away. For many years, he’s columns in Sydsvenska Dagbladet were among the newspaper’s most read.

This is pure madness. From Cambridge Today:

Earlier this year, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board removed William Golding’s classic Lord of the Flies from its curriculum after its advisory committee on equity agreed with a student who said the book’s themes were outdated and too focused on white, male power structures.

Other books recently removed from Canadian school libraries and/or curriculums in response to complaints about racist, homophobic, or misogynistic language and themes, include Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

No one can accuse Britain’s Prince Andrew of being good at public relations, but attacking the woman who said he raped her as a minor just might be a new low.

”O Tam! had’st thou but been sae wise,
As taen thy ain wife Kate’s advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou was na sober;
That ilka melder wi’ the Miller,
Thou sat as lang as thou had siller;
That ev’ry naig was ca’d a shoe on
The Smith and thee gat roarin fou on;
That at the Lord’s house, ev’n on Sunday,
Thou drank wi’ Kirkton Jean till Monday;
She prophesied that late or soon,
Thou wad be found, deep drown’d in Doon,
Or catch’d wi’ warlocks in the mirk,
By Alloway’s auld, haunted kirk.

Mark Gatiss in the Guardian:

“The most terrible thing about Brexit is we always had a hard-won and very fair reputation for being amateurish, but basically decent. In a tight corner, you knew where you were with us. And I think that’s been ripped away. It’s like a mask has dropped, exposing this horrible snarling, sneering, angry, jealous face.”