Michael Bronstein

Otherworldly misty morning in Chisapani forest on a Marwari stallion in a dreamy photo that looks unreal. If equestrian paradise exists, it should look something like this.

Noli ̶e̶q̶u̶i̶ cervi donati inspicere dentes

@scottygb There is a grammatical mistake here: the use of a perfect tense implies present relevance.

BBC has released a new campaign 'What has the BBC ever done for me?' It will air during tonight's World Cup final coverage.

@pdhsu “O Muse, tell me of that man of many ways who travelled far and wide”

Getting to NYC over the last 20 hours with 5 flight cancellations seemed like 20 years…had me feeling like Odysseus

@ArmandDAngour Περὶ ἱππικῆς

Which is a better basis for a film, the Odyssey or Xenophon’s Anabasis? The latter, the latter!

@Mr_Andrew_Fox This is a sartorially capital offense punishable by death from embarrassment.

Get the Tate look:

@pkoo562 It looks funny because it’s a deer

@mmbronstein That’s a funny looking horse 😂

@ayirpelle “Dio creò diverse beltà, vini diversi. lo vo' gustar quanto più posso dell'opra divin”

@mmbronstein Horses are like, "where's your loyalty?":)

@laurentduval It’s a deer, it’s alright

@mmbronstein [...] 'It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.' Abraham Lincoln

@geraldposner The liar was head of one of our colleges who jumped to a warmer place when opportunity appeared.

Yet another example of why so many people have lost faith in legacy media and its rapidly disappearing journalism standards. In the last couple of days I've reported on a NYT editor admitting the paper's own news section wouldn't have run Nicholas Kristof's inflammatory, unsourced column on rape allegations against Israel. I've reported on the Washington Post altering direct quotations to recast what Trump actually said as anti-Israel. And now this. Three hours. That's how long that ABC (Australia) knew a claim was false before it put it on air anyway. In May 2025, UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher told BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme, on air, in his own words: "There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them." That was false. The actual UN data behind it was an IPC report projecting the possibility of 14,100 severe malnutrition cases over an 11-month period, not a 48-hour death toll. Even the longer prediction model turned out to be wrong. Fletcher later said he "really regretted" the claim and denied it was deliberate. The BBC and ABC both ran with it. ABC aired it on News Breakfast at 6am on May 21. Under questioning at the Bondi royal commission this week, editorial director Gavin Fang admitted it had already been publicly known for three hours before the show even started that the figure was wrong. The correction didn't air for ten hours until 4pm, on a different program. A general written correction wasn't posted for a week. ABC's own ombudsman, Fiona Cameron, later found it breached the broadcaster's accuracy standards — and told the commission plainly, "at times the ABC is slow to correct and clarify." This wasn't a wire-copy typo on page six. It landed at the most inflammatory point of an already inflamed war, on one of the country's most trusted public broadcasters. Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal told the commission that ABC is "marking their own homework," pointing out its ombudsman is appointed by and answers to the same board she's supposed to be checking. Segal insisted on an independent regulator, but ABC refused. Here's what makes the three-hour gap harder to wave away: just months before this aired, the director of ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation — its domestic spy agency, roughly the equivalent of the FBI's counterintelligence/counterterrorism division) told an Australian Senate committee that antisemitism had become the agency's number one domestic threat priority for the first time in history — and he specifically warned Australians to avoid "inflamed language" around the Middle East. ABC had that warning. It had three hours' notice the number was wrong. It aired it anyway. I am not claiming a direct causation from the ABC broadcast to the murders at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah gathering seven months later. But when your own national security agency is telling you the country is primed to combust over exactly this kind of claim, three hours of advance warning that the claim is false stops being a footnote. It becomes the whole story. Against that backdrop, it's not a coincidence worth ignoring that violent antisemitic incidents hit a record over the last year in Australia. An admission dragged out under subpoena, a year later, isn't accountability. It's what accountability looks like when you've run out of ways to avoid it. And it is another prime example of why so many people are disgusted with the mainstream press.

Chanterelle season in Austria

@PhilipProudfoot 47 years late

This is proscribing the Iranian government. Every serious British diplomat will have their head in their hands Even if one takes a fundamentally confrontational attitude towards Iran, this stupidity just makes talks, negotiations and partners harder Stupid politics — childish

@HomerPavlos Little is know about how Helen of Troy looked like. Her most common epithet is “fair-haired”. Given that she hatched from and egg fertilized by Zeus, it might be that the color of her skin is the least of concerns.

The Odyssey begins by showing an African rapper with rasta in the role of a Greek poet. We Greeks are forced to watch our Greek history and culture being disgraced and mocked across the entire world. What is Nolan's real role in doing something like this instead of casting a Greek person speaking Greek? What's the purpose of casting someone with rasta in the Greek world? I'll tell you. Nolan and Hollywood are the real racists and enemies of the West. They hate us Greeks. The simplest confirmation comes from the fact that when a film is about African history, they don't cast white people, only Africans. When it's about Chinese or Japanese history, they cast only Asians, and they even speak only in their own language. But now that the time has come for a film based on Greek history with Greeks, not a single Greek is cast, they don't speak even a bit of Greek, and they don't even respect Homer. So, for films about European cultures, Africans, Asians, and anything else must be cast, but when it comes to African culture, whites are not allowed to play those roles. This is the real racism of Hollywood. Hollywood is a cancer that rots your souls and enslaves your minds and spirits. They hate you and they want to destroy you. Never forget the real enemies of the West and of your race. Those who are in universities, the academics, teaching your children how to hate their ancestors instead of honoring them. Don't do them the favor. Love the Greco-Roman world and fight those who hate you. Never forget the traitors who took everything as a joke and contributed to the plan to destroy Western civilization.

@Alonso_GD German government understands that so-called antizionism is fashionably rebranded antisemitism. Others understand as well but pretend they don’t.

So did East Germany have a right to exist? And was it violated by reunification in 1989?

@ukhomeoffice comrade Galloway will need to find some other cozy terrorist regime to glorify.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been designated under the National Security (State Threats) Act. Anyone who supports or assists the IRGC, or receives payment from it, could face 14 years in prison. Those who commit acts of sabotage could face life imprisonment.

How do you turn research into a billion-dollar company? We asked Ion Stoica, who did it with Databricks (>$100B), Anyscale and Arena AI, while his Berkeley lab built Ray, vLLM, and SGLang. His signal that a project is ready: users start asking "who maintains this after the students graduate?" New episode of The Information Bottleneck. You can find it on our website, Youtube or the apps

@HenMazzig Believe all women* *exceptions apply

"Are you a Mossad agent?" Sarah, a Malaysian Muslim woman, sat down with CNN to discuss her accusations against the ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. Showing her face for the first time, she details the heartbreaking allegations. During the interview, she had to dispute claims that she was acting as an agent for Israel. "If ever there was even a hint of suspicion that I was a state agent of any kind, I would have been fired." We have seen so many deny the stories of women who were sexually assaulted on Oct. 7. Now people want to invoke Israel to discredit anyone they can. Truly shameful.

📊 Day 3 of MLx Representation Learning & Generative AI at OxML | Oxford Machine Learning School 2026 with Alexander Tong! 📊 📣 Our second speaker was Alex Tong, from AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence with a talk on "Continuous-Time Generative Modeling: Flow Matching and Optimal Transport"! Alex explored how flow matching, the technique powering today's leading image and video generators, learns to turn random noise into realistic data by framing generation as a dynamical system rather than a black box. He unpacked why these models beat older approaches like GANs on stability and flexibility, how optimal transport can straighten the paths for faster sampling, and grounded it all in his own work applying flow matching to single-cell biology to reconstruct how cells evolve over time. A great dive into the maths and intuition behind modern generative AI! 👏Thank you, Alex! @GRESEARCHjobs #OxML2026 #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #RepresentationLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #OxfordMachineLearning #AIforGlobalGoals

@ziv_ravid Soon agents will be able to walk your terrier and ride your horse

@mmbronstein Amazing, a world without waiting for your agent to finish

I'm listening to a podcast interview with a professor who specializes in the tax laws of medieval Wales (very interesting!), and it got me thinking about how different her life is from a CS professor who goes to a frontier lab or starts their own startup, even though they're both called "professors."

@ziv_ravid Kolmogorov started his career with research on history of old Novgorod and found previously unknown evidence of landholding practices. His professor was unimpressed because history requires five proofs to establish a fact. Next day, he switched to math. The rest is history.