Didn't we all go into academia for fresh flowers, Greek grammar, and resentful murder?

There's aspects of this story that are of entirely legitimate interest: money laundering, rates avoidance, evasion of trading standards. There are systemic issues to tighten up here.

But I wish it made clear that not allowing asylum seekers to work is forcing many into this untaxed shadow economy.

Looks tremendous, Hester! Many congratulations!!

I drink your milkshake.

This reminded me of when I heard a Lacanian argue quite convincingly that the paranoid delusions of psychosis are not the illness per se but rather the patient's attempt at self-recovery and self-comfort following a psychotic break.

Pretty majuscool.

But doesn't calling 'listening' or 'watching' 'reading' elide the interpretive work of the performer mediating the text? Not trying to catch you out, genuinely curious because this is a new vocabulary to me.

They think they're George Carlin, but they're actually court jesters.

Vividly kind is a wonderful epithet. You can feel that tectonic caring in his work.

Technofeudalism is here. They honour the new barons.

I pity the dons forced to listen to lightly-edited AI outputs week after week.

I believe Robert Eggers has optioned the screenplay.

But like Antigone, this is a holy crime.

Looks tremendous, Randall. Reposted, in part, to remind myself to order a copy!