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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
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Good article from Edsall on Mamdani and impressed with how he says his thinking was changed by the evidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | Young Voters Are the Holy Grail. Zohran Mamdani Just Showed Democrats How to Win Them.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Good article from Edsall on Mamdani and impressed with how he says his thinking was changed by the evidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened its doors to the public. Construction began 20 years ago, weathering several national storms including 2011’s Arab Spring.
Photo Essay: The museum of unstolen history
The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened its doors to the public. Construction began 20 years ago, weathering several national storms including 2011’s Arab Spring.
continent.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally opened its doors to the public. Construction began 20 years ago, weathering several national storms including 2011’s Arab Spring.
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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
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A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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It's a remarkable trajectory, since Paris in 2015, but especially since Copenhagen in 2009.
The US and increasingly Europe have washed their hands of a catastrophe of their own making.
And the Rest is solving it for themselves with investment and tech from China.
The US and increasingly Europe have washed their hands of a catastrophe of their own making.
And the Rest is solving it for themselves with investment and tech from China.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It's a remarkable trajectory, since Paris in 2015, but especially since Copenhagen in 2009.
The US and increasingly Europe have washed their hands of a catastrophe of their own making.
And the Rest is solving it for themselves with investment and tech from China.
The US and increasingly Europe have washed their hands of a catastrophe of their own making.
And the Rest is solving it for themselves with investment and tech from China.
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In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
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This is a point that cannot be made enough. (Feels like @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social needs a tag here because I've re-skeeted his comments on how lying is so deeply corrosive a lot this year).
I agree. The narrative explanation for declining trust has become ‘political polarisation’ rather than ‘lying is now the norm’ which massively limits opportunities for adaptation and resilience to manipulation.
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is a point that cannot be made enough. (Feels like @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social needs a tag here because I've re-skeeted his comments on how lying is so deeply corrosive a lot this year).
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New episode of THE BIG VIEW 🎧🎙️: I talked to Branko Milanovic, the economist and expert on inequality, about his new book "The Great Global Transformation". A great conversation about the politics of growth, income distribution, and global commerce. Please tune in!
open.spotify.com/episode/7jW9...
open.spotify.com/episode/7jW9...
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
New episode of THE BIG VIEW 🎧🎙️: I talked to Branko Milanovic, the economist and expert on inequality, about his new book "The Great Global Transformation". A great conversation about the politics of growth, income distribution, and global commerce. Please tune in!
open.spotify.com/episode/7jW9...
open.spotify.com/episode/7jW9...
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Some great reply threads here on a topic at the heart of what I'm writing about in the book project. The way in which some of the narratives discussed here have been framed and constructed to mobilize political agendas is my focal point.
This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal.
We thought we could compete.
We thought we could compete.
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Some great reply threads here on a topic at the heart of what I'm writing about in the book project. The way in which some of the narratives discussed here have been framed and constructed to mobilize political agendas is my focal point.
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Katherine Hawley is indeed sorely missed here in Philosophy and St Andrews, and it’s good to see her clear and wise reflections on trust and trustworthiness gain a fresh audience.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
Kieran Healy (@kjhealy@mastodon.social)
A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/11/10/trustworthy-data-visualization/
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Katherine Hawley is indeed sorely missed here in Philosophy and St Andrews, and it’s good to see her clear and wise reflections on trust and trustworthiness gain a fresh audience.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115525767271021313
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I always enjoy the genre of "sapiosexual" imagery (the search for these was "sapiosexual photo") wherein, like, look, maybe the people photod happen to be smart too, but that is *not* why they are attractive there. To really lean in to the concept it should be, like, Sartre and Socrates etc.
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I always enjoy the genre of "sapiosexual" imagery (the search for these was "sapiosexual photo") wherein, like, look, maybe the people photod happen to be smart too, but that is *not* why they are attractive there. To really lean in to the concept it should be, like, Sartre and Socrates etc.
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I’ve recommended it before, but Amy Kaplan tells exactly this story in Our American Israel. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Our American Israel — Harvard University Press
“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays ou...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’ve recommended it before, but Amy Kaplan tells exactly this story in Our American Israel. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Really good to see this variety of settler colonialism—settler Protestantism—taken independently and seriously.
I’ve recommended it before, but Amy Kaplan tells exactly this story in Our American Israel. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Our American Israel — Harvard University Press
“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays ou...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Really good to see this variety of settler colonialism—settler Protestantism—taken independently and seriously.
“Son of Atreus … empty words are evil”
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“Son of Atreus … empty words are evil”
Anyone who’s had to submit a Schengen visa application with confidential information will understand
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Anyone who’s had to submit a Schengen visa application with confidential information will understand
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The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.
El #MapaFosasRTVE es el primer mapa audiovisual con las 6.000 fosas comunes de la guerra civil y el Franquismo.
Los restos de más de 17.000 víctimas se han podido recuperar, pero otras 12.000 personas podrían ser aún exhumadas.
rtve.es/noticias/fos...
Los restos de más de 17.000 víctimas se han podido recuperar, pero otras 12.000 personas podrían ser aún exhumadas.
rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Spanish public television has published the first audiovisual map showing the 6,000 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent Francoist dictatorship (1939-1975). A testimony of what happens when fascism wins -something unknown in most of Europe.
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inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
inspired by this, I have done a free extract of this section of the book here. it is about understanding that *with all its problems* the BBC is as important for our intellectual health as the NHS is for our physical health:
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-bbc-an...
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transphobia is such a gateway drug to the far-right (moore used to be a centre left guardian columnist)
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
transphobia is such a gateway drug to the far-right (moore used to be a centre left guardian columnist)
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The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The second in Sander Verhaegh's two part institutional history of American analytic philosophy appearing in the 15th volume of #HOPOS.
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
"The Analytic Turn in American Philosophy: An Institutional Perspective—Part 2"
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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I genuinely think there is a case that anyone using an AI product of this kind should face a short prison sentence. It's vandalism, just like painting on a wall or smashing a bus stop.
And you don’t even need an actually good bit of tech, which “Objector” may or may not be, to do this! If you just ask the free version of any genAI to do something plausible it still louses up everyone else’s productivity to work out it is bollocks!
The automated problem factory!
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I genuinely think there is a case that anyone using an AI product of this kind should face a short prison sentence. It's vandalism, just like painting on a wall or smashing a bus stop.
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The picture goes so hard I don’t even care that it’s another “but at what cost” article tbh.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The picture goes so hard I don’t even care that it’s another “but at what cost” article tbh.
The discovery that dinosaurs had cancer was and remains a real problem for this (& similar) theodicy.
do you think the dinosaurs committed some sin or did G-d just get bored with them
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The discovery that dinosaurs had cancer was and remains a real problem for this (& similar) theodicy.