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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶
@esseph63.bsky.social
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
45 year old male, I should have said.

Oh, and Google AI is useless.
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There were so many powerful political cartoons in that era. This is one of my favourites, which must also have been featured in a school textbook.
May 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

This is a really good article about the use of literacy.

The Learning Dispatch
carlhendrick.substack.com?utm_source=n...
April 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Might explain the pre-eminence of ballet in Russian music?
April 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Self-certification is never a good idea, and a spectacularly bad one in this case. I never imagined the US regulatory regime was already this dysfunctional.
March 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“What? We gotta freeze those missiles for Ukraine? Wait a second … well heck, they’re already in transit. Nothing to be done, I’m afraid.”

This, or variations on it, need to echo up and down the command chain.

Resist!
March 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Everything is fine.
March 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I asked DeepSeek, and was impressed by its answer.
January 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Strong vibe.
January 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yeah, right.
December 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The analytical analysis appendix has the same info, but labelled better. But no information on the relative size of each cohort, ie how many million people are at each qualification level.
November 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM