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PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share

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That's a signifiant intellectual step down even from Darth Vader being named after the German word for father, and I think even hardcore Star Wars fans are willing to admit George Lucas isn't a very good writer. I just think it's important to call crap crap, you know
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It popped into my head the other day that in Harry Potter the mirror that shows you what you most desire has a name that's just the word desire backwards
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'What we can say about financial markets today is that, whether or not they are in a bubble, they keep flirting with the surreal,' writes Tim Harford: on.ft.com/47RoYec
Don’t trade where you tweet
Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
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November 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The point of anonymous sources is to get material you couldn't get otherwise, there's no point using an anonymous source for something you could get basically verbatim from a spokesperson
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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So you’re telling me there’s a chance
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM