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Fascinating piece on how AI may well think more like us than we’d like to believe. And why that’s both groundreaking and curiously sad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fascinating piece on how AI may well think more like us than we’d like to believe. And why that’s both groundreaking and curiously sad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Three excellent books on what the #ClimateEmergency means for higher education & how universities should respond 📚 🧵
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
1️⃣ Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis by @edufuturist.bsky.social
www.universitiesonfire.com
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Joburg Market guided smallholder farmers on accessing markets, meeting product standards, and connecting directly with industry experts. The initiative reinforces Joburg Market’s role in promoting inclusive growth and strengthening South Africa’s food systems.
Joburg Market empowers small-scale farmers with market training
Small-scale farmers are gaining new opportunities to thrive in the competitive fresh produce sector through Joburg Market’s inaugural market access and product standards awareness session. This key initiative under the City of Johannesburg’s farm-to-market campaign offered hands-on guidance on trading floor operations, packaging and grading standards, certification requirements, and direct engagement with market stakeholders. Held in partnership with the Food Resilience Programme, the session aimed to open new market opportunities for smallholder farmers while promoting community food security. Farmers engaged directly with market agents, quality assurance officials, and agribusiness experts, gaining practical insights into trading floor operations, packaging and grading standards, commission structures, and certification requirements.
www.foodformzansi.co.za
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Joburg Market guided smallholder farmers on accessing markets, meeting product standards, and connecting directly with industry experts. The initiative reinforces Joburg Market’s role in promoting inclusive growth and strengthening South Africa’s food systems.
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At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
September 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.
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The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
theconversation.com/5-great-read...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
#Literature
theconversation.com/5-great-read...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
#Literature
5 great reads by South African writers from 30 years of real-life stories
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
theconversation.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
theconversation.com/5-great-read...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
#Literature
theconversation.com/5-great-read...
#ArtsCultureAndSociety
#Literature
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But I do wonder if the job of entertainer will simply be much more restricted and possibly much less fun. It'll be a small number of people operating content generating systems. No longer a lifestyle for weirdos.
June 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
But I do wonder if the job of entertainer will simply be much more restricted and possibly much less fun. It'll be a small number of people operating content generating systems. No longer a lifestyle for weirdos.
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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."
May 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)
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I think this underscores the issue with the entire premise of making everyone get a degree just to do well in life: most people are not scholars. Not even wannabe scholars. They do not and have never seen a degree as more than a paper for a bigger paycheque and you can’t make them.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I think this underscores the issue with the entire premise of making everyone get a degree just to do well in life: most people are not scholars. Not even wannabe scholars. They do not and have never seen a degree as more than a paper for a bigger paycheque and you can’t make them.
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Short thread on restoration and retrofit of our 17th century former farmhouse in Shropshire, UK. So much learning about managing natural moisture from ground, ambient air, human occupancy. Everything breathable, much of the added insulation applied externally to help keep walls warm and dry ../1
May 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Short thread on restoration and retrofit of our 17th century former farmhouse in Shropshire, UK. So much learning about managing natural moisture from ground, ambient air, human occupancy. Everything breathable, much of the added insulation applied externally to help keep walls warm and dry ../1
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Four SF/F/H books by women writers that I’ve recently enjoyed
March 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Four SF/F/H books by women writers that I’ve recently enjoyed
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The media has failed to expose why Musk backs AfD.
Read Musk’s own posts about his Mars plan in this 🧵
Read Musk’s own posts about his Mars plan in this 🧵
If AfD does well in the German election today, blame the journalists and politicians who missed its obvious similarity with Trump and failed to ask the right questions about its backer Elon Musk.
Read Musk’s posts on X and put them to AfD and Reform UK.⬇️
Read Musk’s posts on X and put them to AfD and Reform UK.⬇️
February 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The media has failed to expose why Musk backs AfD.
Read Musk’s own posts about his Mars plan in this 🧵
Read Musk’s own posts about his Mars plan in this 🧵
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From world’s ‘roughest wilderness hotel’ to a cosy Cotswolds hideaway: 10 adventure stays in Europe
From world’s ‘roughest wilderness hotel’ to a cosy Cotswolds hideaway: 10 adventure stays in Europe
These retreats are the perfect base for an active break exploring Europe’s great outdoors
Bringing smaller explorers with you? Sonnwies is a family-friendly hotel in the heart of the sun-lit mountainscapes of the Italian Dolomites and near the pretty…
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
From world’s ‘roughest wilderness hotel’ to a cosy Cotswolds hideaway: 10 adventure stays in Europe
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Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
Parenting In the Age of Trump
Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.
www.thenation.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.
My latest in @thenation.com
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Naosuke Mukoyama, Fueling Sovereignty
"Natural resources, or more precisely, the interaction between natural resources and colonial politics, have also been important to engendering the world we see today" (197).
January 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Naosuke Mukoyama, Fueling Sovereignty
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Please recommend a perfect movie that will change my life. Horror, sci fi or thriller. No pressure
January 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Please recommend a perfect movie that will change my life. Horror, sci fi or thriller. No pressure
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ok I don't want to work, keeping this v time limited but I've got my Big Google Doc Of Every Book I've Read Since 2019 out so if you want a book rec describe what you want in like a sentence in the next ten minutes and I'll match you with a book from that doc
November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
ok I don't want to work, keeping this v time limited but I've got my Big Google Doc Of Every Book I've Read Since 2019 out so if you want a book rec describe what you want in like a sentence in the next ten minutes and I'll match you with a book from that doc