James Thomson
@james-tho.bsky.social
Interests: classical music, wine (James__t on CT), sailing (own a Boreal), food and cuisine, photography, mathematics
This thought is probably obvious to everyone but it occurs to me that Trump is opposed to trade in any terms because he completely fails to understand the idea of a mutually beneficial exchange. He has never seen a transaction in those terms
April 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This thought is probably obvious to everyone but it occurs to me that Trump is opposed to trade in any terms because he completely fails to understand the idea of a mutually beneficial exchange. He has never seen a transaction in those terms
Usually, an administration you didn’t vote for does some things you approve of, or at least you can see the point of. Not in this case. This administration has done nothing, absolutely nothing, that in my opinion is not either stupid or wicked.
April 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Usually, an administration you didn’t vote for does some things you approve of, or at least you can see the point of. Not in this case. This administration has done nothing, absolutely nothing, that in my opinion is not either stupid or wicked.
I am not a great supporter of the WSJ - and this is behind their subscription wall, but this article makes an interesting connection between the tariff nonsense of last week and Brexit. What Lies Ahead for the U.S. Economy? Brexit Offers Clues - The Wall Street Journal
April 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I am not a great supporter of the WSJ - and this is behind their subscription wall, but this article makes an interesting connection between the tariff nonsense of last week and Brexit. What Lies Ahead for the U.S. Economy? Brexit Offers Clues - The Wall Street Journal
The people responsible for this are unpersuaded by the almost uniform opinion of educated people that tariffs will damage rather than benefit the economy. They view economists as “experts” - untrustworthy and uniformly wrong. They are unmoved by analysis, knowledge or elementary logic.
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The people responsible for this are unpersuaded by the almost uniform opinion of educated people that tariffs will damage rather than benefit the economy. They view economists as “experts” - untrustworthy and uniformly wrong. They are unmoved by analysis, knowledge or elementary logic.
Small companies typically are fragile and cannot absorb huge shocks. When these go under, lives are brutally disrupted, employees lose jobs, homes, incur debt, and aren’t able to do the things they want to do. Individuals in many instances don’t recover fully from this kind of setback.
April 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Small companies typically are fragile and cannot absorb huge shocks. When these go under, lives are brutally disrupted, employees lose jobs, homes, incur debt, and aren’t able to do the things they want to do. Individuals in many instances don’t recover fully from this kind of setback.
Thinking about the economic turmoil that has been unleashed, and concluding that the stock market (which has almost all my retirement funds) doesn’t really matter. This will eventually get unwound and the market will recover. The people to think about are employees and owners of small companies
April 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thinking about the economic turmoil that has been unleashed, and concluding that the stock market (which has almost all my retirement funds) doesn’t really matter. This will eventually get unwound and the market will recover. The people to think about are employees and owners of small companies
Tobias Smollett, writing about the Duke of Cumberland, who had just returned from campaigning in Flanders: “If he had lost his head in battle, the damage with regard to his powers of reflection would have been scarce perceptible.”Applicable to many members of the current administration, I would say
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tobias Smollett, writing about the Duke of Cumberland, who had just returned from campaigning in Flanders: “If he had lost his head in battle, the damage with regard to his powers of reflection would have been scarce perceptible.”Applicable to many members of the current administration, I would say
As a concrete way of applauding Jeffrey Goldberg’s #Atlantic article revealing the cavernous ineptitude of the administration - even more so than one could have imagined - I intend to take out a subscription to the print edition of the magazine.
March 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As a concrete way of applauding Jeffrey Goldberg’s #Atlantic article revealing the cavernous ineptitude of the administration - even more so than one could have imagined - I intend to take out a subscription to the print edition of the magazine.
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Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
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My autumnal fruits in sauternes gelee had the kinetic effect I was looking for and was certainly the most discussed dish of this year's Thanksgiving.
December 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM
My autumnal fruits in sauternes gelee had the kinetic effect I was looking for and was certainly the most discussed dish of this year's Thanksgiving.
An AP Physics told me her teacher had said this about elastic and inelastic collisions: “One is sticky and the other is bouncy”. She said “I forget which, and I don’t understand that anyway”. The definition is a clever mnemonic but is no help if you don’t actually teach the difference. #physics
March 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
An AP Physics told me her teacher had said this about elastic and inelastic collisions: “One is sticky and the other is bouncy”. She said “I forget which, and I don’t understand that anyway”. The definition is a clever mnemonic but is no help if you don’t actually teach the difference. #physics
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As the most recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) highlights a widening gender gap in maths attainment at year 9, I thought it might be worth pointing out that you can help your daughter (or anyone else) with maths without being a mathematician yourself: see thread.
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A 🧵 about helping children you care about to learn maths. And you don't even have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to do it. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes.
Here's how:
A 🧵 about helping children you care about to learn maths. And you don't even have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to do it. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes.
Here's how:
March 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As the most recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) highlights a widening gender gap in maths attainment at year 9, I thought it might be worth pointing out that you can help your daughter (or anyone else) with maths without being a mathematician yourself: see thread.
On Saturday we went to an excellent and original Le Nozze di Figaro by Curtis students. Rear doors revealed a different scene each time, an original way to sidestep usual elaborate opera staging. Enormously talented singers and orchestra, especially Juliette Tacchino’s Susanna.
March 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
On Saturday we went to an excellent and original Le Nozze di Figaro by Curtis students. Rear doors revealed a different scene each time, an original way to sidestep usual elaborate opera staging. Enormously talented singers and orchestra, especially Juliette Tacchino’s Susanna.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the death of P G Wodehouse. In 1930, my late mother-in-law, then 12, wrote him a letter and received this lovely reply, complete with a drawing of the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth’s prize pig #wodehouse #pgwodehouse
February 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the death of P G Wodehouse. In 1930, my late mother-in-law, then 12, wrote him a letter and received this lovely reply, complete with a drawing of the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth’s prize pig #wodehouse #pgwodehouse
I am paralyzed by indecision concerning what #wine to give a guest this evening. Roast leg of lamb - bordeaux, burgundy, brunello, barolo, madiran or something a little out of the ordinary like xinomavro? Not in the global context a real problem, I acknowledge that.
February 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am paralyzed by indecision concerning what #wine to give a guest this evening. Roast leg of lamb - bordeaux, burgundy, brunello, barolo, madiran or something a little out of the ordinary like xinomavro? Not in the global context a real problem, I acknowledge that.
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Just rediscovered some #Mathematica code I wrote five years ago to help me find cool 2D strange attractors 😍😍😍 #mathart
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Just rediscovered some #Mathematica code I wrote five years ago to help me find cool 2D strange attractors 😍😍😍 #mathart
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Say it with me:
"If you miss out the M you're not doing #STEM!"
Also if you pretend that the M stands for anything other than #Mathematics you're doing it all so, so wrong.
"If you miss out the M you're not doing #STEM!"
Also if you pretend that the M stands for anything other than #Mathematics you're doing it all so, so wrong.
February 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Say it with me:
"If you miss out the M you're not doing #STEM!"
Also if you pretend that the M stands for anything other than #Mathematics you're doing it all so, so wrong.
"If you miss out the M you're not doing #STEM!"
Also if you pretend that the M stands for anything other than #Mathematics you're doing it all so, so wrong.
Opinion | Trumponomics and Rising Inflation - The Wall Street Journal
The editorial staff at WSJ seems suddenly to have discovered something that almost everyone has known for a long time: the President is economically illiterate. Are they stupid, or ill-intentioned. Both is a possibility
The editorial staff at WSJ seems suddenly to have discovered something that almost everyone has known for a long time: the President is economically illiterate. Are they stupid, or ill-intentioned. Both is a possibility
February 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Opinion | Trumponomics and Rising Inflation - The Wall Street Journal
The editorial staff at WSJ seems suddenly to have discovered something that almost everyone has known for a long time: the President is economically illiterate. Are they stupid, or ill-intentioned. Both is a possibility
The editorial staff at WSJ seems suddenly to have discovered something that almost everyone has known for a long time: the President is economically illiterate. Are they stupid, or ill-intentioned. Both is a possibility
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February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Yes, Virginia, there is Nebbiolo and the state's iconic producer is @barboursvillevineyards with its Italian winemaker and Zonin ownership. They age well, and no exception here. In prime time, this has some maturity, but it's ripe and lush, fruit-filled. Nice one, @paschinaluca
February 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yes, Virginia, there is Nebbiolo and the state's iconic producer is @barboursvillevineyards with its Italian winemaker and Zonin ownership. They age well, and no exception here. In prime time, this has some maturity, but it's ripe and lush, fruit-filled. Nice one, @paschinaluca
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Jean-François Millet (French 1814-1875) Vineyard laborer resting, 1869. Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers.
February 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Jean-François Millet (French 1814-1875) Vineyard laborer resting, 1869. Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers.
The idiotic proposed #tariffs seem to me to be quite similar to #Brexit. Both emerge from the right, will harm consumers and businesses, while giving an illusion of “control” and “self-reliance”. However, tariffs are fairly easy to reverse. Brexit not so much. #economics #economicilliteracy
February 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The idiotic proposed #tariffs seem to me to be quite similar to #Brexit. Both emerge from the right, will harm consumers and businesses, while giving an illusion of “control” and “self-reliance”. However, tariffs are fairly easy to reverse. Brexit not so much. #economics #economicilliteracy
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Au #Japon, un homme découvre un #ours dans son salon
www.blick.ch/fr/monde/cac... #animaux #environnement #colocation
www.blick.ch/fr/monde/cac... #animaux #environnement #colocation
Au Japon, un homme découvre un ours dans son salon
Un homme vivant dans la campagne japonaise a eu la surprise de découvrir un ours blotti dans son salon, ont rapporté mardi des médias locaux, alors que le gouvernement s'apprête à assouplir les lois s...
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February 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Au #Japon, un homme découvre un #ours dans son salon
www.blick.ch/fr/monde/cac... #animaux #environnement #colocation
www.blick.ch/fr/monde/cac... #animaux #environnement #colocation
