JD Carpentieri
@jdcarpentieri.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Social Science & Policy at UCL. The damage I have done to the UK is incalculable.
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
Same for me -- a very enjoyable and encouraging autumn term, with lots of highly engaged students
For what it's worth, my experience was the exact opposite.
I found my students this semester to be more engaged and excited about the work than they have been in years.
I found my students this semester to be more engaged and excited about the work than they have been in years.
Hearing, and seeing, many university professors express despair, of this sort, this fall. Faculty are famously headstrong and truculent, if sometimes grouchy. But this affect is new. ’ve never seen the widespread descent into sorrow before, that I am seeing now.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Same for me -- a very enjoyable and encouraging autumn term, with lots of highly engaged students
I've always hated the "You complete me" line but this makes me more sympathetic towards its larger meaning re the quest for identity kottke.org/25/12/why-is...
Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?
I am not generally a fan of rom-coms so I didn’t think I was going to post Evan Puschak’s newest video, but he’
kottke.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I've always hated the "You complete me" line but this makes me more sympathetic towards its larger meaning re the quest for identity kottke.org/25/12/why-is...
What a story @madamegaga
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What a story @madamegaga
People really love a doomer thread about university kids these days, don’t they? (If I ever get bored enough I’ll write a long thread about the VERY limited value of that “1st paragraph of Bleak House” study that everyone was raving about)
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
People really love a doomer thread about university kids these days, don’t they? (If I ever get bored enough I’ll write a long thread about the VERY limited value of that “1st paragraph of Bleak House” study that everyone was raving about)
“At least she didn’t raise my income tax” I say to myself as I sign the redundancy papers
The second problem with this — after the fact that it will bankrupt a bunch of institutions — is that the government doesn’t seem to know if it wants to a) raise lots of money from intentional students or b) discourage universities from relying on international students. You can’t have both!!
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“At least she didn’t raise my income tax” I say to myself as I sign the redundancy papers
Absolute king
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Absolute king
So joyous
D'Angelo and Tom Jones covering James Brown will restore you.
If only time could have stopped in this moment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRvV...
If only time could have stopped in this moment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRvV...
D'Angelo & Tom Jones-Get On Up
YouTube video by newkeith
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October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So joyous
Not sure I buy Pinker’s theory (altho who knows?) but this from Elledge is vg. Too much of social media = purportedly intelligent people gleefully engaging in wilfully disingenuous readings of posts, seemingly for the joy of piling on
"We’ve talked a lot about how X will bring about the end of the world, and it might. I just worry we should talk more about the way the internet is systematically stripping us of our capacity to feel empathy, too."
Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)
Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)
The Two Minutes Hate
Some thoughts on what pile-ons are doing to our brains, because ouch. Also: everything objectively insane about Kash Patel’s “challenge coin”; and meet “ratzilla”.
jonn.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not sure I buy Pinker’s theory (altho who knows?) but this from Elledge is vg. Too much of social media = purportedly intelligent people gleefully engaging in wilfully disingenuous readings of posts, seemingly for the joy of piling on
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A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
www.economist.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."
www.economist.com/internationa...
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
JFC
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
JFC
JFC
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
JFC
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Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.
August 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.
Excellent reflections here about pile-ons: “The crucial thing to realise is that pile-ons are not an exchange of ideas. It is a process in which people try to establish their moral status in relation to yours, or rather the monstrous version of you they have invented”
I watched the Kemi Badenoch interview so you don't have to iandunt.substack.com/p/i-watched-...
I watched the Kemi Badenoch interview so you don't have to
Soon it all be over. But for now, the embarrassment continues.
iandunt.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Excellent reflections here about pile-ons: “The crucial thing to realise is that pile-ons are not an exchange of ideas. It is a process in which people try to establish their moral status in relation to yours, or rather the monstrous version of you they have invented”
Really impressed by how much better my students are at writing nowadays. I must be doing some amazing teaching
August 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Really impressed by how much better my students are at writing nowadays. I must be doing some amazing teaching
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One thing I would like more people, and I mostly mean my fellow men, to understand is that no matter how smart you are, other people are also smart and some of them have tried to work on the same problems you’re working on. If a simple solution hasn’t been found yet, there probably isn’t one.
Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.
August 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One thing I would like more people, and I mostly mean my fellow men, to understand is that no matter how smart you are, other people are also smart and some of them have tried to work on the same problems you’re working on. If a simple solution hasn’t been found yet, there probably isn’t one.
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this is not true. many, many people are good thinkers without being good writers. people who *are* good writers tend to vastly overestimate what a component of intelligence it is. but I have edited many intelligent and thoughtful people who were at best average-to-mediocre writers ...
learning to write well is not important because it comes in handy on a few key occasions; it's important because it is indispensable training in how to think. AI gets in the way of that training, and all the more so if it comes to the rescue on those few occasions.
August 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
this is not true. many, many people are good thinkers without being good writers. people who *are* good writers tend to vastly overestimate what a component of intelligence it is. but I have edited many intelligent and thoughtful people who were at best average-to-mediocre writers ...
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On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.
July 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.
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this really does feel like an existential problem for democracies across the world actually - how do you tell people "no actually you do just have to trust us on basically most things, please stop googling stuff and thinking you know better than us, you dingbats" and get them to actually listen?
July 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
this really does feel like an existential problem for democracies across the world actually - how do you tell people "no actually you do just have to trust us on basically most things, please stop googling stuff and thinking you know better than us, you dingbats" and get them to actually listen?
Hey bluesky last week a waitress looked at my daughter, looked at me, asked if I was her grandfather. so I guess I’m autoverified right
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hey bluesky last week a waitress looked at my daughter, looked at me, asked if I was her grandfather. so I guess I’m autoverified right
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So sad for Anisimova but man, Iga is playing I Would Trust Her To Perform Open-Heart Surgery-level tennis
July 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So sad for Anisimova but man, Iga is playing I Would Trust Her To Perform Open-Heart Surgery-level tennis
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What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
Really is how it feels
honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat
June 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Really is how it feels