Jim Down
@jimdown.bsky.social
ICU doctor and author of Life in the Balance and Life Support
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And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽
Anil, @andrewcopson.bsky.social says, has the honour of being both the last Voltaire Lecturer and the inaugural Rationalist Press Lecture Medallist.
Congratulations @anilseth.bsky.social, Rationalist Press Medallist 2025!
And that's a wrap. See you all at next year's #RationalistPressLecture!
Congratulations @anilseth.bsky.social, Rationalist Press Medallist 2025!
And that's a wrap. See you all at next year's #RationalistPressLecture!
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽
@anilseth.bsky.social briiliant talk. Thank you. If on the off chance you’re wrong about AI becoming conscious, how will we know? Or will we?
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@anilseth.bsky.social briiliant talk. Thank you. If on the off chance you’re wrong about AI becoming conscious, how will we know? Or will we?
What a treat to hear the fabulous @anilseth.bsky.social deliver the Voltaire lecture last night. AI may never be conscious but it’s still a serious threat to humanity.
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
What a treat to hear the fabulous @anilseth.bsky.social deliver the Voltaire lecture last night. AI may never be conscious but it’s still a serious threat to humanity.
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Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏
March 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social 👏
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I’m getting very strong Crimea vibes from this.
January 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I’m getting very strong Crimea vibes from this.
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The saddest news about a troubled soul but huge comic talent. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tony Slattery: Comedian and actor dies aged 65
He was known for his quick-witted improvisations on shows like Channel 4's Whose Line Is It Anyway.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The saddest news about a troubled soul but huge comic talent. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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This whole Greenland thing is such a mystery isn’t it? What could have possibly prompted it? Oh wait…
January 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This whole Greenland thing is such a mystery isn’t it? What could have possibly prompted it? Oh wait…
Facts becoming an endangered species
January 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Facts becoming an endangered species
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Fossil fuel companies
January 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fossil fuel companies
👏👏👏👏professor Alexis Jay. Great interview on Today
January 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
👏👏👏👏professor Alexis Jay. Great interview on Today
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Musk now polling on whether the US should invade Britain.
So that’s what Greenland was about…
So that’s what Greenland was about…
January 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Musk now polling on whether the US should invade Britain.
So that’s what Greenland was about…
So that’s what Greenland was about…
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Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
Starmer's best moment as PM
And the Powellisation of conservative thought
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.
Listening to Farage defending musk on the BBC this am it baffles me that people can consider him to be the solution.
January 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Listening to Farage defending musk on the BBC this am it baffles me that people can consider him to be the solution.
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Charles Bukowski said it best:
doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.
doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.
January 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Charles Bukowski said it best:
doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.
doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.
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After that maybe they can ask him how Brexit is going
December 3, 2024 at 11:00 AM
After that maybe they can ask him how Brexit is going
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Ha ha ha superb
December 2, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Ha ha ha superb
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And all with the active aid and connivance of the site’s owner. Our online discourse is deeply unwell.
November 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
And all with the active aid and connivance of the site’s owner. Our online discourse is deeply unwell.
Pleased overall with the assisted dying result. Risks with both outcomes but going back to first principles in a free society I believe we should offer this choice to the terminally ill. Then we need the safeguards and monitoring to avoid unintended consequences
November 29, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Pleased overall with the assisted dying result. Risks with both outcomes but going back to first principles in a free society I believe we should offer this choice to the terminally ill. Then we need the safeguards and monitoring to avoid unintended consequences
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Pleased to see this pass. And glad to see it do so by such a clear margin.
November 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Pleased to see this pass. And glad to see it do so by such a clear margin.