Kebadu Mekonnen
@kebadumekonnen.bsky.social
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University | UZH, UNIBE, and AAU Alumnus |
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The golden ticket is a good description of what the country receives: asylum seekers like my father who worked tirelessly for the community, such as volunteering at Crisis at Christmas on Xmas day, chairing charities, and supporting youth football on Sundays on top of his normal work.
So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The golden ticket is a good description of what the country receives: asylum seekers like my father who worked tirelessly for the community, such as volunteering at Crisis at Christmas on Xmas day, chairing charities, and supporting youth football on Sundays on top of his normal work.
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Stealing text from books written by PhDs and using probability-based algorithms to scramble that text up to make answers that *sound* *like* a person with a PhD answered them is not in fact PhD-level intelligence or expertise. It does tell us something about the people selling and using this slop
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Stealing text from books written by PhDs and using probability-based algorithms to scramble that text up to make answers that *sound* *like* a person with a PhD answered them is not in fact PhD-level intelligence or expertise. It does tell us something about the people selling and using this slop
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I'm delighted to share the news that the edited volume "Pluralizing Political Philosophy: economic and ecological inequalities in global perspective" is now online! And it is open access, so you can read it for free (which is also ideal for teaching...)
academic.oup.com/book/59548
academic.oup.com/book/59548
Pluralizing Political Philosophy: Economic and Ecological Inequalities in Global Perspective
Abstract. This book makes an argument for pluralizing political philosophy, thereby focussing specifically on economic and ecological inequalities. By redu
academic.oup.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm delighted to share the news that the edited volume "Pluralizing Political Philosophy: economic and ecological inequalities in global perspective" is now online! And it is open access, so you can read it for free (which is also ideal for teaching...)
academic.oup.com/book/59548
academic.oup.com/book/59548
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Roger Scruton: Institutions take a long time to build up and can be destroyed very rapidly, so there’s a high burden of justification on anyone who wants to make institutional change.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
January 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Roger Scruton: Institutions take a long time to build up and can be destroyed very rapidly, so there’s a high burden of justification on anyone who wants to make institutional change.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.
That’s what Conservatism is. Trump is not a Conservative. Possibly better characterised as a political nihilistic.