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As long as it goes hand-in-hand with making magistrates’ courts ‘courts of record‘ ie the evidence presented and arguments made are put on record, I think it would be fine to reduce appeals. But if that *doesn‘t* happen, I think it’s a big problem — and it may be harder to do than gov thinks.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
As long as it goes hand-in-hand with making magistrates’ courts ‘courts of record‘ ie the evidence presented and arguments made are put on record, I think it would be fine to reduce appeals. But if that *doesn‘t* happen, I think it’s a big problem — and it may be harder to do than gov thinks.
Definitions of academic freedom often state that it doesn't include illegal speech, I think that's the relevance. If his speech is not illegal then it's covered by academic freedom.
October 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Definitions of academic freedom often state that it doesn't include illegal speech, I think that's the relevance. If his speech is not illegal then it's covered by academic freedom.
Hard work, lack of freedom or control, uncertainty about when it ends, dependence on the 'guards' for safety and wellbeing, competitive survival with peers. Plus you chose to be there!
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hard work, lack of freedom or control, uncertainty about when it ends, dependence on the 'guards' for safety and wellbeing, competitive survival with peers. Plus you chose to be there!
Always remember a fellow PhD student, back in 2000's, telling me about research that suggested the most comparable trauma to doing a PhD was being a prisoner of war. Don't have a reference, but it really struck me. I know it sounds like hyperbole, but...
October 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Always remember a fellow PhD student, back in 2000's, telling me about research that suggested the most comparable trauma to doing a PhD was being a prisoner of war. Don't have a reference, but it really struck me. I know it sounds like hyperbole, but...
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I fell into a Dorothy Thompson hole this weekend and her article (1941) on who goes “MAGA” is worth a revisit.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I fell into a Dorothy Thompson hole this weekend and her article (1941) on who goes “MAGA” is worth a revisit.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
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Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
October 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Which language game are we planning and what are the rules?
September 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Which language game are we planning and what are the rules?
Total speculation - is one of the risks of AI that it is marketed as an interlocutor with whom we don't need to ask those questions? It's supposed to be transparent?
September 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Total speculation - is one of the risks of AI that it is marketed as an interlocutor with whom we don't need to ask those questions? It's supposed to be transparent?
I'm not a mathematician, please insert your own example if necessary.
September 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm not a mathematician, please insert your own example if necessary.
LLMs are being pitched in the genre of 'trusted friend' and it definitely doesn't play by those rules.
September 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LLMs are being pitched in the genre of 'trusted friend' and it definitely doesn't play by those rules.
Is it a genre issue? In human speech and writing we often know the rules of the genre - we expect more ambiguity in poetry than in a maths paper, we have different expectations of someone telling us about their holiday than someone giving evidence in court.
September 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Is it a genre issue? In human speech and writing we often know the rules of the genre - we expect more ambiguity in poetry than in a maths paper, we have different expectations of someone telling us about their holiday than someone giving evidence in court.
Why does the quoted article say 'All of these studies' and the post says 'Most independent studies'?
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Why does the quoted article say 'All of these studies' and the post says 'Most independent studies'?
Genuine dumb question. Does anyone have standing to bring a case in this?
September 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Genuine dumb question. Does anyone have standing to bring a case in this?
September 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
And the part that gets ignored is the impact of the police total failure and refusal to recognise the victims as victims.
August 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
And the part that gets ignored is the impact of the police total failure and refusal to recognise the victims as victims.
I think part of it also that a lot of decently paid jobs are also really hard work. They're stressful, or boring, and always time consuming. At some point, people stopped seeing being paid as the reward for doing stuff that isn't fun. 'Do what you love' is most of the time not going to cut it.
March 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I think part of it also that a lot of decently paid jobs are also really hard work. They're stressful, or boring, and always time consuming. At some point, people stopped seeing being paid as the reward for doing stuff that isn't fun. 'Do what you love' is most of the time not going to cut it.
Doesn't this assume that Trump is asking them to do something they don't want to do?
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Doesn't this assume that Trump is asking them to do something they don't want to do?
Do you think social media should shape mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?
What decisions are being made, and by who, that result in social media shaping mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?
What decisions are being made, and by who, that result in social media shaping mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?
January 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Do you think social media should shape mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?
What decisions are being made, and by who, that result in social media shaping mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?
What decisions are being made, and by who, that result in social media shaping mainstream news agendas and the positioning of political parties?