Zoë E. Heriot-Shaw
@zeheriot-shaw.bsky.social
Interests: cellular automata, cosmology, foundational physics, ontological continuum, philosophical fantasy, physics of clocks and philosophy of time/philosophy of clocks and physics of time, structural fabulation. Location: realm of Platonic ideals
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I know nothing of Amherst. There are YouTube videos but I cannot face them
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I know nothing of Amherst. There are YouTube videos but I cannot face them
Stanford was a blast as a postdoc. Better weather than Miskatonic
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Stanford was a blast as a postdoc. Better weather than Miskatonic
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The only ones in America that appealed to me were Berkeley and Miskatonic
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The only ones in America that appealed to me were Berkeley and Miskatonic
Littke wonder Thiel loves it
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Littke wonder Thiel loves it
Tolkien described himself as an architect and the Shire is a model of a British anarchy, but good look with that. It's a profoundly reactionary society
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Tolkien described himself as an architect and the Shire is a model of a British anarchy, but good look with that. It's a profoundly reactionary society
The problem with being a philosophical anarchist is that you are always tacitly assuming there's someone else to pick up your mess
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The problem with being a philosophical anarchist is that you are always tacitly assuming there's someone else to pick up your mess
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In some ways it’s just easier to be a philosophical anarchist. No power is presumed legitimate, but some actions can still be much worse than others.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In some ways it’s just easier to be a philosophical anarchist. No power is presumed legitimate, but some actions can still be much worse than others.
My mum has never really forgiven me for choosing King's over New Hall
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My mum has never really forgiven me for choosing King's over New Hall
It would probably mostly have depended where my parents had gone
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It would probably mostly have depended where my parents had gone
I will raise you Amherst
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I will raise you Amherst
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Bard College!
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Bard College!
If I had been American when I was young, I would probably have gone somewhere like Smith or Williams
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If I had been American when I was young, I would probably have gone somewhere like Smith or Williams
The American fetishisation of Oxbridge is weird given there are lots of US universities it's much harder to get into
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The American fetishisation of Oxbridge is weird given there are lots of US universities it's much harder to get into
I mean the entire existence of an industry of college admissions coaches should be a bit of pointer to the existence of a US class system
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I mean the entire existence of an industry of college admissions coaches should be a bit of pointer to the existence of a US class system
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Birnbach herself attended Columbia, Brown & The Birch Wathen Lenox School. So much for leaving us with the crumbs.
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Birnbach herself attended Columbia, Brown & The Birch Wathen Lenox School. So much for leaving us with the crumbs.
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The Michelle Rosaldo Prize-winning anthropologist Lisa Birnbach IDed colleges that offer social mobility w/out expecting kids to ace the SAT:
Hamilton, UVa, St. Lawrence, Babson, Hampden-Sydney, Lake Forest, Sweet Briar, Hollins & Pine Manor.
But this research concluded in 1981. The list has changed
Hamilton, UVa, St. Lawrence, Babson, Hampden-Sydney, Lake Forest, Sweet Briar, Hollins & Pine Manor.
But this research concluded in 1981. The list has changed
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Michelle Rosaldo Prize-winning anthropologist Lisa Birnbach IDed colleges that offer social mobility w/out expecting kids to ace the SAT:
Hamilton, UVa, St. Lawrence, Babson, Hampden-Sydney, Lake Forest, Sweet Briar, Hollins & Pine Manor.
But this research concluded in 1981. The list has changed
Hamilton, UVa, St. Lawrence, Babson, Hampden-Sydney, Lake Forest, Sweet Briar, Hollins & Pine Manor.
But this research concluded in 1981. The list has changed
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Typical of America not to have any equivalent of UCAS. I suppose it would be awkward to fill in all the bizarre corrupt hoops for all the colleges
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Typical of America not to have any equivalent of UCAS. I suppose it would be awkward to fill in all the bizarre corrupt hoops for all the colleges
But the thing about the US systems is that are dozens of elite colleges that expect you to jump through the admissions hoops to try and get a place
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
But the thing about the US systems is that are dozens of elite colleges that expect you to jump through the admissions hoops to try and get a place
Clearly, historically and, doubtless to some extent still today, (though I am sure college admissions officer monitor it at some level), there was a bias towards people who were the kind of chap/chapess ("we could do with a useful leg spinner")
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Clearly, historically and, doubtless to some extent still today, (though I am sure college admissions officer monitor it at some level), there was a bias towards people who were the kind of chap/chapess ("we could do with a useful leg spinner")
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Yes, and this doesn't exist at all for Oxford. The only thing that might help is playing the church organ.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yes, and this doesn't exist at all for Oxford. The only thing that might help is playing the church organ.
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Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.