His old Voortrekker piece is instructive
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
His old Voortrekker piece is instructive
Here's a more instructive graph. You can see that GB's problems set in well *before* Brexit.
Economic stagnation set in right after the Great Crash of 2008, and for many parts of the country, before even that.
Brexit was the consequence, not the cause of the poor economy.
Economic stagnation set in right after the Great Crash of 2008, and for many parts of the country, before even that.
Brexit was the consequence, not the cause of the poor economy.
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Here's a more instructive graph. You can see that GB's problems set in well *before* Brexit.
Economic stagnation set in right after the Great Crash of 2008, and for many parts of the country, before even that.
Brexit was the consequence, not the cause of the poor economy.
Economic stagnation set in right after the Great Crash of 2008, and for many parts of the country, before even that.
Brexit was the consequence, not the cause of the poor economy.
This is a really interesting and instructive one.
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is a really interesting and instructive one.
I think Grok is a particularly instructive example of why these chatbots are untrustworthy.
Musk is so unsubtle about tweaking it to repeat his political biases that someone who otherwise trusts these things can hopefully understand that by extension, none of them are neutral sources of information.
Musk is so unsubtle about tweaking it to repeat his political biases that someone who otherwise trusts these things can hopefully understand that by extension, none of them are neutral sources of information.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I think Grok is a particularly instructive example of why these chatbots are untrustworthy.
Musk is so unsubtle about tweaking it to repeat his political biases that someone who otherwise trusts these things can hopefully understand that by extension, none of them are neutral sources of information.
Musk is so unsubtle about tweaking it to repeat his political biases that someone who otherwise trusts these things can hopefully understand that by extension, none of them are neutral sources of information.
Needs updating. There are people on there who are no longer in parliament.
It is, however, instructive to go through *all* the non-LNP members listed, including Teals and Greens.
It is, however, instructive to go through *all* the non-LNP members listed, including Teals and Greens.
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Needs updating. There are people on there who are no longer in parliament.
It is, however, instructive to go through *all* the non-LNP members listed, including Teals and Greens.
It is, however, instructive to go through *all* the non-LNP members listed, including Teals and Greens.
I’m not a Sarah McBride stan or anything but it sure has been instructive how every little thing she does is supposedly the Final Betrayal of Our Community but a burly petty capitalist can have a Nazi tattoo and we’re supposed to take bullets for him. Is this gender? Is a gender happening here?
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’m not a Sarah McBride stan or anything but it sure has been instructive how every little thing she does is supposedly the Final Betrayal of Our Community but a burly petty capitalist can have a Nazi tattoo and we’re supposed to take bullets for him. Is this gender? Is a gender happening here?
I share the frustration. I honestly have no idea whether it’s possible to get people to listen at this point, but it’s always good to keep trying.
As you shared, the UK Covid inquiry was very instructive: seeing how there was never any ambiguity on the science, just deception and ass-covering.
As you shared, the UK Covid inquiry was very instructive: seeing how there was never any ambiguity on the science, just deception and ass-covering.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I share the frustration. I honestly have no idea whether it’s possible to get people to listen at this point, but it’s always good to keep trying.
As you shared, the UK Covid inquiry was very instructive: seeing how there was never any ambiguity on the science, just deception and ass-covering.
As you shared, the UK Covid inquiry was very instructive: seeing how there was never any ambiguity on the science, just deception and ass-covering.
Absolutely. The Edwin Black book is terribly instructive in this moment.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Absolutely. The Edwin Black book is terribly instructive in this moment.
Jeez I was expecting to be outraged at the cop and I guess I still am but I also.....believe him and Palatine? Like the feds were so incompetent that he felt like this WAS the more protective route? Not absolving the cop by any means but instructive about how fucked up it all is
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Jeez I was expecting to be outraged at the cop and I guess I still am but I also.....believe him and Palatine? Like the feds were so incompetent that he felt like this WAS the more protective route? Not absolving the cop by any means but instructive about how fucked up it all is
I was playing with some styles I like and got focused on making this the other night. I was finishing up and my cat started loudly meowing at me. I realised I had indeed forgotten to feed her.
Tune next time in for more fun stories of subliminally self-instructive night art.
#art #cat #poster
Tune next time in for more fun stories of subliminally self-instructive night art.
#art #cat #poster
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There may something instructive about how willing the rich are to give their wealth to quacks and quackery compared to being taxed.
Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
There may something instructive about how willing the rich are to give their wealth to quacks and quackery compared to being taxed.
we can evaluate different works on their own terms! this is my opinion on fleisch from something i'm writing (still cleaning up/compressing from an earlier post i made). the idea is that in general he has useful things to say so this (however enigmatic) must be *something* useful too
![I am personally blown away by my encounters with Fleisch’s 1974 compilation of his lifelong studies of Lebanese Arabic, packaged under the unassuming title Études d’Arabe dialectal. In my book, and literally in his book, Fleisch is the most meticulous reference on Lebanese dialects last century by a long shot, paralleled in depth by only Feghali (1919). It changes your relationship to a text when you can trust its author enough to work off of their work rather than having to build your own relationship to their underlying data from scratch. For example, while Jussi Aro’s 1979 treatment of the dialect of Zrarieh is brilliant and instructive (and he was out doing fieldwork aged fifty!), the fact that he neglects to mark stress whenever it is unpredictable — as it often is in a dialect with allegro-conditioned vowel contractions, at least if trying to assign stress from a stressless transcription of the surface form — means that the reader needs to fill in this information for themselves and essentially become their own first-order evaluator the dialect. (Or at least of that feature of it.)
I have the same gentle critique of Henry M. Huxley (1902), the earliest reference in my list, who transcribes the original diphthongs ay aw with the very-monophthong-looking symbols ē ō or (when stressed) ê ô, leaving the reader to mull over the terrifying implication that Christian Beiruti in 1902 somehow monophthongized everything from lêli ‘night’ (ibid, p. 246 § 105, line 11) to 3alêyi ‘on me’ (ibid, p. 212 § 36, line 1) before settling into the second thought that he’s probably telling the truth when he states that ē is ‘like ay in [American] English say’ and ō is ‘like o in [American] English note’ (ibid, p. 178) and just that he must not be being as faithful when he neglects to label them ‘(diphthong[s])’ or transcribe them as ei ou.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gvygd24ilrqmbgsii2zzp3v/bafkreicadc5enblusgnfdwkctkgak2vmunygls3lelfw6obshifhq44h6a@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
we can evaluate different works on their own terms! this is my opinion on fleisch from something i'm writing (still cleaning up/compressing from an earlier post i made). the idea is that in general he has useful things to say so this (however enigmatic) must be *something* useful too
Yeah, about basic reading comprehension, this whole thread is frighteningly instructive:
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and the fact that we have a society full of people who unconsciously have their expectations reaffirmed in everything they read because they've been trained to just guess at the meanings of things until they make sense... has certain implications for politics
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yeah, about basic reading comprehension, this whole thread is frighteningly instructive:
bsky.app/profile/mcdo...
bsky.app/profile/mcdo...
this is the disconnect that might lead to some interesting 2026 and 2028 primary results should it keep up—I think the rise of Trump is instructive in how rapidly a party’s elites can completely lose control of the situation if they let disconnection with the base get too far
It’s definitely broken through with hardcore normie dems! (As the No Kings stuff showed us.) But officials or pros? They don’t talk like that, by and large.
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
this is the disconnect that might lead to some interesting 2026 and 2028 primary results should it keep up—I think the rise of Trump is instructive in how rapidly a party’s elites can completely lose control of the situation if they let disconnection with the base get too far
Watching Newsnight is instructive. Barry Gardiner, arch rebel, lays out the conciliatory line, and barking mad Maurice Glasman pulls out a pistol and shoots his ostensible colleague in the head.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Watching Newsnight is instructive. Barry Gardiner, arch rebel, lays out the conciliatory line, and barking mad Maurice Glasman pulls out a pistol and shoots his ostensible colleague in the head.
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ so this whole podcast (which grew out of some of these stories) is both incredibly instructive of what went wrong and also a way to raise your blood pressure to like 200% safe levels.
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on...
features.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ so this whole podcast (which grew out of some of these stories) is both incredibly instructive of what went wrong and also a way to raise your blood pressure to like 200% safe levels.
And here it is! This glorious flight shot was taken by Mike Edgecombe @mikee100.bsky.social as the Pallid Swift whizzed below the two of us along the undercliff at West Runton this afternoon. A gorgeous subtle bird & so instructive too.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdID
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdID
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
And here it is! This glorious flight shot was taken by Mike Edgecombe @mikee100.bsky.social as the Pallid Swift whizzed below the two of us along the undercliff at West Runton this afternoon. A gorgeous subtle bird & so instructive too.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdID
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdID
It's always instructive to find out another meaning to a word
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's always instructive to find out another meaning to a word
Morse code was instructive.
Mnemonics/context or word memorization? Kiss of death.
Words form in your head from individual letters/syllables; common words serve only for confirmation - "OK - got that one" - so you can spare precious cycles for "balustrade" or "hospitalization."
Mnemonics/context or word memorization? Kiss of death.
Words form in your head from individual letters/syllables; common words serve only for confirmation - "OK - got that one" - so you can spare precious cycles for "balustrade" or "hospitalization."
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Morse code was instructive.
Mnemonics/context or word memorization? Kiss of death.
Words form in your head from individual letters/syllables; common words serve only for confirmation - "OK - got that one" - so you can spare precious cycles for "balustrade" or "hospitalization."
Mnemonics/context or word memorization? Kiss of death.
Words form in your head from individual letters/syllables; common words serve only for confirmation - "OK - got that one" - so you can spare precious cycles for "balustrade" or "hospitalization."
This labeller is pretty instructive, though.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This labeller is pretty instructive, though.
You are 100 percent correct! I wanted the media to run side-by-side transcripts and social media posts of Trump and Harris EVERY DAY during the campaign, with no reporter filter. One lives in reality, the other rants like a psychotic street preacher. Might have been instructive.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You are 100 percent correct! I wanted the media to run side-by-side transcripts and social media posts of Trump and Harris EVERY DAY during the campaign, with no reporter filter. One lives in reality, the other rants like a psychotic street preacher. Might have been instructive.
it is sort of funny (and instructive!) that Britain has been rending its garments for decades about "Britain in decline!" and their resulting attempts to avoid this fate by returning to an earlier geopolitical era have basically made it a self-fulfilling prophecy
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
it is sort of funny (and instructive!) that Britain has been rending its garments for decades about "Britain in decline!" and their resulting attempts to avoid this fate by returning to an earlier geopolitical era have basically made it a self-fulfilling prophecy
It is instructive to look at how many new and putative data centers are already adjacent to rail.
SunTrain can roll electrons in as soon as trains are built, not 5-10 years from today.
🔌💡
SunTrain can roll electrons in as soon as trains are built, not 5-10 years from today.
🔌💡
Here's a nice column in the @financialtimes.com on our portfolio company SunTrain and #Trainsmission, shipping electrons in batteries by rail.
We can connect generation and customers 5-10 years faster by rail than by building new wires.
Let's roll.
#energysky
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We can connect generation and customers 5-10 years faster by rail than by building new wires.
Let's roll.
#energysky
www.ft.com/content/e7ba...
How to ship sunlight
[FREE TO READ] Repurposing railways for solar energy transportation is one way to address the energy challenge
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November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
It is instructive to look at how many new and putative data centers are already adjacent to rail.
SunTrain can roll electrons in as soon as trains are built, not 5-10 years from today.
🔌💡
SunTrain can roll electrons in as soon as trains are built, not 5-10 years from today.
🔌💡
It's particularly instructive to learn there was disapproval of LG's much-needed pieces on the COVID exams crisis, about the jamboree of A level grade inflation that fee-paying schools enjoyed while the state sector - in particular the sixth form college sector - kept a relatively steady course.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's particularly instructive to learn there was disapproval of LG's much-needed pieces on the COVID exams crisis, about the jamboree of A level grade inflation that fee-paying schools enjoyed while the state sector - in particular the sixth form college sector - kept a relatively steady course.
I wrote this, about Project 100,000, five years ago.
"Considering how military service is deployed as a liberal form of policing may be instructive for contemplating the totality of state repression against political insurgency."
abusablepast.org/military-ser...
"Considering how military service is deployed as a liberal form of policing may be instructive for contemplating the totality of state repression against political insurgency."
abusablepast.org/military-ser...
Military Service as Liberal Policing: A Brief Racial History of Project 100,000 – The Abusable Past
abusablepast.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I wrote this, about Project 100,000, five years ago.
"Considering how military service is deployed as a liberal form of policing may be instructive for contemplating the totality of state repression against political insurgency."
abusablepast.org/military-ser...
"Considering how military service is deployed as a liberal form of policing may be instructive for contemplating the totality of state repression against political insurgency."
abusablepast.org/military-ser...