Anand Murugesan

Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard

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At a time when science is being pummeled it seems critical to heed Chuck Manski's urging if we hope to rebuild trust in and support for scientific work—

"if scientists want people to trust what we say we know, we should be up front about what we don’t know."

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How far do you want to dial back? :)

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La Pavoni makes a manual pressure espresso machine with similar levers. The bars give it away :)

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🟪🟪🟪🟪 Connections is my new favorite little NYT game for the tram ride to work. Harder than Wordle but a lot of fun!

Some works pass the test of time — my daughter (<12 yo) has been listening to AC/DC for years (courtesy School of rock) :)

...In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

Excerpt from the same 1946 essay, Politics and the English language, "When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink...

iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Orwell's rules for good writing:

i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

Belting the hits :) I agree with the core of your argument, we need to incentivize cleaner production technologies, rather than hoping for walking back in time.

Coda, reads the coffee reigns correctly since 1868. :)

Latte art in a traditional Italian café—their way of saying ‘game on’ and reclaiming the barista title from third-wave coffee shops.

If AI substitutes some kinds of labor a complement for some leisure goods (a large and diverse set)? I had some nvidia, bought more, seems tied in the production function.

Life’s little pleasures, life’s greatest pleasures

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Sky blue enough? Gargano, around the turn of the year in southern Italy.

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We saw The Who perform in San Fransisco a decade ago, with my now 10-year old daughter kicking (and rocking?) in-utero. She loves the Pete Townsend windmill move on “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” no wonder!

Would like to get a good word out in the good place. “Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” - George Orwell.