Habermas was wrong about a lot but I've come to think that he was right about the revolutions 1989 being defined by a 'lack of ideas that are either innovative or orientated towards the future' and the implications this had (and still have) for the left
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RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere
These speeches he keeps giving all sound extremely LLM-inflected to me, if not entirely written by one
Why didnt they just ask chat gpt
Chris Clark has said this somewhere
Glasman did a PhD at one of the most prestigious institutes in the world, and had a relatively successful academic career before he went into politics. He will have worn lanyards probably hundreds of times. Whether he knows it or not, hes just engaging in past-self disavowal.
A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.
Its doubly galling because Starmer and Labour have (and not without reason) spent years insisting Reform curious voters should be respected and taken seriously. Then with the Greens they're all "LOL you've been taken in by those nutters, U morons, don't be daft." Its playground level ignorance.
This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
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the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.
"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter
This is how your email finds me today
The only way Arteta can break the spell of the Spectacle is by engineering a holiday to Dubai
In a Debordian sense Arsenal are now entering a phase of real subsumption: the representative plane (scorelines) is colonising the 'real' underpinning mechanics of human life (xG)
It would of course be preferable to a Reform government, but I am quivering at the prospect of the discourse surrounding a UK Ampelkoalition
Matt Goodwin has one kid. That's entirely his business, choice, and life circumstances could be involved. It just boggles my mind how many "WE NEED TO UP THE BIRTHRATE NOW!!" internet pilled guys - it's always guys - are at a 0/1 kid below replacement rate situation themselves.
Me, wondering if I will live to see the Stabi again
The Berlin State Library (Berlin's equivalent of the BL), is closing for renovation for ELEVEN years. Given the track record of Berlin infrastructure projects, it will likely be longer.
What on earth
more people lived in the Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire – all crammed into an area a third of the size
but the 1950s "law of environmental limitation” held that lowland rainforests, with thin soils, simply could not support large advanced societies…
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reacting to news that the ocean freighting industry is woke now
NEW: the worst people in the world want you to believe that the gilt market has developed a wounded attachment to Andy Burnham
We're getting into dangerous procrastination territory here, but I present to you the Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt
Yeah. Its probably actually pretty coherent by the standard of most Prince-Bishoprics. See e.g the Hochstift Brandenburg:
'Roughly 13,300 people received severance pay from this sample of the sector alone – well above the 10,000 predicted by experts. This is in addition to 9,290 and 6,960 in the two previous years – almost 30,000 in total.'
This number will rise: many universities have not yet posted their data. 2/2
'Of the 90 accounts made public thus far, the sector spent £303.3 million on compensation for loss of office. This was up from £177.9 million among the same institutions the year before, a 71 per cent increase and almost triple the £110.1 million in 2022-23.' 1/2
We're in the world, not against it.
