if karl popper was alive today he'd write one of those inexplicably lengthy airport books that's 70% liberal triumphalism about how things are better than in 1765 and 30% whining about stupid cancel culture bullshit
05.03.2026 19:49 β
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anthropic should rename claude for different nations like those ethnic trader joe's sub-brands. i have taken to calling it "claudio"
05.03.2026 17:26 β
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"war of choice" is the "unalive" version of war of aggression
05.03.2026 15:18 β
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the rejection of international binding rules and an impersonal international order built on the fundamental equality of peoples and nations was (and is) a cornerstone of fascism
05.03.2026 14:40 β
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In defence of hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers
To surrender the fight for international law is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths
"Simply sighing in response to the new facts of life will not do. To surrender the fight for (admittedly imperfect) international rules is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths" - terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:
05.03.2026 12:40 β
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there's fundamentally a flawed understanding of the public where people just believe what they're told by party bosses, but centristly, and would never dare disagree with or desert them
05.03.2026 14:30 β
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Curbing the influence of criminals on public officials
Better pay for politicians is associated with less corruption in public procurement.
Higher wages reduced corrupt procurement practices among Italian municipal executives, but increased the likelihood that those officials were subjected to criminal attacks, say researchers at UniversitΓ Roma Tre and NYU. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
05.03.2026 14:24 β
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Bro a *majority* of people believe the UK shouldn't even defend itself *at all*. The bloodthirst of the establishment, especially when it comes to Muslims, is insane and unbelievable
05.03.2026 14:23 β
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well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services
05.03.2026 09:50 β
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okay so grey market chinese supplements are okay but vaccines and hormones are "untested" these people just think we're all stupid
05.03.2026 13:49 β
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I'm generally in favor of letting people take what they want (with appropriate warnings, limits on false marketing, and purity/quality assurances) but these peptides aren't benign. They blind and kill people, and they will be gray market imports with no assurance of quality or purity.
05.03.2026 13:43 β
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google gemini users / claude users
05.03.2026 13:48 β
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bro what
05.03.2026 13:46 β
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Great post on the emergence of clinical trials!
This section makes me wonder about "professionalization" in science in general. I do feel like many parts of the research process in my field are...surprisingly dilettantish.>
05.03.2026 08:24 β
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yeah, couldn't read it atm so bookmarked. that's a dynamic you see all the time - countless viral tweets on the tenor of "bad bunny doesn't represent me, i'm white and european, he's some savage banging a drum"
05.03.2026 13:25 β
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if only they hadn't been alienated by progressive issue positions on gender and race
05.03.2026 13:12 β
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a very important and completely unacknowledged part of this is "latin american racial relations" where people americans consider the same ethnicity don't actually see themselves that way - they see their own people as white and the others as some old timey slur
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people didn't openly acknowledge musk was basically a nazi until like two months ago. he posted "you are saying the actual truth" to a nazi saying jews were behind the great replacement in 2022
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if only they hadn't been inspired by progressive issue positions on gender and race
05.03.2026 13:02 β
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they will get away with it because europe has resigned itself to be a senescent, servile vassal state of the american, whatever their imperial endeavors
05.03.2026 12:54 β
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joining the war between lektion and selektion on the side of selektion
05.03.2026 12:52 β
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sophie ellis bextor, chappell roan, pinkpantheress and charli xcx are the exact same phenomenon, a nobody with a niche audience becoming a mainstream sensation through a single hit (viral) song
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the βaesthetics of refusalβ part here is very haunting but i would add a third bit of nostalgia: the moment before we realized that we would spend the rest of our lives dealing with the consequences of the digital equivalent of lead/asbestos/radium being stuffed everywhere
05.03.2026 12:10 β
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i feel like *music* is as strong as ever but the traditional music industry infrastructure is completely secondary to it. careers are made (and ended) by a single viral tiktok
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The economics of night-time work
[FREE TO READ] How the hours we spend at our job have changed over the years
This week I wrote about night-time work, which time-use surveys suggest has been (slowly) falling out of favour in the US.
as.ft.com/r/516c2024-c...
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GO WOKE OR GO BROKE
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germany is probably the most insane country on earth, some guy saying the iran war will raise their gdp growth by 0.5
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