Doug Bamford

Nice eyebrows.

In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

Economics on a Finite Planet: Sustainability, Growth and Degrowth Economists and politicians have assumed that growth is good. In recent decades this has been challenged. Is it right that society should no longer aim for economic growth? What are the alternatives?

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The philosophers were so preoccupied with whether they should that they didn't stop to think if they could.

Nice to see the local postal workers delivering dressed as elves!

YouTube video by UP Department of Philosophy UPD-Oxford Philosophy Lecture Series 2024: Rawls and Nozick on Justice and Taxation (Doug Bamford)

A student has discovered that an online lecture I gave for students in the Phillipines last year has now been made available online. It is on Rawls and Nozick on Justice and Taxation, for anyone who is interested!
youtu.be/3znF_FaSw8M?...

Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.

Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist He is weaponizing Tolkien to promote violence by ‘hard men’ against Asian immigrants

when i call the guy a fascist, i'm not being edgy, or using a loaded word for the sake of it

i'm taking a standard, consensus model of the ideology from political theory & showing the degree of fit

www.theunpopulist.net/p/even-by-a-...

"It is important to note that she only won the league, not - in fact - the league cup."

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

YouTube video by Doug Bamford Can you afford net zero?

Is net zero too expensive? Can you afford it? What should the government do? Some questions considered in my latest video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKk-...

…what disturbed us was the behavior not of our enemies but of our friends, who had done nothing to bring this situation about. They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not of personal responsibility, but of personal judgment in the early stages of the Nazi regime, it is impossible to understand what actually happened. It is true that many of these people were quickly disenchanted, and it is well known that most of the men of July 20, 1944, who paid with their lives for their conspiracy against Hitler, had been connected with the regime at some time or other. Still, I think this early moral disintegration in German society, hardly perceptible to the outsider, was like a kind of dress rehearsal for its total breakdown, which was to occur during the war years.

this Arendt quote gets at it too www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...

Someone used/stole our Nectar points! Only £17.50 worth, but still. Sainsburys are investigating apparently and we will hopefully get them back. What a pain though.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The only silver lining is that all the attacks on higher education go to show how important it is. Would rather recognition was given in the form of proper funding though.

And this qualifies as 'transparency' these days.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Screencap of a tweet by Ben Rosen Text: 90s scientists: we cloned a sheep! We landed a robot on mars! scientists today: for the last time, the earth is *round*

oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago

/me: crumbles to dust

post office, ergo propter office

Museum of Climate Hope A museum trail and digital learning experience across Oxford's gardens, libraries and museums.

Digital "Museum of Climate Hope" from the University of Oxford @myzerocarbon.org #climatehope storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

YouTube video by vlogbrothers How We Fix the Climate

How we fix the climate, by @hankgreen.bsky.social @myzerocarbon.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcML...

Denying climate change doesn't make it go away.

Back from Your Party conference now. Some thoughts...

It was very messy indeed.

And 2,500, while a good number, looked tiny given initial hopes of 13,000, and the huge size of the venue.

The party is deeply divided and I can't see that dying down any time soon (1/x)

Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.

The last year has seen fossil fuels a whisker under 30% and it is only going to fall as investments in renewables increase. grid.iamkate.com #NetZero #LoveNetZero

Study for Oxford University Certificate in HE from anywhere in the world. Focus on Philosophy, History, Art History, Political Economy, Archaeology, Data-science, & more. No prior qualification required. I run info session 1pm GMT Thursday: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/underg...

God: The Basics - Evil, Mystery and Religious Experience This course introduces many of the key arguments for and against the existence of God, and includes explorations of some cutting-edge work, including sceptical theism and the cognitive science of reli...

My in-person 10 week course God: The Basics - at Oxford University Lifelong Learning next term. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/god-...