Colin Danby

Watched a half hour and noped.

I see none of this day to day. Traumatic events seem to drive less-regulated people into big-acct replies, and I'm really sorry that happens.

Arguably the greatest expertise we develop is in asking questions and probing for weak points. It's a hard thing to get across to students because the pop idea of knowledge is having a large body of facts under control from which you can soeak confidently. It's what LLMs imitate.

Yup. Don't make trouble for yourself or your chair. This would be especially hard for contingent colleagues.

My logic needs scrutiny.

You would hope the living ones could sue these bastards.

Cronon's alive, no? Anyway if I can choose dead people, why not Aristotle?

Just to state the obvious, as a veteran of curriculum committees: even if they got the criteria clear (which the Chronicle points out they haven't) this is a several-months approval process. Are Deans staffed up for the new workflow? Or is this so chairs take the fall for signing off?

(Parution) Le racisme scientifique et médical. Du XIXe siècle à nos jours histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/03/le-r... #histSTM

I think I have proved the existence of God.

Only that shit of which we cannot conceive.

Strange how the NYT has made this move into household management advice, and stuff that I thought every competent adult knew.

(1) The Totenkopf business was last October.
(2) Surely you've noticed that anti-globalization and anti-capitalist rhetoric *can* tip over into antisemitism unless we are really careful.

At the risk of stating the really obvious, yes: if you try to combine socialism with racial nationalism then "capitalism" has to be something outside the nation, and antisemitism provides a prefabricated theory.

Yep. When people tell you, repeatedly, what they are, believe them.

Wouldn't live there, but I've connected through that airport. I hope I would've had the foresight to cancel if I'd been flying today, but it's easy to assume normality.

exploded

Have you eaten fresh peas?

Yep. I suspect the video is bait, but in particular the "French style" and "Mexican style" jars are sanitised blends for the unadventurous.

Yikes. Use of the word "identity" is a tell, as is the angry refusal to even consider the possibility that the Labour government's ostentatiously punitive immigration policies might have mattered.

My experience too! On the whole, successful military service selects for competence, maturity, time management, and seriousness about work. It is also a ladder of class mobility, and I've learned to listen to students who found it useful.

Is anyone writing about the Boer War and contemporary responses to it, with the questions you are raising?

These moments bring out a lot of bigotry, including the belief that nobody is Muslim willingly.

I felt sad as I packed boxes of discards last week, but also realized I'd been curating a museum of past enthusiasms.

Just back from Fellow Travelers at the Seattle Opera, which was excellent.

Sad puppy being carried

When you get kicked out of the bar for humping a baby goat

Is it so barbarian
to nosh on tasty carrion?

Yes. And it's pretty clear that what Starmer means by it any campaign prepared to speak to Muslim Britons. The degree to which he has adopted Reform's language and assumptions is appalling.

And that McSweeney is an authentic Starmerite. Or maybe it is the other way around.

If you read the letter in its entirety, it puts substantial weight on Galloway as an explanation for Labour's defeat.