Richard Carr

PS: your book sucks!

Movie dialogue shit this

Like clockwork, they claim it's kids and adults with ADHD creating social burden on a country that destroyed its own economy for petty spite because it saw lies on a bus.

Anyone else doing that class action Anthropic thing?

Also "the most impressive leader this country ever had"!?! For the love of god read a history book! Even if you think military credentials are the be all and end all, the Duke of Wellington is a former PM! Eden and Macmillan served on the Somme. Churchill famously escaped a Boer POW camp!

Not the toughest one to guess this. Didn’t run round the courtyard

First six files at this morning’s archive: absolutely naff all, spare me.

Seventh and final: gold.

#elitelevelresearch #researchoftheelites

Vivas in 2027

There’s absolutely a push towards uniformity - often from a bureaucracy looking to be seen to add value - that leads to negative outcomes along those lines. The trickle down is indeed a lack of coping with variety, inability to take notes because why bother, view of assignments as pure process etc

Also you can provide a full list of what you want, it’ll just generate more questions really, and exacerbates the obsession with process stuff over delivering the #worldclassbasics of a good essay

Job interviews. Driving tests. Basically all life will involve encountering differing humans and tailoring stuff a bit?

I find it weird (albeit encouraged by said push to uniformity) when students say “marker X prefers this but marker Y prefers that and so I’m so confused.”

Ok. Who is marking this particular assignment? This should really solve 99% of the confusion as to what to do.

I know universities strive for marking to be uniform in most ways but the reality is markers each have little preferences which don’t hugely change overall grades but maybe influence at the margins.

It's impressive that Big Tech was like: We aren't douchy enough. What if we made asshole intelligence and burned up some of the earth's power and water faster?

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On the other hand, there’s some stuff I thought bombed but actually went really well so I’m no soothsayer on this

But it’s a tactic

There’s always room for improvement but “you said, we did!” relies on us being able to “do” said changes - which often are legit ideas in and of themselves. You also encourage some less legit critique which I’m not sure fosters good staff-student relations tbqh

I’d gently suggest you don’t need to encourage students in 2025 to act like consumers

My dept doing a high stakes thing of encouraging negative comments for module evaluation forms in order to address stuff pre-NSS. But this has the consequences of some pretty personal/direct criticism and also unclear whether more serious stuff can be fixed given resource. Will this work? Let’s see!

Look, I get it, he was busy getting that first Substack word perfect. His brain is understandably tired

Text reads: Dear Richard, Yesterday was extraordinary – for more than one reason. Nigel Farage let his mask slip. At his press conference yesterday, faced with yet more allegations that he racially abused his classmates at school, he changed his story again. Rather than apologising, Nigel Farage has come up with five different explanations and excuses. That’s not leadership. It shows the dark and divisive path he’s taking our politics down – and he’d take the country too if given the chance.

Keir's email on the Farage racism stuff is a bit weirdly framed. My issue here isn't that he hasn't picked one single explanation for his racism and has therefore shown a lack of leadership? It's really the underlining content

Print. Send. Recline back. Conversation enabled. Discourse fed. Onward.

Then, there are the tiny details that make one wonder about the soundness of those memories. Is it really plausible, as one claimed, that the President of the USA would accept a nonsense "Peace Prize" from FIFA? Most of the prizes that carry its name will arrive due to football related activities

800 words on the big story of that bloody week *a whole different ballgame*

I won't follow this advice either but we should all sweat the typos/honest mistakes a bit less (particularly in an age of 120-150k books essentially now having zero serious copyediting)

Rebel. Again, I’m thinking, “I’ve never actually seen a film go flying off the folder but this whirring noise on super speed mode is pretty loudly suggesting it might!”

Trevor: "could google this? Have a look? Nah, the browser is all the way over there and I'm just going on my gut here"

Can it be true that there were more Patels than Smiths?

Reading through a first draft of a PhD thesis with an insane amount of archival work behind it. Usual edits/analysis here or there to add, but it's really restorative to see this level of work being put in.