Chris Martin

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I am out of the office but checking emails. Responses may be slower than usual. If your matter is urgent, please feel free to look upon my works and despair.

If I recall, we sometimes used first name plus aunty and sometimes last name plus aunty

The problems with titles is they’re absurdly formal in Indian culture which was my reference point. In America they work fine

He's continuing to murder important characters, I see

My interpretation is that it's a way to get around using their first names, which would signal you're a peer of theirs.

I’m old enough to own the first edition of that book. Is he still a fan of phantom latent variables?

Worth reading:
“Schools and universities in Israel will soon have to think about how we teach this war. While curriculums are mainly in the hands of the education ministry, concerned citizens should push government officials to encourage students and teachers to scrutinize our conduct in the war.”

The cyclist took an unexpected turn, as did this news story

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I was looking up info on Kennesaw Mountain and found this on their official website: "We are a day use only Battlefield and do not offer any types of lodging facilities."
So one must finish battling by 5pm then and then break for tea?

A good album that I just discovered.

I feel like listening to Russian string quartets. Hope your day is going better.

Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes The picture of a hesitant Justice Department runs contrary to the GOP allegation that the indictments of Trump were the product of a Democrat-led plot.

ha. haha. hahahaha.

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There’s a headline.

@reuters.com #Gaza
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I expect Bari Weiss will be fired by next summer.

Cooperation in the sense of being fair leads to other types of cooperation

Prosecuting the Powerful Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.

Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

David Sloan Wilson speaking at Emory about mind, brain, and culture from a Darwinian perspective

What’s the best answer that you got?

I'm confused here. How can you achieve these three goals and be the worst?

People keep dumping on the NYT but it's worth highlighting the good work that they still do. I found this enlightening because I've followed Francesca Albanese for some time on social media, but had never read a long-form piece on her.

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Crowded city crosswalk filled with diverse pedestrians moving in various directions during daytime.

Congrats to Abigail Cassario, one of the winners of SPSP's 2025 Student Publication Prize! Her research with Mark Brandt found minimal evidence that threats like unemployment, immigration, or COVID-19 shift people rightward.

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Yes, 1971 is a big inflection point. Reagan only became president ten years later.

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

Would it be possible to re-publish the program of the last EASP conference? It appears to have gone offline.

Did you not want Trump prosecuted?

I keep thinking about the fact that the Biden administration had four years (!) to prosecute Trump. Now look at what Trump has done in less than a year.

I suggested this for rural farming communities in MN in a conversation with family. Lots of pushback but I bet it would be a huge bulwark against the persistent challenge of depopulation

“U.S. Strikes 2nd Boat in Pacific as Antidrug Operation Expands” New York Times headline, October 23, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strike-colombia.html

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”

Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?

Or do they just sorta do it?