Gautam Kambhampati

Many people dismiss preservation concerns as if they live exclusively in the here and now. Chances are, though, every person on the planet has experienced/enjoyed something made/developed in the past. That awareness alone would be enough to grasp the importance of preservation.

I am trying not to be too mean-spirited about the people who apparently got genuinely excited at the idea that a party made up of "Jeremy Corbyn" and "some independents with real funky socially conservative views" could somehow be the future of the left but I am finding it hard!

Genuinely what is the point of the BBC if it can't even get niche points of royal protocol correct?

I get that this Trump visit to the UK is a Big Deal, but is it really so much of a big deal that there is literally nothing else the BBC considers above-the-fold newsworthy?

one thing I love about London is that the food offering isn't just incredibly diverse but also often made by people you wouldn't expect, ie a Moroccan café I like is for some reason owned by a Vietnamese woman, and I'm currently having lunch at a Jamaican place run by south east Asians, what a joy

More seriously - the sheer speed with which those who decry "activist lawyers" shift towards using the courts themselves when they realise courts can be used illiberally too.

Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.

a very large bug on a bed holding an iphone with a speech bubble "only six likes??"

every morning

Barristers have to take any client who can afford their fees, the area of law doesn’t matter

It’s like a parade of morons

Strong 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold vibes from this Trump-Putin meeting. Even has the “taking place in an exclave of one in close proximity to the other” aspect

Emotional labor was about paid work Arlie Hochschild coined the phrase in the 1980s, but it explains a lot about our world today

Excellent @mattyglesias.bsky.social Substack today: slowboring.com/p/emotional-labor-was-about-paid-work

Copenhagen + Epistemic = 53% and Mathematical Tool + Subjective = 55% which adds up a bit better

Michele was HOD while I was doing my PhD — a fantastic choice for Astronomer Royal

Just one more law, bro, trust me.

The problem with much of the centrist commentariat swinging behind the "Britain is broken" idea is not only that the right are weaponizing it to sell their xenophobic/racist narratives, it's also that despair itself has social consequence. Britain is great! It is also in need of public investment.

And they have the audacity to say they're "saving Wimbledon Park"...

Not entirely sure that’s the point being made here.

It is (1) people don’t like to be attacked and (2) Persian national identity is long-standing and exists independently of the current regime.

It’s not that Iran doesn’t like to be attacked because Persian identity is old.

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tr: “What place can be under the law and judges when you, as much as was in you, raised royal domination? Was that why Tarquin was expelled, so that many years later Mark Antony could install an illegitimate King in Rome?”

Substitute contemporary places and people as appropriate…

#classics #cicero

“qui locus tibi in legibus et in iudiciis esse potest, quae tu, quantum in te fuit, dominatu regio sustulisti? Ideone Tarquinius exactus … ut multis post saeculis a Antonio quod fas non est rex Romae constitueretur?” —Cicero’s Phillipics 2.87

That’s insane

Wait so a black British person whose grandparents came over on Windrush would be classified as “white British” under this “research”??

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

Agree. It’s not even really hate speech; it’s straightforward incitement. That’s been illegal for a very, very long time, even in the US (afaik)

No, it was lobbied for by the UK specifically as a way to leave. It was clunky because no one thought it would ever be used, it was just intended to be a symbolic cop

Re India-Pakistan: this is standard behaviour: 01, 08, 13, 14, 16, 19. Terror attack in India results in a strike on Pakistan. Historically has been well contained & no reason yet to think this is any different.

We will have to wait for concrete info re what targets were actually hit to know more

Correct. So far the only correct take I've seen. Some shocking analyses from some other prominent defence analysts

You’re saying it needs to have a coherent platform. Meaning its actions need to be aligned towards a single goal, correct? The fact that there’s a gap between rhetoric and actions doesn’t make the actions incoherent.

I already said: “build things”.

Not sure what you mean by ‘coherent’ then. Is ‘make everything work properly’ coherent? How about ‘fix problems as they arise’?