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β€œprima facie, [ ** voice noticeably quieter ** ] it appears that these actions are inconsistent with international law.”

04.03.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTo initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

28.02.2026 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 549    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 13
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

18.02.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3561    πŸ” 1296    πŸ’¬ 193    πŸ“Œ 479
Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface

Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface

Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart

22.02.2026 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 485    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here's some bonkers microbiology terminology:

20.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for your reply. My comment was snobbish and unkind.

17.02.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is literally no situation where Comic Sans is a good choice

16.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And now I notice that’s not all it’s got!

16.02.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do it! It’s definitely got legs

15.02.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Data Is Never Raw β€” The New Atlantis On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

My long read about this: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

08.02.2026 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Bible β‰  God

08.02.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of β€œThe Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel

Cover of β€œThe Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel

β€œThe Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel

As is happens, Olivia Dean sings about this topic in β€œLoud”:

β€œThe silence is so loud
And everything's unspoken now”

08.02.2026 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m a biostatistician who does some work on RCTs. I don’t think it’s incorrect to call this a randomized controlled trial. But I think you can’t called it a randomized *clinical* trial since it’s more a kind of simulation of what *might* have happened.

07.02.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

06.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2320    πŸ” 917    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 99

> At present the realities are life and death, peace and war, fascism and democracy; we are in a world which may soon become unfit for human beings to live in. A writer must decide at what remove from this conflagration he can produce his best work and be careful to keep there

Cyril Connolly, 1938.

05.02.2026 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just realized that in the Chicago song "Hard To Say I’m Sorry", Peter Cetera never actually gets there.

In addition to declaring β€œIt’s hard for me to say I’m sorry”, he sings "I really want to tell you I'm sorry", and "I will make it up to you, I promise to", but he Never. Actually. Apologizes.

02.02.2026 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.

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www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

29.01.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9

The road to hell is paved with misaligned incentives.

30.01.2026 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda?

Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that.

Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars.

Sneak peek:

28.01.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 16
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Bills C-2 and C-12 are a Threat to Refugee Rights. Tell the Canadian Government to Withdraw It. Bills C-2 and C-12 undermines due process and dignity. It risks turning Canada’s approach to refugees and migrants into one built on arbitrariness and political discretion instead of fairness and just...

Take action now to stop Bill C-12, which would put our friends and neighbours at risk.Β 

Join us in calling on the Senate to uphold our values of fairness and justice by voting against Bill C-12.
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/173197/...

28.01.2026 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting ThemΒ In. See a map of the graduate programs they're planning to attend, if the government finally processes their visas

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.

27.01.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 16

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Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

β€”Martin Luther King Jr.
Letter From Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963

letterfromjail.com

19.01.2026 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo I took of a partly decayed leaf on a fallen log in the woods.

A photo I took of a partly decayed leaf on a fallen log in the woods.

On my walk in the woods I come across this ghost-leaf - veined insides yawning through the gaps that winter has torn in its surface, caught, as if half-way between this world and the next, a delicate, decayed delight.

17.01.2026 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1056    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 5
Painting of a standung whinte girl facing forwards dressed in dark clothes holding a large black umbrella

Painting of a standung whinte girl facing forwards dressed in dark clothes holding a large black umbrella

The umbrella, 1883 by painter Marie Bashkirtseff #WomensArt

17.01.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 685    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
"Peace Train" featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
YouTube video by Playing For Change "Peace Train" featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

youtube.com/watch?v=0Qpj...
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17.01.2026 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Canada’s privacy watchdog expands probe into X over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes Users have been generating the images using the Elon Musk-owned platform’s AI chatbot

Canada’s privacy watchdog announced Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk's X after widespread reports of users generating sexualized deepfakes through the social-media platform’s AI chatbot, Grok.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

16.01.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
Excel or REDCap?

Excel or REDCap?

Make the right choice

15.01.2026 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Introduce yourself with 5 facts:

1. It's nine in the morning, long after December
2. I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
3. Toronto is cold
4. But I like where I'm living
5. There's music on Ossington all through the evening

15.01.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1