Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Anyone who works for e.g. a charity can tell you the press has incredible power to help people and improve society, if they use it for good and productive purposes. I’d urge you to look at what they do use it for, instead of doing that.

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

My kid just had an exam in school that involved being assigned some chapters, summarizing them, then having an open-book test on the details. The teacher encouraged them to use AI to prepare. This paragraph does a great job explaining why I found it so disturbing. www.ru.nl/en/research/...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... Agnew served as captain of the Corfu before the Aurora.

Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋ (I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”

Every day I log onto this website and read sentences

Once again banging the drum that Grainger v Nicholson was an utter disaster and that the criteria for highlighting what constitutes a protected philosophical belief was always going to be weaponised. We've seen it with racism, we've seen it with transphobia, and now Islamophobia.

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Palace sources told journalists not to speak to him Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Mrs R put on The Death Of Stalin and I know people marvel that Armando could be so naive, having written The Thick Of It, but it is amazing that he was in charge of this pitch black satire about the total cynicism of powerful people, but he can’t understand the Labour Party.

Again I am asking trans people to share something good that is happening in your life. Can be something really small or even the absence of a bad thing! Hearing the good things in your lives gives me life and hope.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests” cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

Solidarity and sisterhood with @monisharajesh.bsky.social, @chimenesuleyman.bsky.social & @profsunnysingh.bsky.social, in the face of renewed bad-faith attacks from the usual suspects. Their work is amazing, their principles impeccable. Don’t read the Telegraph, don’t listen to muckraking podcasts.

Seconded. I remember exactly what happened and how it played out.

Absolutely loving the replies and quote posts here

Truly horrifying and very poignant.

Was well enough to go and see Predator Badlands today. It’s no Prey but still one of the better entries in the franchise, I enjoyed it

"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice." Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social. #pictcon

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

Allowing AI companies to use my work without permission or payment

Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!

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Well not with that attitude!

10/10 take. No notes.

Here’s the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is true (and the WSJ breakdown is great) but I can’t stress enough how low a bar some of the milestones are compared to what Musk touted over the years. He used to say Tesla would make 20M cars *per year by 2030*. Now he only needs to sell 20M by 2035 — and Tesla has already sold 8M!

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

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this sort of thing makes me feel sincerely that we have fallen from grace as a civilisation

Butlerian Jihad anyone?

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'? 6 books 5 awards 14 (I think?) award listings It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?

More from me over on the Up Front. One of the most extraordinary moments in aviation history.

Weird shortness of breath all week and christ can I not get another health condition before I'm fully recovered from the last one thanks? This whole year has virtually been a write off as it is

Absolutely made up seeing my little packages of cards arrive in their new homes! Really feels like Christmas is on the way now!

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Uhh.. Did we ever get a follow-up on this? And were Jewish Americans even informed about it?

PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price

Physiognomy has been debunked as a pseudoscience repeatedly, basically every time it rears its ugly head. The last time it properly did, millions died.

This sums up painfully the feelings of a lot of Palestinians I know, who are watching donations drop by the week 😢

History buddies, I need a swear. In 1620ish, what would you call a man you really disliked, something equivalent to 'bastard' or 'asshole'?

What a queen