It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

New response to reviewers just dropped

One of my favourite things is people complaining about "sample size", as if more people automatically makes more better. Really shows the titans of maths we have in this world.

I feel like Goodwin is getting a lesson in the fact that, even in hard right politics, you can be either pleasant to work with or good at the job but you do actually need to be one of them. His cardinal error was to be a prickly, thin-skinned arsehole and then lose. No one to blame but himself.

obligatory "this is the cure for male loneliness" but, like, sincere

I have a lot of sympathy with the position (which I also hold) that protesting alone is not enough. But you do have to option, if you want to shit on these ones this weekend, of shutting the fuck up.

Matt Goodwin's understanding of 'English as an additional language' is as hilarious as Naomi Wolf on the 'death recorded' notation.

A top job for someone - Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto: looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states

not if the vaccines aren't available at all they won't be. the title of the article says "even those who want them". and even if your mean little wish was true, you're still wrong, because people have families, and not everyone in a family will have the same beliefs.

Perhaps before we start trying 'fix' teenagers phone use we could pause and look at everything they have to engage with that requires it.

what level of lib is "the real culprit of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire is smoking, which is a Bad Habit"

There's a project at our university right now x-raying books from the early modern period to see what scraps of even older books reman. Because the book covers are made from recycling older (and, by then, useless) book pages. Accepting books become trash is not even a new thing!

And I assume every other journalist left in solidarity, right? *natalieportman.jpg*

if anybody wants a google sheet of arts and artists perfectly separated let me know, I've got it all worked out

I do think it says a lot that M&S, the most Middle England, Terry and June, aspiring Upper Middle Class supermarket ever, is doing this sort of stuff. So much of the transphobia "debate" exists entirely online for an unrepresentative section of the body politic.

Biggest comeback of the year just dropped

His name sounds like an annoying subscription tier you need to get the features you actually want from Photoshop.

Today is election day in Denmark! It is a very exciting and important day for millions of voters, myself included. As the campaign comes to a close, here are a few obsevations I have made about it, and the aftermath we are looking into. 🧵

The thread here is a lovely place to do some mid-morning blocking.

This confirms all my prejudices, and I will not be critically evaluating its claims or evidence at this time.

If the internet was still good, we'd have a flash game where you have traverse the straits by now. Miniclip would have been on it like wet on a flannel.

Maybe he'll cowrite his next one with Johann Hari.

Yeah, but my generation has The Simpsons for this purpose, so...

Me: we shouldn't fetishize science/the scientific method as eternal, natural, and moral; that science is a social/cultural/political process; that we shouldn't be disarticulating eugenics from the histories of "legitimate" "science" The comments: You think the Irish are subhuman

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Khusanov was a little fortunate to not get investigated for a red earlier, Kepa evens it out...

This is your periodic reminder that an Englishman once told me, “the difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think 100 years is old and Europeans think 100 miles is far.”

hormuz bouche is this a thing?

Says a lot about the Premier League (or perhaps just The Athletic‘s readership) that more people seem bothered by Arsenal scoring a few corners than by an autocratic nation state‘s puppet franchise facing 115 charges of financial irregularities. (Also, 41% of "United fans"? 😂)

mahmood should resign.

I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.

"I encourage everyone to not forget about what is happening in our country and to use your voice to speak truth to power." Mick Foley is everything CM Punk pretended to be.

okay but here’s the thing (and I am not trying to pick on this person so don’t yell at them) - there is a lot, and I mean a LOT, of antisemitic stuff floating around right now that people excuse because Israel is a genocidal rogue state and we see it and the difference is generally pretty clear

Roll up, roll up, get your labour market key stats here. Slow wage growth is leading the headlines today, but there's nothing new really in the latest labour markets release, so we've done a bit of a deeper dive into youth (un)employment.

"World happiness report is out and the Nordics are again in the top spots" -"Yeah that tracks" "In all of the categories checked, they are really high scoring except for positive emotions and if they've helped a stranger recently" -"Yeah that tracks"

Because I'm a middle-aged man, I've written a blog-post about BINS! c4.ac.uk/global-recyc...

an AI support startup valued at $8M has been in the news here in Denmark. I quickly tried the support mails for one of the companies that uses their product and within 5 minutes I had tracking numbers and full names and home addresses for other customers, just by guessing an order nr.

Obligatory "I wrote this" skeet: 'It’s Green Gym, but not as we know it' in the next issue of Medical Humanities mh.bmj.com/content/earl... It looks at the historical roots (ho ho) of gardening on prescription and adds a very tiny contribution to the history of tuberculosis treatment in England.

An under-discussed consequence of generative AI: to prove *your* scientific text is human-authored and should be taken seriously, you'll have to show your credentials, which benefits people with privilege and harms people without it. Harvard gets a pass; U of Nairobi, maybe less often.

[Sade voice 🎵]

Shocking but not surprising from the Premier League - not even a slap on the wrist for Chelsea, just a gentle "now promise you won't do it again". Big winner? Man City, maybe, who'll be able to quote this precedent for indulgence when it suits them. www.skysports.com/football/new...

Bluesky liberals seeing the opportunity of a century to tell you how its all a distraction from the epstein files

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Hold kæft, men vi har nogle pissemærkelige game shows herhjemme.

Am I doing this right?

(think there's a fine line between needing to understand what's happening online and essentially just advertising the existence of bad guys on the internet and I do slightly worry that the relentless focus on the manosphere has become the latter)

Protip: Pay very close attention on E20 near the København Lufthavn, lest you miss that last exit and have to pay the fee both ways (around $150 USD) on the Øresund bridge, just to turn around. Ask me how I know....