I feel the need to note, hubris is *really commonly* misused in English.- Hubris (ὕβρις) is not just arrogance or pride, but rather it is an *action* (there's a verb, ῠ̔βρῐ́ζω) - an insult or affront to an equal or superior designed to humiliate them which is born out of excessive arrogance or pride.

Oh, so you are saying that just before we embarked upon a war that turned out badly for us, our leaders engaged in some all-star hubris towards the representative of a deity? Really getting pretty classical in here.

imagine being so rogue that you threaten a pope, a 'fracking' pope of your own nationality, wow amazing levels of arrogance

this is peak male bonding

As someone who lives (or rather, works) on the border between strategy, management, and data, this argument about what's bad about Palantir's deal with the NHS rings very true. Vendor lock-in hits hard if you outsource your brain and give away your ability to even see whether it was a good idea.

young people might come to expect other 'nordic style' perks like Nordic style university tuition fees...

You reflect on how, even down here in the freezing black depths of the Barents Sea where nameless, eyeless things move sluggishly in the dark, there is no way to escape notifications that Gavin the Shark is humbled to accept a new and exciting role at Salesforce.

Then one day you receive a message from another Greenland Shark saying he’d like to add you to his professional network on LinkedFin

A while back some very unhappy students from a franchise in a different city actually travelled here to ask for help from the university whose name was on their documentation. Only the Chaplain would speak to them - for everyone else it was a Someone Else’s Problem.

There is a real danger of Trump's real global legacy being a series of protection rackets that clouds already gloomy economy and tense international negotiations for years to come.

We talk popularly talk a lot about the Latest Cretaceous, or the End-Cretaceous, but the Cretaceous *wasn't* ending over its last ten million years, or two million years, or 50,000 years. It was in no sense drawing naturally to a close. It was randomly murdered over the course of like 5 seconds

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

Anatopism. Like 'anachronism' but for place. (literally 'something out of its proper place') This is a real word already but definitely needs adopting by fantasy writers for the reasons skeeted!

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Well, "Christian Conservative Kibbutz on the Cam" is going to be revolving through my brain for a while

It's not really a day for announcements -- but my translation of Diao Dou's 刁斗 short story "Squatting" 蹲着 is in The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, edited by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social and John Freeman and out today.

As if this would be OK if there were no risk to the economy.

This is great news about @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social, but it does highlight how vexatious claims and misinformation are used to directly attack charities and try and prevent them doing good work. Migrants and trans rights charities in particular are targeted. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

there's apparently tons of AI hallucinated fake references in this too. sigh.

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts open.substack.com/pub/kashgart...

i've thinking about this for several days straight

I feel like we're not addressing the most concerning news from Mythos

Well, there are probably worse CCRU luminaries for it to be fond of...

BREAKING: Anthropic declines to release Mythos Preview, citing fears that it will listen to Chapo Trap House and join the DSA

Delta Green theory: the Program's tendency to exploit Unnatural technologies that they uncover explains how well their internet disinfo ops work: they've been using LLMs to handle them since the late 00s. Admittedly, they're running on Mi-Go micelia and are a bit evil, but the alternative is worse.

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Brian and I were grad students together. He's a mensch, and the goons who torpedoed his funding and his livelihood are contemptible.

With thanks to @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rima...

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

There's essentially no connection between ethnic heterogeneity and likelihood of conflict.

Anyways, shout out to that queen An Gwi Ryeong. She really is a real one in a super patriarchal, traditional society. www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/a...

No joke. She literally yelled “SHAME!” As she yanked the gun from a dude in the Korean Army and then broke through the locked congressional door to vote.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

I am completely sincere when I say they need to build statues of this woman. People need to name their babies after her.

I think this is a good precautionary analysis but I’d bet huge amounts of money against a relevant quantum computer by 2029 or even 2035.

I’m quite angry about this. Neither the ICO nor the government care about children’s *or adults’* privacy in any real way. They’re pushing age verification, inherently privacy-intruding, denigrating encryption, and much more. It’s either hypocrisy or stupidity.

Remake of Bladerunner faithful to book with extended scenes of Deckard agonizing over purchasing a robotic ostrich.

I think it’s also worth pointing out that fascism was a more broad phenomenon than Nazism—which had a lot of idiosyncratic traditionalist elements—and that fascists broadly were revolutionary hypermodernists. Which makes them quite ideologically distinct from conservatives.

Maybe the Labour MPs who boast about what their government is doing on workers' rights should do something about the same government eroding workers' rights for immigrants.

I view this as a massive victory against the most annoying people on social media

"Now that we are past being out of contact on the far side of the moon, all five of us are looking forward to getting back to Earth soon." "Don't you mean all four of you?" "No, there's always been 5 of us"

Whilst Reform is fundamentally unserious I remain confident the BBC will come through for their guys

i keep seeing posts on here saying "the difference is, we do it with respect and civility" and not a single one of these people has ever had to deal with the home office

the China-Russia friendship posters tell the story of a nice young couple who when they get a bit older have kids

Because social media discourse deflects attention away from physical consequences of war towards almost metaphysical debates about leadership will and national character a lot of people end up neglecting how structural economic factors shape long term outcomes

“No modern state could function without expertise, rules, and professional management. Yet it also creates a structural problem. Much of what shapes citizens’ daily lives happens far from public deliberation.” www.liberalcurrents.com/governing-by...

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."