Gautam Kambhampati
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🇬🇧 London & Hull ⚖️ Patent Lawyer 📚 Publisher of @tamarindlit.co.uk 🐺 Defence & Technology at fabians.org.uk 🌹 Co-founder of labourfortheconstitution.org.uk 📡 Physics PhD & Fellow of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Very good paper on this by Pratchett & Vimes (1993)
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
Fucking finally someone in a position to do something has said the obvious. Now he just has to actually do it… 🤞
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3d ago"People want to see this issue addressed," Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in Dover, adding: "We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of the things this gets at is the complete incoherence of our approach to devolution. Given we all accept that however we divide England up is going to be a bit arbitary, it really does make sense to work backwards from the number of "regions" we want to end up with. Yet we keep failing to do so
Danny Shaw@dannyshaw.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW Merging police forces across England & Wales will cost £2 billion up-front. That's the figure given by GMP Chief Sir Stephen Watson... Also, new details about plans for the National Police Service - and who will lead it. My thoughts … free to read! www.dannyshaw.net/post/what-wa...
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Me starting to feel hope after every Andy Burnham speech and stopping myself and trying to be like “the proof is in the pudding, the proof is in the pudding…” That said, the hope is nice
Eomer Hope Has Forsaken These Lands
Alt: Clip from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, showing the character Eomer (in charge of a group of cavalry) telling Aragorn “Do no trust to hope, for it has foresaken these lands”.
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Really enjoying this new more relaxed and open style of government comms from Andy Burnham Such a big change that it must be a direction coming from the top - even Cooper and Baroness Casey speaking without any notes
Again I want to point out that the gods are not punishing Odysseus for his actions at Troy. They *do not care* about the Trojan horse. They think he is better than other people and pious. It's Poseidon specifically that hates him for what he did to the Cyclops.
Exactly - which means the characters’ worldview (updated to make them “good”) doesn’t match their actions. This is the fundamental problem at the core of Nolan’s film Still a great film, 4/5 stars, but the *text* is fundamentally flawed
open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · last wk.i do think that there is a basic problem with the plot of the odyssey that anyone adapting it for a modern audience is going to experience and it is that by every single one of the articles of Modern Human Morality the greeks were villains in the trojan war which they clearly weren't for homer
This whole discourse has been Film People don’t understand character and Literature People don’t understand acting. The core of her critique is that changes made for the film mean characters’ motivations are incoherent with their actions. That is a good critique, and it’s also true
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.It’s been weird seeing people praise this shitty review and it’s failure to understand what’s actually happening on screen
what a lot of internet people don't understand is that internet people critique popular things for clout, whereas academic types do it because something is broken in our brains and we don't know how else to engage with the world, we would literally do analysis from inside a locked padded room
Casey Stegman@caseystegman.com · last wk.People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
Labour: At long last we've created the Secondary Moderns from the classic 1965 government circular "Don't Create Secondary Moderns".
I wonder if they will change the Forces' recruitment ads? Recent Navy ones do that "Born in X, Made by the Navy" thing. They don't align with this "born in the heat sink of the data centre, work in the heat sink of the data centre" provincialism that's being talked about today.
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
Real underpriced reason why a snap election is a dreadful idea is that it would likely give Reform a shot in the arm just as they’re flagging and, even if it went well on Labour’s end, would almost certainly make Nigel Farage leader of the opposition
To state the extremely obvious, if Burnham calls an early election then his best case scenario consists of Labour losing 60+ seats, Reform surging enormously, and the narrative being that he’s a moron with no authority who blew up his giant majority for no reason. (The narrative will be correct)
very funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”
I agree but I just don't get it. If you think the public will vote for tax increases, why not just do them and bet that the positive benefits will make people forgive you come 2029?
The film was “what if the Odyssey, but Arthurian” Because Odysseus the chivalric knight would not have made the same decisions as Homer’s, Nolan had to strip him of agency, so we got none of his cleverness Instead shit just happens to him as a kind of purgatory for the “sins” he committed in Troy
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2w agoI agree with @wallaceme.bsky.social both that I would love a talented filmmaker to properly commit to “the deeply unsettling worldview of Bronze Age Greeks” and also…I understand why Hollywood studios wouldn’t want to touch that.
Andy Burnham, 21, writes to The Guardian in defence of Philip Larkin
This is sensible policy and we should take no notice of minute by minute reporting of small movement in gilt markets because they -- both the movements and the reporting -- contain no information.
BrokenBanker@brokenbanker.bsky.social · 2w agocount down to a certain ex Pimco employee telling everyone Gilts are a high beta market again
Wayne Rooney to be new BBC commentator for Eurovision. #VoteBinface
Also it's so enjoyable to watch two teams who respect each other, give everything, and then embrace each other after the game, after all the horrible bollocks of last Wednesday
Well that was thoroughly stupid, thank you profoundly England, thank you profoundly France, what a delight
![Quotes from physicians interviewed for an upcoming Channel 4 documentary on ADHD.
"It is certainly not a medical condition as far as I'm concerned" - Dr lona
Heath, Former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners
"We've replaced corporal punishment with giving [children] a pill" - Dr Sami Timimi, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xrgeqtqe2gknoxlcg2a2nayh/bafkreigmbniwkdlotqk73stwtiqwwkobrxshsustkkppgk3hkdv6wlyrim)
