Climate change affecting Europe's key inland waterways:
Thomas Jones
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I work @lrb.co.uk, most of my opinions are other people’s
We sold the warship on the cover to the Brazilians eight years ago...
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · yesterdayWe have released an updated and more accurate version of Operation Fortress.
Secondo l’ISPI in tutte i paesi d’Europa i cittadini sono indotti a credere che gli immigrati siano molti di più di quelli che realmente sono. PS Fin qui ci siamo, però le ideologie discriminatorie, xenofobe, razziste sono interamente responsabili (criminale) dei singoli.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
When’s Nolan making his Don Quixote movie?
Don Quixote: The First Modern Novel
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
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Yes to this. Only two jailed that I know of (and one dead) but yeah.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 5d agoMan we had so many nonce teachers (boys private school).
A technique pioneered by Silvio Berlusconi, Trump’s forerunner in so many ways, who would call on people to take to the streets in protest at the government while he was prime minister.
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d agoConservatism has long been powered by misinformation and fantasy, but it is pretty wild how the MAGA movement's focus from "what they did to you in COVID!" to the 2020 election results is all about pretending Donald Trump wasn't president when he was president.
And here’s another podcast on the Odyssey we recorded a few years ago, before Matt Damon was General Groves, with extracts from Emily’s translation read by Hazel Holder
Podcast: Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones · Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
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Thomas Jones@moonjets.bsky.social · last wk.Can’t believe this hilarious joke didn’t take off. Luckily I didn’t think of it till after recording this conversation with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social about Odysseys through the ages
And if you don’t feel like reading this thread you can listen to our podcast … podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Nolan v. Homer
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min
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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is (I think) the 26th podcast we've recorded together, and the second on the Odyssey. Always a pleasure and an education (for me, anyway, and I hope for listeners).
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘I think everyone has the right to remake 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 in their own image, and Nolan has certainly done that.’ Emily Wilson (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social) talks to Tom Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) about Christopher Nolan’s film and the art of adaptation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
An oldish piece on Milman Parry, with some thoughts (by way of Walter Ong) on the ways that new technologies affect not only how we tell stories, but also how we think about old stories, including Homer’s. From handwriting to printing to gramophones to movie cameras. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Can’t believe this hilarious joke didn’t take off. Luckily I didn’t think of it till after recording this conversation with @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social about Odysseys through the ages
Nolan vs Homer
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min
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Thomas Jones@moonjets.bsky.social · 2w agoI was so ready for Matt Damon to tell the Cyclops his name was Nolan. Disappointing.
I was so ready for Matt Damon to tell the Cyclops his name was Nolan. Disappointing.
"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
‘Private enterprise cannot build houses to last, because you don't make money that way.’ Nye Bevan
Nye Bevan Speech (1946)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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My wishful thinking about Healey is that having demanded all that extra money for defence means it’ll be harder for him simply to say the money isn’t there when other departments ask for it (yes I know, see wishful thinking above)
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
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Where was the foul? My VAR room says goal. ‘Molto generoso per l’Argentina’ say the Italian commentators.
