My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
Paul Cohen
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Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century. https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
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Coming in French next month. The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
if the market were truly an instrument for the rational allocation of capital it would have placed significant investments in decarbonization decades ago
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Nine straight games without a single goal. Instead of staying quiet, fans grabbed a sign and literally pointed the team to the goal post.
even if you're not a fan of Reacher, you should still read this thread
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A
I see where Tommy's coming from, but when I want to set myself on the right path I prefer to sacrifice goats and read their entrails
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · last wk.Brave new world www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · last wk.New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
L'Équipe with a nice piece underscoring how Xavi taking the Oranje manager job is truly closing the Cruyffian circle, totaalvoetbal coming home with a Catalan accent www.lequipe.fr/Football/Art...
Xavi nommé à la tête de la sélection des Pays-Bas : l'évidence orange d'un joueur inspiré par Johan Cruyff
Grandement influencé par Johan Cruyff, façonné par plusieurs techniciens néerlandais, l'ex-milieu du FC Barcelone Xavi avait tout du candidat idéal pour prendre les rênes de la sélection des Pays-Bas.
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the reason Saint Dominic founded the Inquisition is because the University of Toulouse was too woke
And... that's all, folks. San Francisco State University is shutting down its Estuary and Ocean Science Center, the only marine lab on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Counterpoint: the reason Erasmus never took up a university professorship is that universities in the sixteenth century were too woke
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was
Spending the end of his life under house arrest was probably a bit uncomfortable for Galileo, but that's nothing like how uncomfortable he would have felt listening to a land acknowledgement
I'm sure it was a little uncomfortable for Socrates to eat poison. But the bitterness of hemlock is nothing compared to the bitterness from having to admit you might have benefitted from racial privilege
It probably was a bit awkward for Newton to carefully hide his beliefs about the Catholic Trinity for fear of being prosecuted for heresy. But that is nothing compared to getting a bad teaching evaluation once because a student disagree with your take on capitalism
Sure, Alan Turing was driven to suicide because homosexuality was a crime in the UK. But I'll bet he's glad he never had to admit that there might have been something bad about colonialism
Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"
Oscar-Louis Barenton also said something similar (but he’s less famous) : “ne rien savoir, voyez-vous, c’est un énorme avantage, à condition de savoir qu’on ne sait rien”.
wasn't it Socrates who said that true wisdom comes when one realizes that "I know that I know nothing"?
Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · last wk.A philosophy journal just published an article written mostly by Claude. The philosopher who "supervised" Claude, and who is listed as the article's author, explains how he did it. The journal's editor thinks of the decision to publish the piece as an "experiment."
"The trouble with the English is that their history happened overseas, so they don't know what it means." -- Salman Rushdie
I propose requiring all seventh-graders take a mandatory full-year class: "THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS"
Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · last wk."more than a quarter of Gen Z investors saying they see gambling on sports as part of their long-term financial strategy,...More than half of young investors said they had redirected money originally earmarked for investing into sports betting over the past year," www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
I wonder how we would all fare in the Cambridge of Newton's day. No Catholics. No women. No Jews. Certainly no atheists. Would we all know how to use the correct pronouns and honorifics in a deeply stratified society, and know when to doff our hats to our social betters? 1/
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was
"There is never an unrecognizable place." -- Simon Qirniq
“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoBeing more serious re the Atlantic piece, I do actually wonder what people who went in for the sillier aspects of Woke 1 now think of it all?