I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed

MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 9h ago

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

If the elite decide you're one of theirs then the rule is you're allowed to just be awful about huge swathes of humans so long as it's mostly not other members of the elite AND you're over-the-top enough about it that they can pretend it's a hilarious joke. No one else lives life under these rules

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Hey look! Someone changing their views based on information provided and openly apologising without trying to push responsibility onto someone else. Believe it or not, there used to be a lot of this on the internet. Some of the replies suggest why there's less now

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

He wrote this article so he could get a slur in print.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Rod Liddle? Credit for image and alt text: @snig.bsky.social

*Could be most countries

Grant Tanaka@granttanaka.bsky.social · 3d ago

“What’s a beautiful girl like you doing in a dump like this,” I ask, motioning to the entire country

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Them sowing: hahahaha yessss I am so witty and cutting and non-prisoner taking Them reaping: what the shit is this why does no one like me?

Dr Florence H R Scott@florencehrscott.bsky.social · yesterday

Many journalists and commentators revealing their biggest fear is to die and then be absolutely rinsed on social media for being cunts

I put on The Last Stand for some reason and all I can think of is the greatest tumblr post of all time

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Filing the phrase "visibly inauthentic sentences" for future use

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · yesterday

"Every sentence, George Saunders writes in his book on the art of the short story, ‘is a little referendum on truth'." so they are, and this gets right to the heart of something we all have to deal with now: a flood of visibly inauthentic sentences and written patternings.

Something new from the AI/academia interface: just got a citation alert pointing to a book that appears to be AI generated and only available through a link on a single Youtube video by an account with three followers to a payment processor I've never heard of for sixty dollars.

I think this confuses the private person, who can be mourned by friends, family and colleagues, and the public figure, whose legacy can be assessed based on his work. These are two different things and they have to coexist

Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am saddened by the tone of commentary in this place about my former BBC colleague. The level of vitriol seems more suited to the other place. I worked with Rod at the Today programme. He took no prisoners, but he was witty and personally capable of genuine warmth. My sympathy to his family.

Seems weird to include that he took no prisoners, while asking others to with regards to him.

If the argument is that social media or polarisation, etc, has inoculated me against feeling compassion, I must say I find much easier, given his life and works, to believe that people to whom he was personally kind have been inoculated against seeing his repulsiveness, and its many real world harms

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

Let’s have a chat about the intellectual vacuousness of anti-migrant positions, and the way that white supremacy is unable to articulate itself without ideas drawn from decolonial theory and transformed into dishonest nonsense claims to white “indigeneity” (this is also Zionism’s / Hindutva’s MO).

Edward Hopper, Study for August in the City, 1945 whitney.org/collection/w...

Edward Hopper, August in the City, 1945

Could this be a route to finally understanding the difference in scale between billions and millions? Maybe it's not in the maths but in how much your open exercise of power can be shaped by wealth... A multi-billionaire with a high public profile can bully organisations that stood up to dictators

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have to assume the legal threats from a certain litigious billionaire risked the entire org going under; otherwise this grovelling and snivelling apology from Amnesty, a charity which has stood up to literal dictators in its time, makes no sense?

[fans] "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with UEFA" "What about side by side with a hater of Gianni Infantino?" "Aye, I could do that"

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 6d ago

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: England and the other European members of Uefa will boycott Fifa’s tournaments if Gianni Infantino goes ahead with his plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors

Where there are higher numbers of overseas students, it even allows new businesses to develop. You'll get a wider range of restaurants in your neighbourhood if there are students from around the world at the local uni.

There's no downside, unless you're a racist or xenophobe. They don't take UK students' places. They don't stretch local resources - the opposite, they end up subsidising them. They're an all-round benefit. We should be encouraging more.

Every overseas student benefits the UK - They pay money to the university - They spend money in the local economy - They return home with good feelings about the UK (soft power) - They help subsidise local students - They make the learning environment better It's a real 'win-win'

Ironically the concrete outcome of going along with climate change is embracing Mediterranean death, not to mention increased death everywhere else too

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nighty night.

Funny isn’t it? You’d think that if the need for data storage and processing conflicted with the survival of human life, the survival of human life would just about edge the trade-off.

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Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

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