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Maurice Weller

@wellermaurice.bsky.social

Came over from Twitter. Follow me of you know me from there.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d ago

Beginning to feel like I need to budget a week on the blog for a military primer on 'how the US Navy is the load-bearing pillar of your ability to eat bananas and of folks in developing countries to eat at all.' Not saying that is an optimal situation, merely that it is the situation.

Embrace the Void@etvpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon: We should build the fully automated super-trans luxury space communism from Ian Banks’s famous series “Check out this awesome fully automated super-trans luxury space communism”. This never stops being funny.

Metal Gear Solidarity@mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 2w ago

'From that point on, it was all downhill for Musk. He suggested that everyone read Iain Banks for a vision of the future, and Beddoes pointed out that Banks was a socialist. Musk insisted he wasn’t." He's either never read his "favourite" books or he's too stupid to understand them.

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s kind of ironic given the film’s plot that Nolan’s Odyssey starts out putting considerable faith in the movie’s audience, only to pretty much lose it in the last hour.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago

‘James Joyce stands out​ among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress and the preciousness of the everyday. If he is outrageously experimental, he is also in thrall to the mundane and disregarded.’ Terry Eagleton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the...

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Leni@leni.bsky.social · 3w ago

Redaktion, Schluss: Nach einem Vierteljahrhundert (mit kleiner Unterbrechung) verlässt Dietmar Dath die FAZ & wünscht denen, die dabei waren, alles Gute!

Bild von Dietmar Daths Schreibtisch bei der FAZ: Zu sehen sind ein Monitor mit Startbildschirm, eine schwarze Tastatur und Computermaus, eine Milchtüte mit Kakao, ein eingerahmtes Porträt des Mathematikers Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow, darunter drei postkartengroße Prints: ein Pfeildiagramm (Dolly → Miley; Dolly → Buffy), ein Bild eines Hauses, und ein Zitat von Angela Y. Davis. Auf dem Schreibtisch liegen die Ausgabe „The Stupiding of The American Mind“ des New York Magazine, Druckfahnen von „Alpha Gal“ von Greg Egan, ein Buch zu Physics & Probability, ein Kugelschreiber, Kräutersalz, zwei Brillen, ein Glas Wasser, eine Basecap und noch einige Kabel.
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3w ago

The problem with the realist conceptual/linguistic analysis framework is you simply *cannot* make the argumentative leap between how we use concepts/language and any purported objective structure of the world. But that is the core assumption of 'common sense' philosophy!

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Couldn't possibly agree more. Historians, as a rule, connect with the vibes of a depiction of the past far more than surface-level details of costuming, locations, or even the story's relationship to real historical events.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4w ago

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

Louis Berger@ajournomento.bsky.social · last mo.

Mit Blick auf die gestrigen Bischofsweihen der Priesterbruderschaft Pius X. hat der Vatikan einen „schismatischen Akt“ festgestellt. Neben den Beteiligten gelten die Geistlichen der Gemeinschaft als Schismatiker und unterliegen damit der Exkommunikation. Sie spenden die Sakramente unrechtmäßig.

Bischofsweihen der Piusbrüder: Exkommunikation verhängt - Vatican News

Ein vom Kardinalpräfekten des Glaubens-Dikasteriums unterzeichnetes Dokument stuft den am 1. Juli abgehaltenen Ritus als „Akt schismatischer Natur“ ...

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Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · last mo.

For this Patreon-only episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. (It got VERY salty, hence, you know, paywall.) www.patreon.com/posts/162364...

Episode 141 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- The (deep breath) "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" | In Bed With the Right

Episode 141 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- The (deep breath) "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" by In Bed With the Right on Patreon. Join In Bed With the Ri...

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Benjamin Norris@benjaminnorris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Flying home for a couple days and then I’ll be off to the west coast for the North American Fichte Society. My paper is titled “Fichte on Ecology, Race, and Earthly-Life”. If you’re in the area come check it out!

Poster for North American Fichte Society.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

At this preliminary stage, the State has shown that it is entitled to interim relief from the District Court's injunc-tion. See Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citi-zens, 607 U. S. 一 (2025) (slip op., at 1-2). The State is likely to succeed on the merits as to both claims. As to intentional vote dilution, the District Court did not heed the presumption of legislative good faith, see Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024), because it interpreted the State's legal disagreement with the court's earlier remedial order as proof of discriminatory animus. Cf. Abbott v. Perez, 585 U. S. 579, 608-609 (2018). And, as to both claims, the District Court's analysis departed from Callais. Under Callais, the District Court was required to deny relief unless the plaintiffs' alternative map performed "just as well" with respect to all of the State's constitutionally permissible districting crite-ria. 608 U. S., at— (slip op., at 29). Yet, the District Court found a violation even though the plaintiffs' alternative map would not perform just as well as to the State's constitutionally permissible criteria of keeping together the Gulf Coast community of interest and avoiding the pairing of in-cumbents. The District Court also failed to follow our instruction in Callais that the mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns. See id., at _ (slip op., at 30).