Shirley Tillotson

That's quite the map, James. Thanks!

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I know, right? I don't think I have spoken its name for decades

*interesting not interdisciplinary! Although the latter is true, too

It's an interdisciplinary moment we're in -- I do
expect that the above-mentioned committee is meeting even now.

And Poulantzas would probably like a word now, too

Channeling the voice of Karen, Queen of the Bourgeoisie.

Perfect. No notes.

Some days, reading the news, I wonder if I share a certain "Thank god I live in a backwater" comfort with, say, the Falkland Islands?

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

I remember my second university ID number (only used the first one for a few months), but my email address on Pine? Gone forever.

I'm surprised I even remember the existence of Pine!

Fifteen years and a lot of living

Nova Scotia’s HST to Drop in 2025

Here's the announcement of last year's tax cuts

Nova Scotia’s HST to Drop in 2025 | Government of Nova Scotia News Releases share.google/wcfp1g2Vw6Xk...

In NS, the gov't withdrew a new tax (non-resident homes) that met with stiff opposition. The Premier even said something like "I was wrong"

Pathbreaking!

If he were now to reverse the recent HST cut, even if saying "Good idea then, but hooboy, things have changed," it would be impressive

Fleeced, and it's not just sheep-shearing

I was mostly at this point a week ago. 😎

The Trump White House is a well-oiled political machine.

I think you'll find it clarifying. Whether it delivers the hope you'd like? A little bit, I'd say

I think you'll find it clarifying. Whether it delivers the hope you'd like? A little bit, I'd say

Yep. And the discussion toward the end of combining charisma and cold-bloodedness made me go "yep"

Carney's particular vulnerability to doing a poor job is (oddly) like Trump's -- that he hasn't worked his way up thru a legislature.

I also loved the 'windbag' section

What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Max Weber In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of political life and political philosophy. Why is doing…

Max Weber's essay Politics as a Vocation. Might be relevant. I'm listening to a discussion of it and it really made me think of Carney's situation. pca.st/episode/b557...

Is he a shipping economics expert?

Ooh! ALL the acronyms 👏 Thanks!

Double yikes.

Yikes

Typos!

*as some social

*do make our problems

Superb.

Much as I dislike the use in US politics of Canada is some social democratic paradise, the USian examples do make now our problems look less dire by contrast.

And the video doesn't even discuss the crazy role that fines and tickets play in balancing the books for American cities

To be fair to the analysis of the video, the Guelph example was not the part of the video where transit spurs were emphasized

The example for that was a New Zealand city whose name I can't recall already!

Yes. Hence my 🤷

Good. Now I know the relevant acronym (VLCC, very large crude carrier), I'll be better equipped to go data hunting myself

Sewers, insurance, bond yields, and shipping/trucking

I, as just one l'il nerd, would welcome a novel where the plot hinged on really deep accounts of these

Some of the Victorians (I read long ago) had a touch of that pol-econ framing, IIRC. Trollope on election finance, Dickens on property law