Michael Cholbi

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

What happens when climate change makes the world uninsurable? aeon.co/essays/how-d...

Rashomon - Notes - e-flux Akira Kurosawa on Rashomon

www.e-flux.com/notes/678346...

“Let’s Just Do It”: How Netanyahu Convinced Trump to Bomb Iran Here’s the real reason Donald Trump went to war with Iran.

'Trump is Bibi's lapdog' seems like a pretty potent Democratic attack line IMO newrepublic.com/post/207228/...

Scotland becomes first UK country to allow water cremations The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eisenhower

My partner's elderly mother thinks I'm a barrister and always asks me about the legal profession. I'm actually a barista in a failing coffee shop, but we find it too hilarious to correct her

Turns out SOME GUY finished 1st in his age/gender category in yesterday's Edinburgh Meadows 5K! 🏃😀🎉

Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" • a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event » 5:27 PM • Feb 23, 2014

It’s finally over

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers — The Wall Street Journal More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.”

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Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Americans Are Dying Early. There’s a Way to Fix It. People die earlier on average in the U.S. than they would in other wealthy countries.

The 'world's richest country' is 49th globally in life expectancy, projected to be 66th by 2050 newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

The Fallacy Fallacy Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

Yeah - 'fallacy bingo' is a bad way to teach argumentation. At best, fallacies *diagnose* bad reasoning -- they're pretty useless at actually *identifying* when reasoning is bad www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-stop...

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

Remember when nudges were all the rage in policy circles? They still raise intriguing philosophical questions, but their impact on big social problems turns out to be pretty much nil, big structural problems need big structural solutions archive.is/yYWym

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“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Enten: "If Canadians really don't like Donald Trump, how do Americans feel about Canada? Well, they actually like Canada! ... even among Republicans, it's +30 ... Canada -- more popular than Donald Trump in Trump's own country"

I've seen beached whales less out of their depth.

What Is Affordability? Affordability is a lot more than just prices. Beyond lowering prices, an affordability agenda needs to reckon with how the economy feels.

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Beloved podcast 'Philosophy Talk' now available for free The popular show, which originated with support from Stanford, will reach an even wider audience.

The Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences reports on our tearing down the paywall: humsci.stanford.edu/feature/belo...

#PhilSky #philosophy #podcast

Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.

Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS

Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... • Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

‘Taxi Driver’ Is 50 Years Old. Remember When Some Critics Got It Totally Wrong? Not everyone celebrated Martin Scorsese’s shocking portrait of madness and bloodshed.

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Bakers create worlds biggest Empire biscuit in Scotland What a whopper! Take a look at this enormous biscuit!

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Feeling pretty badass today, truth be told: Finished second in my category in a 5K race, 21st overall! 🏃

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

The disc that was attached to the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.

In 1977 NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft, including a CD with the song Johnny B. Goode, on a mission to study the solar system & beyond.

The extraterrestrials who open it will get another CD every month from Columbia House at full price and be hounded for life by intergalactic debt collectors.