Act IV Scene III of Julius Caesar
I decided to catch up with some YouTubers I like for the first time in a while and I have to ask; why are all the ads on YouTube now AI generated and about IQ tests?
By 2032 Britain will have the same number of petit nationalist parties, all calling each other Jews, as Nepal has Communist Parties.
I really donβt get what people see in him.
Reading a bit of Giovanni Arrighi as a part of some dissertation work and Iβve come to understand a lot, not so much about interstate relations and where weβre headed, but about why a lot of people of a certain position get politics so wrong.
If anything good comes from this it will be forcing Anglo Rightoids back to Facebook, although could in the long run make things worse as they fester locked away with their own ideas.
Keir Starmer once again upping migration figures with the move to ban Twitter forcing British users to go elsewhere.
William Dalrymple is something of an inspirational figure in the white boy orientalist canon, and the one of the few still living!
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide β something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Odd looking duck
βTom Nairn predicted all of this yβknowβ
Drunk driving test where they ask you to draw a perfectly fine border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The BBC was better when it was more paternalistic. People act like itβs problems come from some elitism rather than the fact itβs always chasing the lowest common denominator and what the type of person at the BBC perceives to be public trends under the guise of balance.
I keep seeing posts that ignore how legislative dominance has not led to the transformation that a lot of them seem to think is possible once you topple the executives power.
Everything I hear on that book on Marxβs Republicanism makes it sound like it hasnβt really considered anything beyond American borders and is purely written from some admiration from historical radicalism rather than anything that could be helpful in the modern day.
Im doing an MA just for the free FT subscription atp. And because otherwise Iβd be unemployed.
Donβt say βThatβs Englishβ
Iβm very attracted to the Catholic use of Latin as a liturgical language that transcends borders and nationalitu. I realise itβs probably more complicated than that and that thereβs deeper politics to Latin but just looking at it from the outside it seems cool. I want secular Latin.
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Thinking about how my A-level economics teacher wouldβve been playing clips of Milei every lesson were I in his class just a couple years after.
I thought I could out wait the impact on graduate recruiting that AI and the Trump Tariffs have had only for it to be a bubble potentially waiting to wipe out the economy anyway.
I was complaining to my 53 year old Hong Konger course mate about the labour market rn while he nodded sagely, following up my diatribe with βwhen I graduated during the East Asian financial crisisβ¦β and I reacted the same way you would to someone getting kicked in the nuts.
My favourite tidbit to think about is that J Sakai has read Sally Rooney and has strong opinions on her.
the bit about Africans being active in the slave trade is telling. itβs something that is only relevant if you think the point of discussing slavery is to disburse racial blame rather than understanding history.
just realized iβm about to be the first person on this new social media site to call robbie robertson baby girl. #trailblazing #pioneer #womeninstem