Years ago I was on a search committee at Trinity College and we were puzzling over one letter of rec that seemed sort of lukewarm until my dear colleague Jerry Watts held it up and pointed at the signature line and said "She is British!"

Royal Mail has become so bad

The first pre-order links for my novel, 'Shibboleth', are live! Click on one of them to make my day. waterstones.com/book/shibbolet…

1/ Can Large Language Models (LLMs) truly reason? Or are they just sophisticated pattern matchers? In our latest preprint, we explore this key question through a large-scale study of both open-source like Llama, Phi, Gemma, and Mistral and leading closed models, including the

Elon vs NOLS hacks is something I did not see coming

Start preparing for the arguments around geoengineering, too. This is going to get mainstreamed.

Amazing

Herbert Hoover was more willing to adapt to the changed state of play than this

After eight years of work this book is finally real!! So excited for the rest of the world to get its hands on these bad boys next month.

Carter arguably initiated the shift in domestic policy that led to the "neoliberal revolution", but not before his strategy of intl. coordination to combat the oil crises—by goading surplus countries into spending—was thwarted by the Germans (and Japanese) dragging their feet

quite extraordinary that he hasn’t even bothered to read the Wikipedia article on the British constitution - and yet he will co-lead the entity radically reforming the US state

12 July 1957 lecture by Adorno to UChicago students on “the purpose of education” defending disciplinary specialization. “the shortest path to genuine universality is to be found precisely when we abandon the quest for the merely general.”

Peter Gordon reviews Kwame Anthony Appiah lucid new book: “Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science”: nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

Luckily since the Louvre made NFTs of their jewelry, even though the crowns physically were stolen, they still own the same assets. Because the tokens still exist and are in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. few understand blockchain technology.

Source: techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/jef…

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