It's as though some of you don't even _want_ the Prime Minister and Lady Starmer to look top-notch. For Britain

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For information: the mills of god are still grinding towards the formation of a Collective Party theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Duncan Robinson I notice(!) that although the election betting inquiry was sufficiently serious and urgent to merit multiple announcements during the election campaign, it hasn't been important enough to do anything meriting a press release in the subsequent 3 months

Gosh how unusual

Reminder for the Oxford crowd that if you're around on Thursday evening I'm going to be solving hard problems. Will feature: Count Tolstoy dusting the settee. May feature: Hugh MacDiarmid listening to foraminifera. Won't feature: quantum decoherence

I’m very uneasy with how this map is being shared. It is NOT estimated GDP/capita, but a proxy measure derived from the number of biographies on Wikipedia, the accuracy of which is 🤷

Searched "dea prosae" bc I wanted to know whether Shklovsky had made her up, & all the hits are Shklovsky—but with this ghastly mistranslation. It's not "a goddess of the accurate, facile type", it's "the goddess of correct, easy childbirth, the 'straight' position of the child"

This should be the Harris/Walz campaign slogan. Easy win x.com/cb_doge/status…

This must be bc I've got my talk on the philosophy of mind tomorrow

And there were you complaining abt the Labour® Left® keeping their mouths shut

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Very much enjoying this. After gracefully and transparently allowing David Chalmers to denounce himself, as one must, EG brings humour, beauty, and insight to a materialist response to the so-called hard problem. Contains the line "I don't want to insult the best of bees."

Oh no, our leaders won't look smart & the other countries will turn their noses up at us now