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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 10h

Oof.

Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 10h

How excellent to win a prize named after one of J. K. Bluntschli's students. Brava!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

White Sox fan does not miss a beat

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

Dorothy Parker, surely, was whip-smart even in middle-age?

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 13h

No. Nor are we ever "feisty".

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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 14h

Gramscian friends, help me out here: I can’t find the reference to an article on the German translation of the Prison Notebooks, probably published in the International Gramsci Journal.

Do you remember it?

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 14h

rhizomatically

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 16h

Clodagh Lawlor _ One Day at a Time (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Clodagh Lawlor

www.youtube.com

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21h

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 16h

1,193 days to go.

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 16h

“There’s an insistent analogy in Tokarczuk’s work...between the arbitrarily constructed qualities of gender roles and the arbitrarily constructed qualities of nation-states.” —Christopher Tayler

In the Fourth Person | Christopher Tayler

In 1896 the French writer Alfred Jarry gave a speech introducing his play Ubu Roi, a pioneering work of avant-garde provocation, at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre

buff.ly

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 16h

Yes.

Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 18h

#peakneville

Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 18h

Fascinating mash-up dream, in which I was simultaneously trying to keep tabs on cats - oddly, the two who died a couple of years ago and the elderly rescue cat who followed them - and oversee a review of the Cambridge Classics Faculty, housed in an abandoned warehouse the cats wanted to explore.

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 18h

The key thing about online political persuasion is that it’s not short videos. It’s long, very long, dissuading, debating and explaining (which is then recirculated and repeated in shorter form by others).

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 19h

Not allowed on the counter, OK. But Jesuitical cats are able to find a loophole in the logic.

A cat who has climbed on the ventilation hood above a kitchen counter.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 19h

New thing from old friends @martinoneill.bsky.social & Howard Reed, against which we can gauge the inadequacies of the forthcoming. Budget.

Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 20h

In November's Budget, the Chancellor can reform taxes on wealth to achieve three wins - raising revenue, tackling inequality and boosting growth. Find out more at fairnessfoundation.com/win-win-win

Win-Win-Win

Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth

fairnessfoundation.com

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 19h

This seems to me to be the correct approach to visiting Cambridge.

Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 22h

I showed Mr. Cooke King’s College Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John’s College Library; and that being done, to our inn again.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 19h

This is excellent. #thehistorybookontheshelf #isalwaysrepeatingitself #ornot #asthecasemaybe #waterloo #etc

Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 19h

Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald, keen to secure establishment respectability for his movement and class, argues Ben Jackson. The Labour line has to be hardened in a way that makes the political and moral stakes much clearer to voters.

Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald: Comparing the Rise of Reform with the Rise of Labour

It is hard not to suspect that arresting the rise of Reform could be beyond the powers of both current party leaders.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 20h

It was filmed in 1962-3, so not strictly 1961, but do you know the excellent short train film, "Snow"?

Snow (1963) - Geoffrey Jones | BFI National Archive

YouTube video by BFI

www.youtube.com

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, I have taught Malthus twice in the last week or two. In both rooms, I have forgotten to wipe the whiteboard clean, so I like to think that it looks like someone is going around writing FAMINE DISEASE WAR just to freak people out.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

It is the best. #forestanimal

Oliver Rivers @maxrothbarth.bsky.social · 1d

Just about a good enough excuse to link to that masterpiece of animal care:

Dangerous Wild Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Guidance on the keeping of Tapir

cc @chrisbrooke.bsky.social

www.daera-ni.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

The Naming of Stats
June 19, 2023 • Obiter Dicta • R
The Naming of Stats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a stat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all are the names where usage is informal, Such as Median, Estimate, Average, or Range, Such as Variance, Quartile, or else Standard Normal All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names that may be better-tasting, Some for the frequentists, some for the Bayes:
Such as Skew, or Kurtosis, Metropolis-Hastings-But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a stat needs a name that's obscurer, A name that's misleading, and hard to construe,
Else how can it keep on confusing the reader, Or frustrate professors, or pass peer review?
Of names of this kind, there are many examples, Like Hierarchical, Robust, or Omega-hat,
Such as Marginal, Confidence, or just Weighted Sample, Names that always belong to more than one stat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess;
The thing that no human research can discover-
But THE STAT MIGHT JUST KNOW, and be made to confess.
When you notice a stat getting quite widely cited, The reason, you see, is whatever its flaws, Its user's engaged, or enraged, or excited
At the prospect of pinning the root of all laws:
That inviolable, friable
Unidentifiable
Deep and inscrutable singular Cause.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Before too long the Jacobite claim will pass to the House of Liechtenstein.

(Franz von Bayern is 92, his heir is his brother Max, who is 88, and when they are both dead the claim then passes to Max's daughter Sophie, who married Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein.)

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