Alan Colquhoun
@alancolquhoun.bsky.social
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Alan Colquhoun
@alancolquhoun.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Plain enough to cut through the bullshit, but sharp enough to keep it clean...
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More Americans are being put to death
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More Americans are being put to death
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More Americans are being put to death
How the Supreme Court ushered in a surge in executions
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November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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"Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form" | From @footnotes2plato.substack.com
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form: Toward a New Formal Causality in the Life Sciences
YouTube video by Footnotes2Plato
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November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form" | From @footnotes2plato.substack.com
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
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I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
From the oldbritishtelly community on Reddit: Jackanory 1986. A young Rik Mayall hilariously brings Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine to life.
Explore this post and more from the oldbritishtelly community
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November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics | Fortune
“It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” the Tesla CEO said.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Insightfully crafted questions
But the bullshitter has an uncanny knack for deflection and demurral
His brass neck is to rational enquiry what Batfink’s wings are to bullets
But the bullshitter has an uncanny knack for deflection and demurral
His brass neck is to rational enquiry what Batfink’s wings are to bullets
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Insightfully crafted questions
But the bullshitter has an uncanny knack for deflection and demurral
His brass neck is to rational enquiry what Batfink’s wings are to bullets
But the bullshitter has an uncanny knack for deflection and demurral
His brass neck is to rational enquiry what Batfink’s wings are to bullets
Democracy has never been particularly adept at inoculating itself against antidemocratic exploiters
(and this -dare I call it: systemic weakness - stems in part from philosophical doubts about truth and the ethically qualified limits on free expression)
(and this -dare I call it: systemic weakness - stems in part from philosophical doubts about truth and the ethically qualified limits on free expression)
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Democracy has never been particularly adept at inoculating itself against antidemocratic exploiters
(and this -dare I call it: systemic weakness - stems in part from philosophical doubts about truth and the ethically qualified limits on free expression)
(and this -dare I call it: systemic weakness - stems in part from philosophical doubts about truth and the ethically qualified limits on free expression)
Interesting to witness the US blatantly promoting terrorism is Europe
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interesting to witness the US blatantly promoting terrorism is Europe
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If taxing was fair there would be no need for philanthropy.
& If distribution of services fair the government would eliminate charity.
& wouldn't cost average Joe more than a couple of pennies if everyone rejected war for peace & prosperity.
Altruism makes for safety
& If distribution of services fair the government would eliminate charity.
& wouldn't cost average Joe more than a couple of pennies if everyone rejected war for peace & prosperity.
Altruism makes for safety
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
If taxing was fair there would be no need for philanthropy.
& If distribution of services fair the government would eliminate charity.
& wouldn't cost average Joe more than a couple of pennies if everyone rejected war for peace & prosperity.
Altruism makes for safety
& If distribution of services fair the government would eliminate charity.
& wouldn't cost average Joe more than a couple of pennies if everyone rejected war for peace & prosperity.
Altruism makes for safety
Mahzarin Banaji bears personal moral responsibility for the harms associated with the (false) implicit bias construct because she stands as its public author and principal advocate
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing propagating and sustaining the construct within normative practices
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing propagating and sustaining the construct within normative practices
🎓 Congratulations to External Professor Mahzarin Banaji, who received an honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Yale last weekend for her pioneering research on the role of unconscious processes in human social action. ow.ly/W2ZR50RT5Nf
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Mahzarin Banaji bears personal moral responsibility for the harms associated with the (false) implicit bias construct because she stands as its public author and principal advocate
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing propagating and sustaining the construct within normative practices
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing propagating and sustaining the construct within normative practices
Mahzarin Banaji bears personal moral responsibility for the harms associated with the implicit bias construct because she stands as its public author and principal advocate
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing, propagating, and sustaining the construct within normative practices
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing, propagating, and sustaining the construct within normative practices
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Mahzarin Banaji bears personal moral responsibility for the harms associated with the implicit bias construct because she stands as its public author and principal advocate
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing, propagating, and sustaining the construct within normative practices
Responsibility attaches to her role in introducing, propagating, and sustaining the construct within normative practices