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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

I suspect I really will. Sounds amazing.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 8h

Ok off we go guys

'A modern masterpiece that manages to speak both of its time and to transcend it altogether' Sunday Telegraph
SATANTANGO
LÁSZLÓ
KRASZNAHORKAI
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2015

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21h

What is this from!

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21h

This line of questioning (to David Simon of all people) is utterly bizarre.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21h

Tennis

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21h

Paris

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 21h

Oh come on

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

This is great.

Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s edition of Most Favoured Nation discusses steel clubs, the limits of the special relationship, and some other things …

But is mainly an excuse to share some photos.

open.substack.com/pub/mostfavo...

Blue Steel

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member

open.substack.com

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be very interesting to see how the EU steel thing impacts the UK. Presumably the EU can also do this in other areas?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting in passing how a. Wry substantial proportion of the immediate reaction to the UK and EU trade deals with the US was vibes based

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

This is excellent!

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so which of László Krasznahorkai’s books should I read first?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t wish to appear shallow but he has absolutely beautiful hair

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t resist it - another Felix at sunset photo - here he is, the Prince of Hounds

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

How, in the UK, does one in practice ensure the independent of the judiciary etc?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

One of the proudest moment in my posting life

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 1d

Professional Managerial Class-werk

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

Omg I was always awful at that stuff. Last person picked for team sports as well 😢

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever come across the French medieval epic the song of Roland. That’s all battles and is the most fight-y written thing from that period I can think of (early 12th c).

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

Some big bloke shouting SHIELD WALL

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

And a very good afternoon to you!

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

We should *really* fund / promote university courses based on their lack of obvious vocational relevance. What’s the point in teaching everyone basic accountancy vs alternatively evidential analysis skills from (say) medieval history?

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

I used to do lots of graduate recruiting and if anything we steered away from people with finance / accountancy degrees because we could teach them that stuff. We were way more interested in how people thought, impression of natural aptitude etc etc.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

I am just guessing that there aren’t going to be a lot of PE rope climbing out performers on this part of the platform.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is downstream of the economy - except, very curiously, economic policy.

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