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Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Jonathan Wolff is a British philosopher. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He was formerly the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Prior to his joining the Blavatnik School in 2016, Wolff's academic career had been spent at University College London (UCL), where he was, latterly, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. .. more

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 21
I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1h
There was so much talk of statistics. It was like being in an accountancy class, with frequent breaks to watch ads for junk food, cars, insurance, and nutritional supplements.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2h
@richardpettigrew.bsky.social on p. 180 of Equality adult education is mentioned in passing as a recent innovation having 100,000 students and would have been unthinkable before 1900.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2h
Brilliant!!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3h
My copy of R.H. Tawney’s Equality, published in 1931, bought by University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then sold on. I bought it in 1988, wanting to see if Tawney threw light on contemporary debates on equality. Eventually I realised I preferred his view to then current offerings.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3h
Driver very keen to shave every micro-second off the journey. I didn’t think people did this any more in London.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
Hahahaha!!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
I don’t often feel car sick. But then I am in an Uber Tesla right now.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
Objecting to the Super Bowl show and criticising US athletes at the Winter Olympics. You know, I think Trump might be a little UnAmerican. Perhaps someone should investigate.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h
Can human beings create genius level intelligence? Sure, we just need to continue having children and the occasional genius will appear.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11h
I did watch the Super Bowl once. It was like injecting the USA directly into my veins.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14h
A pyramid scheme made out of slop? Tricky.
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15h
Well it didn’t do Jordan Peterson any harm, didn’t it? Didn’t it?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15h
Seems aimed at making Trump feel as unwelcome as possible.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 16h
Suddenly struck by the modesty of the name LLM. Large Language Models? Not ‘Huge’ or ‘Ginormous’?

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Zak Jarvis @zakjarvis.bsky.social · 16h
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h
Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳
The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public
Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.
www.euronews.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19h
Ha!! I’m no expert but prefer thick. The recipe I used has beetroot, onion, canned tomato, fennel, cooking apple, parsley, dill, garlic with sour cream to finish. Not blended so it still has texture.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19h
That was my fear, thankfully avoided.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20h
Please. I’ve just eaten.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20h
Just made some borscht, which inspired a Proustian moment of remembrance of the borscht my grandmother would make 60 years ago. Unfortunately the only memory it conjured up was borscht.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20h
Bit more Tawney: do not confuse change with progress. (Equality, p. 147)

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21h
Even the name of the job ‘Chief of Staff’ is like fingernails down a blackboard to me.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff
Longtime aide departs after seemingly botched No 10 effort to shore up PM’s position against supposed plotters
www.theguardian.com

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
People used to play the game ‘which famous person would you most like to have round for dinner?’ I feel the question may need careful rephrasing now.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Not long ago every tech related story was about machine learning and algorithmic bias. Presume that's still going on, although all we hear about now is LLM hallucination.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
From BBC website. Trump's vainglory, creepiness, fraud, and ultimate futility wrapped into one.
The Express also carries pictures of a 15-foot gold sculpture of President Donald Trump. It says the statue, dubbed "Don Colossus", was commissioned by "cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and backers" of the president, and depicts the moment he "raised his fist after an assassination attempt" in Pennsylvania in 2024. "It's fools gold" according to the Daily Star Sunday, external, which reports that the sculpture "languishes unwanted in storage" because the artist has not been paid in full.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Fair point!

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Christ on a bike. Something the US is good at. And instead of showing magnanimity and humility the press turn it into a preening American supremacist boast.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d
The U.S. women’s hockey team came into the Milan-Cortina Winter Games ranked No. 1 in the world. And two games into group play, it’s shown that ranking might be something of an understatement.
Hilary Knight ties US Olympic goal record in 5-0 rout of Finland team coming off stomach virus
The U.S. women’s hockey team came into the Winter Olympics ranked No. 1 in the world. Two games into group play, it has shown that ranking might be an understatement.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Zuckerberg. Haven’t heard much about him lately. Must be weepingly grateful that the other tech billionaires are making him look like almost a regular nerd.