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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶 Western suburbs of Paris

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · Dec 31

I like New Year Resolutions, so here goes:

1. get my French to C1 level
2. Go to the theatre more often
3. Drink lots of good wine
4. Go to champagne and buy lots of champagne
5. Get a six pack (almost impossible)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 5h

Week after next then. I’ll email you but if I forget, remind me

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

I thought about it and then decided against it. No need for that to be public knowledge

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Or the bodyguard he fired

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

That’s exactly what I’m doing

When do you want to chat?

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Scissors are the enemy

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h

I have a question for any ambidextrous people who may be on this fine site!

do you do everything with whatever eg hand that's most convenient at that point in time, or do you have things you do with your right hand/on your right side and things you do with the other?

thanking you

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for that tip

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

but in handwriting my left is better and my right hand is useless 🤷🏻‍♂️

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

It depends. If it’s writing on a board I start with my left and continue with my right. At racket sports I can chop and change although my left is weaker. Scissors are just a total nightmare because for micro skills my left is stronger and scissors suck in your left hand. Throwing my right is better

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

I’m really quite fascinated by power, it’s probably one of my key motivators at the micro level. It’s quite astonishing how mundane Trump has been in this regard

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 6h

Not even Rory Kockott could manage Macron’s level of sh*thousing ruck-goblinry.

Not. Even. Kockott.

The man is peerless, the distillation of every forward’s nightmares down the generations.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Get him a copy of her book

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

Sure but that’s where the screw up was, not today.
Nobody with any sense or future political ambitions will touch the PM post now.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

People keep asking for use cases for AI. Well, if like me you’ve completely forgotten how to do derivatives in calculus and your teenager needs help (and it’s in French for the bants) , ChatGPT explains a shit ton better than most math textbooks.

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 6h

What were the choices though, Hollande? The damage for French politics is downstream of the election result.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 7h

I thought he fancied his chances to run for President though? Being Macron’s PM would seem to rule that out

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 8h

Darmarin would be silly to accept such a role but I guess ego gets in the way

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 8h

According to several sources, Gerald Darmanin is likely to be the Prime Minister nomination that Macron will make tonight.

I fully expect a Darmanin government to collapse completely.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 15h

Thank goodness. We have no blasphemy law in this country any longer, nor should we. I dislike book burning instinctively, but plenty of things I might dislike are nonetheless rightly legal. Mr Coskun should never have been convicted for an act of free expression. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man who burned Quran outside Turkish consulate wins appeal - BBC News

Hamit Coskun's freedom of expression includes the right to express views that offend, a judge rules.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

Will be debating what if anything we should cancel - and whether we cancel too much or too little - in Oxford soon
bsky.app/profile/sund...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d

I will be talking 'Cancel Culture' at the University of Oxford on Oct 21st. David Isaac will moderate a panel including Toby Young, Helen Mountfield and Zoe Williams as part of the Vice-Chancellor's Sheldonian Series of public debates.

Tickets (free) available here
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Sheldonian Series | University of Oxford

The Sheldonian Series is a termly event convened by the Vice-Chancellor aimed to promote discussions about the big issues of the day, informed by our commitment to free and inclusive speech,

www.ox.ac.uk

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11h

The real objection most people I know had to no-platforming, fwiw, was the rather expansive definition of fascism rather than the idea we should really be inviting Nick Griffin on Question Time

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 21

think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 11h

M. le Ministre Marc Madiot.

À LA GLOIRE ÉTERNELLE DE LA FRRRRAAAANNNCCCCEEEEE!!!!

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 13h

Oha I never realised he was Turkish. Makes sense though with the honor element. Good that he got an extra year

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 16h

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · May 23

This racist stalker on X explains why he is confident in his sense of impunity for racist abuse on the platform. (He may be proved right about that, but let's see)

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 15h

Sure, the far-right take up all the oxygen because they’re bigoted shitheads thus preventing us actually dealing with any problems caused by fundamentalists.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 18h

it's an issue of fundamentalism surely. Most Muslims (in my experience living in Turkey, being married to one etc) would be furious at someone burning the Kuran but only fundamentalists would be violent. In the Bible Belt you'd get a similar reaction if you burned the Bible, but in the UK a shrug

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