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"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"

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Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

“Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out.”
- Berend van der Kolk (www.goodreads.com/quotes/12497...)

The existence of university rankings is entirely a solution to the problem noted here, in Yes Minister - which remains the greatest political education it is possible to receive.

Indeed. Measuring intellectual life with league tables is like judging poetry with a stopwatch 🤷🏽‍♂️🎓⏱️

University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.”
- www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
- Hannah Arendt

University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.”
- www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

"Imagine a machine that could give us any desirable or pleasurable experience we want, by stimulating your brain to induce pleasurable experiences that you could not distinguish from the real world. Would you prefer the machine to real life?"
- Robert Nozick

I am very excited and thrilled to announce here on LinkedIn that I successfully, proudly and humbly returned from the toilet.

20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30.

1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.

If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.

"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out."
- Berend van der Kolk

Source: www.goodreads.com/quotes/12497...

"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out."
- Berend van der Kolk

"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the lone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those that idiots possess."
- William Blake

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
- Mary Wollstonecraft

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke

Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”

Findings from publicly funded research should be publicly available.