We spend 2 years teaching them linguistics & showing them how rich & interesting it can be & they get to university & nobody even bothers to learn their names

2 of our really good ones are on that course together now & it genuinely makes me angry they treat good and curious students this way

They don't understand how good the seminars could be if they ran them well

(Why would you want 5 months of extremely expensive mediocre RW play?)

This guy actually fully get it

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...

In the old system, institutions had temporal buffers, which meant they could verify before public judgment cohered. In the new system, those buffers have collapsed. Meaning now stabilises for the public in hours, long before institutional processes can finish.

If they can get those wages off the books..

It's funny to think there'll be no more checking her blog when something you'd want her comment on happens

It'd be nice to think that this is a period of adjustment where compassionate, serious ppl (who don't want 5yos deported) adapt to the new landscape

Carney's speech indicated that serious people are thinking about this, & how to adjust to the new world