seanmatthews1.bsky.social
(Northern) Irish-British, entitled to, but no desire for, a German passport. Wife German, born Hungarian, teaches literature at a German university. Children ethnically confused. Mostly in Mainz, but also in Westmeath.
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Yeah. She was not impressed.
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Slightly startling to reflect that I have not read just _five_ Enid Blyton books, but far upwards of fifty; in fact, surely easily over a hundred. There are worse skeletons behind my bookshelf.
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Motivated reasoning is a weakness of intelligent people.
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Hinsliff is brighter than this. There is no muddiness - quite the opposite - the issue is that the SC-imposed clarity has consequences. People forced an absolute clarification of the law, and here we are. And here we will stay, because there is no material constituency for more legislation.
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Thank you for that.
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Yeah. Totally overblown. Also grotesquely unbalanced. Why do they only ever go on about trans athletes in women's sport? Guys are totally cool with trans athletes in their competitions. Why can't women be more like men, and show a bit of tolerance?
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It's by Peter Walker, who gratuitously misreported (the Guardian radically revised the headline and lead paragraph of the article inside a few hours) what Akua Reindorf said last week. What do you expect?
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Ah, you are the one who clearly didn't understand the scope of the SC decision and had to be corrected in session. Right?
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It follows from this that the girl he was trying to bed was Jessica Lang. No offence to Bob, but a man's got to know his limitations (even without Baryshnikov out back).
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You consider masked anonymity in demonstrations against the state. What about when a non-state group protests against/disrupts the exercise of (non-disruptive) speech by another non-state group?
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Altman is a bullshitting (in the Frankfurt sense) grifter. But possibly a quite non-reflective one. He says what he wants to be true, but never stops to evaluate his own claims (and there is anyway no reason to think he would be technically sophisticated enough to do so, even if he wanted to).
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Kurt Schumacher: „rot lackierte Doppelausgaben der Nationalsozialisten“
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No
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That would be algebraic topology.
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The 'legal career' section of his Wikipedia page opens with 'Johnson was a constitutional lawyer before entering politics'
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'weird' is quite the euphemism there.
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Actually, the definitive bluesky-y reaction is currently available to view under this post:
bsky.app/profile/hele...
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May I congratulate you on provoking, with this article/post, one of the most entertaining comment threads I have yet seen here?
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The older I get, the more I think George Carlin's point is key to understanding the world:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUI...
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Thanks for the pointer. Very entertaining article.
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Several years in and I am (genuinely) completely mystified as to why people are still saying this (also see the FT passim). Where is the evidence?
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I vaguely remember when I was a boy, some farmers poisoning a rabbit warren one afternoon. The smell of almonds was very clear. I am assuming that the smell was a warning, not actually from the cynanide itself (which was administered as a white powder).
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? The cake is laced with cyanide.
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Took me decades to get the implication of Obelix, in Asterix and Cleopatra tasting the cake and saying 'yummy, it's got almonds in it; I love almonds'.
Embarrassingly obvious in retrospect. Asterix is littered with this sort of thing in general - much of it a lot more sophisticated.
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Very good. Thanks for the pointer.
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I've been saying it for years (and I have receipts). An LLM is best understood as a pitch-perfect simulation of self-confident guy in the bar on a Friday evening.
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I vaguely remember it as very 'Ken Burns avant la lettre' but not so mind-numbingly slow (I am not a fan of Ken Burns).
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I was thinking in the other direction. Intriguing about Musk is how muddy the picture about his (quite basic) qualifications is. He has a primary degree in economics, and was awarded some sort of a primary degree in physics, but the Stanford PhD program claims are, ah, unclear.
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Passing comment - I've made the all egg-yolk pasta in the River Cafe cookbook out of curiosity. It is just pointless, vulgar, even counterproductive, extravagance.
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Strictly, The River Cafe Cookbooks (La cucina di una mamma toscana - sort of, with occasional nouveau riche modifications (pasta with only egg yolks - really?)) are the direct descendants Simple French Food (La cuisine d'une mère provençale) and draw from a very similar tradition.
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Disagree. You can cook your way through most of Olney's Simple French Food with the ingredients from your local supermarket. Reasonable quality eggs, potatoes, leeks, etc. are not expensive (Olive oil is the obvious exception). What you need is care and attention to detail.
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Also on the fact that she wrote a novel called 'Mansfield Park'.
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But while Stark in the movies is a narcissistic jerk like Musk, he is an attractive narcissistic jerk. Also, more relevant to the review, Stark is clearly _much_ better trained than Musk. There is a yawning gap between Musk's qualifications and his supposed lead technician role in his companies.
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Fair.
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Minor point: Tony Stark is not based on Elon Musk - though they do run into one another at a party in the second Iron Man movie. Certainly Musk has marketed himself - I assume he was behind it - as a real-world Tony Stark.
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If Lyons thinks that Theodor Adorno was a 'hugely influential liberal' thinker, then he is already in a very weird place.
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I had forgotten that. I had not forgotten Kelly McGillis.
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'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent', in particular, has stayed with me from when I was that age.
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It helps if you read it aged 13, or so.
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Seems the Guardian agrees with me, because they have changed the headline to remove the imputation.
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My point at the top of this thread is that the Guardian misrepresented Reindorf.
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Cunningham was agreeing that assumed rights that never existed in the first place would no-longer find official support.
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This is getting into the fine detail, but I do not see how Cunningham's answer needs to be understood as 'yes, rights were lost' either (an interpretation I find unlikely: I have no independent reason to think she would believe that, and good reason to think otherwise).
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As an EHRC commissioner, her primary duty is to support the correct interpretation of the law as it stands.
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That is a view, but how is it relevant to my point, which is that the Guardian misrepresented what Reindorf said? She did not say that rights have been reduced, or anything like it.
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Mislead would have been correct.
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The comment about lying was unnecessary, I grant.
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No rights were reduced, and Reindorf does not say so. Neither does Cunningham. Reindorf says that the law was misunderstood. To reduce rights you would need to pass a law, and no law was passed. The SC provided a definitive construal of _existing_ law.
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Don't get your point. Do you think the headline misrepresents or not?
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Nowhere in the article is Reindorf quoted as saying anything like what the headline implies. Which is not surprising, since Reindorf is a senior lawyer, and would never say anything so stupid and inflammatory.