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ziahaiderrahman.bsky.social
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"Consider the alternative. In a scene from one of my favorite novels, Zia Haider Rahman’s “In the Light of What We Know,” the British Bangladeshi protagonist says: “If an immigration officer at Heathrow had ever said ‘Welcome home’ to me, +

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One of the unwritten rules of posting on social media is

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"Now, researchers from Harvard University have shown that Bitcoin mining has added more energy production to the U.S. grid than the amount required by the city of Los Angeles, and brought the accompanying air pollution and environmental concerns as well." spectrum.ieee.org/environmenta...

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I laughed at the sight of this in the lost-and-found

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Good thread on a common and quite important statistical error, on many topics other than health (eg education). If a system is genuinely equitable, then variations in the system's effectiveness don't "explain" much. Doesn't mean systems don't matter!

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Eribon's Returning to Reims had a profound effect on me. Can't wait to read his latest.

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The symbolic role of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/25/h...

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A final gift from the late Fredric Jameson: an intriguing, inspiring list of his favorite films and books \v @ziahaiderrahman.bsky.social

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Right-wing accounts criticized Musk on X. Their engagement tanked practically overnight. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities

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who says that science doesn't generate profit?

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Happy to see @ziahaiderrahman.bsky.social on this list.

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Just got this. Played hooky for an hour reading it. Smart, elegant biological fun, as expected. ~70 pp. in and had to put it down with regret. (Author's a friend who I don't get to see much, so I'd say take my comments with a grain of salt except that what I read is just terrific.)

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I am enormously moved to see that Fredric Jameson included me in what is a relatively short list. Quite astonished, really. And deeply moved. (And thank you, @madar.bsky.social , for bringing this to my attention).

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I missed this the other day: Excellent column full of historical tidbits — and entertaining meta asides>> How the em dash — beloved by @davelee.me — became a flashpoint in separating the real from AI www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Recent well-publicised @cps.org.uk analysis claims the ‘lifetime net fiscal cost’ of recent migration will be £234 bn. However, this misinterpreted OBR data/analysis: correcting these errors implies a (very uncertain) lifetime net fiscal *benefit* of ~ £125 bn. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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The physicist Werner Heisenberg remarked “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” I think about this a lot. Heisenberg's observation applies at every level, down to the level of the individual. We each look for or can receive answers only to the...

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I've really got into "reading" non-fiction books in audio form. (Can't do it with fiction. Just doesn't work.)

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FYI: I've got a story in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Number of Secondhand Booksellers in Britain Rising www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

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Nothing about the public space—politics, journalism, media, and entertainment—encourages or cultivates epistemic humility in society.

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If I were a schoolteacher, I would start every class with the announcement "You kids need to be taught a lesson."

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Very excited to receive this in the post!

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Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.

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Insane. The pace of China's change is so wild that in looking for books and journal papers on China, the West, and the trajectory, I caught myself baulking at material that's even just ten years old. I figure they'll miss a lot of the evolving dynamics we've seen even in the last decade.

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My take on a classic: What does Santa call his elves, who help him? Subordinate Clauses What does Santa call his elves, who don't help him? Insubordinate Clauses. Thank you very much.

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Wow "After just five months in office, Starmer has the worst net satisfaction of any prime minister in the history of Ipsos polling, which goes all the way back to the 1970s." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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