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I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account. hyoyoonkang.com
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and they are woke, too, i suppose lol

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Excellent article in the Tyee describing the state of divestment at UBC. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

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As former Supreme Court judge, Lord Sumption, has helpfully pointed out today, while organisations are now legally able to exclude trans women and men from single-sex spaces (in the context of sport, clubs, changing rooms, and bathrooms, etc etc) they are NOT legally required to do so.

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It's being reported the WHO reorganization (triggered by the loss of US $) is being guided by Boston Consulting Group via a Gates grant healthpolicy-watch.news/world-health... #globalhealth

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London crazy hair salon prices drove me to colour my hair at home, it was a total mess and the results are not good, now emergency booking and willing to just pay up

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What a regression to the progress achieved by AIDS activists, forty something years on 🖤

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Good morning London

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Roland Barthes on responding to accusations of the use of jargon:

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when the greedy ask for more when they are actually not in a sellers' market... "leveraging" is not quite the right word to describe this.

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Solo lunch is so enjoyable

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“It is unbelievable how much politics is embedded in a footnote in international negotiations!” Three years of negotiations about the Pandemic Treaty culminating in the wrangle about a footnote.

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The utterly depraved posts drag me down again.

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N London streets unusually quiet, guess people are watching the Arsenal match

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Once again, Columbia University abandoned a student begging for help before he was kidnapped by a fascist paramilitary:

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James Schuyler is a poet I return to often, and always with pleasure. Looking forward to Nathan Kernan’s Schuyler biography, which is coming this August from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

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Need to get hold of and read the ruling but this does not sound good, at all.

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One of the biggest hurdles to mass deportations has always been finding people. This is Palantir’s bid to remove that hurdle

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the only thing I still remember from my incredibly strict and austere German math teacher is how he explained how important it is to dry every salad leave carefully to avoid watering down the taste

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Back in the city, happy.

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The new Trump Executive Order on drug prices is out. It covers a lot of topics. Actually better than I expected, although most of it calls for decisions to be made later. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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@ethzurich.bsky.social has advertised TWO positions Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of History of Technology Professor / Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Philosophy of Science Deadline: 15 June #histstm #histtech #envhist ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

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guess distraction is the point. to get us to the point of not being able to do what we meant to do. paraphrasing toni morrison for times under trump and the global far right.

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Paul Celan, Snow Part/Schneepart; tr. Pierre Joris

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For @thedodgemag.bsky.social I wrote a meditative short story about deer hunting (or about the pleasures of simply waiting in the woods, as the case may be). Big thanks to @addisonzeller.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. www.thedodgemag.com/sephmurtagh1

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Today, Equus Press announced the publication GLANTZ in autumn of this year. Very grateful to David Vichnar at the press, and to Yanina Spizzirri for the artwork. Huge thanks also to those who read and helped with early drafts. more details here: tobiasryan.substack.com/p/glantz-10c

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Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25. I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.

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postcards and letters to your friends are writing—if other things feel hard right now

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