I thought you used a sensible scale in Canada.
Chris Bertram
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Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
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Charmers.
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Meet the Pro-Israel Lawyers Hounding the NHS | Novara Media
It’s had children’s artwork removed from hospitals, doctors banned from wearing watermelon pins and claimed craft pens evoked 7 October. Are UK Lawyers for Israel really the cartoon villains they appe...
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Explicitly permitted iirc
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More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.
BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support
The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group
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Really worth your time
AI, proofing, and the meaning of what we do — Crooked Timber
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95 years since Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren"
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DK how speech act theory flies in court, but surely a case for saying that when someone brandishes a placard saying "I support Palestine Action" in Parliament Sq, that's an illocutionary act of opposing proscription and to focus on locutionary content (literal meaning of words) is a mistake
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We've been at dawn of tech-provided emancipation for how long? 250 years now. There's been some real emancipation (washing machines!) but also much damage for disappointment. People say "that's capitalism" but underestimate FOMO by states as the driver: what if China, Germany, France, gets ahead ...
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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And I think Morris was also alive to the effect of industrialisation on our minds
