The difference between Davidson and Cole is that Davidson has no control over his tics and excused himself from the room when he saw he was upsetting ppl. Cole chose every word that came out of his mouth to mock a disabled janitor in a room full of fellow millionaire celebrities.
“woah kalecki was really right about this one” i say, on my way to the palantir-core civic labor camp where i will be forced to review chat bot outputs for 12 hours a day
They apparently managed to edit out a guy heckling “free Palestine“ but not this guy repeatedly blurting out the n-word. Job well done guys
All insane discourse about how Tourette's isn’t an excuse for racism just acts a smokescreen for the real story, which is how badly the BAFTAs fucked this all up
Yes, I have to live my life. I can apologize to people for the offense I cause, because the offense is real and valid, and I can wear pins or things that explain to people my condition so they won't ascribe intent. But I also have the right to live a public life.
people having slurs yelled at them is bad, but i think it's reasonable to assume being told "hey, this guy has tourette's and he's not some angry racist" would make one reevaluate it a little
not saying it'd instantly feel chill but like, it should surely be received differently
Tony Blair peace plan? I've got some related ideas:
- Joseph Stalin hunger relief program
- Donald Trump anti-pedophilia taskforce
- Hugo Chavez sound economic governance initiative
- Adolf Hitler program for genocide prevention
- Pol Pot optometry and opthalmology
AUKUS ideologues seem quiet of late
I thought the joke was good, but to be clear it was not a comment on whether the event itself was good or bad or anything
If you're wondering where I've been I:
- made a joke about a certain event on the other site that resulted in many people, including an Australian senator, angrily email my university
- helped host the 2025 AAP postgrad philosophy conference
- was reelected as Convenor of the AAP post grad committee
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
For decades Aus has cut marginal tax rates, largely on high earners, based on exaggerated claims about work disincentives.
Meanwhile, over the same period, we've set up *genuinely* punitive (at times > 100%) effective marginal tax rates on low-middle income earners.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
very sad. we should eliminate the tariffs and then replace them targeted luxury goods taxes.
My contribution to the welfare state debate: Pre-transfers, the Child Poverty Rate is 100%
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everyone loves to quote Krugman on productivity growth being almost anything. strangely they never mention his view that productivity is a great mystery, one that is unresponsive to sweeping changes in government policy and ideology, and something that no one knows how to sustainably increase
also see the australian labor party from hawke-keating onwards
also i refuse to defend the honour of any australian university, especially not one i studied at or worked for
back in the day i used to point out that it's actually the sa government's ad and the adelaide uni ad is just unfortunately next to it but then everyone told me this was meta-mansplaining
Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!
What are we supposed to do about the fact that a huge number of supposedly “serious” intellectuals are clearly socially networked with race science bigots, and at best only one degree of separation from out-and-proud neo-Nazis calling for genocide and extermination of Jews?
thanks springer, excellent advice
i'm sure these journals will be very interested in my metaphysics manuscripts
thanks springer, excellent advice
i'm sure these journals will be very interested in my metaphysics manuscripts
plenty of concerned discourse around students using chatgpt for assignments, what about academics using it for marking? that seems just as easy or easier, harder to detect, and with financial motivation
Unless you think the current (or any proposed) tax take is the "correct" one (and is "enough" and will remain so), supporting the automatic indexation of tax thresholds is very dumb political economy. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
if your desideratum for an electoral system is "my team wins every time" then voting is already off the table
Some thoughts on how antisemitism and Sinophobia share parallels re: their relationship with criticism of Israel and China and people's willingness to recognise this issue in one case while minimizing it in the other.
www.pluralityofwords.com/p/antisemiti...
ANU denies misleading the senate, publishes its response to the committee chair on its website before it is tabled which is also contempt of the senate. Best and brightest in charge at the national university! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/893451...
New post on the strange and disingenuous arguments against AI art that I've encountered on the left.
www.pluralityofwords.com/p/the-strang...
I *really* benefited from grad school in the US, and I typically advise students to consider the US if they want to do a PhD as I think the system there is flatly better than ours in the UK. But, like, now people are getting deported for signing on to a leftwing op ed in a student paper? I hesitate.
