Will Lowe
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Will Lowe
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Señor Research Scientist, NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade.

Rome Statute appreciator.
My rule is: never post hole (unless it's sf 😜)
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If I fits. I sits.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Tariff-brain (US National Parks edition)

Note to Americans: These things start with foreigners but don't stop with them.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This one, because not only is it self-describing but it's the respectable aftermath of the immediately previous holiday that you can't quite remember the details of, and that's ok.

(Outside of Scotland, ymmv)
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Without wanting to defend foolish parochialism (or the sophisticated kind, for that matter) this passage does really invite a Ryle 'category error' response.
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Some of these Harry Potter sequels look surprisingly good
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@dbroockman.bsky.social (2016) rides again.
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Apropos nothing in particular, I just got a nice new T-shirt

(from the fine folk at @kyivindependent.com)
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Tim Apple is master of the interface, only the Ives flatness stands before him, icons are now paperweights"
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
There's a lot of foreigners in my office so the emergency kit had to be adapted.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
So you think to yourself, "Ok, I'll just go check in on the old place" and what do you find? A Home Secretary figuring out how to make asylum applications revenue neutral by confiscating wedding rings, and whatever the fuck this is:
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Periodic reminder to authors that when people say they were inspired by what you wrote, you really never know what they took away from it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The last thing you'll see
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"I'll just age faster if I leave this longitudinal analysis and you can't make me. I'm never dropping out. Just close the R session and walk away."
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
supernormal stimulus surely?

Supernatural stimuli seem quite difficult to randomize, though I guess there are ways...
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
From my Data Science and Decision Making course slides:
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So, this character just turns up in my building, jet black and rhythmically rocking the bird over our mailboxes. Sometimes I wish Berlin could stop being quite so Berlin for a moment.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The Appointment with AI in Samarra
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sharpies: Because sometimes you need forecast *regions*
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Antinous: "Come on Odysseus, put it away. You know you're not going to use it."
Eurymachus: "The bow he means!"
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
See, this is what happens if you feed them
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As far as I can tell, the word effect already has quotes. They're just silent.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM