Scott Hames
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This is super fascinating and I'm interested in thinking about what we gain and lose with this kind of thing but the subfields that could benefit from this kind of technology are the first ones to have been completely hollowed out in higher ed.
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The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is super fascinating and I'm interested in thinking about what we gain and lose with this kind of thing but the subfields that could benefit from this kind of technology are the first ones to have been completely hollowed out in higher ed.
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An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
On Shabana Mahmood's contemptible attempt to mobilise her identity in support of her sadistic immigration policies, this from Nesrine Malik is exactly what needed saying.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
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The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.
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This is the shit right here. bsky.app/profile/the-...
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is the shit right here. bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Imagine looking at Scandinavian models of social democracy from Britain and picking out cruel immigration policies as the big source of inspiration.
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Imagine looking at Scandinavian models of social democracy from Britain and picking out cruel immigration policies as the big source of inspiration.
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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'Professor Sally Foster, of the University of Stirling’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, has now discovered the existence of this body of fragments, only one of which was officially recognised when she began her research.'
New Stone of Destiny fragments uncovered by Stirling University expert
NEW research led by Stirling University has revealed the existence and fate of many fragments of the Stone of Destiny, including those secreted away…
www.thenational.scot
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
'Professor Sally Foster, of the University of Stirling’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, has now discovered the existence of this body of fragments, only one of which was officially recognised when she began her research.'
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I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
October 6, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
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To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To anyone not into baseball I’m sorry but also get into baseball
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"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
www.newstatesman.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.
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'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be
Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be
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We lost Elliott Smith 20 years ago today. Some great remembrances in here: www.welcometohellworld.com/having-had-e...
Having had enough of it all
The top 5 Elliott Smith songs ever
www.welcometohellworld.com
October 21, 2023 at 2:31 PM
We lost Elliott Smith 20 years ago today. Some great remembrances in here: www.welcometohellworld.com/having-had-e...
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Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
x.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
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It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable
Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable
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people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.
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Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.
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Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote
October 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote
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Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Vladdy hates the Yankees
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Vladdy hates the Yankees
It may destroy the global economy but it’s still kinda fun to take a tiny active role in the bursting of this bubble in Bartleby fashion
Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.
Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.
AI is product poison.
Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.
AI is product poison.
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It may destroy the global economy but it’s still kinda fun to take a tiny active role in the bursting of this bubble in Bartleby fashion
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So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
you can learn plenty about Scottish politics just by placing the graphs and images from this report side by side www.sfc.ac.uk/publications...
September 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
you can learn plenty about Scottish politics just by placing the graphs and images from this report side by side www.sfc.ac.uk/publications...
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Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.
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Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.