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J Tarwood
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Writer, traveler, teacher.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Chicago Snowfall
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You don't like her, my mother don't like her, she's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man! Well, all I know is I had a good time last night! I'm gonna have a good time tonight! If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me!

Paddy Chayefsky
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The Kinks - Lola (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Kinks
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December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This is an interesting set of academic research papers about the increasingly key debate of when AI should be used to label data (an expensive task we use humans for)

Yang et al show that AI answers are quite different than human, but Briggs finds it may be because AI is better than human RAs!
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Eugenio Montale
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Scott Galloway
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Si recte calculum ponas, ubique naufragium est.

Make a fair reckoning, and there is a shipwreck everywhere.

Petronius Arbiter
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.

John Ganz
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Eugenio Montale
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM