Thomas Penny
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Is that graphic an intentional nod to Richard and Linda Thompson?
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Is that graphic an intentional nod to Richard and Linda Thompson?
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Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Full article by Anne is available here via @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
For me it's just a (perhaps juvenile) reaction to the unremitting hype.
Everywhere I turn I'm being directed to use it, or told things will be better if I do, and every third story on the BBC has to mention AI.
I'll take a look when things have calmed down.
Right now it feels a snake oil sales job.
Everywhere I turn I'm being directed to use it, or told things will be better if I do, and every third story on the BBC has to mention AI.
I'll take a look when things have calmed down.
Right now it feels a snake oil sales job.
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
For me it's just a (perhaps juvenile) reaction to the unremitting hype.
Everywhere I turn I'm being directed to use it, or told things will be better if I do, and every third story on the BBC has to mention AI.
I'll take a look when things have calmed down.
Right now it feels a snake oil sales job.
Everywhere I turn I'm being directed to use it, or told things will be better if I do, and every third story on the BBC has to mention AI.
I'll take a look when things have calmed down.
Right now it feels a snake oil sales job.
I will, and thank you.
She's keen to go to university in Scotland. Her Mum was at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and one of her dearest friends lives in Leith, so it has a number of special associations.
She's keen to go to university in Scotland. Her Mum was at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and one of her dearest friends lives in Leith, so it has a number of special associations.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I will, and thank you.
She's keen to go to university in Scotland. Her Mum was at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and one of her dearest friends lives in Leith, so it has a number of special associations.
She's keen to go to university in Scotland. Her Mum was at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow and one of her dearest friends lives in Leith, so it has a number of special associations.
Lovely that you've found it!
I'll let her know when she gets home tonight (she's currently on a school trip to see Othello), she'll be especially delighted it's being read in Scotland.
I'll let her know when she gets home tonight (she's currently on a school trip to see Othello), she'll be especially delighted it's being read in Scotland.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Lovely that you've found it!
I'll let her know when she gets home tonight (she's currently on a school trip to see Othello), she'll be especially delighted it's being read in Scotland.
I'll let her know when she gets home tonight (she's currently on a school trip to see Othello), she'll be especially delighted it's being read in Scotland.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4