Dissecting emotional collapsology. Faced with contrary evidence, the response is not reconsideration but defensiveness: manoeuvring, bile, denunciation and the familiar attempts to exclude or silence those who refuse to conform.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's legacy is being written as we speak. The media is getting the story very, very wrong.
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I had always read James Baldwin’s declaration “I want to be an honest man and a good writer” __ as a statement of artistic ambition—the kind of thing a young person, defining themselves for the world, says in order to be taken seriously. It comes at the end of “Autobiographical Notes,” the introduction to his first essay collection _Notes of a Native Son,_ where he declares that he has no…
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores echoes a long-running system in Mexico — one that delivers affordability, but not without trade-offs.
NYC’s grocery plan isn’t a “socialist fantasy.” It’s already a reality in Mexico. (Lara Nour-Walton / Jacobin)
On a bright mid-February morning, the SuperISSSTE in Mexico City’s working-class Tacubaya district was already…
Well, that was exhausting. But also, fulfilling… in a way that I probably shouldn’t explicate on in case any legal officials are... Continue this tale
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“Parents shouldn’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to understand what they’re feeding their kids,” California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel declared last month, announcing a new food-labeling bill. Over the past few years, Gabriel has emerged as a vocal and effective legislative proponent of healthier eating, sponsoring state legislation in 2025 that defined the famously slippery term “ultra-processing”…
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Donald Trump has spent much of his second term using the U.S. presidency as a giant ATM for himself, his family, and his cronies. Now he’s devised a way for the cryptocurrency and private equity industries to do the same—while further lining his own pockets and putting Americans’ nest eggs at risk.
The Trump administration on Monday announced plans to open 401(k) retirement plans to investments…
To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income. Two proposals — one in California, one in Congress — could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.
Three-quarters of the ultrarich’s true economic income will never be subject to income taxes, even very progressive ones. That’s why a…
A High Court judge in London has found that a claimant gave evidence while using smart glasses to receive assistance during cross-examination, leading to the rejection of his testimony.
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Reworking the TESSERA Zarr store layout after community feedback, Springer's API woes for evidence synthesis, vibecoding introspection, and git remote helpers for ATProto.
From John Paul II to Benedict XVI, papal visits to Cameroon have often come when Paul Biya’s government faced political turmoil.
Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon. Image credit Paul Saad via Shutterstock © 2025.
If Pope Leo XIV makes his visit to Cameroon, as announced last month, it will be the fourth time a Roman Pontiff has visited the central African country of about 30 million people. The…
Evidence synthesis at the DEFRA science conference, TESSERA transcoding and building a new SPA, OpenStreetMap/DuckDB bindings in OxCaml, and early thoughts on vibecoding etiquette.
Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace "defying the lie that we are powerless." Bigly upstaging a goalie's Medal of Freedom was "a marathon of truth-telling," from a cogent Dem response to the Portland Frogs leading a restive, joyful, shaggy defense of "this thing we call…
The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "true exceptionalism": A culture of immunity so corrosive our own heinous, in-his-fever-dreams "exonerated" Predator-In-Chief has enragingly yet to face any consequences for his manifold sins, crimes, cruelties and depravities, petty and…
Lately, a disturbing number of countries have decided that so-called "age verification" is the best way to protect children from the dangers of the internet, specifically by forcing all minors under a certain age (usually 15 or 16) off of social media platforms.
To be fair, the internet is a vast place and many digital spaces are not appropriate for children. But experts universally agree that…
Growing the Ceph cluster for TESSERA embeddings, a Lego brainstorming session for the Evidence TAP, hosting Echo Labs from ARIA, and Shane's IUCN Red List seminar.
PhD viva for Maddy, presenting TESSERA at ARIA, Nature covers the conservation evidence conference, giving evidence to Parliamentary POST, and a CACM interview.
Hosting the UK chief scientists for nature conservation at Pembroke to discuss TESSERA and AI for biodiversity, followed by the Conservation Evidence conference where I talked about choosing the open red pill over black-box AI for conservation decision-making.
Scaling TESSERA embeddings on Vultr AMD GPUs, speaking at the AI4Nature launch in London, and picking up Tomas Petricek's new PL book.
Reflections on the Franco-British AI collaboration workshops exploring how AI is transforming scientific practice, plus follow-up funding for the Conservation Copilot project.
Live notes from Royal Society conference on scientific publishing challenges including peer review crisis, AI poisoning threats and open access economics.
Nature comment on AI-generated paper threats to evidence synthesis proposing federated living evidence databases with human-in-loop review.
PLOS One publication showing pretrained LLMs perform poorly on conservation questions but improve dramatically with Conservation Evidence database training.
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