Historian of Latin America & the Left at UCL 🚩🏳️⚧️🕊️✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 الحرية لفلسطين Hope there is plenty, just not for us. Views often different from my employers.
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Aesthetically? NOLA, SF, NYC for me
Jun 10
Top 3 cities in the US based on aesthetics alone:
1) Charleston, SC
2) Boston, MA
3) Santa Fe, NM
(open to arguments to the contrary)
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William A. Booth retweeted
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Shakira has now officially appeared at more World Cup tournaments (4) than Gerard Pique (3)
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Classic Mexico, look pretty decent against eleven but totally fragile against nine
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Idiotic commentator on @ITV making smart arse comments about how unpopular Sheinbaum is when she’s among the most popular leaders on earth. Baffling.
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I assume he’s spent the afternoon hanging out with TV execs who have told him Mexico is some sort of dictatorship
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There’s plenty of competition but this is one of the most disgusting things you’ve written, Jon.
Jun 9
Sure, gay rights weren’t Israel's primary war concern, but it still seems a fitting way to inject some true meaning back into the now-hollow Pride movement.
spectator.com/article/bombin…
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Well I didn’t win the big one but I did make a new friend
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Clearly not listened to enough Mars Volta
Shorting mental stock in UChicago after meeting a Chicago grad **in Hebrew and Arabic** who didn’t know what the term “tetragrammaton” meant
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Absolutely gutted. Incredible manager and seems like a great person. Thank you for everything Super Kieran McKenna. 😔
Jun 10
📰 Kieran McKenna will step down as Ipswich Town Manager after five seasons at the club.
Kieran has made the decision to step away from football management and dedicate time to his family, having been at the forefront of one of the most successful eras in the club’s history.
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Think the reason I find The Spy Who Cane in from the Cold so moving is that I’m basically a perfect blend of Alec Leamas and Liz Gold - they are not really much like my actual parents but if you had to imagine parents for me, it’s almost perfect.
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Markets stop fluffing AI, government steps in. Saves blushes of tech buddies, saves employing humans who can actually teach. Craven BS.
Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap.
Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.
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This is not the *main* reason obviously, but it’s a top five show of all time and this just cements that
Jun 7
one of my favorite fun facts about The Americans is that David Bowie and Gary Oldman were big fans and used to call each other weekly after each episode aired
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Jun 5
The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.
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Think we need to roll this out in higher education
A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. bit.ly/4dZNXiF
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Yesterday on 5Live the co-commentator kept referring to the palm-coolers England are using as cool-palmers, but I thought cool palmer had been left at home 🤔
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