Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I imagine the horror on Pinker's face is the realisation that someone's mistaken him for Thomas Kuhn and he doesn't know the answer

Well that's going to waste my morning. Just had to look up who played on this. Danny Richmond was his regular drummer, but this one also has Joe Chambers and Steve Gadd, taking it in turns. I'm a Gadd fanboy, so I can recognise that's him soloing at 3:40. Wonderful.

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Remember, a leopard can't change its leotard

Just got myself a ticket to see the new Musk documentary

yeah but that one is particularly annoying. The trap doesn't need to be made of bread! The oven and the baking of the giant bread. Completely unnecessary! The townsfolk were clearly captured by Big Baker. Infuriating.

Yep. That's what I'm struggling with.

I'd disagree. Academics are rubbish at it. I think what we need is an organisation that really knows what it's doing, with a clear public interface and a strong sense of public value. Some sort of national public service broadcaster.

thank you! i'll dig in

I kind of also want to say it was probably 100000s, large OU foundation courses at their peak reached 10000 students a year and the course teams Stuart was part of spanned 18 years.

This is v sad. I'm guessing it can't have been an expensive show...