"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by liberal japonicus This Guardian long read is interesting. Such obstacles made the ship an off-putting proposition for insurers. No one would agree to cover them. “They wouldn’t even tell us why we weren’t insurable, they just kept saying no,” Romundt said. “It’s kind of hard to remedy something if you don’t know what the … Read more
by liberal japonicus Some may have noted that two threads were temporarily closed. This was done in part because of some private knowledge that GftNC was going through, and will be going through for the whole month of September, a particularly difficult time. She’s told me that she will almost certainly not be replying to … Read more
by wj I came across this TED talk on how language shapes how we think. https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think/up-next The speaker is mostly talking about how different languages shape our perception. How a language which doesn’t use “right” and “left”, but rather gives cardinal directions (even for which hand you are talking about), will make people much more … Read more
by liberal japonicus Not my best title, but whatever. Tons of things to link to out there, here are a few of them John Roberts has lost control of the Supreme Court The Scotus also has the relatively mild mannered Josh Marshall sounding like he wants to storm the Bastille SCOTUS Delenda Est Reminiscent of … Read more
by liberal japonicus A week or two ago, this article was posted by CharlesWT about the word that made the play MacBeth so creepy. Nous observed the following Brief response to CharlesWT’s Macbeth article, I think the reason why the number crunching quant side of literary analysis meets resistance is mostly because the data results … Read more