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Willard@climateball· 9d

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Prof Bhaskar Vira, the pro-vice-chancellor for education at the University of Cambridge, said: “Jason Arday is an exceptional scholar of race, inequality and education. He will contribute significantly to Cambridge’s research in this area and to addressing the under-representation of people from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, especially those from black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities.

Willard@climateball· 9d

I for one would like to know who did this. retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/c...

"Cofnas told us he first began looking into Arday’s case on June 13 of this year, when he was contacted by a faculty member at Cambridge who was disappointed by the university’s wan response to the Arday situation."

Willard@climateball· 9d

Willard@climateball· 9d

not a good look

Willard@climateball· 12d

things are about to get interesting

Philip N. Cohen says:
July 31, 2026 at 5:08 pm

Hi Jeffrey – I’m the reviewer you’re talking about. I don’t agree with this characterization of the reviews, unsurprisingly. You have my permission to share my full comments, along with the versions I was reviewing – and I don’t know of anything preventing that. I think it would be helpful. I wish the whole process had been open, obviously, and it wouldn’t have changed my reviews.

Willard@climateball· 16d

Weekly World News fake cover, with Godzilla destroying fifth data center.

Willard@climateball· 16d

like this image we can see by clicking on the link and the photo later on used in the article

a beautiful family, without the dad, who's a killer

Willard@climateball· 17d

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

Cover album of God Knows I Tried by Junior Kimbrough, showing Junior in a car looking at the camera and smoking a cigarette

Willard@climateball· Jul 13

Willard@climateball· Jun 27

same www.ams.org/notices/1998...

One can hardly overestimate the influence of Sidon’s
problems on Erdo˝s’s career. It is remarkable how the
twenty-year-old Erdo˝s’s irresistible insistence on math-
ematical communication virtually compelled Sidon, a
reclusive man employed by an insurance company, to re-
veal his remarkable thoughts to the eager youth. A clas-
sic anecdote: One afternoon, when Erdo˝s and Turán
showed up at Sidon’s doorstep, Sidon opened the door a
crack and greeted the two with these words: “Please visit
another time and especially another person.”

Willard@climateball· Jun 27

73% woke, 27% chud; 41% techbro, 59% neo-luddite; 56% hopepilled, 44% doomer; 69% Davos, 31% Dubaï; closest match: Zohran Mamdami

Willard@climateball· Jun 16

"philosopher in residence" theorg.com/org/nimbus-h...

Clay Spence is a seasoned entrepreneur and philosopher with a rich background in founding and leading organizations. Currently serving as the Founder of Nimbus Health since July 2022, Clay has previously held the position of Philosopher in Residence at 8VC from July 2016 to July 2022. Additionally, Clay founded The Cicero Institute, operating from January 2019 to July 2021. Clay earned a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, completing studies in May 2016.

Willard@climateball· Jun 16

Blake changed a bit ballotpedia.org/Blake_Brickman

Willard@climateball· Jun 16

ciceroinstitute.org/about/board/

Mugshots of the Cicero Institute's board of directors: Joe Lonsdale, Blake Brickman, Everett Cox, Tyson Hendricksen, Clay Spence, and Aaron Webman

Willard@climateball· Jun 16

Willard@climateball· Jun 15

THE NEWS is just rich people paying rich people to tell poor people to blame each other.

Willard@climateball· Jun 10

i doubt you can sincerely present yourself as extremely centrist, ilya

George Mason. Antonin Scalia Law School. Enough said.

Willard@climateball· Jun 6

oh, Katherine projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Willard@climateball· Jun 6

No report on the state of private U chancellors may be forthcoming soon. Not sure how Diermeier's work is worth 20 adjuncts. www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coac...

Diermeier earns almost 2M in compensation per year.

Willard@climateball· Jun 6

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderb...

The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York City; luxurious "summer cottages" in Newport, Rhode Island; the palatial Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina; and various other opulent homes. The family also built Berkshire cottages in the western region of Massachusetts; examples include Elm Court (Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts).

Willard@climateball· Jun 6

we can recognize a few culture warriors

Paul Boghossian, Chair
Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
Kit Fine
University Professor, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York University
Joseph Henrich
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard
University
Katherine E. Fleming
Professor of History, New York University, and President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust
Jason Merchant
Lorna Puttkammer Straus Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Gary Saul Morson
Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities; Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Northwestern University
Gideon Rosen
Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Ashley Rubin
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii
Sean Wilentz
George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University

Willard@climateball· May 19

CONJECTURE. If something exists, there's a Wiki list for it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Screenshot of the Wiki entry on the List of Christian ska bands lead section

Willard@climateball· May 17

old meme by Tom Neenan:

PUBLISHER: I hope this is better than your last book idea about a murderer called Hurderer

THOMAS HARRIS: Its about a cannibal

P: Go on

Willard@climateball· May 9

gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

It seems to me that training beginning PhD students to do research, which has always been hard (unless one is lucky enough, as I have often been, to have a student who just seems to get it and therefore doesn’t need in any sense to be trained), has just got harder, since one obvious way to help somebody get started is to give them a problem that looks as though it might be a relatively gentle one. If LLMs are at the point where they can solve “gentle problems”, then that is no longer an option. The lower bound for contributing to mathematics will now be to prove something that LLMs can’t prove, rather than simply to prove something that nobody has proved up to now and that at least somebody finds interesting.

Willard@climateball· May 1

i have so many questions, jeremiah thedispatch.com/article/hasa...

Willard@climateball· Apr 13

dis u

Willard@climateball· Apr 13

The question, dear Hugo, is why you'd peddle obviously false stuff. Do you have *any* idea what it would take to have a runaway greenhouse effect like in Venus?

"Svante Arrhenius was right back in 1920. We experience a runaway greenhouse effect today and will soon go extinct. It's not just fossil fuels. Destroying primary production like forests due to overpopulation is even worse. Burning fossil fuels bought us some time."

Willard@climateball· Apr 13

It's actually your own citation, Hugo click on "Read "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries"" www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

a screenshot where "Read "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" appears

Willard@climateball· Apr 13

besides, waving your hand frenetically won't help you with supporting that conclusion

Area Doomer posts:

"UPDATE: The likelihood that humans will go extinct by 2100 is 80%"

which is unsupported by the paper he cites

Willard@climateball· Apr 13

you should be able to find it in the paper you cite, and to provide alt-text to the graphs you provide; citing their provenance would also help, expecially the "extrapolate" bit here's what it looks like - as you can see, there's no projection about extinction