Someone recently told me that they are planning on using AI to set up and run a couple of blogs to "establish their profile" as a commentator/author in economics, to just churn out mindless automated posts, and this is someone doing their PhD, and I just have nothing to say

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So my short thread on the cynicism of apologising for slavery, yet not actually doing anything to address it, really triggered a few people. If you’re jealous of ppl whose ancestors have been brutalised, tortured & dehumanised, you don’t need to comment - you do need a therapist.

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Feliz Navidad.

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Whatever one thinks of Janan Ganesh‘s general point, this column is very misleading. Thomas Mann was anything but apolitical during the time when it really mattered: the Nazi period and the war. His BBC lectures “To the German people” called for resistance and described Hitler’s many crimes. /🧵

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Not your main point, but “sophisticated ennui and detached self-care” is an absolutely excellent description of Ganesh more generally.

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