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It’s cool though: I articulated a game-theoretic analysis of Swedish politics over beers with an old friend last night, and at 9:30 this morning a journalist emailed to ask if I could provide a game-theoretic analysis of Swedish politics 🤷‍♂️

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Caveat: the blog post is a lot better than this thread, and maybe the article is even better but paywall so I haven’t read it. Aldo, I have a huge amount of time for @himself.bsky.social, who does actually have some background in classics but in any case has very many really interesting ideas. But…

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My Trotskyan Moment? -- My talk in Düsseldorf today is at 3pm. At pretty much exactly this time, a big demonstration -- against underfunding in education and the affordability crisis -- will pass the building. Shall I lean out the window and give a rousing speech?

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Yes! It's from North Atlantic Seafood: 'To cook a fish is to raise its temperature, by which I mean the temperature of its innermost bodily parts, to such an extent that it brings about the characteristics of cooked fish' (from memory)

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