The 2024 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science goes to Jürgen Habermas for having “constantly reminded us that the very lifeblood of democracy depends on human capacity and willingness to respect others by means of communicative action and on that basis to engage in critical argumentation and discourse.”

We finally figured out what it takes to believe a libertarian economist, it's being bludgeoned in the head for half an hour

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Explain to me like I’m 10 years old: Why isn’t the social cost of carbon at least equal to the cost of removing CO₂ from the atmosphere?

NRK Alltid senkingen av Blücher
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the story about the world's best scrabbler is insane. how does the human brain work, it's unbelievable m.youtube.com/watch?si=m2O_Q…

NEW: Labour plans to swiftly abolish all hereditary peers in its first term in power, say senior party insiders

But as a sweetener, ousted legislators will keep passes to Palace of Westminster, including its Thames-side terraces & subsidised booze/food

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Great blue herons might be elegant, wading birds, but they are also savage predators who eat anything they can catch. They love to snack on fish, poke the occasional yoga frog, tangle with a snake or two and this one I have named Elmer Fudd because it’s always hunting rabbits

Den svåra frågan är inte varför de här männen gick med i SD på 90-talet – det är tydligt. Frågan är varför borgerligheten gav dem makten över Sverige. Det har jag fortfarande svårt att komma över.

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New study on Sweden's wealth tax: 1/3 of wealthy out-migration flows were caused by the wealth tax, but it didn't hurt total tax revenues or the country's economy much. Migration responses to the wealth tax are much too small to make the repeal of the tax pay for itself!

a classic case of “the human mind is afforded less complexity than is owed, and the computer is afforded more wisdom than is due.” Baria and Cross (2021)

that 'vibe' is at the core of what makes us human. it defies formalization and datafication

Fruit of the Womb: A Botanical Classification of Fruit
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#fruit #infographic #art #science #carpology #vizscicomm #graphicdesign #data #illustration #botany

Those remote or uncontacted Amazonian tribes are not living in a state of primordial stasis, like living fossils of the Paleolithic or whatever, but are the descendants of a collapsed civilisation living in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Erik Brynjolfsson Too often, we think a task is easy because some animal can do it.
But the reality is that the task is fiendishly complex and the animal is much smarter than we think.
Conversely, we think tasks like playing chess, calculating an integral, or producing grammatically correct text

“More than half the CO₂ emissions of the industrial age have been dumped into the atmosphere since you were born.”

🚨 For Berkeley Earth, the annual average in 2023 was 1.54 ± 0.06 °C (2.77 ± 0.11 °F) above the 1850-1900 average.

Other datasets were a bit below 1.5 °C, but this is the first time that any of the observational products have reported above 1.5 °C.

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11 years. RIP my darling boy.

Kommer finnas viktiga lärdomar från kaoset på E22. Som vanligt kretsar diskussionen kring ansvarsfrågan. Att någon borde hålla i trådarna och vara den ANSVARIGE är en lockande analys, men tyvärr inte så informativ. Liten🧵
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Vi testar en grej. Retweeta om du tycker det är fel med vinstdrivande aktiebolag i skolan.

My fav Danish phrase I learned in Copenhagen was 'du kan få en prut og pille i' which translates to 'you can go play with a fart.' Just remembering that right now for some reason.