Alan Richardson

“No, that is 9 am BC time,” I say like a big shot when people are trying to coordinate an international meeting with me in November.

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

Now that dark mornings are here, i can safely say the dumbest thing that the BC NDP government did was to get rid of the time change in the Fall

And yes, my November calendar is a mess

I’m going to start a thread on our election work today. Today, we’ll be publishing a deep dive into Alaska rumors & following the DOJ’s latest efforts (in WA) to craft an illusion of widespread non-citizen voting, using arrests, press releases & threats to states as “pseudo events” to grab attention

Yes, You Can Still See Alex Gibney's ‘Musk’ — Here’s What’s Happening With the Film’s Release Plan "Originally scheduled for a Nov. 24 debut on paid platforms, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk will now come to paid VOD on Nov. 6." $TSLA $SPCX www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Yup, Brighton Beach has been “Russian” for my entire life.

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

this is not a serious country

Merely existing as a successful Arab-American is anti-white according to Vance

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

In light of no standard time in BC, I think starting final exams at 8:30 at UBC is especially cruel. My exam will be 28 minutes in before the sun rises on 12 December.

As always, the racism is a cover for sheer, total ignorance.

Funny way to talk about your boss

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

America’s Tax Evasion through Philosophy

Failed to stop inflation? That’s letting Trump off the hook. Trump CAUSED price increases. His stupid war is why fuel prices are sky-high. Everything else costs more because of that.

If they actually want to get thru the next two years, there’s not really another choice

Physics postdocs at Johns Hopkins! I would love to advocate for someone doing physics and complexity (though the committee has the final say). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/JHU/Phys...

I only ever take out “low-use items.” The availability of such items are what make research libraries useful to researchers.

The Canucks are rebuilding? As what?

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

Their scientific judgment matters most wherever they think it does. That is what expertise is.

Why authoritarians attack universities.

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Thinking Trump was snubbed re the Nobel Peace Prize is like thinking I was snubbed by the Chopin Piano Prize despite my killer rendition of Chopsticks.

Jesus. This makes me so sad for the child.

Too many elections, not enough decent governance

looks like this BC election had the most dismal turnout in provincial history — preliminary results are around 48%, compared to the last low of 54% in 2020. elections.bc.ca/resources/re...

It should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

Readers of Hempel be like:

Stunning indictment of Eby’s decision to call an early election—even the choice to do it immediately on the heels of municipal elections led (I would think) to election fatigue and reduced turnout. BC has never been a place for savvy politicians but Eby’s decision here was world-class bad.

Remember, this all started with Kevin Falcon kicking John Rustad out of the B.C. Liberals for retweeting climate science denialism

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

We resent universities as proof that a touch‘o’socialism is good actually so we blame them for all of capitalism’s externalities.