Arete Roper

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run certainly has the laugh on her side" Jane Austen

Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing. She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once /

AFC Wimbledon is planning to sell 90% of its "economic rights" to Dr Omar Mir, Baron of Thorntoun, who runs the European arm of G42, the UAE's AI spytech firm, with Marty Edelman, a long-time Man City board member. He bought the barony and we can't find his PhD. josimarfootball.com/2026/10/28/t...

A very strange hearing is happening in DC right now, one that might end up being a Big Deal. (Yeah, I know, how many times, etc.) My understanding: The DOJ charged two former FBI agents with lying to Congress, but did it in a very weird, even unheard of way. That led to this hearing.

And — a little ashamed someone had to remind me of this, as I’ve been following her avidly — Anna Bower, below, has been live-posting the whole thing. bsky.app/profile/anna...

It's Halloween week, so we had to talk about witches. And who better to chat with than Professor Marion Gibson, whose new book looks at several witch trials in 17th century England. pod.fo/e/7010df

Jimmy Carr sorry for killing joke Will Smith sorry for smash mouth Louis CK sorry for the strokes Defective peroxide sorry for 4 non blondes Daylight savings sorry for taking back sunday Misogynists sorry for everything but the girl UK beef industry sorry for madness US government sorry for megadeth

Hij is af! Helemaal gehaakt - met de hand, uiteraard, want machines kunnen niet haken. “No machine can do this - FUCK AI”.

Helen Sharman and I will be looking up at things on a tour next year -hopefully we will look down again near the edge of the stage

Outcome measures in long COVID clinical trials: a review www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #PostCovidSyndrome

EU Climate Action Commissioner, the former McKinsey & Shell employee, Wopke "I have a weakness for business people" Hoekstra warns Europe to prepare for a 3°C warmer world Totally bonkers, disingenuous framing of a catastrophic scenario as a new "baseline against which resilience is calibrated"

This is what happens when three South Africans, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks combine to dictate foreign policy for the US.

"You'd better watch out! AI is writing a very angry reaction for mum!"

For years, @aatishb.com and I have met weekly to talk (neuro)science. One question keeps coming back: what does it actually mean to find "the neural circuit for a behavior"? We've turned those conversations into a series that explains the success stories of neuroscience. Check out the first one👇🏽

1ST WITCH The ice cream pint he loves the most. 2ND WITCH An eye that saw a boomer's post. 3RD WITCH An itching weed. 2ND WITCH A hornet's sting. 1ST WITCH An inchworm longer than his thing. ALL WITCHES In equal parts, we mix alike, To make this brew to poison Mike.

PLEASE don't forget this and try actively to follow it, "don't feed the trolls" has been a thing for a while and we weren't following it as we should have been

This is what I meant when I said in 2024 that when I looked at the incoming administration, all I could see was rape. It’s the heinous act itself, yes, but also a mentality, as deftly explained here:

At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

En weer weg uit Nijmegen.

1/x OK, A little thread about wind force on ships. Can the bow thruster hold this ship against the wind, or does she need tugs? Some ships are like a big wall (cruise ships, container ships PCTC). Here is the rule-of-thumb arithmetic behind that call. #shiphandling

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

In augustus 1666 vernietigden de Engelsen tijdens de Tweede Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog een Nederlandse koopvaardijvloot op het Vlie en staken ze West-Terschelling in brand. historiek.net/terschelling...

Draadje over hoe het kabinet twee kerncentrales de Eemshaven in wil rommelen ondanks eerdere toezeggingen. Een informatieavond op een krappe, benauwde locatie met alleen uitvoerders, geen beslissers. Nauwelijks ruimte voor vragen. Geen antwoorden. De emotie van omwonenden 'nemen ze mee'. 🙄

Ik ben in Nijmegen.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C. Attention historians: this is gobsmackingly bananas.

Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

🧵 Wow - this article is bordering on unhinged! Apparently the BBC is akin to a “North Korean re-education camp” for teaching children about net-zero and covering both the pros AND cons of immigration Join me for a masterclass in cherry-picking and context stripping to brainwash your own readers👍🏻

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

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According to messages received this morning, I've sold AT LEAST TEN COPIES of my book. That's got to be twice as many as Liz Truss, and hers is half the price! Huge thank you, all. Please keep 'em coming, the September 2022 mortgage isn't gonna pay itself 🥊❤️ grapplingwithhistory.com/2026/10/26/p...

Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.

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Dit interview met @marleenstikker begin juli bevatte een kleine primeur. Stikker legt hierin uit waarom ze met een groep mensen werkte aan 'oso.social', een server die voor Nederlanders een toegangspoort tot het open sociale web zou kunnen worden. Gisteravond was tijdens de Dutch Design Week in […]

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Ultimately, if you only have time to know one thing about all of this, just know that not a single solitary tech oligarch, tech company, or tech-backed politician has a single solitary serious commitment to the existence of Black political power or economic security in their plans for the future.

1/24 410 years ago #otd, a Dutch ship ran into a coast that was on no European map. Her crew climbed a cliff, flattened a pewter dinner plate, scratched a message into it, and nailed it to a post. That plate is the oldest known European object from Australia. #maritimehistory

I don’t know which is more tragic A religion that created a society where a young mother would even contemplate such thing Or a religion that espoused a belief that the child, through action caused by the religion, would remain in Limbo for eternity #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

Next up in my occasional series: "Can it swim?" BATS!🦇🏊 As video captured by Rob Mackereth (@mack2526 on IG) in the Lake District, England shows, bats can indeed swim. In fact, they're pretty good little swimmers. But there's an asterisk. Also, standard disclaimer: do not handle downed bats!

National Trust Members - remember it’s the last few days to vote & help keep private equity away from getting its hands on the charitable trust…

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Let’s zoom into the El Niño regions and see how they compare to 1997 (the event of record). This event is not only remarkably ahead, it’s also weighted further east! Big impacts coming to the US and Globe this winter! #elnino

How it started. How it's going.

Het algoritme schotelt mij de Japanse remake van een Zuid-Koreaanse serie voor. #Extraordinary