damienbe.bsky.social

J'ai beaucoup de mal à comprendre l'intérêt de ce genre de quasi-publi-reportage pour la PME de mariages blancs / gris d'un expatrié en Russie depuis 2022 [!]. En plein psychodrame sur le risque inexistant de regroupement familial des étudiants gazaouis. www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...

Ils n'ont peur de rien, les brasseurs belges. Les voilà qui érigent la consommation de bière en fabrique des liens et partie inhérente de notre identité. Quelle vaste blague. [1/4] #alcool #bière

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

i'm fully sick of this "racism is just another academic idea to be neutrally debated in the ivory tower" bit, it is transparent and long past tiresome

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

I'd really like to see a Venn diagram of people who are super concerned about plagiarism and proper citation etiquette and people who think LLMs are a must-use tool for literature review because who needs to read all this stuff anyway.

Oui. Il est urgent d’arrêter de faire référence à ce graphique salaires des enseignants / smic qui est trompeur, et dont la conclusion logique est qu’il faudrait baisser le smic pour revaloriser le métier d’enseignant.

The most ridiculous part is that we're supposed to believe that a sport that has set up a gazillion weight classes, to be able to accommodate the huge strength differentials between a 50kg boxer and a 90kg one, cannot find a way for SRY and trans women to compete and must ban them.

Hazing or "dedovshchina (дедовщина)" is central to the Russian Army. It produces terrible men and even worse soldiers. It is a scourge on the army, on Russian society, and on their victims. Cruelty never makes anyone better, and few enabling environments for it that start playful stay that way.

A propos demographic decline... I travel a fair bit through Europe with kids and I don’t know how many times @floriangkern.bsky.social has heard me saying that I am convinced Europeans are speedily losing the habit of seeing kids around and interacting with them. Now this.

Isn’t it amazing that China leaves Europe in the dust on EVs yet the EU policy response is to be more lenient on regulating combustion engine car emissions?

I keep seeing arguments that the Government should have spent the money on services eg Sure Start rather than lifting the two-child benefit cap. The evidence for cash transfers is very strong. And cash transfers go straight to families. Their decision is completely evidence backed and valid.

Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am partial to @jensvb.bsky.social and @lausterna.bsky.social 's proposed metric of "housing frustration": share of young adults (25 - 34) living with parents or roommates (other than long-term romantic partner) + share of middle-aged (35 - 59) who rent: doodles.mountainmath.ca/posts/2024-0...

Lol "n'utilisez pas mon grille pain pour toaster du pain"

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Great threat. This was especially bad but the field of medicine is full of publications with some of these problems. I blame the stupid number of publication rankings. Good to see a social scientist holding higher standards

The difference is that the “office junior” will presumably not make up studies or mistakenly transcribe key statistics even when mistakes are pointed out, which “Deep Research” does constantly. These are errors you notice when you ask ChatGPT to produce a report on something you’re an expert in.

Ik ben zeer (aangenaam) verrast door de vele positieve reacties op mijn interview (en de vele nieuwe volgers). Ik denk dat deze impact deels op het conto van de uitstekende interviewer, Teun Dominicus, moet worden geschreven. Helaas zeldzaam dat een journalist zo goed ingelicht en voorbereid is. 👏