Carl Gombrich
@carlgomb
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Education, politics, sport, culture. Personal views. Mute/block bots and anon accounts. Also here: https://t.co/ZwvIAJe3xq
London, UK
Joined August 2011
RT @philosophybites: @carlgomb In Plato’s Phaedrus Socrates expressed worries about how the new invention of writing would damage thinking….
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Does this mean there was no thinking before the invention of writing?.Or that cultures without writing don't have any thinking?.This seems very odd, if not obviously wrong, to me.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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This looks unbelievably straightforward. What am I missing?.
'Let's see if we can do what various international security agencies tell us they are incapable of doing. '. @PatrickChristys confronts a migrant smuggler in Northern France after posing as someone trying to cross the English Channel.
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"Proportionality has an important role in the conduct of civilised states".
“Do you think Israel is committing war crimes?”. “Yes, I do. I think it's absolutely plain that they are.”. Despite Israel’s right to self-defence after Oct 7, its response is ‘entirely disproportionate’ and violates international law, says Lord Sumption. @AyeshaHazarika
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RT @AaronBastani: It’s genuinely wild that Sumption is one of the few visibly non left voices publicly stating this position in the UK. I….
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RT @ParanoidPol: I really don’t think a lot of people - especially some of those in my replies that are Israeli puritans (ie. Israel can ne….
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RT @BarakRavid: Another U.S. official said the damage the Israelis had done to their standing at the White House over the past week didn't….
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RT @jamestalarico: The biggest divide in our politics is not left vs right — it’s top vs bottom. Billionaires are dividing us because our….
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RT @AfricanArchives: Sabrina Chebichi, a Kenyan athlete who won a marathon in 1973 barefoot and wearing a dress.
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RT @zjasper666: Just 20 minutes ago, the result of 2025 IMO was out. China ranked No.1 and @GoogleDeepMind won a gold medal 🥇 . Future mat….
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RT @rakibehsan: This was a failed "gotcha" attempt. The lads says Britain is his home and that his life has been amazing. Good on him. As….
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In other news, every new material innovation requires massive mining and extraction processes when done at scale.
Electric vehicles may seem like the green solution, but Sallust reveals how their thirst for lithium is turning Chile's salt flats into a dusty mess.
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A lot of this is true but it misses out genuine innovators, importance of science, engineering etc in generating wealth.
Who are the real wealth creators? The bankers, the corporate lawyers, the marketeers and the CEO's? . Or the teachers, nurses, garbage collectors, plumbers, cleaners, care workers, etc.?.
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RT @LizWebsterSBF: @carlgomb Absolutely — you’re right. Lack of accountability in the public sector has let corporate consultants and lobby….
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