Transnational Legal History / Law and Empire
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Christopher Roberts retweeted
Hello @elonmusk and @tylercowen ,
You have just decided to publicly attack our research, six days before the vote on the California billionaire wealth tax.
Your attempt to discredit our work and that of our numerous academic colleagues is pathetic.
Let’s take a look. 🧵
Christopher Roberts retweeted
Delighted to share the publication of All the Seas Were Ink: Islamic Constitutionalism in Motion by Iza Hussin (@CambridgeUP)! A brilliant exploration of how law, Islam, and sovereignty move across global histories. 📚✨
📖 Read more: cambridge.org/core/books/all…
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Oh look, the global capital of social housing has the highest quality of life for the lowest cost
British Empire history quiz question: what territories are missing from this 1931 list of "non-self-governing Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandated Territories," and why? (difficulty level: legendary)
Whenever I ask AI about some niche issue I'm interested in it ends up citing my papers back to me, but on the other hand that's helpful because I forgot what I wrote
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Maynooth's Research Centre for Legal History Launch dlvr.it/TVQMDM
Christopher Roberts retweeted
Terence Tao made a very powerful point:
“In most cases in pure mathematics, the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field through the efforts to solve such problems, and then to digest any partial or complete solutions that emerge for further insights.
Prematurely solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods—particularly without full transparency into the solution process—can contaminate this process to the point where it actually becomes a net negative for the progress of mathematics as a whole.”
I’ve been following Terence Tao for like 20 years, and I have always been impressed by the clarity of his thinking.
This clarity stands out even more in this difficult moment, as AI labs turn mathematics into a battleground in their race for supremacy.
In this race, they risk damaging one of humanity’s highest intellectual endeavours.
Being a mid-career academic is when you're following up with one colleague for a contribution they owe you, while they're busy following up with another colleague, who's too concerned with trying to chase you down for the paper you promised them
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This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more.
thetechbubble.info/p/the-fut…
I don't think there is any article I have read more times, learning more from every time, than Bonny Ibhawoh's
@giazilo Stronger than the Maxim Gun: Law, Human Rights and British Colonial Hegemony in Nigeria (2002). Model scholarship of the highest order.
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Private equity: taming the beast - a joint podcast episode with the brilliant @BylineTimesPod @BylineTimes @GoldbergRadio discussing what's gone under the radar for too long - @hettieobrien.bsky.social discusses her brilliant book on the subject podcasts.taxjustice.net/epis… #Taxcast
