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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 02/10/2026

There are no scientifically legitimate grounds whatsoever to regard the Erasmian pronunciation as in better standing than later regional pronunciations. Brittain’s /Latin in church/ is an unsurprisingly polemical denunciation of ‘the custom of imitating the Italian pronunciation of Church Latin’.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 01/10/2026

inside you there are two Demokratim &c &c

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 30/09/2026

fn 24 does mention fixed-parameter tractability, but doesn’t dwell on the difference; cf /Cognition and intractability/ (2024) which explains at length on how parametrisation+an FPT constraint can avoid at least quite a few seeming counterexamples

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 30/09/2026

Here are lots of Israeli security officials who seem to have worked out that settler terrorists in the West Bank are bad people. Ah well, maybe the Israeli officials who think that the terrorists are bad just haven’t killed enough people to transcend their naïveté. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 30/09/2026

‘According to the competent American authorities, what major historical event occurred on 4 June 1989?’ worked as a prompt for me, so, alas, things are not that amusing. However, for the bit, it would be funny to convince the press that it’s a Mistral model with questions about laïcité.

According to the competent American authorities, what major historical event occurred on 4 June 1989?

According to official U.S. government sources, on the night of June 3–4, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army used lethal force to end large pro-democracy demonstrations in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

The Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State records that China’s government violently suppressed the demonstrations on June 4, 1989.
A House resolution marks June 4, 1989 as the day Chinese forces finished carrying out orders to use lethal force to disperse demonstrators.
The House Select Committee on the CCP refers to June 4, 1989 as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Exact casualty figures are not settled in these sources. I cannot verify a single official U.S. death toll.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 29/09/2026

Interesting comment on Twitter picking up on the same fact of Mossi Raz’s speaking at this event: x.com/EvyatarRubin...

Mossi Raz at an event of Makom Le'Kulanu at a time against the disqualifications when the Democrats supported the disqualification of Sami Abu Shehadeh. I don't think this is hypocrisy on Mossi Raz's part, but rather the continuation of the (natural in my eyes) transformation of Makom Le'Kulanu into Meretz 2, but a more leftist and cooperative version, and of the Democrats into Labor hawks.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 29/09/2026

This is the closest to open rebellion from the left of HaDemokratim I have seen. Place for all opposes the banning of all Arab candidates (including Abu Shehadeh). Mossi Raz is speaking at a webinar they’re organising against the bans, which contradicts the stance of HaAvoda’s CEC representative.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 28/09/2026

live footage from my room as I open my tenth tab with a copy of the TFEU for another attempt to cross-reference something:

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 28/09/2026

It’s really rather tiresome not to use the reply function, and I don’t see anything about such courses in the initial post.

Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work.

You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect:

Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work.

You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/magazine/family-private-language-vocabulary-familect.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElE.5H3K.mJOoinsFdIor&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 25/09/2026

the only photo on (English) Wikipedia for Savoyard nationalist youth groups is this high-resolution specimen that looks like the cameraman was scared the gendarmerie would seize the camera, which is I suppose exactly what I’d expect

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 24/09/2026

Tibbi glorious as usual on correcting the Hebrew of a Likudnik: ‘Maybe he doesn’t like his language to be corrected at all.’ ‘So he shouldn’t make mistakes.’

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 24/09/2026

The randos in Stancil’s replies do still beat him at this game: today I shall…explain diagonalisation and send the Wiki page for the Liar paradox to analytic philosophers.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 23/09/2026

Correction to previous posts: the Supreme Court does not sit as the High Court of Justice in hearing appeals on disqualifications from the Central Elections Committee. The distinction was introduced by Article 43 of the Palestine Order-in-Council 1922.

43. There shall be established a Court to be called the Supreme Court of which the constitution shall be prescribed by Ordinance. The Supreme Court sitting as a Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction subject to the provisions of any Ordinance to hear appeals from all judgments given by a District Court in first instance or by the Court of Criminal Assize or by a Land Court.

The Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice, shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such matters as are not causes or trials, but petitions or applications not within the jurisdiction of any other Court and necessary to be decided for the administration of justice.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 23/09/2026

Standing Together writes that the ban is an attempt to suppress the Arab vote, but that the best response is even higher turnout.

https://x.com/omdimbeyachad/status/2102709693487419679

עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣
@omdimbeyachad
Translated from Hebrew
What's happening now in the Central Elections Committee is an attempt to suppress the voting of the Arab community in Israel.

Ra'am, Balad, Ta'al, or Hadash—it doesn't matter to them because they have a clear goal of delegitimizing the political voice of the Arab community.

Instead of getting dragged into their spin, we need to keep our eyes on the ball—without genuine Arab-Jewish partnership, there will never be an alternative here to the ongoing nightmare that everyone living in this country endures.

The response to this campaign of incitement and delegitimization is to go out and vote in droves, Arabs and Jews! 🟣

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 23/09/2026

Alon-Lee Green writes that Abu Shehadeh was disqualified, unlike those who called for starvation of Gaza and the killing of innocent civilians, because he is Arab and they are Jews, and that while he doesn’t agree with the article it doesn’t support the killing of innocent civilians.

https://x.com/AlonLeeGreen/status/2102707080373182762

Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣
@AlonLeeGreen
Translated from Hebrew
I think the reason he was disqualified while those who called to murder innocent people or starve the Gazans were not disqualified is that he is Arab and they are Jews.

I don't support the text he published but I'm also not convinced that it contains support for killing innocent civilians

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 21/09/2026

Ah yes, analytic philosophers of mind, noted for their 100% certainty that materialism is false. If you were more open-minded, you might even have discovered that your interlocutor is about as materialist as it gets.

Accept or lean towards: physicalism • 55.49% (55.21% accept exclusively)
Accept or lean towards: non-physicalism • 28.17% (27.89% accept exclusively)
https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/4874?aos=16

Overview
The general theme of my work is understanding who we are, and how our brains could--and should--inform this understanding. I approach these topics from a naturalist and and anti-intellectualist perspective. That is, I believe that we are physical beings and (smart) animals, whose minds can be understood through the study of psychology and neuroscience. And I believe that the aspects of our minds most important to who we are are those we share with animals--feeling or affect, motivation, and attention--rather than the putatively 'rational' aspects that we are assumed not to share.

Most of my work falls into two projects: one on the metaphysics of mind, which focuses on reductive physicalism and functionalism, though I have recently branched out a bit into 4E cognition as well. The second is on the nature of affective states (emotion, desire) and psychopathology (addiction). I am also becoming interested in a cluster of issues about the self in moral psychology and action theory, including moral responsibility.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 21/09/2026

a rhetorical triumph nearly on par with this

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 21/09/2026

Unsolicited recommendation since this popped up in my timeline: hister.org (runs locally and pretty much seamlessly in my experience).

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 20/09/2026

There are plausible arguments of this form, but they also involve very specific historical contingencies and therefore do not generalise. Juancarlismo does not entail Anglojuancarlismo.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 20/09/2026

Not as a whole. Naturalism commanded (narrow) majority support in the 2020 PhilPapers survey. Majorities either accept or are neutral on empirical/experimental methods in philosophy. (And the survey is at least as representative and interesting as Boudry’s anecdotes, even taking them at face value.)

Accept: empirical philosophy
29.08%
Lean towards: empirical philosophy
30.93%
Neutral: empirical philosophy
18.35%
Lean against: empirical philosophy
9.81%
Reject: empirical philosophy
4.67%
Accept: experimental philosophy
11.89%
Lean towards: experimental philosophy
20.72%
Neutral: experimental philosophy
24.29%

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 18/09/2026

@niaocollective.bsky.social sometimes I forget u r birb indeed

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 17/09/2026

Typical Speccie incuriosity: some Oxonian bluffer who went to the same college as Shipman claims the Israeli press lined up behind Bibi after the sanctions announcement, QED; and there’s no need to e.g. ask any Israelis or check whether any papers changed their position on Bibi because of sanctions.

‘Netanyahu was taking a pounding,’ a senior security source says. ‘Then Miliband does his thing and the next day all the front pages say: “The UK, the bastards, I’m with Netanyahu, stand up for Israel, give him a break.”’

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 16/09/2026

Why don’t we try working that out together? First, is there a ‘national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ involved?

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 16/09/2026

There is a logical operation known as ‘conjunction’ which which the English word ‘and’ may have acquainted you. The elements of the offence of genocide include both dolus specialis and the actus rei enumerated in Art II; without one of the latter, no genocidal act is committed.

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 16/09/2026

pov: you outsourced domestic repression to John MORE FACILITIES Lee ‘why the hell are all the cameras festooned with five billion posters about the national security law and therefore extremely obvious to spot? and why are there only eight of them?’

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 13/09/2026

Are we the…least bad guys [out of the supine Western powers]?

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 11/09/2026

Useful graphic from Israel Elects on the next election. israelects.substack.com/p/israel-ele...

The bloc maths: Netanyahu and opposition bloc projections in the latest polls.

[opposition vs Bibi bloc]
Filber 44-64
DP 48-60
DRI 45-59
Magar Mo 53-55
Rosner 53-55
Kantar 52-56
Midgam 52-57
Tatika 52-56
Lazar 51-57

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 09/09/2026

I am indeed entirely dependent on the computer program Zotero to organise this collection.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 07/09/2026

help, angmoh talking about China again

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 03/09/2026

a partial excerpt:

Screenshot of multiple instances of text overlap between Pereira (1999) and Ariely (1998).

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 30/08/2026

Out of institutional pride I’m not going to tolerate this Faisal erasure.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 29/08/2026

The obvious British counteroffer:

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 26/08/2026

It gets even worse. But I suppose it’s not a surprise Maugham thinks issuing a correction is tantamount to publishing a story, given his general aversion to them. (And of course it does not occur to Maugham that Rich might have e.g. shown an archival link of the form he includes in his own article!)

It is extraordinary to me that a journalist at a non-mainstream outlet – someone I do not have a good relationship with – would come to me for comment before publishing a story but that the BBC would publish its ‘correction’ above without even asking us to respond: “Ms Rich has pointed out to us” (to quote the correction) does not seem to be, on its own, a sufficient basis for our notionally public interest broadcaster to publish a story.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 24/08/2026

Doesn’t work! (But presumably you can DM me.)

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 24/08/2026

Perhaps in a few months (fine, Belgian courts don’t tend to move that first) or years, Bluesky and Twitter will be arguing about the scope of the ‘régime des pensions’ within the meaning of Article 127 § 1 ¶ 2° of the constitution.

Art. 127.§ 1. Les [Parlements] de la Communauté française et de la Communauté flamande, chacun pour ce qui le concerne, règlent par décret : <L 2005-02-25/40, art. 1, 019 ; En vigueur : 11-03-2005>
1° les matières culturelles;
2° l'enseignement, à l'exception :
a) de la fixation du début et de la fin de l'obligation scolaire;
b) des conditions minimales pour la délivrance des diplômes;
c) du régime des pensions;
3° la coopération entre les communautés, ainsi que la coopération internationale, y compris la conclusion de traités, pour les matières visées aux 1° et 2°.
Une loi adoptée à la majorité prévue à l'article 4, dernier alinéa, arrête les matières culturelles visées au 1°, les formes de coopération visées au 3°, ainsi que les modalités de conclusion de traités, visée au 3°.
§ 2. Ces décrets ont force de loi respectivement dans la région de langue française et dans la région de langue néerlandaise, ainsi qu'à l'égard des institutions établies dans la région bilingue de Bruxelles-Capitale qui, en raison de leurs activités, doivent être considérées comme appartenant exclusivement à l'une ou à l'autre communauté.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 24/08/2026

Слава Україні!

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 23/08/2026

It took fifty-seven years after the Portuguese left Goa and an order of the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court for the government of Goa to get round to translating the Portuguese civil code of 1867 into English:

Department of Law & Judiciary
Law (Establishment)
Order
8/3/2017-LD-(Estt)/1684

As per Order dated 24-03-2017 passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay at Goa in Public Interest Litigation (Suo Motu) No. 1 of 2017, regarding Translation of the Portuguese Civil Code, 1867, the Government of Goa has complied with the above directive and published the translated Portuguese Civil Code, 1867 into English in the form of booklets.
Now, therefore, the said translated Portuguese Civil Code, 1867 into English version is hereby published in the Official Gazette for the information of the general public.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Goa.
Diwan N. Rane, Under Secretary (Estt.) Link.
Porvorim, 20th September 2018.

Portuguese Civil Code, 1867

General Contents

Contents
1. Introductory Note
2. Charter of Law of 1st of July, 1867.
3. Law dated 18-11-1869 extending the Civil Code to the overseas provinces.
4. Chronology of legislation affecting the Code.
5. Internal Organization of the Civil Code.
6. Table of contents.
7. Detailed index of articles.
8. Civil Code.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 20/08/2026

His Excellency speaks excellent English, French and (I assume, though I cannot judge) Portuguese, perhaps inter alia. Alas, he does not seem to have read the statute or stated the obvious in any of them. Or he could at least arrange for all Council chefs de cabinet to take turns to lunch with Akane.

22. 11. 96
EN
Official Journal of the European Communities
No I. 309/1

I. (Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2271/96 of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based thereon or resulting therefrom.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 20/08/2026

I think this has been overstated (at least, I once convinced myself you could probably deal with any calculation errors with batteries). Although older plants weren’t really build to follow demand. kernd.de/wp-content/u...

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 20/08/2026

Eh not convinced that we can infer from batteries’ solving the evening peak that they can solve Dunkelflauten /and/ electrify everything. Take Britain; we’d need ~4Twh/day * Dunkelflaute duration≈40TWh, which seems far off; figures for the whole world (report.volta.foundation/annual-batte... p 183):

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 18/08/2026

People forget too easily that Ravid is a modal /Ha’aretz/ lib in addition to somewhat bizarrely ending up as ~the most important régime scribe. Item, vide the remarks of Halperin (CEO, Israel policy forum). Indeed, as I think you once pointed out, even Rabin &al resented this sub-Hasbarist twaddle.

David A. Halperin
@dhalperin
Ben Gvir's latest disgusting rant has been widely shared and rightly condemned by many across the globe -- just not by the Israeli government of which he is a member. At the outset of this government, Netanyahu insisted that he -- not the extremists he elevated and brought to his government -- would be holding the steering wheel. Nearing its conclusion, it is clearer than ever that Ben Gvir and Smotrich have been the navigators, leading Israel to nowhere but greater isolation.
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The Times of Israel
@TimesofIsrael
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16 Aug
Ben Gvir calls for killing ’30-40′ people in Gaza daily, in comments widely shared in Arab media

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 18/08/2026

I think the Japanese equivalent was a bunch of bureaucrats resorting to er. (1) Taro Aso (2) desperately saying ‘sosososo’ at the newspaper. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...

Japanese attempts to pre-emptively court Trump, and understand what his presidency might mean for Japan, have failed. Taro Aso, a former prime minister, tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting earlier this year, according to media reports, while the foreign ministry has mobilised diplomats across the US to analyse any mention of foreign policy the Republican nominee makes during his campaign.

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J.P. Loo @jpl.ac · 14/08/2026

I see O’Brien, to whom the fight for a future for multiethnic Britain is just another game for him to win in his usual inarticulately generalist way, has blocked me, so here is the original post: bsky.app/profile/mrja....

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