Rupert Cocke

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A hard-right party is trying to import Islamophobia into the Catalan independence movement, with some success. 1/2

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Catalonia has a number of via ferratas, or iron paths. Strapping yourself into a mountain is a great day out. 1/2

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Young people will find it harder to get started; birth rates will continue to fall; our culture and politics will get weirder; the electrification of everything will continue; and gangster capitalism is here to stay. 1/2

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GenAI can be an excellent sparring partner for idea generation. However, you should probably politely decline the invitation to draft the ideas being generated up for you! 1/2

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We all know that conspiracy theorists believe that the news is fiction. Perhaps surprisingly, theorists will often also say that we should treat fiction as if it were the news. 1/2

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An immigration crisis on Poland's border with Belarus a few years ago acted as a rehearsal for future crises. 1/2

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Will the guardrails hold? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog looks at why the best written constitutions are based on liberal principals, and why non-liberal elected officials will often try and tear them up 1/2

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This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog will take you on a musical journey from the New Orleans funk of the Meters to Miles Davis' most controversial album and onto NYC punk band the Voidoids. There will be African polyrhythms and second-line drumming throughout 1/2

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What is upstream of automation? This week's free-to-read essay on my personal blog explores roles that assess the quality of data used by AI. 1/2

Sadly!

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In Nov.2024 @RupertCocke wrote: "It would warm the cockles of my heart to see young people waving "Yes, in my back yard (YIMBY) banners. #Spain could easily build whole new cities if we ever saw a YIMBY #government with a bullet-proof majority" Day dream🙏🏻 sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/spains-left-…