The art of sentence length.

This explains so much in academia and media and politics. Sigh.

When I ask ChatGPT to use a slightly less formal tone:

Think merit twice.

🇮🇹🇦🇱 Sono iniziate le deportazioni in Albania. Questa struttura, che tra ritardi e appalti senza gara costerà agli italiani centinaia di milioni di euro, è costruita sul fallimentare modello dei #Cpr, veri e propri lager già presenti in diverse regioni italiane. Un capitolo nero.

Academic ironies

Academia is a spectrum

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Re: that whole Oxford situation, I also was an international student who did a PhD in the UK. If you make it to all the way to 4th year before finding out that your thesis isn’t viable, your supervisors have failed you, likely because the uni wanted to keep extracting £££

The failure of authorities to issue public warnings in time before the devastating floods in Valencia offer an example of what it means when far-right policies meet environmental disasters. One of Vox's conditions for backing the PP's Carlos Mazón as regional premier was the

"Il plut si violemment que le fleuve envahit la ville, couvrit la plupart des rues [...] Ce déluge tua 300 personnes" Valence, 2024 ? Non : Florence, le 4 novembre 1333 ! Après la catastrophe se pose la question : quelle est la cause de ce désastre... ? Un thread ⬇️!

Some details about Amsterdam violence emerging from Dutch media: local police and authorities considered calling off the Ajax v Maccabi Tel Aviv match because of violence the night before; ten Israelis were arrested nos.nl/artikel/254417…

If you can't beat 'em, join them.

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Bella sta serie, ma un po' inquietante. #MIlFiglioDelSecolo #Musk #Inauguration2025

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