Zadok

Building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

“The British are modern barbarians camped out in the relics of an older and superior civilisation to whose beauties they are oblivious.” - @culture_crit (deleted tweet)

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@estherzelda0514 Reminds me of Stefan Zweig's description of Jews as the backbone of the arts in Vienna's golden age.

[Michael Reiners @MCRReiners]

After WW2, we began to treat ornament with suspicion, a symptom of place-oriented nationalism which had to be rooted out. Ironically, veneration of the state no longer required aesthetics to convince you of it, it became mandatory. The is time of the NHS & British Nationality Act 1948.

We stopped building, and making, things like in part this because there was a Pan-European attempt to stop us identifying as distinct states, people and nations at all – ostensibly to avoid the perils of fascism. The architecture of the soviet bloc led the way in offering a placeless alternative. We have never recovered from the aesthetic consequences of this
folly, the light has left the eyes of our built landscape.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Castle Ashby Orangery. It was built in 1872 near Northampton, United Kingdom.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@AmanitaFugax Pro-progress!

[Sam Ro 📈 @SamRo]

Deutsche Bank has an "Oasis" index, which is the price of 5 beers and 2 packs of cigarettes

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Berkeley is def named after the philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley, not the proslavery governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley. Not that that wouldn’t be cool tho lmao.

Amaze grils by pronouncing correctly (“BARK-ley”). The founders were spergs who had only read the name

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@thevicsoc @MayorofLondon Why stop the brickwork on the second storey...

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@PippengerHarlo @rorysutherland you could use this one ;)

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@AaronBastani Whats more likely: Mossad can't speak proper Arabic? or low IQ terror wannabes can't speak proper Arabic?

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

As usual, the Victorians have a solution-- build the warehouse beautifully.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Today, I’m heading up to Wigan to speak to residents, who claim not to have had a public consultation about THIS monstrosity built literally on their back gardens.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@mr_james_c Never heard this comparison before. I think I know a lot of people in the first camp for whom this might make them really stop and think.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@minordissent Fascinating possible mechanism:

GLP-1’s -> no elite obesity -> no body positivity -> less general obesity.

Biggest obesity reduction from GLP-1’s could be mimetic!

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@peterrhague Concrete is the liability. Real concrete buildings don't shine like that. They stain more, weather worse, and don't have that sparkle of stone. Concrete just... dulls.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@clairlemon **whispers** graduates will also be leveraging AI.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

AI slop can teach us to recognise 'mode collapse' elsewhere. RLHF pushes LLMs toward tasteless patterns. It's been over optimised. Same for chain restaurants, influencer content, and algorithmic pop.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@eigenrobot Incredible considering Germans top the global tables for the shortest working hours.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

Vibe-coded military intel may soon be on par what's available to mid-tier government military bureaucracies.

[C14 News | EN @c14english]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Not yet confirmed, but some people are working on a virtual situation room (with live views of Tehran) that the entire world can join to follow the U.S.-Iran conflict - hopefully by the weekend.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

Nothing to see here. Just the worlds most despotic regime building a skyline to rival any western democracy. Certainly doesn't mean anything.

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

Practical governing algorithm. Take N largest cities, split local government boundary by Voroni partition.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

The politics of a Voronoi partition: 48 hypothetical US states centered around the 48 largest urban areas

[Zadok @nazzasharp]

@createstreets @keithjones84 Sad and radicalising. Imagine trying to convince someone transported from then that we're better off today.