ML_mrc

🇪🇺 Made in Sardinia @EUI_EU @UoELawSchool; Free thinker interested in IEL and Int'l Inv Law; #livetofightanotherday

[Chris Olah @ch402]

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[EU-VALUES - Jean Monnet Network @EUValuesNetwork]

Join us next week for a timely discussion on the EU’s role in global investment governance, with Dr. ML Marceddu (@KingsCollegeLon,@EdinburghUni) presenting her new book. + expert discussants from @lunduniversity & @EU_Commission!

Learn more & register: https://t.co/8ISawd5IM2

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

United in grief ❤️

Crans-Montana and the entire skiing community paid tribute “to all the victims, to those who assist, help, and provide care” forming a heart with their skis

A beautiful message at a moment of unparalleled tragedy for this mountain community in Switzerland

[ML_mrc @meme_MLM]

@la_peau_douce_ :)

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

So brilliant.
Back soon

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

So brilliant.
Back soon

[anna paola concia @annapaolaconcia]

Quelli che dicono NO oggi, sono quelli che ieri chiedevano esattamente quello che è scritto nella legge 😎 #SISEPARA #separazione_delle_carriere

[Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke]

"A university is not a machine for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a manner of human activity... we may call it 'the pursuit of learning'."

[pg @PierluigiBattis]

Il Paese civile che noi non siamo

[IlGuffanti 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 @guffanti_marco]

Manifestazione a favore di ISRAELE: senza volti coperti, senza guerriglia urbana, senza bombe carta e vetrine spaccate.

Insomma, senza PROPAL si assiste alla civiltà che rivendica la propria presenza.

#PARIGI

[Marika Surace @MarikaSurace]

La lettera di dimissioni di Lucetta Scaraffia. La pretesa di chiedere a un singolo docente di professare la propria innocenza politica. Università che ormai non sono che il riflesso conformista delle piazze, tribunali accademici in cui si celebra il processo alle opinioni.

[Ultimora.net @ultimoranet]

🔴 FLASH — HAMAS ACCETTA DI RILASCIARE TUTTI GLI OSTAGGI ISRAELIANI, VIVI O MORTI, SECONDO LA PROPOSTA DI PACE DI TRUMP @ultimoranet

[pg @PierluigiBattis]

Fischiato perché chiede la liberazione degli ostaggi . La barbarie

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Coldplay's Chris Martin tells his audience of 80,000+ to send love to Charlie Kirks family during final night at Wembley

It's no longer about left vs right. It's about humanity vs insanity. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:

“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.

“That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.”

“Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”

[Jacob Katz Cogan @IntLawReporter]

Marceddu: EU Values in Investment Law and Policy: Promises of Democracy and Rule of Law? https://t.co/TtzCOTONxG

[🏴‍☠��� The Pirate 🏴‍☠️ @Pinperepette]

Ho visto che c'è molta confusione con i grafici e le conclusioni affrettate. Vi racconto una storia famosa che spiega l'effetto Simpson: a Berkeley, nel 1973, sembrava che le donne fossero discriminate perché, nel totale, venivano ammesse meno degli uomini. Ma analizzando i dati per dipartimento si scoprì che, in realtà, in molti corsi le donne avevano tassi di ammissione uguali o superiori. L'apparente svantaggio nasceva dal fatto che le donne si candidavano di più nei dipartimenti più selettivi, dove era difficile entrare per tutti. È un esempio perfetto di come un grafico aggregato possa raccontare una storia fuorviante, mentre i dati stratificati rivelano una realtà completamente diversa

[fede @hymage]

"E quindi tenevamo i salari più bassi come uno strumento di concorrenza"