Academic Eeyore
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This is Italy's version of Andy Burnham. Popular Mayor of a large city, widely talked about as possible centre-left candidate for PM at the next election. Silvia Salis, Mayor of Genoa.
September 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is Italy's version of Andy Burnham. Popular Mayor of a large city, widely talked about as possible centre-left candidate for PM at the next election. Silvia Salis, Mayor of Genoa.
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The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster
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Tory Firewalls latest:
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Tory Firewalls latest:
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
You’ll be shocked to hear that their recommendation is not limiting the circumstances in which AI is deployed, but rather accepting the inevitability it will occasionally have catastrophic effects.
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Great piece by Joan Wallach Scott about her father & others targeted by the McCarthy Inquisition, and - inevitably - the similarities of our institutions to today's right-wing moral panic.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Great piece by Joan Wallach Scott about her father & others targeted by the McCarthy Inquisition, and - inevitably - the similarities of our institutions to today's right-wing moral panic.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live
Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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sat on a train near some drunk white bloke who, one assumes, was out on the march today and he spent ages physically threatening a black guy but also, for some reason, telling him he was going to rape him? but anyway everything feels great in Britain right now
September 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
sat on a train near some drunk white bloke who, one assumes, was out on the march today and he spent ages physically threatening a black guy but also, for some reason, telling him he was going to rape him? but anyway everything feels great in Britain right now
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“We thought we were safe in the UK but now we are afraid again.”
At last someone has remembered to hear from the people affected by the race riots in Epping
At last someone has remembered to hear from the people affected by the race riots in Epping
‘Before, I felt safe and the locals were nice’: asylum seekers on how Epping protests have transformed daily life
Men living in the Bell hotel in Essex tell how they have been verbally abused, chased and physically attacked
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“We thought we were safe in the UK but now we are afraid again.”
At last someone has remembered to hear from the people affected by the race riots in Epping
At last someone has remembered to hear from the people affected by the race riots in Epping
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"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...
dailynous.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
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Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found. - by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
www.ft.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found. - by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Well you have to pick one of those two so hurry up and make a decision
Councillor said he would rather ‘stick needles in his eyes’ than celebrate Pride
Councillor said he would rather 'stick needles in his eyes' than celebrate Pride
Independent councillor Paul Griffin also said he would use a "Stanley knife" to deal with immigrants in a series of social media posts.
www.thepinknews.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Well you have to pick one of those two so hurry up and make a decision
This is why I never go to dinner parties
At a dinner party last night and found myself having to defend higher education against people - all well educated - parroting government lines about ‘rip off degrees’ and ‘value for money’. It seems the wider public have also reduced education to a financial commodity. We definitely are in trouble.
June 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is why I never go to dinner parties
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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Post by a Chinese international student in the US:
“suddenly realized I’m about to have two regimes monitoring my social media lol”
Post by a Chinese international student in the US:
“suddenly realized I’m about to have two regimes monitoring my social media lol”
May 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Post by a Chinese international student in the US:
“suddenly realized I’m about to have two regimes monitoring my social media lol”
Post by a Chinese international student in the US:
“suddenly realized I’m about to have two regimes monitoring my social media lol”
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PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
www.change.org
May 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
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And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
BHO is having intermittent downtime at the moment.
We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.
We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.
May 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And this is one of the underestimated effects of increasing AI use.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
What ChatGPT spews out is mangled out of actual sources, but without any understanding or clarity.
At the same time, it stuffs access to that material because the servers are overburdened.
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"Research has shown that the UK has prosecuted 𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 people for benefits offences than tax offences. This is despite the value of tax fraud being 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 than benefits fraud."
The dice are loaded, the fix is in. Full system change is essential.
leftfootforward.org/2025/05/why-...
The dice are loaded, the fix is in. Full system change is essential.
leftfootforward.org/2025/05/why-...
Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power
Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.
leftfootforward.org
May 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Research has shown that the UK has prosecuted 𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 people for benefits offences than tax offences. This is despite the value of tax fraud being 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 than benefits fraud."
The dice are loaded, the fix is in. Full system change is essential.
leftfootforward.org/2025/05/why-...
The dice are loaded, the fix is in. Full system change is essential.
leftfootforward.org/2025/05/why-...
Oh boy do I have bad news about trans rights in the U.K.
"My son, Reese, is studying Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine... But today’s America is not a safe place for someone like him, a future scientist who happens to be trans, autistic, and gay." 💔
My autistic trans son deserves a future in science – not a target on his back
Today's America is not a safe place for many
northeastbylines.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Oh boy do I have bad news about trans rights in the U.K.
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My “Starmer's migration speech 'completely different' to Enoch Powell's” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My “Starmer's migration speech 'completely different' to Enoch Powell's” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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But if so, this also stupidly risks that x% being far greater than their models anticipate, and lots of graduate voters deserting them
May 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
But if so, this also stupidly risks that x% being far greater than their models anticipate, and lots of graduate voters deserting them
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I would guess that what’s going on re endless stupid statements re HE emanating from this government is they are assuming a contraction of the sector by x%, are applying good neoliberal principles of letting ‘the market’ decide where, and hoping to curry ‘cultural’ favour on the Right while we wait
May 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I would guess that what’s going on re endless stupid statements re HE emanating from this government is they are assuming a contraction of the sector by x%, are applying good neoliberal principles of letting ‘the market’ decide where, and hoping to curry ‘cultural’ favour on the Right while we wait