Alix Mortimer
@alixmortimer.bsky.social
I(i)mpact and engagement for my brilliant colleagues in politics, economics, social sciences @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Often I dream of islands.
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🏺archaeology
🏰 medieval history
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Oh look, a thousandth data point on the ‘Silicone Valley is filled with dreadful eugenicists’ plot.
The Wall Street Journal has more details on Preventive, the latest human embryo editing company. Sam Altman of OpenAI and and his husband are among its backers:
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh look, a thousandth data point on the ‘Silicone Valley is filled with dreadful eugenicists’ plot.
I have read, I don’t know, five great ideas in the last ten minutes about how to write the new Bond film which makes me think either something is terribly wrong with these writers or this is a sly crowdsource.
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I have read, I don’t know, five great ideas in the last ten minutes about how to write the new Bond film which makes me think either something is terribly wrong with these writers or this is a sly crowdsource.
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social
@sirosenbaum.bsky.social
This is obviously a tiresome and creepy article. But also there is a genuine reason for this ‘trend’ and it’s that physical books secondhand are widely available and an insanely cheap form of entertainment. I always notice with books on the tube how many are charity shop/big novels from c2005 etc
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is obviously a tiresome and creepy article. But also there is a genuine reason for this ‘trend’ and it’s that physical books secondhand are widely available and an insanely cheap form of entertainment. I always notice with books on the tube how many are charity shop/big novels from c2005 etc
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The BBC feeling this today
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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November 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The BBC feeling this today
Short bad news thread for literally anyone leaving the UK by train but on the other hand i did learn the word Ouigoisée
3/3: I'm dreading doing the 2026 update for UK-France, I fear more Ouigoisation has punched even more holes in journey options, including the London-Lille-Lyon service.
It really does dilute frequency, reducing connectivity.
It really does dilute frequency, reducing connectivity.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Short bad news thread for literally anyone leaving the UK by train but on the other hand i did learn the word Ouigoisée
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Fantastic news!!! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
‘Hero’ crew member injured in train mass stabbing regains consciousness
Samir Zitouni was wounded as he protected passengers during attack on an LNER train travelling from Doncaster to London
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Fantastic news!!! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
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That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.
Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.
Started trying to read a post in Croatian and immediately thought oh god i really must work harder on this i’m only getting one word in ten, why am i so bad at languages etc etc. Then realised it was Slovenian.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Started trying to read a post in Croatian and immediately thought oh god i really must work harder on this i’m only getting one word in ten, why am i so bad at languages etc etc. Then realised it was Slovenian.
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the fear of checking your notifications and not knowing if it's 30+ like 31 or 30+ like the international society of pedantic strangers just reviewed your post at their annual conference
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
the fear of checking your notifications and not knowing if it's 30+ like 31 or 30+ like the international society of pedantic strangers just reviewed your post at their annual conference
Incredibly insightful and interesting. By this account Watson became so convinced of his own genius that he didn’t want to listen to equivalent experts in other fields, and upsetting them became a marker of being right.
A groundbreaking genius in being a tedious ex-academic contrarian basically.
A groundbreaking genius in being a tedious ex-academic contrarian basically.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Incredibly insightful and interesting. By this account Watson became so convinced of his own genius that he didn’t want to listen to equivalent experts in other fields, and upsetting them became a marker of being right.
A groundbreaking genius in being a tedious ex-academic contrarian basically.
A groundbreaking genius in being a tedious ex-academic contrarian basically.
Love to ouide Harvard with my custom nood
When I got the email, I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry:
“Our AI turned your paper ‘King’s Crowns: The’ into a shareable comic. ”
Here’s 24,000 words turned into four panels, including a reference to Nork City and the year 17605. Cf. newprairiepress.org/burgonsociet...
“Our AI turned your paper ‘King’s Crowns: The’ into a shareable comic. ”
Here’s 24,000 words turned into four panels, including a reference to Nork City and the year 17605. Cf. newprairiepress.org/burgonsociet...
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Love to ouide Harvard with my custom nood
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When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.
Under-explored (in my feed anyway) angle on AI relevant to the latest horrors. I have had unformed thoughts for a while on the potential uses of religion in this moment. Also stay for the parallel between Tim Leary pushing psychedelics and what current tech CEOs are doing.
As terrible as the record of the Christian Church is for regulating and certifying its Spiritual Guides and Pastoral Care workers, it is still WILDLY better than “an LLM and the people who made it”. Same goes for any major religious community, tbh.
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Under-explored (in my feed anyway) angle on AI relevant to the latest horrors. I have had unformed thoughts for a while on the potential uses of religion in this moment. Also stay for the parallel between Tim Leary pushing psychedelics and what current tech CEOs are doing.
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SSRIs aren't the worst! I also laugh at the notion.
"He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth."
Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters.
Sikorav Against the World
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...
"He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth."
Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters.
Sikorav Against the World
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...
Sikorav Against the World
A French psychiatrist’s efforts to do right by his patients brought him into conflict with the medical bureaucracy
www.psychiatrymargins.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
SSRIs aren't the worst! I also laugh at the notion.
"He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth."
Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters.
Sikorav Against the World
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...
"He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth."
Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters.
Sikorav Against the World
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
Support for bringing back the death penalty, by 2024 vote
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
Mysteries of the new enshittified autocorrect: it has come up with the word “probanly” maybe because I mishit the adjacent letters b/n once and now overrides me with it every time after hundreds of correct spellings, why??
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Mysteries of the new enshittified autocorrect: it has come up with the word “probanly” maybe because I mishit the adjacent letters b/n once and now overrides me with it every time after hundreds of correct spellings, why??
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🆕 Congratulations to our academic, Dr Udit Bhatia, and the POPGOV research team who have been awarded a €9 million Synergy Grant by the European Research Council 🙌
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
Ground-breaking project examining future of democracy awarded major grant | King's College London
A King’s academic is part of a research team that has been awarded more than €9 million by the European Research Council to deliver a landmark project that will seek to challenge the way we think abou...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🆕 Congratulations to our academic, Dr Udit Bhatia, and the POPGOV research team who have been awarded a €9 million Synergy Grant by the European Research Council 🙌
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...
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I quite like the idea that the tube’s gross bias towards N London is the result of Roman exploitation of ?bronze/iron age deforestation and cultivation of the area N of London while S London was held back by the impenetrability of the Great North Wood.
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I quite like the idea that the tube’s gross bias towards N London is the result of Roman exploitation of ?bronze/iron age deforestation and cultivation of the area N of London while S London was held back by the impenetrability of the Great North Wood.
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Short reminder that we have an #Archaeogaming session at the next #CAA2026 in Vienna! Please join us with a paper, the submission deadline is this Sunday! For more info have a look here: itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b... #conference #gaming #archaeology
Beyond Fun and Games? Rethinking Archaeogaming, Play, and DigitalHeritage - It's more of a comment...
At #CAA2026, Aris Politopoulos & I are hosting a session on #archaeogaming! We’ll explore inclusivity, ethics, critical limits and much more!
itsmoreofacomment.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Short reminder that we have an #Archaeogaming session at the next #CAA2026 in Vienna! Please join us with a paper, the submission deadline is this Sunday! For more info have a look here: itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b... #conference #gaming #archaeology
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD