@caitlinscott.bsky.social
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Christ on a bike. It’s so desperate, so low, it makes me ashamed to belong to the same species.
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Christ on a bike. It’s so desperate, so low, it makes me ashamed to belong to the same species.
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The arts and humanities are often seen as a luxury, yet they build essential skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection highlights how they benefit students, universities and society alike: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin... #AcademicSky #EduSky
Making the case for arts and humanities
The arts and humanities are often dismissed as an unaffordable luxury, when these disciplines underpin vital human skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection explo...
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The arts and humanities are often seen as a luxury, yet they build essential skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection highlights how they benefit students, universities and society alike: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/makin... #AcademicSky #EduSky
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism
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So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
More in the piece:
More in the piece:
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
More in the piece:
More in the piece:
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Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Three Birds | Lin Fengmian
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Three Birds | Lin Fengmian
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
‘Let them eat cake’
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
‘Let them eat cake’
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I find AI writing both impressing and disappointing. Impressive because it uses big words and is written in sound language, which is surprising for an LLM, disappointing because more often than not it's complete rubbish too often. Upon reading it reads very well, but as soon as you put it down, ...
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I find AI writing both impressing and disappointing. Impressive because it uses big words and is written in sound language, which is surprising for an LLM, disappointing because more often than not it's complete rubbish too often. Upon reading it reads very well, but as soon as you put it down, ...
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Checkmate, MAGA
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Checkmate, MAGA
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Tech bros want women to have more babies. But they’re going about it the wrong way | Emma Beddington
Tech bros want women to have more babies. But they’re going about it the wrong way | Emma Beddington
Dropping birthrates are worrying Elon Musk, JD Vance and the like. But their proposed remedies are risible. Here are some surefire winners, writes Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tech bros want women to have more babies. But they’re going about it the wrong way | Emma Beddington
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Jenrick says in this interview that processing claims quickly just encourages more people to come. He claims, falsely, New Labour as evidence.
A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
August 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jenrick says in this interview that processing claims quickly just encourages more people to come. He claims, falsely, New Labour as evidence.
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"According to sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target.."
“It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters”
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian r...
www.972mag.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"According to sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target.."
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Please make it stop. The slop. Make it stop.
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Please make it stop. The slop. Make it stop.
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‘Precisely designed mass starvation’ is a terrible series of words, my god, and no country on earth should escape eternal judgment and condemnation for this.
None.
None.
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
July 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
‘Precisely designed mass starvation’ is a terrible series of words, my god, and no country on earth should escape eternal judgment and condemnation for this.
None.
None.
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At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
July 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
If it has ever been clearer that teachers and universities are simply an impediment to these companies seeking to make students a captive population and then making trillions off those students it’s here
Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students.
Oh.
(This article is nominally not a press release?)
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
Oh.
(This article is nominally not a press release?)
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
July 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I make people fat 🤝 I make people thin
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
June 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I make people fat 🤝 I make people thin
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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The antidote to depressing political news is to read about a decent man trying to make a difference
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Prisons minister James Timpson: ‘This is not a quick fix’
The former chief executive of the Timpson Group on his plans to modernise the penal system — and how to stop ex-convicts reoffending
www.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The antidote to depressing political news is to read about a decent man trying to make a difference
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
Lunch with the FT with James Timpson, by Emma Jacobs
www.ft.com/content/9c06...
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🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Starmer’s Big Tech lobbying problem
Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
@privateeyenews.bsky.social this ought to be in some column of yours where satire is weeping
My employer is offering a training session on 'Stoic self-care'. I very much doubt anyone who has actually read ancient Stoicism was consulted in the creation of this course. Somehow, I will avoid going, as I may be perceived as rather obnoxious with my knowledge of actual Stoicism.
May 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@privateeyenews.bsky.social this ought to be in some column of yours where satire is weeping
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US climate philanthropies fear Trump blow from loss of tax-free status
https://www.ft.com/content/498c6a98-bfce-4e69-8c58-24fdb082904d
https://www.ft.com/content/498c6a98-bfce-4e69-8c58-24fdb082904d
US climate philanthropies fear Trump blow from loss of tax-free status
Chilling effect on charitable organisations comes as need for funding rises amid Trump cuts
www.ft.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
US climate philanthropies fear Trump blow from loss of tax-free status
https://www.ft.com/content/498c6a98-bfce-4e69-8c58-24fdb082904d
https://www.ft.com/content/498c6a98-bfce-4e69-8c58-24fdb082904d
🎙️"Compulsory redundancies [...] would represent a new low in the history of the institution."
🎧 Nick Grant, co-chair of UEA UCU, explains on BBC Radio Norfolk why staff at the university are taking strike action.
🚩Resisting further cuts is in the interests of both staff and students. #SaveUEA
🎧 Nick Grant, co-chair of UEA UCU, explains on BBC Radio Norfolk why staff at the university are taking strike action.
🚩Resisting further cuts is in the interests of both staff and students. #SaveUEA
April 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM