Michael Carley
@drmcarley.bsky.social
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property. Lefty migrant
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I hope you're proud of yourselves.
Revenue generated by subscribers to The Irish Times is now fully funding its journalism for the first time - ten years after starting subs strategy
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Editor interview as revenue generated by subscribers to The Irish Times is now fully funding its journalism for the first time.
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February 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I hope you're proud of yourselves.
This is a useful way to look at the distinction between academic disciplines and it also allows for a better way of looking at what they have in common:
Engineering and Law both give students a qualification for entry into a profession where they will be expected to undertake training on the job.
Engineering and Law both give students a qualification for entry into a profession where they will be expected to undertake training on the job.
One unhelpful aspect of current discourse around universities is tendency to set HE & vocational courses in opposition.
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
February 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
This is a useful way to look at the distinction between academic disciplines and it also allows for a better way of looking at what they have in common:
Engineering and Law both give students a qualification for entry into a profession where they will be expected to undertake training on the job.
Engineering and Law both give students a qualification for entry into a profession where they will be expected to undertake training on the job.
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One unhelpful aspect of current discourse around universities is tendency to set HE & vocational courses in opposition.
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
February 18, 2026 at 10:58 AM
One unhelpful aspect of current discourse around universities is tendency to set HE & vocational courses in opposition.
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
Reality is more than half of students in UK universities are doing these directly vocational subjects:
-Business studies
-subjects allied to medicine
-computing
-engineering
-law
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world."
Yes!
Yes!
Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
February 18, 2026 at 10:20 AM
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world."
Yes!
Yes!
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"The turning point was that Torvalds not only accepted outside changes but actively encouraged them, treating his kernel as a commons that others could extend."
Hardly a new point, but always jumps out at me when open digital projects use the language of The Commons.
Hardly a new point, but always jumps out at me when open digital projects use the language of The Commons.
Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible
If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." We know that the "hobby" operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.…
dlvr.it
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
"The turning point was that Torvalds not only accepted outside changes but actively encouraged them, treating his kernel as a commons that others could extend."
Hardly a new point, but always jumps out at me when open digital projects use the language of The Commons.
Hardly a new point, but always jumps out at me when open digital projects use the language of The Commons.
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Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.
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The problem with America, meanwhile, is wankers.
🗣️ “The problem with Europe is mass immigration and climate policies.”
On #EuropeToday, US Ambassador to the EU says these are the reasons why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated at the Munich Security Conference the US administration’s message that Europe risks civilisational erasure.
On #EuropeToday, US Ambassador to the EU says these are the reasons why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated at the Munich Security Conference the US administration’s message that Europe risks civilisational erasure.
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The problem with America, meanwhile, is wankers.
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This is why the entire terrain of contest for decades has been *social* liberalism - who has rights, who deserves respect, and so on: because social liberalism doesn’t cost money, and doesn’t threaten the power structure. And if the right pushes back hard, it can simply be overturned and withdrawn.
February 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM
This is why the entire terrain of contest for decades has been *social* liberalism - who has rights, who deserves respect, and so on: because social liberalism doesn’t cost money, and doesn’t threaten the power structure. And if the right pushes back hard, it can simply be overturned and withdrawn.
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I'm not sure if ppl outside academia realise that if you quit a permanent post in this job market you will amost certainly never get another one, esp in arts & hums. All that post graduate training, the years of precarity, not being able to choose where you or your family live. Pffft. For nothing.
February 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
I'm not sure if ppl outside academia realise that if you quit a permanent post in this job market you will amost certainly never get another one, esp in arts & hums. All that post graduate training, the years of precarity, not being able to choose where you or your family live. Pffft. For nothing.
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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
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An interlude here: this is the same journo’s 2017 story, which he based on a dossier of Facebook comments made by random members of the public that he was given by “Labour whistleblowers”. You might know these whistleblowers better as “Morgan McSweeney, Steve Reed and Labour Together”.
February 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM
An interlude here: this is the same journo’s 2017 story, which he based on a dossier of Facebook comments made by random members of the public that he was given by “Labour whistleblowers”. You might know these whistleblowers better as “Morgan McSweeney, Steve Reed and Labour Together”.
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One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.
February 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.
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He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
How many of the media outlets eulogizing Rev. Jesse Jackson today spent decades trying to undermine his work & turn him into a punchline?
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
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This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.
February 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.
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Poster from when Ireland played Israel in 2005
February 17, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Poster from when Ireland played Israel in 2005
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Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
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📣 Unite UCU TU Victimisation Strike Rally
⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm
📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester
💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...
Everyone welcome
✊✊✊
⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm
📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester
💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...
Everyone welcome
✊✊✊
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
📣 Unite UCU TU Victimisation Strike Rally
⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm
📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester
💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...
Everyone welcome
✊✊✊
⏰ Weds 18 February @ 7pm
📍 In-person: Mechanics’ Institute, Manchester
💻 Online access: unitetheunion-org.zoom.us/j/9198478678...
Everyone welcome
✊✊✊
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If you are undecided in the UCU elections, @seanawallis.bsky.social @regipilling.bsky.social for VP in HE and FE will do brilliant work.
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
If you are undecided in the UCU elections, @seanawallis.bsky.social @regipilling.bsky.social for VP in HE and FE will do brilliant work.
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Cane Sugar: Protestant.
Beet Sugar: Catholic.
Agave Syrup: Notions.
Beet Sugar: Catholic.
Agave Syrup: Notions.
Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Cane Sugar: Protestant.
Beet Sugar: Catholic.
Agave Syrup: Notions.
Beet Sugar: Catholic.
Agave Syrup: Notions.
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I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.
February 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.
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Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes
February 17, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes
An adolescent soul not inoculated by sectarian debate, not enriched by the Eighteenth Brumaire and study groups of Capital, is open to any infection, such as 9/11 conspiracism and junk-science climate catastrophism substituting for analysis of political economy.
www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/05/d...
www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/05/d...
Downhill From Greensboro: the Left, 1960-2010
CounterPunch Diary
www.counterpunch.org
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
An adolescent soul not inoculated by sectarian debate, not enriched by the Eighteenth Brumaire and study groups of Capital, is open to any infection, such as 9/11 conspiracism and junk-science climate catastrophism substituting for analysis of political economy.
www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/05/d...
www.counterpunch.org/2010/02/05/d...
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The 1988 Democratic National Convention was the only one in my lifetime that held the drama of a real nomination race. That's due to Jesse Jackson, his campaign and his Keep Hope Alive speech. Watching it on TV is a memory I've been grateful for all these years. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 12:44 PM
The 1988 Democratic National Convention was the only one in my lifetime that held the drama of a real nomination race. That's due to Jesse Jackson, his campaign and his Keep Hope Alive speech. Watching it on TV is a memory I've been grateful for all these years. RIP.