Jennifer Cobbe
@jennifercobbe.bsky.social
So 'no tax rises for working people' was a lie, just like every other political promise Starmer has ever made to get elected
What makes him better than Boris, exactly?
What makes him better than Boris, exactly?
Oh fuck I used to be a political reporter, can't help myself. Here's the big tax policies from the leaked budget.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
So 'no tax rises for working people' was a lie, just like every other political promise Starmer has ever made to get elected
What makes him better than Boris, exactly?
What makes him better than Boris, exactly?
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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Pleased to note my Cambridge lecture on how technical approaches to the right of explanation have gone haywire in the LLM era, is already up!
youtu.be/wLxuq3I2d_s?...
Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3
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Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3
Faithful or Traitor? The Right of Explanation in a Generative AI World: CIPIL Evening Seminar
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Pleased to note my Cambridge lecture on how technical approaches to the right of explanation have gone haywire in the LLM era, is already up!
youtu.be/wLxuq3I2d_s?...
Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3
youtu.be/wLxuq3I2d_s?...
Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Can we not direct research funding for party political purposes, come on
'Kendall told a UKRI event on 24 November that nearly a fifth of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s budget will be earmarked for research aligned with Labour’s missions, with £8 billion of UKRI’s £38.6 billion budget over the next five years “targeted towards the UK’s national priorities”.' 1/3
Kendall: Haldane not breached by research spending direction
Science secretary defends decision to dedicate nearly a fifth of UKRI budget to policy priorities
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Can we not direct research funding for party political purposes, come on
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I took the K-12 student certification to see how it works. Sample question.
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I took the K-12 student certification to see how it works. Sample question.
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1950s UK governments still assumed that shipyards along the Clyde would always be worldbeating without thinking much about how a changing global economy might affect them.
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
1950s UK governments still assumed that shipyards along the Clyde would always be worldbeating without thinking much about how a changing global economy might affect them.
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the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the thing that scares me about Labour HE policy is that because I work in the sector I can see how absolutely insane it is, which makes me wonder just how terrible their policies are in all the other sectors I’m in less of a position to engage with critically out of lack of knowledge.
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Alongside mooted restrictions on salary sacrifice - which universities make a lot of use of to pay for pensions - this is not shaping up to be a great budget for a sector already mired in cutbacks and redundancies.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Alongside mooted restrictions on salary sacrifice - which universities make a lot of use of to pay for pensions - this is not shaping up to be a great budget for a sector already mired in cutbacks and redundancies.
Reeves to unveil plan to shoot own foot
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Reeves to unveil plan to shoot own foot
Sympathetic to the fact that lots of very newsworthy things happen very quickly these days, but it is a bit odd that the UK Editor of ITV news says this as if he is simply an observer of the news cycle and not a participant in it
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sympathetic to the fact that lots of very newsworthy things happen very quickly these days, but it is a bit odd that the UK Editor of ITV news says this as if he is simply an observer of the news cycle and not a participant in it
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A Relative Mess: Identifying #Data Subjects in Multi-Party Processing
The author states that the modified relative interpretation of identifiability incentivises shadow processing.
Author: Jennifer Cobbe
Read More: spkl.io/63328AdnDe
@jennifercobbe.bsky.social
The author states that the modified relative interpretation of identifiability incentivises shadow processing.
Author: Jennifer Cobbe
Read More: spkl.io/63328AdnDe
@jennifercobbe.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Relative Mess: Identifying #Data Subjects in Multi-Party Processing
The author states that the modified relative interpretation of identifiability incentivises shadow processing.
Author: Jennifer Cobbe
Read More: spkl.io/63328AdnDe
@jennifercobbe.bsky.social
The author states that the modified relative interpretation of identifiability incentivises shadow processing.
Author: Jennifer Cobbe
Read More: spkl.io/63328AdnDe
@jennifercobbe.bsky.social
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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The Netherlands talks a big game about tech sovereignty, but is now about to allow the domestic cloud provider that underpins its national digital identity system and several other critical government services to be sold off to a new American owner.
Incomprehensible.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
Incomprehensible.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
Zorgen in de Tweede Kamer over Amerikaanse overname van DigiD-partner
Het van oorsprong Nederlandse cloud-bedrijf Solvinity komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen.
nos.nl
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Netherlands talks a big game about tech sovereignty, but is now about to allow the domestic cloud provider that underpins its national digital identity system and several other critical government services to be sold off to a new American owner.
Incomprehensible.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
Incomprehensible.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
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"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Do you think the plebs should get a jury trial" is such a thrilling line from Labour, truly great to see this
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In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
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I suspect they're delaying it because its mental and unworkable - and is clearly aimed at the exclusion of trans, and gender conforming people, from society.
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I suspect they're delaying it because its mental and unworkable - and is clearly aimed at the exclusion of trans, and gender conforming people, from society.
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In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
The problem here is not people pointing out that Tommy Robinson supports your policies, it's having policies that Tommy Robinson would support
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The problem here is not people pointing out that Tommy Robinson supports your policies, it's having policies that Tommy Robinson would support
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Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left!
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left!
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
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Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.