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Devrim Ozdemir
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“The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has warned recent events in US private credit markets have worrying echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that kicked off the global financial crash of 2008.”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis
Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Choosing to stand with the far-right foreign football hooligan against the local police force: this, apparently, is what British patriotism looks like in 2025. Truly, we are through the looking-glass here.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Air temperatures, soil temperatures and reanalyses all agree on how the UK’s climate has warmed & varied over the past decades.

Don’t listen to the usual critics who try to claim otherwise…

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends
climatelabbook.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
What else does not makes you racist? Wearing white hood and carrying torch? Seems, these lovely labour elites are trying to normalise racism in UK while targeting conservative votes.
September 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Worth to spend time within ✌️

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The Burial (film) - Wikipedia
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September 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy Friday everyone!

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B.B. King with Slash "The Thrill Is Gone". Amazing.
YouTube video by GuitarXplosion
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August 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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here is the recording of my book launch at LSE Middle East Centre 👇
Missed Seçkin Sertdemir's book launch on 'Civic Death in Contemporary #Turkey: Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State'?

🎧 Catch up with the full recording now on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas... @cambridgeup.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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AYFKM

There is special circle of hell for those who fabricate data

Immeasurable harm to all of us who break our backs to collect real data, to brilliant students who deserved that position, to other students who won’t get trust they deserve — just obscene
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?

Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.

My piece on the real dangers of AI.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
May 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We know where destructive divisive politics will lead. We know what’s at stake. And it falls to us to stop it.

youtu.be/C4I0YPATcJQ
We must stop the rise of destructive, divisive politics - Ed Davey
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, speaking at the Spring 2025 Liberal Democrat conference about the threat posed by Nigel Farage, Reform and their d...
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May 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Very ashamed today of Starmer/Labour's comments about 'island of strangers' and 'incalculable damage'. It's the job of the government to leave the country in a better place than they found it, not to appeal to the base instincts of a nation in order simply to carry on governing.
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I am thrilled to launch my new book and hear feedback from Banu Bargu and Elise Massicard, two outstanding scholars!

#BookLaunch #Polisky #AcademicSky
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Details are here👇
May 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Bill Gates on Elon Musk: "…the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children."
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
During his RSA keynote, Schneier asked: "Did your chatbot recommend a particular airline or hotel because it's the best deal for you, or because the AI company got a kickback from those companies?"

www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/s...
Schneier warns that AI loses integrity due to corporate bias
RSAC: Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?
www.theregister.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Joy of reuniting with an old friend after a long time.

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Şapka (Enstrümantal) - Yuhu (Hazar Sahilinde Albümü)
YouTube video by Uzelli
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April 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UK version of “Minority Report”. This time, it’s not a movie. I can’t believe that public funds are being used on this.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM