Graeme Tiffany
@graemetiffany.bsky.social
Independent education consultant, trainer, lecturer and researcher in informal & community education, community development and #communityphilosophy. https://graemetiffany.co.uk/; https://communityphilosophy.co.uk/
Surely time to worry when even the architects of #AI are terrified by what they have unleashed: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’
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December 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Surely time to worry when even the architects of #AI are terrified by what they have unleashed: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ryder Cup golf - a lesson on the Trumpification of America: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
I was there: Europe’s dramatic Ryder Cup win signed off a strange week
Extraordinary golf was often overshadowed by Donald Trump, colourful fans, crazy MCs and tempers flaring
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December 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ryder Cup golf - a lesson on the Trumpification of America: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
It's not just sex and gender; a great deal of the language we use is lacking in conceptual clarity, poor question design and political impartiality. Surely a case for #philosophy being taught more broadly? www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's not just sex and gender; a great deal of the language we use is lacking in conceptual clarity, poor question design and political impartiality. Surely a case for #philosophy being taught more broadly? www.gov.uk/government/p...
"He thinks silence is peace, and does not seem to realise it can also reflect oppression." One of the first thing peace studies students learn is that peace is not simply the absence of conflict / violence / war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australian move to fast-track new gun and protest laws draws criticism
Civil liberties advocates say laws 'damage our democracy' while others say they scapegoat gun owners.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"He thinks silence is peace, and does not seem to realise it can also reflect oppression." One of the first thing peace studies students learn is that peace is not simply the absence of conflict / violence / war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today I learnt that the number of 'peace walls' in Belfast has doubled since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today I learnt that the number of 'peace walls' in Belfast has doubled since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Awaiting the backlash; expect a diatribe about foreigners coming in by the backdoor etc. Commentary on costs will be misplaced too, UK will likely be a net recipient #Erasmus www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027
British students will be able to spend a year studying at EU universities without paying extra fees, and vice versa for European students.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Awaiting the backlash; expect a diatribe about foreigners coming in by the backdoor etc. Commentary on costs will be misplaced too, UK will likely be a net recipient #Erasmus www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
Back in the day, the likes of Carey would have walked. Has technology become an inhibitor to #ethics? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
The Ashes 2025-26: Australia's Alex Carey reprieved by Snicko operator error
The company that owns the Snicko technology takes
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December 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Back in the day, the likes of Carey would have walked. Has technology become an inhibitor to #ethics? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
Lecturer uses #AI to write course materials. Lecturer uses AI to set essay question. Student uses AI to write essay. Lecturer uses AI to mark essay. At least and at last the questions posed by philosophers of #education for millennia come to the fore: what is education and what is it to be educated?
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Lecturer uses #AI to write course materials. Lecturer uses AI to set essay question. Student uses AI to write essay. Lecturer uses AI to mark essay. At least and at last the questions posed by philosophers of #education for millennia come to the fore: what is education and what is it to be educated?
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Let it not be said that, we, the people, have no power: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Portugal hit by severe disruption in first general strike for 12 years
PM Luís Montenegro appears to have been taken aback by the strength of feeling against his government's labour reforms.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Let it not be said that, we, the people, have no power: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Yorkshire's heritage brazenly stolen; thieves need a 'good hiding': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stone thieves strip away Ossett cobbled road's history
Thieves have been ripping up centuries-old Yorkshire stone, leaving residents calling for help.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#Yorkshire's heritage brazenly stolen; thieves need a 'good hiding': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Botanical neo-colonialism
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Botanical neo-colonialism
Women, incarceration, The Stigma Machine and Low Hanging Fruit: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Bad girls’ is how society labels women in prison. But what if that label is a lie? | Sabrina Mahtani
Incarceration should be a last resort, yet this broken and brutal system punishes marginalised women, most of whom are inside for non-violent crimes
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Women, incarceration, The Stigma Machine and Low Hanging Fruit: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Politicians can huff and puff all they like but there are limits to their capacity to direct their 'followers'; in the end the youth will make up their own mind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ultra-Orthodox conscription bill threatens crisis for Israel's government
Lawmakers are considering a draft bill to end the exemption granted to ultra-Orthodox men enrolled in full-time religious study.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Politicians can huff and puff all they like but there are limits to their capacity to direct their 'followers'; in the end the youth will make up their own mind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No evidence, no due process; how can this be anything other than extra-judicial killing? Changing the language: calling this "a non-international armed conflict" won't cut it. These guys are, literally, out of control i.e. contemptuous of #democracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US authorised second deadly Venezuela boat strike, White House says
The strike has raised fresh legality questions, but the White House insists a US Navy commander worked
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December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
No evidence, no due process; how can this be anything other than extra-judicial killing? Changing the language: calling this "a non-international armed conflict" won't cut it. These guys are, literally, out of control i.e. contemptuous of #democracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
At the very same time that #Labour gets excited by the importation of Danish immigration policies Copenhagen's Social Democrats (the architects of these policies) cite them as a cause of their demise.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
At the very same time that #Labour gets excited by the importation of Danish immigration policies Copenhagen's Social Democrats (the architects of these policies) cite them as a cause of their demise.
"Eight out of ten people who had been incorrectly flagged up to the Met Police by Live Facial Recognition were black." Algorithms of Oppression; need to contested at all costs: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First facial recognition vans deployed in Leeds
Police say the tech promotes safety but a civil liberty expert describes it as
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November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Eight out of ten people who had been incorrectly flagged up to the Met Police by Live Facial Recognition were black." Algorithms of Oppression; need to contested at all costs: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So, the #BBC are found guilty of bias and there's an almighty pile-in. And yet social media platforms routinely spew out misinformation without consequence.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
So, the #BBC are found guilty of bias and there's an almighty pile-in. And yet social media platforms routinely spew out misinformation without consequence.
What "I acted on instinct" tells us about the reality of 'human nature': BBC Radio 4 - Thought for the Day, Chine McDonald share.google/80MPW8jURANd...
BBC Radio 4 - Thought for the Day, Chine McDonald
03 NOV 2025
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November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
What "I acted on instinct" tells us about the reality of 'human nature': BBC Radio 4 - Thought for the Day, Chine McDonald share.google/80MPW8jURANd...
More than ten years ago Dorling observed: "racism is more unpopular than immigration". Does this hold true today?
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
More than ten years ago Dorling observed: "racism is more unpopular than immigration". Does this hold true today?
@monachalabi.bsky.social
Mona, I'm a big fan. Have you ever done anything about the 'housing crisis'? See Danny Dorling: this is a spatial #inequality issue - with the wealthy rattling around in large properties and the poor in overcrowded places i.e. living space/footprint vs. income distribution?
Mona, I'm a big fan. Have you ever done anything about the 'housing crisis'? See Danny Dorling: this is a spatial #inequality issue - with the wealthy rattling around in large properties and the poor in overcrowded places i.e. living space/footprint vs. income distribution?
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@monachalabi.bsky.social
Mona, I'm a big fan. Have you ever done anything about the 'housing crisis'? See Danny Dorling: this is a spatial #inequality issue - with the wealthy rattling around in large properties and the poor in overcrowded places i.e. living space/footprint vs. income distribution?
Mona, I'm a big fan. Have you ever done anything about the 'housing crisis'? See Danny Dorling: this is a spatial #inequality issue - with the wealthy rattling around in large properties and the poor in overcrowded places i.e. living space/footprint vs. income distribution?
Simply put: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Philip Pullman's alethiometer and 'wicked' AI scraping
Sir Philip shows Katie Razzall his alethiometer, which he had made by a jeweller
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October 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Simply put: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...