John BH
@johnbriggsh.bsky.social
Learning to listen. Trying to be better. Trying to escape my western perspective.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
Transcript from the introduction.
October 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Transcript from the introduction.
Piracy is generally considered a bad thing. But here, The Guardian struggles to say Israel is acting illegally and then gives up.
Nor does the paper demand to know where the Royal Navy is, given the presence of UK citizens on the flotilla.
Nor does the paper demand to know where the Royal Navy is, given the presence of UK citizens on the flotilla.
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Piracy is generally considered a bad thing. But here, The Guardian struggles to say Israel is acting illegally and then gives up.
Nor does the paper demand to know where the Royal Navy is, given the presence of UK citizens on the flotilla.
Nor does the paper demand to know where the Royal Navy is, given the presence of UK citizens on the flotilla.
Object of desire (for me, at least).
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Object of desire (for me, at least).
Currently reading, and learning much from this: a Muslim Jew’s personal mission to recover a pre-colonial past.
“For how could one belong to a world made nonexistent?”
“For how could one belong to a world made nonexistent?”
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Currently reading, and learning much from this: a Muslim Jew’s personal mission to recover a pre-colonial past.
“For how could one belong to a world made nonexistent?”
“For how could one belong to a world made nonexistent?”
According to the branding, “facts are sacred” : but allowances are still made for outright falsehoods.
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
According to the branding, “facts are sacred” : but allowances are still made for outright falsehoods.
Guardian diplomatic editor in all manner of contortions here.
Has Streeting finally grasped what was known over a century ago: that the Zionist creation of Israel entailed the repression then slaughter or removal of those already living there ( the dog in the manger as Churchill described them)?
Has Streeting finally grasped what was known over a century ago: that the Zionist creation of Israel entailed the repression then slaughter or removal of those already living there ( the dog in the manger as Churchill described them)?
September 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Guardian diplomatic editor in all manner of contortions here.
Has Streeting finally grasped what was known over a century ago: that the Zionist creation of Israel entailed the repression then slaughter or removal of those already living there ( the dog in the manger as Churchill described them)?
Has Streeting finally grasped what was known over a century ago: that the Zionist creation of Israel entailed the repression then slaughter or removal of those already living there ( the dog in the manger as Churchill described them)?
And I was just beginning to regain interest in men’s tennis as Djokovic fades away. Not any more.
September 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
And I was just beginning to regain interest in men’s tennis as Djokovic fades away. Not any more.
“Truth is something with which one is careful.”
Current reading; currently highlighting nearly every word. This is changing how I sense everything.
“Aesthetic investigations have a double aim: they are at the same time investigations of the world and enquiries into the means of knowing it.”
Current reading; currently highlighting nearly every word. This is changing how I sense everything.
“Aesthetic investigations have a double aim: they are at the same time investigations of the world and enquiries into the means of knowing it.”
September 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“Truth is something with which one is careful.”
Current reading; currently highlighting nearly every word. This is changing how I sense everything.
“Aesthetic investigations have a double aim: they are at the same time investigations of the world and enquiries into the means of knowing it.”
Current reading; currently highlighting nearly every word. This is changing how I sense everything.
“Aesthetic investigations have a double aim: they are at the same time investigations of the world and enquiries into the means of knowing it.”
“That one may smile, and smile, and be” not just a villain, but the vilest of humanity: feeling smugly safe in the knowledge that the USA is protecting them from arrest.
August 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
“That one may smile, and smile, and be” not just a villain, but the vilest of humanity: feeling smugly safe in the knowledge that the USA is protecting them from arrest.
Encouraging his constituents to do unpaid labour (training the AI). A first question for the chatbot should be who is the data controller for the recorded conversations, as they’re being used for that training.
August 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Encouraging his constituents to do unpaid labour (training the AI). A first question for the chatbot should be who is the data controller for the recorded conversations, as they’re being used for that training.
Corrected for you, Guardian.
Your sub-editors asleep at the wheel again.
Your sub-editors asleep at the wheel again.
August 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Corrected for you, Guardian.
Your sub-editors asleep at the wheel again.
Your sub-editors asleep at the wheel again.
The Guardian not equivocating in its headline.
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Guardian not equivocating in its headline.
More desperately sad news.
Medical Aid for PalestinIans (MAP) has been forced by Israeli military to close its clinic in Deir al-Belah, abandon its supplies and equipment, and evacuate its staff. Please contact your MP (see alt-text).
““The situation in Deir al-Balah is now extremely critical.”
Medical Aid for PalestinIans (MAP) has been forced by Israeli military to close its clinic in Deir al-Belah, abandon its supplies and equipment, and evacuate its staff. Please contact your MP (see alt-text).
““The situation in Deir al-Balah is now extremely critical.”
July 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
More desperately sad news.
Medical Aid for PalestinIans (MAP) has been forced by Israeli military to close its clinic in Deir al-Belah, abandon its supplies and equipment, and evacuate its staff. Please contact your MP (see alt-text).
““The situation in Deir al-Balah is now extremely critical.”
Medical Aid for PalestinIans (MAP) has been forced by Israeli military to close its clinic in Deir al-Belah, abandon its supplies and equipment, and evacuate its staff. Please contact your MP (see alt-text).
““The situation in Deir al-Balah is now extremely critical.”
Implementing a massive change to an IT system using FI&FO instead of ITIL.
July 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Implementing a massive change to an IT system using FI&FO instead of ITIL.
Organising further crimes against humanity over dinner.
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Organising further crimes against humanity over dinner.
Excellent piece. And this in particular needed saying: the best - and worst - example of people unfit to manage is Parliament:
June 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Excellent piece. And this in particular needed saying: the best - and worst - example of people unfit to manage is Parliament:
Only just had time to say that Israel never holds to a ceasefire, when …
June 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Only just had time to say that Israel never holds to a ceasefire, when …
What, all Christians?
April 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
What, all Christians?
Still at the stage of learning how difficult it is to unlearn: how not to use the very modes of thinking I want not to use to stop using them.
April 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Still at the stage of learning how difficult it is to unlearn: how not to use the very modes of thinking I want not to use to stop using them.
“ I have had a difficult time even writing these words because I cannot stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.”
Diana Butto writes for @zeteo.com
Diana Butto writes for @zeteo.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“ I have had a difficult time even writing these words because I cannot stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.”
Diana Butto writes for @zeteo.com
Diana Butto writes for @zeteo.com
Remember the Brexit campaign and what you might describe as “racialized calls to restore the powers of the sovereign”, which have not been set aside since. Far from it.
Well,
Well,
March 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Remember the Brexit campaign and what you might describe as “racialized calls to restore the powers of the sovereign”, which have not been set aside since. Far from it.
Well,
Well,
I think Gerrard Winstanley was on to something here.
March 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I think Gerrard Winstanley was on to something here.