Legitimising far right rhetoric is just doing Farage's job for him.

My take in this disastrous political strategy, as a lifelong Labour voter.

We need to “take back control”… of The Labour Party. Sack McSweeney and stop this, or step down.

youtu.be/k8Z5CYvuptA?...

NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers

Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

1. I've come to detest the defeatist claim, attributed to various authors, that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. Of course you can't imagine the end of capitalism if you don’t know what it is! But as soon as you clearly define it, you can see how it ends. 🧵

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵

Great talk here by the brilliant @romankrznaric.bsky.social Do give it a watch.
www.ted.com/talks/roman_...

IT IS A COUP.

In the few days since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social wrote this terrifying article, Trump and Musk have loudly displayed their allegiance to Putin.

They are rapidly turning the USA into a Putinist dictatorship.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-co...

For the first time ever, we’re sitting down with the immune system itself! 🧪🎬

The T Cell Show is an animated talk show that explores how our bodies fight off infections and diseases.

Watch the first episode now: https://buff.ly/4hKClz8

@itreg.bsky.social
#ImmunoSky

Hey, regarding Amazon disabling USB downloads:

It can be totally bypassed with a download of free software, and one can strip out the DRM, by following the instructions at the link. Then the files are yours to do with as you will, as they should be.

1. We cannot now rule out the possibility of systemic collapse in the United States. If Trump and Musk paralyse the federal government, this could trigger social, financial and industrial failures. Neither Trump nor his team know how to respond to such failures, which could snowball and converge. 🧵

Exactly what some insiders claimed wasn't happening.

There's always a huge danger in using a black box system to process any form of claim unless those commissioning the system are ethically beyond reproach, and willing and able to do intensive testing on it.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

1/8

@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

Long thread of initial reflections on today's immigration statistics as I read through them. First off, it would be great if people could remember they are from June, that means that, not matter your political persuasions, they are down to the previous government. 1/
www.gov.uk/government/s...

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Just out: “Globalising Plant Knowledge Beyond Bioprospecting” (collection on Ethnoscience hosted by History of Anthropology Review). 1st of a series of papers on extractive epistemologies which my next monograph will treat in detail - comments warmly welcome!

histanthro.org/notes/global...