@mpassera.bsky.social
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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IFS reports that 'teaching spend at universities has declined 22 per cent in real terms since a peak just after fees were raised in 2012-2013, falling by about £2,700 per student to £9,900 in 2024-25 – with much of the state spending taking the form of repayable loans to students.' 1/3
Spend on university teaching falls by a fifth since 2012
Fee freezes bring down spend per student, as overall funding for education in England reaches historic lows
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM
IFS reports that 'teaching spend at universities has declined 22 per cent in real terms since a peak just after fees were raised in 2012-2013, falling by about £2,700 per student to £9,900 in 2024-25 – with much of the state spending taking the form of repayable loans to students.' 1/3
"You cannot “live within the lie” of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination..." Carney's speech. Cited from : open.substack.com/pub/engageme...
Prime Minister Carney's historic address to the world today at Davos: a course-setting speech for Canada
We share the PM's speech today about the world "as it is" and the conclusions he is drawing for Canada -- and for the world. No commentary from us. Purpose is an open discussion through Comments.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 AM
"You cannot “live within the lie” of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination..." Carney's speech. Cited from : open.substack.com/pub/engageme...
Fascinating look at what we lose when we use screens- yes I'm a hypocrite... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Fascinating look at what we lose when we use screens- yes I'm a hypocrite... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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“Nato: Tell Denmark to get them out of here, NOW! Two dogsleds won’t do it! Only the USA can!!!” -Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
a cartoon of snoopy pulling charlie brown in a sled in the snow
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy pulling charlie brown in a sled in the snow
media.tenor.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
“Nato: Tell Denmark to get them out of here, NOW! Two dogsleds won’t do it! Only the USA can!!!” -Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
" ...but I worry about their costs to society, around bias, cybersecurity, misinformation, nonconsensual deepfake porn, copyright theft, energy and water usage, the gradual enshittification of the internet, the severe hit to college education" open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be
A skeptic’s pre-mortem
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
" ...but I worry about their costs to society, around bias, cybersecurity, misinformation, nonconsensual deepfake porn, copyright theft, energy and water usage, the gradual enshittification of the internet, the severe hit to college education" open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation - Social Media Lab
Most conversations about AI focus on convenience, like how it drafts emails or speeds up everyday tasks, but the real story runs deeper. As Philip Mai shared at the Pathways to Prosperity Conference i...
socialmedialab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/f...
Good visuals from PEW research (www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...)
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Good visuals from PEW research (www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...)
Sightseeing in Chicago
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
bsky.app/profile/mand...
bsky.app/profile/mand...
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sightseeing in Chicago
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Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
PEW research on how Americsns view Higher Education: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Growing share of Americans say the U.S. higher education system is headed in the wrong direction
In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.
www.pewresearch.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
PEW research on how Americsns view Higher Education: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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'It’s a system, lest we forget, that has delivered a collapse in on-campus engagement, has entrenched food banks on campus and has seen the percentage of students engaged in part-time work during term double from a third to over two-thirds.
And the problem? It’s going to get much, much worse'.
And the problem? It’s going to get much, much worse'.
Improvements to maintenance support are nothing of the sort
The headline “announcement” in the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper on living costs is that maintenance loans will rise in line with forecast inflation every academic year.
wonkhe.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'It’s a system, lest we forget, that has delivered a collapse in on-campus engagement, has entrenched food banks on campus and has seen the percentage of students engaged in part-time work during term double from a third to over two-thirds.
And the problem? It’s going to get much, much worse'.
And the problem? It’s going to get much, much worse'.
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
John 15:20 "A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also."
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
John 15:20 "A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also."
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Necessary work by the Guardian here.
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Necessary work by the Guardian here.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.
And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
September 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.
And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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This is simply terrible?! This government is tie-ing us into the US oligarchy & preventing us from developing sovereign AI. It’s like pre-privatisation! It is absolutely shocking & we should oppose it!
#vassalstate
#vassalstate
The MoD had announced £1.5bn 'strategic partnership' deal with US tech firm Palantir.
That's strategic for the US in the same way that the US have strategic nuclear weapons.
Palantir is partially CIA funded and seems to be inserting itself into key UK infrastructure, including the NHS and defence.
That's strategic for the US in the same way that the US have strategic nuclear weapons.
Palantir is partially CIA funded and seems to be inserting itself into key UK infrastructure, including the NHS and defence.
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is simply terrible?! This government is tie-ing us into the US oligarchy & preventing us from developing sovereign AI. It’s like pre-privatisation! It is absolutely shocking & we should oppose it!
#vassalstate
#vassalstate
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Interesting paper from Rutgers' School of Comm & Info:
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24126
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24126
September 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Interesting paper from Rutgers' School of Comm & Info:
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24126
How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24126
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Reading The Midnight Library, and this line popped out. Explains a lot right now.
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’”
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’”
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reading The Midnight Library, and this line popped out. Explains a lot right now.
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’”
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’”
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Female graduates in the UK fall behind men from the very start of their careers, even when they have taken the same courses, and are out-earned after studying more than four-fifths of university subjects (1/3) www.ft.com/content/cb0e...
August 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Female graduates in the UK fall behind men from the very start of their careers, even when they have taken the same courses, and are out-earned after studying more than four-fifths of university subjects (1/3) www.ft.com/content/cb0e...