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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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BBC News has a broken impartiality framework that results in promotion of far-right parties and views, inflating their popularity. Reply to my complaint about "Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK" promoted to 20m people because immigration was "probably" a reason(!)
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BBC News has a broken impartiality framework that results in promotion of far-right parties and views, inflating their popularity. Reply to my complaint about "Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK" promoted to 20m people because immigration was "probably" a reason(!)
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Key childhood risk factors associated with being a NEET (not in education, employment or training) are becoming more common.
These indicators matter for policy makers interested in the future NEETs outlook.
Read more➡️ buff.ly/kIei4lG
These indicators matter for policy makers interested in the future NEETs outlook.
Read more➡️ buff.ly/kIei4lG
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Key childhood risk factors associated with being a NEET (not in education, employment or training) are becoming more common.
These indicators matter for policy makers interested in the future NEETs outlook.
Read more➡️ buff.ly/kIei4lG
These indicators matter for policy makers interested in the future NEETs outlook.
Read more➡️ buff.ly/kIei4lG
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Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
It would seem sensible not to board any flight that has any possibility of entering any USA controlled air space.
#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It would seem sensible not to board any flight that has any possibility of entering any USA controlled air space.
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via www.birdtrack.net for monitoring purposes.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
BirdTrack | BTO
About BirdTrackBirdTrack allows volunteers to store and manage their own personal bird records, and uses these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales.
www.birdtrack.net
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Please also report dead or sick birds to BirdTrack via www.birdtrack.net for monitoring purposes.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
Please share this message far and wide with friends and birding communities. Thank you.
It’s the 4th November and I’m tired of the Christmas ads already.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It’s the 4th November and I’m tired of the Christmas ads already.
At least one UK school ISP allows unfiltered Twitter images directly to pupils in schools. How does that sit with #KCSIE and the #OnlineSafetyAct ?
Remember: Elon Musk saw a man distributing child sexual abuse material on Twitter, and insisted that the team restore that man's account on the service, and begin *paying that person to be on the service*. The person who distributed the abuse material is still on there, and Musk follows him.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
At least one UK school ISP allows unfiltered Twitter images directly to pupils in schools. How does that sit with #KCSIE and the #OnlineSafetyAct ?
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docs.google.com/forms/d/19we...?
If you work in education in any context and have five minutes, please could you complete this survey for an EPQ on edtech? Doesn’t matter where you work in the world
Thank you
If you work in education in any context and have five minutes, please could you complete this survey for an EPQ on edtech? Doesn’t matter where you work in the world
Thank you
Perspectives on AI in education
I'd like to know how much people already know about AI and whether they use it in education. This is purely for my EPQ, and all data will be stored confidentially and will not be used for any other pu...
docs.google.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
docs.google.com/forms/d/19we...?
If you work in education in any context and have five minutes, please could you complete this survey for an EPQ on edtech? Doesn’t matter where you work in the world
Thank you
If you work in education in any context and have five minutes, please could you complete this survey for an EPQ on edtech? Doesn’t matter where you work in the world
Thank you
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For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For more on the harms, definitely read @karenhao.bsky.social 's Empire of AI and for more on the bonkers ideology of Silicon Valley, @adambecker.bsky.social 's More Everything Forever.
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For anyone who wants to see that comment in context, it's here, on a post by Dagmar Monett, who is tirelessly trying to bring a dose of reality to that platform.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)
It is beyond her "[w]hy you would install an IT system that is designed to produce incorrect results": https://lnkd.in/dCjgaKnz (read please that article titled "OpenAI Goes to $1T Valu...
It is beyond her "[w]hy you would install an IT system that is designed to produce incorrect results": https://lnkd.in/dCjgaKnz (read please that article titled "OpenAI Goes to $1T Valuation on our Da...
www.linkedin.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
For anyone who wants to see that comment in context, it's here, on a post by Dagmar Monett, who is tirelessly trying to bring a dose of reality to that platform.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)
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BBCFOUR tonight (and onwards) is showing the original series Edge of Darkness - please book your seat now.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
BBCFOUR tonight (and onwards) is showing the original series Edge of Darkness - please book your seat now.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...
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Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim. www.wired.com/story/republ...
Republicans Claimed Biden Censored YouTube. 20 Employees Seem to Say Otherwise
Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.
www.wired.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim. www.wired.com/story/republ...
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If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Log In
Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
secure.cesvotes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
Use the Quick Vote option.
Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them
Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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🤖 You can now block many AI websites & content from your search engine results!
✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source Adblocker to your browser: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"
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✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source Adblocker to your browser: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"
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August 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🤖 You can now block many AI websites & content from your search engine results!
✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source Adblocker to your browser: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"
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✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source Adblocker to your browser: github.com/gorhill/uBlock
✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"
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(Kniphofia) Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
(Kniphofia) Happy Halloween!
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Some stupid algorithm (structurally incapable of processing contingency) has stopped thousands of child benefit payments b/c ppl flew back via different airports, didn’t board etc & were therefore deemed to have emigrated. Now imagine the carnage if Labour’s AI state is fully implemented.
Woman who booked flight to Italy but did not board has child benefits stopped
Woman who booked flight to Italy but did not board has child benefits stopped
Family denied entry at gate after one of her children had epileptic fit, but HMRC said she boarded one-way flight
A woman has had her child benefit stopped after booking a holiday to Italy because HMRC inferred she had emigrated – even though she and her family did not board the flight.
Sally, her three children and her partner were going on holiday to Italy last July, but were refused boarding after one of the children had an epileptic fit at the departure gate. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Some stupid algorithm (structurally incapable of processing contingency) has stopped thousands of child benefit payments b/c ppl flew back via different airports, didn’t board etc & were therefore deemed to have emigrated. Now imagine the carnage if Labour’s AI state is fully implemented.
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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#ChatGPT is getting spicy 😳
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#ChatGPT is getting spicy 😳
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
With plans to allow adult erotica for verified users, we asked Professor Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), Professor of AI & Society (@kingsartshums.bsky.social), what this means for human connection & the future of our relationships with technology.
#KingsQs🧵⬇️
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.