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Rosalynd Southern
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Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine
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karengregory.bsky.social
Just to say, I am a supervisor here:

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing
www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...

If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out:
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
2026 Studentships
www.responsiblenlp.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said words to the effect of “it can’t get any dumber or more insulting than this” but here’s the thing: it always can, and it always does.
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugble... • 30m do you have any idea how nuts it is that people have lost their jobs for implying that Trump supported and encouraging the Capitol Hill riots when that is exactly what happened lol. we were all there in real time watching him tweet 'stop the count'. this is hysterical Athena Kugblenu @athenak... • 35m BYEEEEEEEE www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... B BIC NEWS BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates It comes after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a documentary about
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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numb.comfortab.ly
If you need a reminder how Schumer handled the last shutdown situation check out who occupies the most spots in bsky.app/profile/numb...
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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sheg7.bsky.social
Genuinely believe with my whole heart that the stances on trans rights taken by @zackpolanski.bsky.social are contributing massively to a load of emotionally burn-out and mentally exhausted trans people having hope for the first time in bloody ages.
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.

My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
Glasman is an absolute weirdo.
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 10d
With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided

All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose

Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!
mutablematter.bsky.social Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 12d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj
Don’t blame the left for US antisemitism
[FREE TO READ] The anti-Jewish threat in America today comes largely from the right
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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edzitron.com
Premium Newsletter tomorrow: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft must add $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they wasted their capex.

The cost of data centers GPUs may make it impossible to make a profit from AI. Here's $10 off annual.

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So, big tech has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of capital expenditures, and much of those expenditures are on GPUs. These GPUs, once installed, immediately begin decaying in value, and the more you use them, the more likely they are to crap out, and even when sitting idle, these GPUs have some power consumption — somewhere between 7% and 14% of their power in the case of the H100 — making them a consistent burden on the infrastructure of any purchaser whether they have customers or not. This becomes an even bigger problem for more expensive GPUs like the B200, which has an idle power draw of 140W per GPU. Extrapolate that out to thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them, or to the 50,000-per-building of them inside Stargate Abilene’s NVIDIA’s , and you’ve got yourself a problem. Even without customers, even without IT load, these servers sit burning power, and while a company could turn them off and boot them on for a period of time, these racks are often run in clusters — servers of GPUs that are synced together using high-speed networking — and while I can’t find anything firm as far as how long it takes to set up a cluster, this presentation on cluster design from the CEO of Lambda details a cluster’s sheer complexity, involving discrete networking, software layer and storage methods just to get the bloody thing working. In simple terms, it may be expensive to leave them on, but it’s going to take a bunch of time and energy to restart these things, meaning that they are more than likely left on, slowly burning energy. Imagine how bad that is at a scale of hundreds of thousands of GPUs? Yet things might be a little wonkier, as the reality may be that while hyperscalers have customers, those customers might not be using all their GPUs at all times. Although there may be some customers that agree to a minimum spend or throughput, it’s hard to imagine that these contracts are enough to surmount the destructive margins. And when … And when I say “destructive margins,” I mean so much more than just the power to run and cool them. There’s the construction of the data centers to house them, the necessary maintenance, and, of course, any and all debt used to buy them. While I can (and will!) say that for every $50,000 GPU bought, big tech needs to make another $100,000, I believe that the hole created by the GPU’s existence is likely larger than just $100,000, with every construction delay, power outage, or moment of idle compute adding dollars to the hole for each and every GPU. Need a very real example? The Information reported recently that Oracle lost $100 million between June and August 2025 on rentals of NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips: In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it. So, while we can’t say for sure, there’s a chance a large chunk of these losses were caused by the spread-out deprecation of those Blackwell GPUs — after all, its most recent quarterly earnings included $1.35 billion of depreciation, right? Sidenote: For context, Oracle reported depreciation of $804m in the same period last year, and depreciation of $3.867bn for the whole of FY2025. This should give you a sense of how rapidly these GPUs are becoming a millstone on its earnings. …is there any way to actually recover that $100 million through the margins on these chips? Oracle only has 4.5 years of depreciation on these Blackwell Chips, and The Information reports that those GB200 server racks have a negative 100% gross margin according to internal Oracle documents. If that’s the case, we have a much, much bigger problem, but even if the margins aren’t literally negative…will ther…
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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npr.org
The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken. n.pr/4qBqlF7
Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, 'hero' doctors abducted
The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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proftonypadilla.bsky.social
We’re gonna be running the wollaton park run next week in memory of our wonderful friend and legendary pres, Agnes, taken from us far too soon. We’re raising funds to support her beloved trade union campaigns. Please sponsor us. @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Help raise £750 to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
rosalynd.bsky.social
Wholesome #Halloween content 🎃🎃🎃
A Tiktok user has carved pumpkin of zack polanski saying vote green. It doesn't look anything like him. This is a screenshot of the pumpkin with zack replying 'I *think* i love this cry laugh emoji green heart loved up emoji' and the op responding 'by 2029 my carving skills will improve i promise smile single tear emoji
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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stenhansson.bsky.social
A review of government social media communication literature + suggestions for future research

www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions | Review | Media and Communication
Sten Hansson, Nic DePaula
www.cogitatiopress.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
If Shaheen is an activist, then Goodwin, whose whole twitter feed is extreme and inaccurate far right nonsense, is definitely an activist. If Goodwin is an academic, then Shaheen, who has done more recent and more credible academic work, is an academic.
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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huwcdavies.bsky.social
Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
Goodwin is a relentless campaigner for Reform, not an academic. He hasn't published an academic article since 2022.
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.

Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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politicalquarterly.bsky.social
Money is short and unlikely to start flowing soon. Academic professionals are exhausted and demoralised. The public is not that interested.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, explores the decline in HE.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Perfectly feasible that we could see a poll with Labour in fifth place, or even the Greens in second.
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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richardfletcher.bsky.social
Our new report on news influencers and creators is out.

It contains:

- 5 key findings (see link)
- Top 15 most mentioned news influencers and creators by survey respondents in 24 countries
- A typology of different content types (and examples of individuals that primarily produce each)
reutersinstitute.bsky.social Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 21d
We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country

📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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astrokatie.com
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