Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

Our statement on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ask OpenAI if you are fishing correctly and it will tell you that you're the best fisherman in the world and you may have discovered a new way of fishing that will change the way people fish forever and also yes, dogs are fish

Very much this. But also, my response to Lucy would be, “Explain to me why not.” What is the direct impact on your life from having all the Mohammeds, Khans etc in this country. Please answer with reference to eg the England football team, our music industry, our restaurants, our universities.

The Mohammeds, Khans, Patels, Singhs, Adebayos and Babatundes didn’t go looking for Britain….Britain went looking for them, imposed its language and, in many places, its religion, while extracting wealth and resources from their countries. History has consequences.

"Predicting what you'll say through an understanding based on a theory of your mind" and "predicting what you'll say based on a statistical analysis of your utterances" might produce the same *outputs*, but they are *not* the same trick. You can tell by what happens when the trick fails. 14/

Canterbury's VERY feminist MP: don't judge wife beaters by the fact they have police records for wife beating; maybe they're delightful in person!

Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 2d ago

She's a moral and cognitive vacuum

If my assumption of what this programme will be about is correct, C4 are setting up a false dichotomy. You can’t separate ADHD (or any neurodivergence) into social vs biological. Many of the *negative socioemotional consequences* of having a given neurotype are socially constructed...

If I were new C4 CEO, Priya Dogra, I'd be looking to draw a line under the Ian Katz era of 'controversial' doc commissions and their shamelessly edgy takes that too often bordered on offensive. C4 Docs would do well to recalibrate and regain the higher ground to win back viewers' trust.

Need your help. I forgot to unsubscribe Norton security products last year after they took a chunk of money out of my account without prior notification. They’ve repeated it today and this time it’s an even heftier chunk of funds.

Rosie Duffield eulogizing a wife-beating misogynist, is it

Woah oh, we're half way there Woah OH

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

I think if there was any binary in covid/lockdown, it was between the haves and havenots. I was a city councillor at the time, and in my ward there were families stuck in overcrowded flats and rich people who could bugger off to their second home in the country. People had very different wars.

After 1st wave, we didn't run summer catch up programmes or improve ventilation in schools - we didn't even try until 2021, months after the last school closures. We didn't recommend masks (let alone good masks) in classrooms until after the last school closures. 5/12

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Personally I think there are "legitimate questions" about COVID. Like why Michael Gove and Matt Hancock got away with giving away contracts to their mates. And why the fuck Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman haven't been prosecuted.

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

Amnesty Int is about to learn - Appeasing the beast doesn't do anything but make it want more bites out of you. Giving in doesn't EVER work. It just makes you easier to digest. Fight and you can win. Roll over and you will be made an example of. Every. Time.

Bev Craig: "Trans women are women. Trans men are men." She won her election in a landslide because sane people believe in personal freedom, dignity, and sovreignty.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Labour's Bev Craig wins the Greater Manchester Mayoral Election, defeating Reform by a landslide after the second round LAB: Bev Craig: 309,525 (66%) REF: Sian Astley: 157,178 (33%)

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

Crapshoot Knackered Loony tunes Pinot Grigio Wiseass

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 6d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

I’m so sick of the both sides-ing. AI is creating monumental existential problems for book publishing but okay cool it makes metadata easier. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

AI May Be Making Publishing Easier, But It’s Still Not Easy

At an online summit cohosted by industry platform Publishing Signal, participants agreed that AI is accelerating the pace of production and lowering some costs, but core questions about curation, audi...

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This is what happens when the priority becomes making content as quickly as possible, rather than making something worthwhile. You need time to think, and have that breathing room to allow yourself to do the job properly. It's not a "bad habit". It's a sign something has gone fundamentally wrong.

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.

A thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year

Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 7d ago

The other day at the grocery store I told a woman I loved her cute green shoes, which matched her cute green top, and her whole face lit up and she told me the story of how she bought them Giving another woman a compliment is a great way to get a little serotonin boost btw

£18.5 billion - the cost of free social care for everyone paid through taxation £30-50 billion - annual lost tax revenue from reduced trade with the EU because of Brexit Rejoin the EU to fund social care 🇪🇺🇬🇧 😃