If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
Very Terry 🔥
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Publisher. Of books - critical/creative/cultural management and the like. Once known as @RoutledgeEditor on the other place. From Southport to London, via Cardiff. YNWA.
does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
He’s 💯 right here. Easy to focus on the horse race of who could be the next one, but the real fix is breaking apart the system that allows these guys to rise in the first place
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoInfantino is not the problem ft.trib.al/5qdaL5k
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
25 years to the day since I bought my first mobile phone - from Carphone Warehouse in Wood Green. I remember it because it was the day after I moved to London and the day before I started working at Routledge.
Credit to the Donkeys guys, who I have been critical of in the past. It’s a sharp contrast to the rest of British liberalism, which has - at very best - sat silently on its hands saying nothing, presumably because they understand just how badly incriminated the most prominent Sensible Moderates are.
UCU are not affiliated to the Labour Party (and therefore does not attend women’s conference) but if we were then we would be supporting this stance by our brilliant sister unions. Solidarity to them and the whole trans and non binary community.
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
"Functional information-processing taking place in an atemporal mathematical space is so utterly unlike the lived intelligence of a human being ... 'Artificial intelligence' is a highly consequential misnomer." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
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"If AI devastates the universities the way deindustrialisation hollowed out shipbuilding, I wouldn’t want to live next to my former workplace, giving guided tours of a now obsolete lifeform." @lrb.co.uk review essay on "The Modern British City" share.google/vkMGynJAEENN...
Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities
Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
#OtD 22 Jul 2005 Brazilian commuter Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed London police at Stockwell tube station. Despite being restrained, he was shot seven times in the head and once in the torso. No officers faced charges related to his death stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9487...
Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.
Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers
The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.
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An Evertonian is in charge. Best of luck, everyone
It’s Newcastle vs Liverpool on the opening weekend of the season. There’s been bad blood between the clubs recently. They should come together to pay tribute to Kevin Keegan. Both clubs have lost a legend. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Kevin Keegan, Liverpool legend and former Newcastle manager, dies aged 75
Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager who was a member of Liverpool’s serial champions in the 1970s, has died aged 75
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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
I actually studied this. Net zero got lumped in with BLM, trans rights, feminism etc., as a luxury belief of middle class elites that disadvantages white working class people. The basic argument is that working class people will have to pay for net zero, which is basically an elite fad
Arieh Kovler@ariehkovler.com · 3w agoIn two years Net Zero went from broad political consensus to politically toxic, without any particular scandal over the policy.
The unspoken background is that people who don't understand anything about the subject just assume that economics is mean and nasty, so the meaner someone is, the better they probably are at economics things.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w agoThe idea that pursuing a restrictionist/illiberal migration policy makes you 'rightwing' economically and therefore more likely to be a fiscal conservative is just such a basic fail on every level.
While the legal profession embraces genAI, top law schools are restricting the use of technology in the classroom and in assessment www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
To AI-Proof Lawyers, Some Law Schools Restrict Technology
Last week, the University of Chicago Law School announced a ban on laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom. The goal is to help students develop critical oral argument skills, which AI likely won...
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I've had the theme from Some Mother's Do 'Av 'Em stuck in my head ever since Djed Spence tried to win a penalty on Saturday for ENG. Wtf is wrong with me.
Pretty much all of my rare subtweets are inspired by the same person, I fear.
Lord spare us the centrist contrarians who pretend to be upset about social media engagement their contrarianism is designed to provoke.
Gabriel Clarke managing to offend Tuchel and Bellingham in quick succession on live TV, you cannot teach that.