Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Dr. Jenny Alexander
@drjennya.bsky.social
Lectures in Media & Politics UK (views own not employer's). Teaches Enviro Comms. Born 325ppm CO2, Loves human-created art > AI, LGB w the T 🏳️🌈
'So, yes, you are historians and we will all continue to be historians after we leave Exeter. You will continue to be historians because we need you. Society, the world, needs you.' #HistoryForever Sign the petition against redundancies at Exeter: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
The Ancient Greeks knew how to recognise a colossal case of hubris when they saw one: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choices
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Generative AI adding some guano to yet another area of human endeavour...
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w agoExperts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists
Nolan's #TheOdyssey is a v. serious version 4 serious times; Odysseus less a trickster and more a war-survivor wracked by guilt. It bears the truism war is shit for women & an omen that downfall comes to rulers and nations who make enemies of their trading partners...
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
Peter Thiel, hosted by James Orr, delivered his "Antichrist" lectures "in the Ramsden Room of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge" (Jan 2026) & at the dinner afterwards reportedly said that Tolkien's Saruman and Sauron were "deeply misunderstood" #billionairebrainworms bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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When AI slop replaces local artists, local life is impoverished www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Artists criticise council for using AI in Scarborough history trail
Designs were commissioned from agency - but local artists say they used to be paid for similar work.
bbc.co.uk
So impressed by the climate scientist communicators fired by the Trump admin from NOAA who built this alternative resource to preserve the vital work of informing the public about climate impacts www.climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Covering Climate Now@coveringclimatenow.org · 4w agoAfter the Trump administration deleted government sites that helped visitors understand global heating, scientists, nonprofits, academic institutions, and former federal workers joined forces to re-publish the information and protect it from future political attacks. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:
After the Trump administration deleted government sites that helped visitors understand global heating, scientists, nonprofits, academic institutions, and former federal workers joined forces to re-publish the information and protect it from future political attacks. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:
The plan to make climate science harder to erase
As climate information disappears from federal websites, scientists are rebuilding it elsewhere.
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British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 4w agoPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
"Language is one of the things making us human and all of a sudden a mediator is stepping into that process." GenAI appears deeply susceptible to, potentially, operating as a propaganda machine for the tech overlords (whether that be a government or a private company)...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
What a beautiful letter across generations...
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last mo.Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
"What is certain, though, is that the land cannot withstand these centres’ immense demand for water. According to analysis by the Guardian, two-thirds of planned datacentres in the US are in drought-stricken areas" - a stark depiction of the conflict between transhumanism vs ecologism
The Guardian Climate News (unofficial)@guardian-climate.bsky.social · last mo.‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres: In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – ...
Love is love in Hungary - the beautiful end of Orban's "illiberal democracy" 🏳️🌈
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
Yet Farage claims Harborne's £5mil donation to him is "not public's business" (DeSmog's research below reveals Harborne's co AML Global supplies aviation and maritime fuel to oil companies) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'
Rival parties have raised concerns over the gift received by the Reform UK leader before he became an MP.
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James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · last mo.And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
"...disproportionate targeting of the very disciplines to which Exeter largely owes its membership of the Russell Group..." In an era of disinfo, climate breakdown, oligarchic surge & profound social impacts of AI, Humanities & Social Sciences are keys freeing our minds by giving us tools to think
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last mo.The cuts at Exeter University won't work. They never work. The high-ups will be back for more in a year or two, then even more a year or two after that. Unis just keep doing the same thing consultants tell them to do, over and over again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Solidarity to the victim-survivors who sought justice for what this powerful man did to them as children. We all know how harrowing it is for sexual abuse victims to come forward. Their courage is immense.
Sam McBride@sjamcbride.bsky.social · last mo.Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:
White Dominoes Falling
ALT: White Dominoes Falling
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Exhululath@exhululath.bsky.social · 2mo agoGenerative AI will be banned in Norwegian primary schools starting next year 🔥 The Labour government justified the decision by citing a steady decline in academic achievement and fears that AI will replace learning rather than support it.
Solidarity w Parastoo Ahmadi and colleagues. Women are prohibited from singing publicly in Iran; the barbarism of this violence, against music of such beauty and courage, should remind us that however funny the anti-Trump lego propaganda is, there are no "good guys" in the US/ Iran regime conflict
CTV News Kitchener@ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 2mo agoIranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes over concert - An Iranian court sentenced a prominent singer named Parastoo Ahmadi and a group of seven fellow artists to 74 lashes each after they livestreamed a performance on YouTube, according to her videographer and local media.
Rogue Trooper sounds great (no AI a massive plus). I, and many others watch films for ALL the craft, as well as the narrative. I love to hear about the skillsets people behind the scenes bring, whether that's animation or sword-forging, puppetry or location scouting.
Duncan Jones@manmademoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago-without using AI. *cough*
Interesting from the Observer. Don't agree with all of it, but I hope Labour learn from the disastrous, McSweeney "punch a hippy" strategy. Lib Dem + Greens voters need respect if they are to lend their votes tactically to stop the far-right observer.co.uk/news/politic...
The anti-Reform vote helped Burnham win Makerfield, not f...
Last week’s byelection shows just how important tactical voting has become in our fractured political system
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Happy Summer Solstice! A day us humans have been celebrating for many millenia. This image is from the Tanum Scandanavian Rock Art Research Centre in Sweden (Bronze age) www.rockartscandinavia.com/rock-art-mot...
Oligarchic overlords with fascist tendencies huffing money from a product that degrades people's abilities to think for themselves - a sci-fi novel I want to read, but not a world I want to live in...
CYNC Verity Media@cvmedia.bsky.social · 2mo agoWharton researchers call it "cognitive surrender"—letting AI do your thinking. Their study found people accepted incorrect AI answers 80% of the time, raising concerns as new apps encourage users to outsource more decisions. #AI #Technology @volteuropa.org thenextweb.com/news/wharton...
I think he would have been tickled to have been described as a "peroxide Bradford blond" in his obit
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo agoBBC: a life that spanned Bradford, London, California, Paris - speaking lamentable French in a Yorkshire accemt! A beneficiary of equality in our country with the decriminilsation of homosexuality + an advocate of gay rights before the social norm shifted to acceptance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s important that everyone speaks up for the dignity of trans & non-binary people. The erasure of this part of the Queer community from public life, in the UK, is an act of fascism that is unacceptable. It is also indicative of how tenuous equal human rights, for LGBTQ ppl, are.
Gay Community News@gcnmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago"This is a moment for respect, safety and recognition. Trans rights are human rights.” 🏳️⚧️ 👉 buff.ly/1JVcGfK #GCNnews
Forever in our hearts as the best adoptive father/ mentor a slayer could ask for 💔
Frank Conniff@frankconniff.bsky.social · 2mo agoA terrific actor, an essential part of one of the greatest TV shows ever, and from what I’m hearing, a really good dude. Rest in Peace, Anthony Head.
