Ed Foster
@edfoster.bsky.social
Hmm Work in HE learning & teaching, particularly student engagement & learning analytics. Also, love the Peak District and TTRPGs. Mostly here for the jokes. Apologies if discussion about pedagogy is interrupted with DND jokes and vice versa.
People who deny climate change should be jailed. We have had fires here in the Var for ten days now. 35 houses lost in our village alone. Denial is the worst possible response.
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
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Found this gate in York. It had a standard lock, plus a padlock and a chain holding it shut. It was very very securely closed. The only thing on the other side is a blank wall. The only conclusion I can make is that this is a magic portal to hell.
Wildfires sweep Scotland, even the very centre of Edinburgh, yet political debate is dominated by calls for more oil and gas from the North Sea. It’s insanity - because more drilling won’t lower prices. That claim is a lie. We’re like Nero fiddling while Rome burns In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Drill, baby, drill: We’re like Nero fiddling while Arthur’s Seat burns
Wildfires sweep Scotland yet the political debate is all about extracting more oil and gas. It’s a total delusion, and believing it is an act of…
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His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect
Luis Endera@luisendera.bsky.social · 2w agoSu madre, María Arthuer, cruzó el desierto del Sahara a pie y descalza en 1994. Saltó la valla de Melilla embarazada de Iñaki y sin recursos. Hoy su hijo, es campeón del mundo. #respect
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoyeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w agoOntario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Generative AI does a plausible impression of human beings. So inevitably, this is its impersonation of the carceral system.
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w agoOntario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...
This is a much more exciting game of football now - from now can we make Argentina start every game one goal behind? #EngArg
It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.
Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m sorry, but what is ‘radical’ about the policies pursued by Miliband?
The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.
Quintessential Badenoch to build "a party of the future" by actively resisting the future. In the middle of a heatwave. She's the Liz Truss who hasn't had the opportunity to blow herself up yet
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 4w agoA sad and not a little shameful day for a once serious party. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
after everything you could almost forget Zelenskyy was a successful comedian
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.