once again I would like a see a long read on cocaine and the far right

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last wk.

A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave

Our AI-powered timetabling system has become self-aware and resigned from its position with immediate effect.

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

Sigh.

Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

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we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right

One of those two looks like an invasion to me.

Absent a poll function on BlueSky, could you reply please and say which feed you have as your default - 'Following' or 'Popular with friends'?

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If we were doing risk management on AI, one of the lines would be about misalignment (ie AI doesn't do what we think it's meant to) with catastrophic results This *might* have a low probability but it would certainly have a high impact, and you'd expect maybe this would make us slow down and think

Well, of course he would say that, wouldn’t he!

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Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

Meanwhile, @politico.eu reports: "Bank of America published a research note yesterday warning “the economy-wide productivity boost many expected has yet to arrive” from AI."

Off into #Leeds again this morning for another marking shift at Albatross House.

I feel like I spend so much of my time hearing insane conservative talking points that can all be explained by that chart about the prevalence of left handedness

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · last mo.

Unknown to whom?

We are steadily being pushed towards 'if it didn't exist back when I was growing up, then it doesn't or shouldn't exist now'. Weaponised nostalgia.

#HillfortsWednesday It was a very parched Eggardon Hiil as we made our way to Dorchester last Saturday turning on to the #Roman road just beyond the hill

This. A thousand per cent this.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a... Well, I'm shocked. It beggars belief that the notoriously wise *Toby Young*, of all people, could be involved in this sort of grifting!

Revealed: Toby Young free speech group crowdfunded over £60,000 for legal case fought by pro-bono lawyer

Staff members said Free Speech Union would “need to explain” how it spent money donated by its supporters

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Ranch Cashew Enthusiast@lnorthrup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Education policy disasters "Because many schools have joined academy trusts, council has far less control over what they offer... Academies are businesses that have to balance the funding they would get against the cost per pupil" www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sheffield-si...

Why should poorer teens travel hours to do A-Levels?

'It helps them build resilience,' according to a senior council employee

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let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

And now time for that uniquely British summer tradition: where we castigate ourselves, our education system and most of all our young people for going on to be better educated than ever before.

More #eclipse thru the welder’s mask.

Thru a welder’s glass

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Blue, blue, electric blue, That's the colour of the sky In Cleethorpes

Like they're all hotbeds of theoretical chatter. Guys! It's all meetings! And emails! All the time! Everyone's too busy desperately baling out the water as every single institution threatens to go down with all hands. All the talk is narrow mutiny, not wide revolution. (3/?)