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Peter Gordon 🇺🇦

@gordon.plus

Embedded software engineer. Digital security expert. Retro computing enthusiast. Heavy metal fan. Occasionally known as Xeron from the Amiga demogroup IRIS. Lumpbucket from off of b3ta.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.

What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?

chronicle.com

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · yesterday

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 11h ago

Love the chutzpah with which this email is written, esp given the content of the PDF book of cartoons attached. (I left out the most racist*, fatphobic and sexist-bordering-on-misogynistic ones.) * believe me, the cannibals one is relatively benign in comparison

Andy Fanton@yourpalfanton.bsky.social · 17h ago

In this week's Beano, Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street Kids set sail for Dublin, while Roger the Dodger detects some dodging on the beach. Scripts by me, art by Laura Howell, Shannon Gallant and Barrie Appleby. Cover by Laura too. Out now!

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h ago

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

Andrew (LinuxJedi) Hutchings@linuxjedi.co.uk · 2d ago

It may have been overkill, but I took the datasheet of the Philips tube used in the Commodore 1084 monitor and used it to recalculate the angles of the CRT shader in Copperline. This is almost ready to be included in the next release. #Amiga

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Its quite hard to know what, exactly, will actually lose someone their licence if 59 points, driving while disqualified and no insurance doesn't. Its not juat dangerous - its clear contempt for the law. We should treat car crime like any other crime

Jon Owen@anotherjon.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm getting fed up with getting pulled by you guys, so this one will result in a complaint," says the driver with 59 points on his licence. 59 points, and still driving, and he didn't go to prison. The system is broken. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tracy King@tracyking.bsky.social · 2d ago

Back when I had Twitter I used to offer free headshots for low-income authors, not sure I have much reach here but the offer is still there. London or Birmingham (although I’m in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of Aug and can fit in a session. Will have lights so can be indoors).

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.