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Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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futurism.com/future-socie... lol

'It is understood the entirety of the team who teach politics and international relations are at risk, though the university stressed it has no plans to close these subject areas entirely.' Presumably magic pixies will be available take up the baton in politics and international relations. 3/3

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This country's gender politics are truly extraordinary.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · last mo.

sorry what?

These four -- and this respectful attitude towards them -- made the country in which Trump could win the presidency twice.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years. Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

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Academia.edu emailing me to recommend my own work to me is a new one. Flatterer.

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#LongCOVID disrupts struggles for justice, as activists and organizers with the disease are forced to suspend or change their tactics, facing a community that largely ignores COVID precautions. Read more from @brittashoot.com: thesicktimes.org/2026/06/09/e...

It's not wholly unprecedented for institutions to refuse to accept "partial performance" and withhold all pay from staff who take part in a marking boycott. But I don't think I've heard one suggest that they might also withhold pay from non-striking staff who don't take on extra work.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this."

There’s a proportion of people I meet when using my wheelchair who seem genuinely surprised I have a job and it makes me wonder how much public outrage over the welfare bill and things like “overdiagnosis” is based on a baffling assumption that most or all disabled people don’t work

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Weird because I live in Manchester too and I can tell it’s a genocide?

EuropeanPowell@europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

According to the news outlet, Burnham declined to say Israel has committed genocide, explaining: "I can’t judge things of that enormity from where I am as mayor of Greater Manchester" middleeasteye.pulse.ly/zpvigjcsuj

Me on day 3 of the conference

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My toxic trait: “Let me test my limits even though I already know my limits.”

As with a lot of the coverage this week, the media just have a markedly worse attitude towards race than the British public and that disconnect has only gotten worse.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

'a new study shows that since 2010 the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing - driven by stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance, sparked by disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.' 1/2

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.

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Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

Such sad news. Persepolis is one of those stories I’ve returned to again and again.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56.

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

I think the stabbing had put Nowak in such a condition as to appear to be one of the many kinds of "undesirables" police are empowered to treat inhumanely and it's only after the fact when it's been discovered that he was in that state because of the stabbing that anyone even questions that reflex.

They do it to homeless people, people in drug and alcohol crisis, they do it to people with speech or cognitive impairments who they misconstrue as affected by substance use. Police routinely fail to recognise vulnerability and medical risk on a systematic basis.

One of the things that strikes me, having seen my share of similar police behaviour is that police by nature of their training and work culture will often tend to act with inhumanity towards anyone face down and slurring and struggling with an obvious health emergency.

What exactly is the government's priority? Because it sure as hell isn't growth... ...nor innovation, nor social mobility, nor regional re-balancing...so what on earth is it?

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.