Social media is full of claims that China is doing AI "right" and China is claiming that youth unemployment is falling Yet, in 2023 Peking Prof. Dandan argued that real youth unemployment 46.5% China has produced record university grads, threatening elite overproduction Propaganda isn't reality

This warrants a national investigation and media reporting

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Casey would not qualify for disability support but would appear as disabled in the Family Resources Survey, does this mean we need to deliver better data to assess how to deliver social care? Maybe, but this is a data question not a welfare question.

Baroness Casey demonstrates internalized ableism here She can’t handle a reality that her health conditions could make her disabled because it’s a “bad” thing Disabled people can sit down for an interview Disabled people do work Disabled people do live The whole review is called into question

‘Even I would qualify as disabled’: Baroness Casey calls for tough questions on welfare

Baroness Casey of Blackstock, who is leading a review of social care that will conclude by 2028, says nation must ask ‘who should we be looking after, and how’

thetimes.com

Hundreds of thousands have already lost their lives because of USAID cut: millions more expected over the next 4 years. The system rewarded the architect with over a trillion dollars, on a set of companies that produces next to no profit and survive off subsidies. The system is broken.

Capitalism can’t function with monopolies and oligopolies. What we have is a plutocracy. Billionaires doubling their wealth in a couple years (ie Taylor Swift) and the first Trillionaire (Musk) are just the ones written about. Tax reform needs to happen as a matter of priority.

Every media outlet is groveling at Musk’s feet about SpaceX’s IPO. Regardless of whether it’s Aljazeera or the BBC. No mention of how Musk encouraged race riots that have terrorized the United Kingdom. A dereliction of journalistic duty.

Finally, bluesky has group chats!

The USA is forever changed.

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

US House passes $70 billion bill to fund ICE, Border Patrol reut.rs/4xf4oPH

@raulpachecovega.bsky.social death is under investigation as there were reported signs of violence. Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega deserved so much better. I hope justice is served. Original spanish article: www.am.com.mx/leon/2026/06... English translation: www-am-com-mx.translate.goog/leon/2026/06...

Investigan muerte de Raúl Pacheco Vega, académico de la FLACSO

Héctor Pacheco Vega fue encontrado sin vida en un motel de León. La investigación avanza tras la identificación del cuerpo.

am.com.mx

The court has effectively ruled that severely disabled people are not entitled to the same standards of liberty because they allegedly can't experience it fully. A bizarrely regressive ruling on rights It even implies non-resistance as possible consent: an extremely dangerous view for all victims

I can’t express how shocked and sad this news makes me. I met Raul in the early 2010s as an undergrad at UBC, Vancouver. We moved to different continents, but continued to be engaged online and link up when possible. He helped shape me as both an academic and climate policy work. Gone too soon.

Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología@smsociologia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

The current AI push is a self defeating race to the bottom. There is a deep cultural and environmental anxiety among the super rich. They seem to be scrambling to build massive infrastructure projects not to better our lives but to be in control of the emerging world order. Credit: @rushkoff.com

Maximalism > landlord’s special Credit: sarah Andersen

This feature is not new. It is at least eight years old and dates back to Windows 10. Note the date on the article below! www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Typing Insights Feature Shows AI Stats in Latest Windows 10 Insider Build

Starting in Windows Insider Build 17704 Microsoft introduced a new feature called "Typing insights" that allows us to see how well the artificial intelligence behind various on screen keyboard feature...

bleepingcomputer.com

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling The 141-8 vote adopts a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change The US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, Iran, Yemen, Liberia and Belarus voted against. The UK voted in favour of the resolution

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure

theguardian.com

My partner’s latest paper dropped!

Conrad Copeland@conradcopeland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My latest paper has been published in the South African Journal of Economics today! It estimates the effect of informal ethnic networks on trade flows in Africa It leverages a new IV framework using pre-colonial territory maps #EconSky #AcademicSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Given that inequality is one of the driving forces stifling growth and undermining social cohesion, it makes sense that this policy cuts across all political parties. In a normal political environment progressive parties would start debating the "optimal" ratio but embrace the general premise.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 4mo ago

The Greens have proposed capping top wages in a company at 10x the level of the lowest wages - a move that 65% of Britons would support Strongly support: 41% Somewhat support: 24% Somewhat oppose: 10% Strongly oppose: 7% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

93 million Iranians carry on their ancient civilization. It’s unimaginable to threaten to wipe out one the world’s oldest continuous civilization. It’s barbaric to threaten a hundred million people with genocidal language.

Extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under "moderate" 2 °C warming This research challenges current approaches focused on 3 °C or 4 °C models thresholds: they indicate that a 2 °C world may entail severe impacts in several sectors This underlines the urgency for mitigation and adaptation

Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcomes - Nature

Extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2 °C warming and may turn out to be more extreme than model-averaged projections at 3 °C or 4 °C warming.

nature.com

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI. AI is starting a death spiral for human knowledge. We won't know what is fake and what is trust worth. This will lead us to make wrong decisions and cause substantial harm. AI risk centuries of progress.

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

nature.com

This is demonstrating that if climate change is an emergency then we should move to a 4 day work week.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5mo ago

Governments are urging citizens to change their behavior to fend off the worst oil-and-gas crunch since the 1970s.

@thecccuk.bsky.social's supplementary analysis of the 7th Carbon Budget is out. It's found that each pound invested in reaching net zero yields between £2.2 and £4.1 in benefits. By 2050, avoiding climate damages is estimated to save between £40bn to £130bn. A smart transition just makes sense.

Supplementary analysis of the Seventh Carbon Budget - Climate Change Committee

This report, complementing the Committee’s advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget, tests the Committee’s cost and energy…

theccc.org.uk

"Adopting renewable energy and green technologies, such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, would be the best and most cost-effective option for the future economy, @thecccuk.bsky.social found. Doing so would prevent the kind of shock that consumers are experiencing from the Iran war."

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

theguardian.com

Trump’s press conference in a nutshell

some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..

ALT: some of you may die but it 's a sacrifice i am willing to make ..

media.tenor.com

The Me Too movement is a revolution built upon women not willing to shut up. Keep going.

Julie K. Brown@jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

In 2015, the main criticism of bitcoin was that it would finance organized crime and human trafficking. Anyone who is pretending that they didn't know is either a liar or ignorant.

Futurism@futurism.com · 6mo ago

"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."

An alternative hypothesis: if Millennials, Gen X and boomers were sitting exams like Gen Z we’d find a drop in intelligence across the board. It’s almost like a novel virus that causes cognitive decline emerged 5 years ago.

The social contract supporting academia is broken: its gamification is leading to everyone being worse off.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich