I would say "that just about sums it up" on the AI bubble. Except this thread is actually a long (and very astute, insightful and interesting) set of observations. And not remotely a summary. Maybe "that just about covers it all" is a better description. Hat tip to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/

I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

A truly damning chart. Life satisfaction for young people in the most deprived areas is the lowest it has been since 2010, *and* the gap between them and young people the least deprived areas is wider than ever.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org · 2w ago

Young people’s life satisfaction is in free fall. The proportion of young people who are satisfied with their lives has fallen from 62% in 2010 to 44% today. Read more here: www.ippr.org/articles/i-f...

One in a generation. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Sir Garfield Sobers' six sixes remembered - archive

BBC Sport relives Sir Garfield Sobers' six sixes in an over for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in Swansea, in Pint-Sized TMS style.

bbc.co.uk

Inevitable

Martyn Drake@martyndrake.bsky.social · 3w ago

How have we gone from a beautiful blend of Real Madrid and Man City, to a 1980's Arsenal in the space of a goal? Come on England.

How have we gone from a beautiful blend of Real Madrid and Man City, to a 1980's Arsenal in the space of a goal? Come on England.

No they fucking didn't.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago

Gay men loved Ann Widdecombe [Matthew Parris, The Times]

Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...

My favourite verse in the New Testament is when the disciples marvel at Jesus’s shredded abs but not in a gay way

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Pastor Martin Sedra fumes that "America has created this gay version of Jesus Christ": "Jesus was not effeminate. Jesus was a bold lion. I always tell people Jesus was not a soft guy. He had six packs. He was the most ripped guy you'll ever meet."

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

I could be wrong, but it sounds to me very much like the Americans are about to invent the House of Lords.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · last mo.

Josh is one of the very few people who I think grasps the actual extent of the problem we're facing and the approach we need to address it.

No.1 son heading to work this morning: "Dad, can we meet at the pub after work?" After a beery weekend at the cricket my first thought was you must be joking Me (not wanting to be negative): "Erm, it's only Tuesday. Is there a reason?" Him: "My first wages came through" Me: "Pick a pub, son!" 😁

Holy sh!t In systems theory there is something we call "shifting the burden" Hard to think of a more visceral example.

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reform’s new violence against women and girls strategy just dropped When I saw my jaw hit the FLOOR - I thought it was AI at first

Resilience is a tricky word. Let’s take that as a given. It’s tricky because, on the one hand, it’s increasingly critical that leaders develop it. On the other hand, it’s an easy word for shifting responsibility @martyndrake.bsky.social

Martyn Drake: How to develop resilience

Here is a simple framework that I’ve developed over the years

thirdsector.co.uk

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

To beautiful not to share.

MadWomanMoon ❌👑 (🚫SPs, lists PLEASE!! TY) 🌒🌕🌘✨@madwomanmoon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Amen. I love this so much that it was one of the first calligraphy pieces I ever did.

We will never speak with one voice as long as we’re arguing among ourselves, or worse, “agreeing to disagree”. So, the next time you find yourself at an impasse, try the question: “From what perspective should we be coming at this?” @martyndrake.bsky.social

Martyn Drake: Why we must recognise there are other perspectives than our own

We will never speak with one voice as long as we’re arguing among ourselves or agreeing to disagree

thirdsector.co.uk

Come and shape the future of the Nuffield Foundation. A new & key leadership role at the UK’s leading independent funder of social & economic research. We fund evidence, back innovation & support pioneering practice. Join a great team at an exciting moment. roles.saxbam.com/advert-detai...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’

The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’

thetimes.com

If you are in the UK Civil Service- a DD or aspiring DD - this is an opportunity to work with me, England’s Upland Communities and @DefraGovUK on system transformation - please share widely a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant candidate civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

We have taken Travelodge off our list of accommodation providers for all staff and volunteers. I wasn’t impressed with their response. As a woman who travels a lot on my own & has experienced a man trying to get into my hotel room - I need to see some urgency and clear action!

Culture forms spontaneously whenever you put a group in a room and give them a problem to solve. But culture also endures; even when all the original people have left, the new ones will continue with the patterns they’ve inherited @martyndrake.bsky.social

Martyn Drake: Don’t underestimate how much work goes into culture change

It might be presented as a simple recipe but it’s not a case of just following a few steps

thirdsector.co.uk

Potentially underplayed: Positive politics Everyone I spoke to who was voting Reform gave reasons as concerns and fears of various kinds, mainly over immigration and general state of the country The Green voters generally said they were inspired by what the party was standing for and its vision

Tomorrow the ONS will publish new data on the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). This is important – and not just because the number is very close to one million…

A study on how class identity interacts with immigration views in UK - results are more interesting than you might expect. "I don't like immigrants so therefore I can justifiably claim to be working class" is an actual, measurable thing. Similar effect in Italy with identifying as Christian.

Francesco Raffaelli@fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

Masterful Troll, TCM.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?

He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

londoncentric.media

When "the system" disproportionately rewards disinformation and divisive content, fact-checking and removing individual posts and accounts is futile. It's the system that requires attention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media

Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.

bbc.co.uk

The analogy between "AI denial" and climate denial is spot on. In both cases you can show someone a graph of an astonishing trend, and people will not just doubt that the trend will continue, they doubt the current verifiable state of the world. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

The left is missing out on AI

As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

transformernews.ai