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Mary Newbold

@marynewbold.bsky.social

PhD, Birkbeck College: critical theory/visual culture.

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Britons taking “Plan 2” student loan need to earn £63,600 a year to reduce debt. Plan 2 graduates with an average loan of £52,100, and earning £39,039 would see loan balance actually increase by £1,692 a year. England student debt £294.6bn, UK £324bn Median UK employee wage is £31,500. Madness.

Release home - Student loan forecasts - earnings

Ad hoc experimental statistics publication presenting analysis of earnings and lifetime repayments forecasts for England

explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk

Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Episode 9 of the "Mediapolis Now" voices series, @scott-rodgers.bsky.social speaks with Chris Lukinbeal about his recent book, "Cinematic Cartography: Scale, Analysis, Topography" (@routledgebooks.bsky.social, 2025). www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/voic...

Voices Episode 9: Chris Lukinbeal on Cinema, Cartography and the Spaces Between

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Chris Lukinbeal.

mediapolisjournal.com

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Devoured by private equity. Bernard Matthews Body Shop Byron Burger Casual Dining Cath Kidson Claire’s Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Homebase Maplin Thousands of jobs lost, supply chains destroyed, creditors not paid, pension rights lost, taxes dodged. Yet govts venerate PE.

The finance curse is devouring the UK

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...

leftfootforward.org

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I really like this piece by @anildash.com I really do think there's a place for tech pragmatism and I hope it's one of the things we can champion at the Society for Hopeful Technologists buttondown.com/society-of-h...

#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events

Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao

buttondown.com

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 11mo ago

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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Mary Newbold@marynewbold.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Save NHS dentistry now!

I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Andrew Frayn@afrayn.bsky.social · last yr.

Raymond Williams in 1974: "the use of powerful new media will enable a few to speak to and apparently for the many, and, unless powerful safeguards are constructed, to drive out of competition the more varied and authentic voices that are the true discourse of any society and of humanity."

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 2y ago

Surveillance tech like Fusus “gives police the ability to surreptitiously spy on and track people of no real or alleged criminal concern. It creates caches of sensitive, personal information that can be retained indefinitely,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Sacramento's ABC10.

Sacramento police launch Public Safety Camera Network as critics warn of mass surveillance

The public safety camera network will essentially expand the reach of police across the capital city.

abc10.com