@jemgilbert.bsky.social @profafinlayson.bsky.social Universities in Crisis ... very good, very depressing. Hoping for something less miserable in part 3.
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Partner at Underscore, Typelevel cofounder, Scala SIP committee alumnus. Type astronaut, grackle/shapeless/scalac/dotty hacker. He/him. Brighton, UK. Internationalist.
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Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.
Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.
📣 GREEN WIN! We did it! Nadia Barton Ahmad becomes the latest @thegreenparty councillor in Brighton & Hove! Thank you to everyone who voted, knocked on doors and made this possible. 💚
Absolutely stunning victory as Greens gain another seat in Brighton & Hove. 🎉 Look at that swing! 🙌🏽👀 Huge congratulations to Nadia and the entire team! 💚
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · last mo.Goldsmid (Brighton & Hove) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 49.0% (+22.4) 🌹 LAB: 32.7% (-14.6) ➡️ RFM: 7.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 5.2% (-1.7) 🌳 CON: 5.1% (-4.6) 🧑🔧 TUSC: 0.7% (New) No BHI (-9.5) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.
Meet the Typelevel community in Berlin, London, and Málaga this October! Join one of our events to make friends, learn functional programming, and work on open source together 🥰 typelevel.org/blog/travers...
Typelevel Traverses Europe
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It's barely credible that these geniuses have only just discovered aging and death. Maybe they should read a novel ...
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 2mo agoi read the entire piece so you don't have to. the short answer is no www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...
Afrori is a book shop based in Brighton. It is also the UK's largest supplier of books by black authors. They are facing closure. They need to sell at least 1000 books by next week. If any of you can, please consider buying a book from them. Thank you afroribooks.co.uk
An annual message from The Wire Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
The Colour Out Of Space festival is back after, what, seven years! 🎉 colouroutofspace.org
COOS – Experimental Music Festival
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The Typelevel Foundation was determined to be a 501(c)(3) public charity! This is a testament to the intellectual merit and educational value of our community's contributions to functional programming. Congratulations! typelevel.org/blog/charity...
Typelevel Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity
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@jemgilbert.bsky.social @profafinlayson.bsky.social where's the emergency podcast? It's been at least twenty minutes ...
What do we want? Flexible strategic pluralism! When do we want it? The future limits of possibility are opaque!!!
RIP Béla Tarr ... www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/b...
Béla Tarr on Sátántangó at 30: “The length of a movie all depends on what you want to say. I don’t care what is acceptable”
With the news of Béla Tarr’s death at 70, we revisit our 2024 interview in which the visionary Hungarian director looked back on the making of one of the monumental films in modern cinema: his cosmic,...
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Early Christmas present from me if you're reading this and you're a: - Senior web developer - In London - Really into books and libraries - Looking for work rn I am excited to inform you that the British Library is hiring a new head of web development ce0752li.webitrent.c...
All that is solid melts into air ... The plug is finally being pulled on the forgotten pop (!!!) e-mail account which I've had since the 1990's. 1/3
The Guardian are reporting a significant increase in Jewish people voting for the Green Party. It's almost like many of us grew up learning a history of persecution & violence. We don't oppose the Genocide in spite of being Jewish but because of it. Never again for everyone.
Number of refugees per 1,000 people: 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 137 🇩🇪 Germany: 31 🇸🇪 Sweden: 23 🇧🇪 Belgium: 14 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13 🇬🇧 UK: 6.5 We are not a "generous country". There is no crisis, other than a bankrupt political elite scapegoating the most vulnerable people on Earth.
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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