I honestly don't think the racists piling on will stop until he's dead.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6h ago

Prof Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge after the University announced plans to investigate allegations of plagiarism www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Amazing. A university writes to tell me a post I applied for two years ago, and had entirely forgotten about, no longer exists, they are very sorry for wasting applicants' time etc. Never change German universities, never change.

I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm in Germany for mysterious reasons

Sending the navy to stop the boats is not a serious policy, and it would help if the UK media made that clear. Seriously.

If, like me, you love geeky shit, you’l love the television clocks on this site www.mcmweb.co.uk/project_pend...

Eisteddfod y Garreg Las

‘It’s Glastonbury on wheels’: Welsh eisteddfod cultural event celebrates 850th year

This year’s edition, Eisteddfod y Garreg Las, has gone back to its roots at the castle where a prince first held it in 1176

theguardian.com

How smart are machines, anyway? @timcrane.bsky.social recently joined David Rutledge to discuss on ABC Australia's The Philosopher's Zone! Listen here: buff.ly/vGSjTLa (Or tune in to ABC Radio National! Airing August 2 at 5.30am and 3.05pm, August 6 at 12:05am, and August 7 at 8:30pm.) #PhilSky

How smart are machines, anyway? - ABC listen

Ever since AI was founded in the 1950s, people have talked and written about 'intelligence' as though we all broadly agree on what that word means. But there's considerable debate on that score, and…

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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 6d ago

European nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

My god, if you do nothing else in my life, please give me Alfonso Cuarón’s RIDDLEY WALKER.

James Davis Nicoll@jdnicoll.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ridley Walker is right there! And Murder in Millennium VI! Although since the adaptation would likely fuck up the souce material, my first choice would be something I hate: Alfred Bester's Golem100.

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

Can my fellow Gen X-ers answer a question for me? What form do you use for the past participle of the verb ‘to text’?

👏👏👏 I've come round to compulsory voting, if done on the basis Nick sets out here. Partly because it will help tackle democratic decay, but also because we need to push back at the idea that politics is basically shopping - where you just get to demand what you want. Citizenship involves duties.

Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Today in Isles of Scilly we saw Sir Harold Wilson and Bill Oddie of the Goodies.

Fantastic thread on Richard Llewellyn/How Green Was My Valley #cymru

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 2w ago

Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

*bursts in with complete joke 3 years late* “Twitter was my slave name, the honourable Elonjah Muskhammad taught me to reject it”

Listen to Sadiq!

If you’ve heard that London is dystopian and dangerous – read this. It just isn’t | Sadiq Khan

Britain’s capital has faced social media, press and political attacks designed to make residents and tourists feel unsafe. Ignore that: we have the facts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com

It's fascinating to watch commentators who sat completely silently for a decade as the Conservative Government changed its leader four times in a row mid-term, now suddenly discover such a keen interest in the concepts of 'mandates' and 'legitimacy'

Burnham: “I’d like you to remain as Culture Secretary.” Nandy: “I’m Culture Secretary?”

Saved this one for such an occasion

there’s my president rooting for his future home argentina

i don’t think argentinian players called fernandez, martinez, messi etc *really* want to have a conversation about giving land back to its original owners

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

Settling in with a six pack and Doritos for upwards of 120 minutes of short-form imperial history

The entire power vertical of Orbán was completely unprepared for the outcome in which the opposition would secure a constitutional supermajority and ruthlessly turn all the legal weaponry that Fidesz had set up for itself against its creators. 4/