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Dylan Kerrigan

@rumagin.bsky.social

Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding www.dylankerrigan.com (every so often i delete all my replies)

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Jake Laperruque@jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 1h ago

If AI systems are trained to tell users what they want to hear, what happens when those users are cops and prosecutors? My latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece begins a three part series on Perils of AI in Policing, starting with risk of AI sycophancy contaminating law enforcement

Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement?

AI sycophancy in high risk domains like law enforcement are under-analyzed, argues Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque.

techpolicy.press

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h ago

To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10h ago

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

KISHWER FALKNER AND AKUA REINDORF Code of practice provides weapon to defend single-sex spaces Organisations have long ignored the law on self-identity. The EHRC rules which take effect today will not end that but are nevertheless a victory Kishwer Falkner and Akua Reindorf Tuesday August 04 2026, 10.15pm BST, The Times
Craig Johnson@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 5h ago

US and Brazil are in a big feud, refusing diplomats - this is because Lula, correctly, says the Trump administration is aiding his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro (former Pres Jair Bolsonaro's son), and helped interfere with the previous Presidential election

US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud

Move is retaliation for Lula’s government refusal to approve Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasília

theguardian.com

Smalljones aka Paul Jones@smalljones.bsky.social · 6h ago

Unlike the pushback against AI where people start to tell me about their anxiety and then switch to immediately defending their own use of AI and end up saying how charming it is. No one is saying anything positive about data centers. Across all kinds of boundaries.

New Economics Foundation@neweconomics.bsky.social · 5h ago

These oil giants are part of the reckless lobby pushing the fantasy that more drilling in the North Sea will bring our bills down - when all it will do is fatten the bank accounts of big oil corporations like BP, while households in the UK agonise over rising energy bills. 1/2

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h ago

Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

New School of the Anthropocene@nsota.bsky.social · 5h ago

“I can call [the climate crisis] out as a political leader, but you [the media] also has a role to play... the contrast between how much we hear about whatever Nigel Farage or Reform want to talk about versus how little we hear about the climate and nature crisis is pretty glaring.” Quite.

Burnham failing public over heat threats, says Green leader

Zack Polanski has accused ministers of a "dereliction of duty" in response to this summer's heatwaves.

bbc.co.uk

Craig Johnson@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 5h ago

the US is engaging in economic warfare with Cuba STILL, after 60+ years, as one of the physically and culturally closest countries to the US suffers greatly but we want to replace the Communists with a compliant regime so Trump can build a hotel chain

Cuba registra dos apagones nacionales en menos de 24 horas

Las autoridades trabajan para restablecer totalmente la electricidad en la isla, cuyo sistema, obsoleto y afectado por las restricciones estadounidenses, ha colapsado siete veces en 2026

elpais.com

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5h ago

.... is... is Hodges position that it woulda been better if Labour had just outright employed known Nazi trolls and said "yes we are aware this person was a neo-Nazi for a while, don't worry he's just organising the bins tho"? He can't actually be that stupid, or expect us to believe that, can he!?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h ago

Hodges is an occasionally useful guy to keep an eye on, mainly because he’ll say things that his less stupid colleagues are smart enough to keep to themselves.

(((Dan Hodges))) Y @DPJHod...• 8m X Some Labour MPs could do with dialling down their moral outrage a little this morning. It's not long ago their party so was riddled with anti-Semitism some of their Jewish colleagues were forced to leave it. And they tolerated it for reasons of personal political expediency. 11 7 6 24 ill 1.7K 贝 企 Mr Young @Mr_Young • 7m It was bad then. It's still bad now the Tories are doing it. • 1 0 3 Il 89 (|(Dan Hodges))) * @DPJHodges X.com No, Labour were denying there was an issue. The Tories have acknowledged Joshua Bonehill-Paine's history, as has he, and have confronted it openly.
@bedfordtwo.bsky.social · 9h ago

I mean, Rafael absolutely must have seen much of the left shouting 'what about investigating the Right's antisemitism?!' at that very time, and yet the left are still to blame. Wilful fucking ignorance.

Tom W@thomaswilliams.bsky.social · 8h ago

No, don’t you see, it’s just being “framed” as right-wing pathology. In reality, despite being a Tory who became a neo-Nazi and is now back to being a Tory it’s actually all the fault of the radical left. I am very smart and definitely not a crank

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social The whole thing, as first person account of "anti-Zionism" blending with paranoid antisemitic conspiracy theory, is grimlyfamiliar from radical left although reporting of him as ex neo-Nazi frames it as rightwing pathology. [link to “Inside the Mind of an Antisemite - and How I Escaped It” on The Crewkerne Man website]
Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 8h ago

When the UK eventually slides into full fascism and even the centrists start to worry about getting put behind barbed wire, it will still, always and forever, be the fault of jeremy crombyblns that it all came to this

Super Large Excellent Cremulator@spandex.bsky.social · 9h ago

Fucking hell. I know it really doesn’t matter but every time I read something like this I can’t stop myself wondering are they REALLY that stupid? or do they think WE’RE this stupid and they’ve cleverly pulled the wool over our eyes again? Either option is astonishing

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

It is staggeringly reprehensible and reckless to continue this insulting bullshit at a time when the global far right have advanced so far that *the leader of the Conservative Party* is defending recruitment of a convicted neo-Nazi, on the grounds he is an expert on antiracism and anti-extremism.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

It was despicable first time round, to shitehouse the public into the impression that this neo-Nazi criminal might actually be a fervent socialist Labour partisan. I don’t know what we’d call the attempt to do it all over again, to protect yourself from the public noticing you are a bullshit artist.

wariotifo@wariotifo.bsky.social · 8h ago

If Rafael Behr had spent even 30 seconds on Bonehill-Paine’s old website he would not be either falling for or have the gumption to deliberately propagate this lie that B-P was pragmatically pro Corbyn. The vilest antisemitism was the main focus but lots of very extreme content against ‘the left’

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour. By 2015, when I was 22 turning 23, this ideology had become my whole exis-tence. I welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because I saw him as hostile to Israel and aligned with anti-Zionist politics. In my mind, all of this was part of the same war. Alongside those I associated with, I began targeting Jewish MPs and becoming loudly vocal about what we called "Jew-ish infiltration". One of my peers had been arrested and jailed for targeting Luciana Berger in an antisemitic cam-paign. Rather than seeing that as a
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour. By 2015, when I was 22 turning 23, this ideology had become my whole exis-tence. I welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because I saw him as hostile to Israel and aligned with anti-Zionist politics. In my mind, all of this was part of the same war. Alongside those I associated with, I began targeting Jewish MPs and becoming loudly vocal about what we called "Jew-ish infiltration". One of my peers had been arrested and jailed for targeting Luciana Berger in an antisemitic cam-paign. Rather than seeing that as a
Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 8h ago

Corbyn was and still is the Manchurian Candidate phrase for the centrist press. Even the tories employing a nazi can be Corbyn's fault

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Interesting passage in the mea culpa on antisemitism from Tory council candidate at centre of selection row, supporting the view - fiercely denied by most on left at the time - that Corbyn was a magnet drawing antisemitic cranks into Labour. By 2015, when I was 22 turning 23, this ideology had become my whole exis-tence. I welcomed Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader because I saw him as hostile to Israel and aligned with anti-Zionist politics. In my mind, all of this was part of the same war. Alongside those I associated with, I began targeting Jewish MPs and becoming loudly vocal about what we called "Jew-ish infiltration". One of my peers had been arrested and jailed for targeting Luciana Berger in an antisemitic cam-paign. Rather than seeing that as a
George Pearkes@peark.es · 9h ago

"As part of the partnership, Patel has brought officials from China's Ministry of Public Security, or MPS, to multiple FBI facilities in the United States to share ​intelligence and investigative information."

EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...

reuters.com

Dylan Kerrigan@rumagin.bsky.social · 9h ago

"Marruecos lleva años invirtiendo millones en hacer lobby para presentarse ante los republicanos como un aliado clave en inmigración, terrorismo, Israel y seguridad regional" www.elcorreo.com/internaciona...

Marruecos paga millones por ganar la batalla de influencia contra España en Washington | El Correo

Rabat ha declarado pagos y firmado contratos de 'lobbying' y relaciones públicas por un valor mínimo de 2,1 millones de dólares desde enero de 2025 | La ofensiva coincide con la aparición en el Congre...

elcorreo.com