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Parent, husband and historian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇳🇿 Prof @universityofotago.bsky.social VProf @ Birkbeck, U of London CI @deindustrialpol Views my own

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UK govts have fallen over themselves to plough money into AI. As the Apple report confirms (echoing exp of other sectors), AI is fundamentally limited in its application & generates a lot of inaccuracies. It’s a massively resource intensive Ponzi that Big Tech’s lobbying to have the state bailout.

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As @alcs.co.uk warned, this is just the beginning of the damage to the UK’s highly successful and respected creative sector by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social concessions to Big Tech.

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🔴 19 days after winning general election, Labour tech sec Peter Kyle met Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis During the meet Hassabis agreed to “act as a ‘sense check’ from industry" for government's policy "on AI opportunities, legislation and safety.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

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Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

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To say that Labour fended off Reform at Hamilton by-election is a complete misrepresentation; the latter came third after the SNP. The problem with such sloppy reporting is that empowers Farage and Reform and distorts their appeal! 🙄

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Call for proposals from Florence Darveau Routhier & @stevenhigh.bsky.social for an SI of Urban History Review, ‘Archived Living Cities: Past and Present Spatial Struggles’: bcc-production-attachments-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/d4bcb60c-41b... @historyworkshop.org.uk @tomhulme.bsky.social

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A proper teaching cover post in modern US history - no 9 months or 0.8 PT nonsense, one year and FT - based in Belfast. Genuinely lovely & harmonious School, and (relatively) stable institution. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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This is appalling. One life lost and another broken, illustrating the depth of hatred being inculcated and nurtured by MAGA in the US. They are actively supporting preachers peddling the same hatred and division elsewhere (AfD in Germany, Reform in the UK, and Rassemblement national in France).

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🏛️ NEW FROM THE DéPOT Blog: Sherry Lee Linkon takes us from Rust Belt to Beltway, linking the DOGE cuts with histories of deindustrialization. Read here: deindustrialization.org/dc-deindustr...

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🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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🔴 If, like me, you heard Farage's comments on abortion this week and wondered 'who is funding the anti-abortion push in Britain' I'd really recommend reading Democracy for Sale tomorrow.... 🧐 Sign up here (it's free!) democracyforsale.substack.com

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The Scottish Government has pursued a different social security agenda to the UK as a whole. Projections suggest that child poverty in Scotland fell between 2022-23 and 2024-25, while it rose in England. Under current policy assumptions, rates are projected to diverge further.

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A great opportunity to join our @deindustrialpol.bsky.social project on a PhD studentship @uofglasgow.bsky.social exploring deindustrialisation and working class expression.

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This in bucket loads!

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A reminder that despite the concerted attempts by vested interests, considerable leaps and bounds are being made to meet climate targets.

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'Marc Bloch, historien et médiéviste' 👇 www.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/p...

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Well done @johnswinney.bsky.social @snp.org calling out Reform’s racist advert. Scotland needs a united front to keep these bigots out.

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Very true but then if the UK government showed some backbone the Cheeto Shitler wouldn’t feel empowered to do this.

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Disgraceful! This is the government that Labour, Reform & the Tories are prostrating themselves before. @ukparliament.parliament.uk

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