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All leaders in the end, fail, so they say. Starmer may be in for another four years or he could be looking at a decade in power. How will he fail? In this very readable profile by @tommctague.bsky.social, the suggestion is that Starmer has no real sense of what ails Britain, only an urge to fix it.

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If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

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Seems like a different world away now. #NoKings

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This #NoKings thread is pretty wild. You’d almost get the impression that the other side of America is waking up in force to rain on Little Donny’s big boy parade today. Wouldn’t have seen this in 1933 Germany. Wonder if the power of the crowd has any of the bad guys quaking in their boots?

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If history teaches us one thing Never trust a man who would be king Who seeks all power for himself To burnish his prestige and wealth A nation born in revolution Should know this offers no solution For there can be no liberty Where one man rules with impunity www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...

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Kudos to Donald Trump, whose administration appears to be solving the UKHE funding crisis

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Sly Stone & Brian Wilson dead. The protests at the ICE raids and federal military response in LA. The plane crash in India. The Israeli attack on Iran. What a week it’s been in world news already! Still a weekend of it to go too…

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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Tries to resist checking the news while there remain one Dylan, two Beatles and three Stones still alive

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Being Human in 2035 - Essays Part II: The impact of the social, economic and political forces shaping AI - Imagining the Digital Future Center buff.ly/ywLKMu7

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First Sly Stone, now Brian Wilson - same week! 2 exceptional pop musicians that moved their craft and form forward, to the delight of the rest of us. 2 fragile geniuses that somehow both happened to make it to 82. 2 musical legacies for the ages. #RIPBrianWilson www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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Will have to up my game here. Talking at one of my fave conferences, our annual #HCID event, on ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (June 24th). Part of an event on the role of design in paradigm shifts, mine’s about interdisciplinary climate education. hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

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Yup, still of the view that we’re going to struggle to hold an American World Cup + Olympics over the next few years…

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Watching Trump try to intimidate California (world's 4th largest economy, huge net donor to DC) raises an inevitable question. What if CA, and New England, and the mid-Atlantic, (and TX, for that matter) decided they could succeed just fine on their own? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It’s increasingly looking like a tax on extreme wealth should become one of the primary policy levers of our age. Otherwise…

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RIP Sly

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There are not many completely perfect records, nor musicians that assuredly embody their time. He made a lot of the former & brilliantly did the latter. And it all endures

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One of the lushest, richest, deepest songs of all time.

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RIP Sly - thanks for everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czr...

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Oh sh*t, Sly Stone’s just died! Good for him for surpassing so many of his peers and making it to 82. What a remarkable collection of music and symbolism to leave behind. #RIPSlyStone

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Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of providing an Internet radio broadcast from one of these CSET meetings (in London). Although I wasn’t directly part of the conversations on the tables, I was great to be involved in another way. Looking forward to getting into these reports.

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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‘Amid a lot of the hope that’s being poured into these technologies, we run the risk of losing the fundamental fact that the role of technology should always be helping people live in worlds that they want to live in.’ @gaiamarcus.bsky.social talks to the FT: www.ft.com/content/c572...

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Super excited to be speaking this year at #HCID2025, an event that has long been one of my favourite conferences. You’ll find me giving a talk called ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (lol)…

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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Questions about AI’s energy usage raises bigger issues about our ability to address climate change. "If we can’t work out how to handle this, we won’t be able to handle broader electrification of the economy, and the climate risks we face will increase." www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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Preparing a conference presentation outline where the talk will be centring around a Gramsci quote. Definitely a first for me. Intrigued to see how the talk unfolds.

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is a Hogarth of our times.

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