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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

submitted 34 days ago • 252 comments

Just seen more images of dead children - are we still selling weapons to Israel? A holocaust survivor once wrote of all those who said to them “we are sorry, we never knew” “I believed they never knew, but also that they had put in a great deal of effort to ensure they never knew”

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 52 days ago • 724 comments

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

submitted 54 days ago • 208 comments

Reminder that it’s still misinformation if it’s owning someone you don’t like

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re enjoying #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, pop something into the fundraiser for Centrepoint www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

submitted 62 days ago • 247 comments

These things here are emergency wreck buoys, and if you're thinking the colour scheme looks somewhat like a circus big top, just wait until you hear about the clown show that inspired their introduction.

submitted 62 days ago • 30 comments

"You will be visited by three spirits" The three spirits

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent paper from @pahlkadot.bsky.social and our very own @andrewgreenway.bsky.social on rebuilding the capacity of the state - aka the how of government. A must-read over the Xmas break for those with any interest in public sector reform. www.niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-n...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

submitted 75 days ago • 46 comments

🤩 @mollywj.bsky.social, in her 'middle-age mum era', has written about fandom as grown up. "It feels special to be on the inside of something as remarkable as what she’s created, but also objective enough not to buy into every last element of it." Publishing today, on Taylor Swift's 35th birthday

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Went to the speech this morning. A few thoughts. TL;DR - I thought it was really good, but of course lots of tricky challenges to work through. 🧵

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments

The article suggests a lot of this money would be spent on ads. Political ad reform in the UK is urgently needed.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

🎥 Footage is being shared on social media with claims it shows attacks from Yemen on the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. But one clip comes from the video game Arma 3, while another shows an unrelated fire onboard a ship docked in San Diego in 2020.

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Alex and I had a great time chatting with @ryanandrosoff.bsky.social about what's next for digital gov in Canada :)

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Do share - and remember your local library will have info on eligibility and how to access (plus computers and support with them for anything that needs an online application)

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Over 1.4 million emergency food parcels were provided by food banks in the @trusselluk.bsky.social community in just 6 months. Why? Our social security system is falling short. But we can fix this. We gathered at Parliament Square to deliver this news to parliament. It's time to end hardship.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

What gif pops up when you type in your name?

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Good to see the Observer keep up their coverage of this scandal which remains undercovered.

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

submitted 98 days ago • 29 comments

So, it's notable that nearly everyone is on this platform because of Elon Musk, but relatively few UK-based people outside the field of critical tech seem to care about building pro-democracy alternatives and not giving away national infra to a handful of companies.

submitted 99 days ago • 8 comments

We all need a gentle pep talk from Gandalf today.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

don't be a dick and spoil this for everyone ok? I did it as a Google Meet so you don't have to download zoom: meet.google.com/jvs-ngrb-zhq

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

A statement from Post Guild leadership on The Washington Post's decision to not endorse a presidential candidate.

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

See, if they had endorsed her, everyone would have been like, yeah, whatever. But now Bezos and Lewis are focusing peoples' attention on what fascism actually looks like in practice -- the wealthy submitting to dear leader for financial gain, the media bowing to his wishes

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"The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos." I worked at the paper for seven years and Bezos never interfered with a thing. This is five-alarm fire stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

submitted 121 days ago • 283 comments

They should publish it anyway. It'll be in the CMS. Hit the publish button.

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Read it. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-coward...

submitted 121 days ago • 4 comments

I feel special 🤣

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

Telegraph article: "The OBR found that the average migrant worker pays more in tax than they receive in public services throughout their lives compared to British-born workers." The headline:

submitted 163 days ago • 33 comments

I'm quoted in this paper about problems with #What3Words. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.160... As a reminder, W3W is a proprietary & for-profit system which shouldn't be used anywhere near government or emergency services. It is prone to catastrophic failure. Their business model appears to be unsustainable.

submitted 174 days ago • 3 comments

Starter packs are up to 150 people now so I've turned my list into one for convenience. go.bsky.app/5jYvLgu

submitted 177 days ago • 10 comments

A Wells Fargo employee clocked in at 7am on Friday, died at her desk and no one noticed till Monday. Remember: work doesn't love you back. Commit to: - Leaving on time - Taking and enjoying every day of your leave - Never feeling guilty about calling in sick www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

submitted 177 days ago • 6 comments

If you are battling over "letting the right ones in", we're already doomed. Being pro-migrant means standing for the idea that our communities can, and should, welcome the stranger and traveler among us. It's a spiritual/ethical value, stretching back millenia, that we are fighting for.

submitted 177 days ago • 5 comments

I just learned the name of the crater left when by the asteroid that struck earth 66 million years ago and wiped out most life of the planet, including the dinosaurs: Chicxulub. You should google that word.

submitted 176 days ago • 31 comments

Here’s a block list for content farms. They’re scrapers and they are shit tier accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 178 days ago • 66 comments

This is a nice feature. Designing the app around some of the ways people have mis-used social media 👌

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

The Paralympics start today! Opening Ceremony coverage begins on Channel 4 at 6.30pm.

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

I think about this often - jobs have always been changing, but the AI discourse implies they haven't. My working life started in the early days of email which has had an enormous impact on how we work - but no-one seems to talk about that 🤷

submitted 179 days ago • 3 comments

I'm old enough to remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

submitted 179 days ago • 103 comments

Meanwhile when we're all done arguing over Kirstie Allsopp's 15yo Interrailing, this on teenage anxiety is worth a read. As a society we're definitely getting something wrong re teens & while risk/letting them roam is probably part of it, it's not the whole www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

submitted 180 days ago • 6 comments

A mini rant from me on the “70% of transformation projects fail” bullsh*t statistic. www.linkedin.com/posts/audree...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments