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If the US agrees to become our 11th province, we'll offer them many exciting benefits—including free Bhangra lessons for every US citizen, delivered with our signature Canadian politeness, warmth and welcoming spirit.

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Stewart Lee capturing the danger of the tide of bullshit "in an era busy eating its own brainstem" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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All vice chancellors should also take and reinstate respect for subjects paying attention to language, writing, and critical analysis ... "writing is a generative activity.We write to figure out what we think ... If we offload the task of writing onto an AI, we lose the opportunity to think."

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Chalk me up as another person who missed this piece when it came out in December. Stunning, luxurious writing on family, friends, and Seamus Heaney, by Caitlin Flanagan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... H/T @deshocks.bsky.social

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The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security. Is any MP prepared to agree?

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Auditorium open: The build up to Alcohol Review 2025 has begun, with many recorded Spotlight sessions set to be posted to othis page in the coming days, ahead of the live event on March 20th. Please check it out and share. Hoping you will join us. alcohol-review.com/alcohol-revi...

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AKA soaring inequity

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⏰The Govt have under 2 weeks to block the bailout of Thames Water. 📑25,000 people have signed the petition to take Thames Water into public ownership. #Thames has failed and shouldn't be rewarded with a £3 billion bailout. Agree? Sign our petition tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

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Just heard Elon Musk waffle on for a bit for the first time, and he sounds just like this Steve Coogan character.

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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Very good #PublicHealth question about #PlasticWaste, #PlasticPollution and #PublicHealth When it comes to plastic, when are we going to hold the petrochemical industry accountable for this ugliness? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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Great show from David O'Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social last night. Still laughing at cats on wheels.

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💛WIN A BOLLARD💛 The most popular competition in the history of social media is back. It's the prize you've all been waiting for. Repost and follow to be in with a chance of winning this gorgeous Monoscape Bridgeford Smooth Grey Concrete Bollard worth £252.42. #WorldBollardAssociation

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New #severance preview drops

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Here's how the Conservatives managed to spend £715 million of taxpayers' money on the failed, inhumane Rwanda scheme. https://buff.ly/41bZLrx

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Pressure is growing on the Royal Society to expel Elon Musk from its fellowship after more than a thousand scientists signed an open letter expressing dismay at its lack of action on the matter www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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#Unforgotten episode 1 - the complaint against the academic reads as a bit of #wokewashery The scene is credible if the request for training comes from HR but NOT the union ...

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New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.

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@mrhenrymorris.bsky.social gives it both barrels. Brilliantly.

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#MILKSHAKE

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So many institutions do need modernising right now, and yet the only answer that has had any traction for the last 40 years has been “bring in or mimic the private sector”. Then the Left ends up forced into defending dysfunctional institutions as a result.

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Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

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Happy birthday to Tjinder Singh. Here are Cornershop performing Brimful of Asha live on US TV in 1998 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCY4...

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Great stuff

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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan... mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...

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Weaponized interdependence has boomeranged back home: "Musk is seemingly doing to the U.S. govt what the U.S. govt once did to the rest of the world: refashioning the plumbing of the federal govt into a political weapon vs his adversaries." Must-read by @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social

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Shocked and saddened to hear that Michael Buroway, the brilliant Berkeley sociologist, social theorist, advocate for a public sociology, and former ASA president was killed yesterday by a speeding hit-and-run driver.

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Some actors capture an aspect of their historical moment. The combover, the knitwear, the wheedling and fussing - Brian Murphy was the absolute exemplar of a certain kind of postwar masculinity - the salaryman born slightly too early for the Permissive Society. RIP.

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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

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America is fluctuating by the hour. First, it seems to be a reality TV show about infantile oligarchs, then it's a dystopian shopping channel, then it's a reenactment of 1930s fascism set to circus music and canned laughter. Can a country's entire political system catch dementia from its leader?

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Profit driven investment hype benefits from the 'Tomorrow's World' wishful thinking techno myth that novelty is 'progress' - new (tweaks on existing) things will 'work' and improve 'things' in some unspecified way. Science demands testing to establish outcomes, including unintended consequences.

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Some good news! UbuWeb is back! ubu.com

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Garron Noone on the evil body movements of a particular tech bro oligarch

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#Imbolc is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring, held on 1 February. A time of celebration and ritual, often honouring Brighid, the goddess of the hearth Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777 #WomensArt

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One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this - Omar El Akkad Order yours now! Coming soon with @canongate.co.uk

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🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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