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harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. Karla’s Choice OUT NOW. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH 10.iv.25. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
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Anyone want to weigh in on this? Or can source any of it?

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Not just in the UK. (tribalism + social segregation) x (status and economic pressures) = rift between knowledge and craft workers

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Doing the prep work for @harkaway.bsky.social's newest. Somehow I missed this one when it came out but... no surprise - it's superb.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In the United Kingdom, I would have had to pay in order to do a PhD. In the Netherlands, it is free. Indeed, most PhD candidates are paid employees earning €40,000 a year before tax. Scholarship PhDs earn €20,000.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My latest review video is of @harkaway.bsky.social Sleeper Beach. Don’t sleep on this book folks! youtu.be/gnGhiSV4SAY?...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Concerning. www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...

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“The historical pattern suggests that while the "flood the zone" approach can be initially effective, it also creates vulnerabilities through overreach, administrative chaos, and eventual public backlash” antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/the-flood-...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I've seen a few posts like this. But given that Grangemouth was allowed to go under, with ample warning, I think it's just that the government check how Reform are polling in the immediate area and base their response on that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries. This is just ChatGPT, not even all Gen AI. Using more electricity than >60% of the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

"Pictures are famous for their humanness, not for their pictureness." Kurt Vonnegut discussion of art in his 1997 novel Timequake offers one explanation why people might find AI creations unsatisfying.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Oh happy day! Got the new @harkaway.bsky.social novel delivered from Hive online bookstore this morning - looking forward to catching up with Cal Sounder and the Titans!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’m re-reading this before getting into Sleeper Beach, and it’s not that I’d forgotten how much I enjoy the @harkaway.bsky.social tone, it’s that I’d sort of forgotten the feeling of enjoying it so much.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Yeah, I think saving steelworks is the right call (vital for national defence aside from anything else), but we should absolutely be doing the same for HE (and not murdering the HE sector through bad funding in the first place)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Again: Britain (not just this government but all of the recent ones) has a problem with knowledge work. Fishing, steel are manly proper jobs with a Victorian sense of place and history. Creative industries & HE are treated as secondary; derided or ignored.

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