congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️‍🌈

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

It’s not enough for renewables to rise, but carbon emissions need to decrease—and rapidly—to have any impact on the #ClimateCrisis. Fossil fuel and plastics need to become a thing of the past. #COP30 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two modest proposals: Start calling people who are paid to have particular opinions sophists again. Stop sharing, writing for, and participating in anything to do with the institute for arts and ideas (dunno who funds it, but what it's doing is putting a *philosophy* shine on reactionary thought)

@keithwilson.eu Apple: Achieve more in your academic life ChatGPT: ...

Very happy to see the UK government making a commitment to phasing out animal testing www.gov.uk/government/n...

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

I’ve just become locked out of my Facebook account, even with another device that is signed into their website, for precisely this reason. Seems as good a time to quit Facebook as any! 🚮

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

Rep Adelita Grijalva has signed the petition to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein Files. It now has the required 218 signatures.

Rep Don Bacon tells MSNBC he will vote yes on fully releasing the Epstein files alongside colleagues Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I expect #Trump will make some major concessions to Russia shortly as they threaten to release whatever kompromat they have on him.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

In London "You're Welcome" is only used after an awkward silence to indicate that thanks was expected but not offered. For me this makes visiting the US very confusing.

#TrumpCrimes #USCorruption

I see #Apple is shilling for #OpenAI now… 🤨 #ChatGPT #education

Epstein-Barr virus, the common pathogen behind mononucleosis/mono/glandular fever/kissing disease, seems to prime some people to develop the autoimmune condition systemic lupus erythematosus 🧪 #health #mono www.newscientist.com/article/2504...

Ireland’s media regulator has opened a formal investigation into #X concerning the right to appeal content moderation decisions. #SocialMedia www.rte.ie/news/busines...

…and didn’t understand them.

Steve Jobs used to say that the designer’s task is to listen to what people say they want and then figure out what they actually need (or words to that effect). #Microsoft seems adept at understanding its users’ needs and giving them what they don’t want. 🤷‍♂️

Only Clippy. 📎

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration! Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code. Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

Apparently it's fine to blow billions on data centres and simultaneously impossible to spend money on ending child poverty.

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

I’m so glad I don’t live in the UK any more.

“More and more, the nature of high-profile public service is repelling the best and the brightest. That is the great tragedy of our age—and the great opportunity for those who were never in it to serve the public in the first place.” #BBC #BBCBias

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.

if we built a twitter archive importer so you could find people you know from twitter on @bsky.app, would y'all use it?

Ireland has a new left-wing president who has been sharply critical of Israel. And, speaking at her inauguration ceremony earlier today, Catherine Connolly wants to push the limits of the ceremonial role.

"Following the scandal of the BBC editing a clip of Donald Trump to make it look like he was inciting an insurrection in a more concise way than he actually did..."

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

That would be Robbie Gibb, former Director of Communications for Tory PM Theresa May, and appointed to the board of the #BBC by Tory PM Boris Johnson. But I’m sure he’s completely unbiased. 🤷‍♂️ #BBCBias

Yep. #BBCBias #ToryCorruption

The prospect of replacing people's already dwindling intelligence with an artificial one that they can control has billionaires salivating

#Trumpland #USFascism

In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.

That’s nearly *double* the worst pre-Brexit estimates of a ‘no deal’ scenario. No wonder the UK is in such a mess! And who do we have to thank for this? Charlatans like Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. #BrexitReality #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU

Models' inability to reason about limited perspectives becomes especially important when it involves the limitations of the user. www-nature-com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/articles/s42...

Today in the Oval Office, the president spoke on the subject of #magnets. This is what he said: “China was going to hit us with rare earth. Now, everybody says, oh, what is happening? Magnets.

🤪 🧲 #Trumpland #ThePresident’sBrainIsMissing

Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status – and the US will follow soon, as vaccination rates fall theconversation.com/canada-loses...

The BBC’s problem is not really impartiality, it’s understanding the relationship between impartiality and accuracy. The two are paired in the BBC’s code. Due impartiality is paired with due accuracy. The BBC forgets this all too often, focussing only on impartiality and neglecting accuracy.

Do I know any gaeilge speakers who have *good* grammar? I'm trying to come up with some plausible looking examples of first and third person imperative sentences

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.