“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising [fossil fuel and meat adverts] in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities. France has also enacted legislation outlawing adverts from non-renewable energy companies, and one Italian city has plans to do the same.”

NEW: Reform UK’s flagship council, Kent, has been accused of telling a “blatant lie” after its claim of nearly £40m in savings on net zero were found to be based on hypothetical projects for which there was no documentation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Replacing taxis with Ubers with self driving cars is just a step-down model for diminishing wages for labour

I defy you to watch this (or at least the last 5 minutes) and not tear up. Magnificent.

Probabaly the most important insight from this is that people who build such tech know exactly the societal damage they are causing, and continue to do it anyway

This hit so fucking hard today.

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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

London is a diverse and beautiful city with the lowest homicide rate in recorded history. Crime in London has gone down, not up.

Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out. This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue. 💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

It’s ridiculous to claim you failed to hold one man accountable for poor behaviour, so you will continue to let others pass.

The idea that London has become less safe in recent years is quite strange - just look at how once "dangerous" areas have been transformed in recent years. Gentrification comes with its own issues but streets are packed with visitors and city far more welcoming than when I moved here a decade ago.

90% of the expressions of interest I have received for open PhD positions are the same. LLMs are garbage, and if you want to be taken seriously, don't use them.

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6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points. (Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 8/n

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Some would say that neoclassical economics is a form of hypnotherapy.. designed to maintain inequality through pseudoscience.

Highly polarising, no context, lacking nuance. Why would you send such a poll? This levy will mean undergrads experience declining support. Undergrads are mostly British citizens.

We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University. Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon... The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo: www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle. dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...

AI is as likely to take over the world as your toaster

nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.

Sometimes during COP, we forget there is a real world out there. News from Groningen about a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. It's where Exxon and Shell extracted gas irresponsibly for decades and have now filed a case against the Dutch government for closing the gas field www.reuters.com/business/env...

A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests may instead drive deforestation and deepen debt in the developing world, civil society groups warn. The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.

Chancellor of the UK does not understand how inequality operates.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Best poster I've ever seen -- check how the shape reflects the contents! (By Anastasia Vybornova & @trivikrama.bsky.social) #ODISSEI2025

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Love this: Epic Grifter Nigel Farage.

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

There is literally not one person who can exist in modern society without using the big tech platforms daily, at least indirectly. That doesn’t mean it’s futile to try to reduce dependency or investment, but I also am not judging anyone harshly for that, least of all those who are most vulnerable.

Labour repeatedly abuses the electorate and expects them not to turn to other means or bad influence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a literal nightmare. As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming - 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with" - Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare - We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything

Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones

Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.

How can London afford such investment in people but the rest of the country relies on trains from the 1950s? 🧐

«By refusing to account for qualitative breaks [ie tipping points] in the climate, the IAMs protected capital from a burst of destruction and thereby increased the likelihood of such breaks - a loop between ideas and material reality if ever there was one.» The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Buying train tickets shouldn’t be this hard. Price them exactly the same each day all day/ route and people will magically organise themselves to travel when they need to + around rush hour if they can. It is really not that hard unless it is a scheme to make money.

Check this one out @chadbourn.bsky.social .. glorious

"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia". [from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']