A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

Riding bikes to every destination since 1994!

I will likely buy Lush's expensive beard wash again

“A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intel professionals, suggests the most consequential military operation of the 21st century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers call AI sycophancy“

Is Spain the only country in Europe with a spine? Bravo to them for standing up www.bbc.com/news/article...

Powerful and careful interview by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social of five brave women, survivors of sexual abuse by Epstein and others, sharing devastating testimony.

NEW: Councils in England are for the first time to receive guidance on how to create streets that are safer for women and girls, as ministers try to tackle what they describe as systemic unfairness in people’s ability to walk around their own neighbourhood. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

strange that so many scientists are cross about this idea. I understand the urge to say eg “eugenics isn’t science”; as a shorthand it makes a kind of sense. but if science is just things that haven’t been proven racist/sexist/wrong by time, then all current scientists are schrödinger’s researchers.

Hey Bernie bros -- it's time to come get your guy. We need leaders who are not so easily taken in by the tech companies, for real.

Huge missed opportunity that these new trains will not be owned by ScotRail They are being leased by Beacon Rail which is owned by JP Morgan Asset Management Rolling stock is the most profitable bit of the railway Scotland should own its own trains! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Last call: We are hosting @devikanarayan.bsky.social at 8pm at SPUI25 where she will be giving a talk on "Cloud Capitalism" and discussing the futures of computatinal infrastructures with Miriyam Aouragh. Live stream: spui25.nl/live More info: spui25.nl/programma/th... #Algosoc #PIP #titipi

My favourite book and author of 2026 so far!

Happy #IWD. Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis. But men dominate climate decision-making, and mega-rich ones like Farage, whose party is backed by oil and gas, set the climate back. I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇 www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

Spain once again showing the way to do it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Theft is bad, folks - unless a multibillion-dollar corporation does it, in which case it's good. This is definitely a morally and economically sustainable operating model for society.

Anthropic is a weird cult who think their software has feelings and thoughts and now thanks to their recent marketing campaign (and the credulous participation of a huge number of progressives), a large number of people around you have joined the cult and are drinking from the fountain

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it. The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday. (📸 Middle East Observer)

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

A new opinion piece authored by Professor Sarah Mills @lborogeog.bsky.social looks at the rise of prediction markets, letting anonymous users gamble on uncertainty. Read more 👇 www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...

Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.

The Labour Govt. handed £21.7 billion to Oil and Gas companies for a useless technology called Carbon Capture and Storage. The Green Party plans to humanise struggling migrants by offering means to work and access healthcare (which every UK resident has access to).

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

Love that my colleagues are reading and sharing the most important papers of our time @lborogeog.bsky.social @olivia.science and co. thank you for writing this one! 🙏🏽

Something the Government want you to forget...

No one was acting in bad faith. Still, the tool pushed them to comply when the evidence right in front of them—the patient and her compromised kidneys—demanded the exact opposite #AI #automationbias www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-i...

📚 ☀️ The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context. 1/🧵

What can you do to turn around isolated towns that have lost their main industry? Some good discussion on here this morning I thought, I’m catching up. Imo the answer is the same for any other place: focus as much as you can on the assets you do have. Easier said than done, but better than nothing…

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

“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.

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

🚨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.