This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" (from pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...) is a metaphor that will not be leaving my mind anytime soon, I think.

This whole section really.

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Wordle alone did not feel masochistic enough today, so: 🙂 Daily Quordle 1344 4️⃣5️⃣ 7️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

If you are preparing for Imelda and own a portable generator, make sure your have working carbon monoxide alarms on every level of your home. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. CO is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and can kill within minutes.

I still love that album!

Sigh

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This made me laugh extra hard today

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Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter

P.S. In case you don't know: youtu.be/Lgd_B6iKPxU?...

They've lost the 9yos

For me, #GladdersYoga is one of the very best things on Bluesky every week.

No, it doesn't. The amnesty *itself* (among other things) is under challenge in the UKSC. Does no one read anything before publishing these days?

We need this right now. 😊

Farage’s proposal to create a permanent underclass of migrants has 3% support. *3%*. If ever there was a golden political opportunity for Starmer’s Labour-whose support base let’s not forget is *pro-migration* - this is it. Is this mealy mouthed accountant language the best they can do?

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Lithuania authorises army to shoot down drones violating its airspace reut.rs/3Ic4mU3

Ofc an even more accurate description would be "the run-down hotels where asylum applicants, a majority of whom will prove to be refugees fleeing persecution, are being dumped with minimal subsistence and no right to work, while the Government takes years deciding a huge backlog of their cases"

"Migrant hotels" is a horrible shorthand. "The hotels where asylum applicants are accommodated" is surely succinct enough while being more factual and thus more neutral. "Migrant" is prejudicial (by not mentioning the asylum case) and starts from the same reason they didn't talk about the origin.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

Seems like it's time to repost this, from an old IBM presentation:

Chronology matters.

The Reform Party policy of abolition of indefinite leave to remain is supported by 3% of the public

Farage's proposal here would crash the economy. An economy already struggling as a result of Brexit. Not only are the numbers false but it takes rights away from migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for years. Many who have British partners and children born in the UK.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

Man Arrested For Stealing Hard Drives With Unreleased Beyoncé Music https://theonion.com/man-arrested-for-stealing-hard-drives-with-unreleased-beyonce-music/

Happy birthday to Joan Jett, an inspiration always… 🎉 📸: Chris Stein

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The idea of mass deportation of people who had legally migrated into a country used to be a clear indicator for not only far-right, but far-right extremist policies. This says a lot on both how far Reform has radicalised, and how these kind of ideas are becoming normalised in Western democracies.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Where did all this hate erupt from?

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

The immigrant experience, even the second or third generation immigrant experience, so often adds up to keeping the suitcases handy.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Jefferson-Wooden wins third Tokyo sprint title as US take 4x100m relay reut.rs/4neMIyd

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

Nobody's sweet dreams are made of this anymore and that's sad

China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*. This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack