"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Low budget, high intensity! ✊💚

If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Post-fossil internet and solar futures with the Non-Extractive Art School x CDI-TV x StreamArtNetwork @transmediale.bsky.social

This afternoon at 3:30pm I'll be in conversation with Kristoffer Gansing and Amelie Buchinger on post-fossil internet and solar futures as Non-Extractive Art School (NEAS) meets StreamArtNetwork (SAN): san-archipelago.super.site

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

This is what happens when you blame migrants instead of billionaires open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Misty morning in Cambridge!

For anyone who will be at transmediale, come say hi! The SAN Archipelago programme also has open-call slots available for anyone who wants to join for a discussion or performance via stream/in person. HMU

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)." @prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

NEXT WEEK: CDI-TV joins UKRAiNATV, 3022 & Konfluxus as StreamArtNetwork - live-hybrid-streaming from @transmediale.bsky.social - Silent Green, Berlin, 28.01-01.02 - transmediale.de/en

Thank goodness everyone spent months deciding that the Chinese were stealing our data so we could switch to good old patriotic American data stealing

What's at stake for Kurds fighting in Syria, a Kurdish former student tells me, is the autonomous space for real democracy against centralized nationalisms and fascistic tendencies of both Iranian and Syrian states. I'm following @hamouniran on IG for breakdowns of Kurdish and Iran politics

The democratic revolution is fighting for its life in Rojava. We must not be silent. The Kurds who defeated ISIS to the benefit of the world have been sold out by the West, betrayed by the Syrian govt, and are now under renewed threat from Turkish and ISIS militants. novaramedia.com/2026/01/22/r...

New year, new Heart Reacts! This week: emotional libertarianism and its discontents Available at www.patreon.com/posts/episod... or wherever you get podcasts

On young people using ChatGPT because their friends are "too busy" and whether you're better off having a baby with your partner or your best friend. Out now at www.patreon.com/posts/145683... or find us on your platform of choice

A really stellar conversation. Highly recommended listening!

If you haven't heard the letter with the Big Linklater Energy yet then make sure you find it in your podcast feed! or find us at patreon.com/heartreacts yknow 😉❤️

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

You two, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @vivaharehills.bsky.social: This podcast, which I discovered like last week, has been such a companion to me. And I keep recommending it. Thank you for this gift of vulnerability and wisdom. Tis the perfect season to have you in my ears.💕🙏🏻

My latest article. Please consider circulating. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.

Upload your grandparents so you can rent them forever <3

Pink Tide governments inspired the left worldwide. Now strongmen, crypto scammers & sharp-toothed ultra-rightists are taking their place. What happened? Tony Wood & Camila Vergara joined me on @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS to talk about the long ebb of the marea rosa. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

This from a university that is in a comparatively *good* financial position

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice! This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"

What is called splendour of the throne is no other than the corruption of the state, wrote Tom Paine in 1791. “It is made up of a band of parasites, living in luxurious indolence, out of public taxes.” Those two lines are worth more than anything put to paper by a republican in Britain for 70 years.

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

Episode 30! And we're getting/saying Down With Ambiguity (geddit?) Also available wherever you get podcasts www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 👉Open Position: Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #AI 🗓️ Application deadline: 3 November 2025 Apply via: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #PartOfLSE #LSEPhilosophy #Jobs

Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...

"We must work step by step, in an organizational way, toward direct control of universities. If we do, we’ll be of real use to our knowledge allies [...] in building the self-governing knowledge systems we need to block authoritarian implosion and get a future we want." By Christopher Newfield.

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs

When I first heard Albania now has an AI minister I had just assumed they now had a minister for AI. Stupid me.

This is guaranteed to be great!

MAGA als politreligiöse Bewegung brauchte von Anfang an einen geeigneten Märtyrer, um die eigene Grausamkeit zu rechtfertigen. Bisher hatte man Ikonenbilder des angeschossenen Trump und liturgische Accessoires wie das Pflaster an seinem Ohr. Jetzt beginnt das Kriegsgeheul.

[Supercilious platitude no one asked for or needed because they are, in fact, adults about why, even if we might disagree with someone, there is no excuse for [anything that could be construed as [adjective/verb] or minimising [abstract noun]] Sorry but someone had to say it, and it had to be me.

🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

1954 Shawmut Bank (Boston) ad: “What will YOU do with Cybernetics?” (H/t Sean Manion!) — makes some familiar promises re: “substituting the machine for the many functions of the human mind,” leading to “more production, more jobs, more income and far, far more leisure.”

This episode of 301 (by @thejaymo.net) sums up the experience of being a British person on Bluesky. Kinda sad that after a fortnight or so of it seeming like a decent space, it actually just sucks. Sorry etc but I don't think it's the platform's fault either. permanentlymoved.online/2514-more-di...

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

The rhetoric of ‘greatness’ is hollow in so many ways, but no more so than in the deliberate destruction of research and artistic creativity. It’s the abolition of the future.

"Ali says since being elected as a councillor he has campaigned in inner city areas across the country where people are fed up with the two-party system. The response, he argues, should be to promote self-empowerment within communities..." Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/07/23/t...

This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I answer questions on AI, working in tech, and care work. find at patreon.com/heartreacts or wherever you get your podcasts!

this week's Heart Reacts (up shortly!) is one for the labor nerds: @vivaharehills.bsky.social goes in on so-called AI and the labor process and I dig into the problems of organizing home health care workers and Medicaid. www.patreon.com/c/HeartReacts

Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”

On this Day of Primes, remember our complicity in labor inequality. And maybe read @vivaharehills.bsky.social's book "Cyberboss". Plus, listen to me and @ronbronson.com on @futureperfectbook.club discussing that very book and some of its implications. futureperfectbook.club/podcast/cybe...

We welcome proposals for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships in the following areas: 🟢 Literature and Digital Humanities 🟢 DH-based research engaging with GLAM 🟢 Creativity Apply by 27 July to be considered for internal selection: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...