Best piece I've seen on understabding and resisting the land and energy grab that AI data centres are trying in Alba/Scotland.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

It's also not that effective if my anecdotal experience of u16s constantly scrolling tiktok yesterday on the bus is anything to go by.

University staff across the country have shared stories about what’s really happening in our teaching spaces. And we're being heard. 📖 Read NTEU's Overloaded: Australia's University Class Size Crisis report here: nteu.info/overloaded

Timeline cleanse: bush campus trip.

Why are we doing this, as a country? What for? Do we think we can just have these things back a few years down the road if we're feeling a little bit more flush?

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Having a house in Scotland with solar panels is a really eye opening experience. Solar panels work in Scotland - and if they work here, they work anywhere, because everywhere else in the world is sunnier than here

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

UK University Redundancy Survey from @timeshighered.bsky.social out today - part one, focusing on experience of leavers. Plenty of data - with respondents torn on whether they want to stay in HE - but personal stories hit hardest www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont... via @pauljump.bsky.social

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

Buona festa della liberazione amici!!! #25aprile To learn more about the significance of April 25th in Italy, see the following entries in Where Monsters Are Born: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/22 www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/26 www.wheremonstersareborn.com/items/show/27

Happy Earth Day open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

I did not sign this but I 100% would if I could "We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Thig crìoch air an t-saoghal ach mairidh gaol is ceòl.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Breaking: Controversial laws to restrict protests in NSW struck down by top court: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/chief-justice-findings-on-nsw-protest-law-reform/106570860

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Well, that’s goodbye to Orange walks, cheerio and don’t let the door hit youse on the arse

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

‘He was the victim of political murder’ Enemy of the British state, hunger striker, prisoner, a hero to Lenin and Scotland’s greatest ever revolutionary: the extraordinary life and times of John Maclean I talk to the biographer fighting to keep Maclean’s memory alive 100 years after his death

Can't get a posh job - blame the "woke" establishment. Can't get a shag - blame the "unregulated sexual economy". Lose a by-election - blame cheating. Anything else - blame immigrants. Reform really is the party of excuses for mediocre white men.

Didn't look like the voters were gagging to scrap renters rights, workers rights, or the Equality Act, or to deport people with indefinite leave to remain either.

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer

Looking at what the Navy gets up to around the world, it’s hard not to conclude that defending the oil industry is central to its strategy. Which isn’t surprising, when you look at the role oil industry figures play in shaping its strategy - my long read: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Feels good when the employee survey comes round and it asks you eight different versions of “How often do you use AI” and you click “Never” each time.

Today we strike to ask the University of Dundee to rule out compulsory redundancies. Join us at the front of the Tower until 10am and then at Holyrood for our rally to defend Scottish Higher Education sector from 12:30-13:30.

Burns Night is tomorrow, so it's an important time to talk about agitated haggis care. 1. Provide a soft cushion for them to sit on 2. Ensure they have food; muesli is a good choice 3. Provide a generous saucer of whisky 4. Haggises love scented candles Above all, keep them company and show love 💜

Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves, Regret, remorse, and shame! And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

Tomorrow's front page 📰 SNP and Greens slam Home Secretary's 'dystopian' vision for surveillance state

Most middle class strayan moment so far: a parent telling a child not to touch fitness equipment because of 'health and safety'.

Happy 2026! I fulfilled none of my 2025 resolutions, my excuse is that the year took some very unexpected turns. Hope this is a better year for all of us.

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

UK police forces knew they were using biased facial recognition technology for the last year. This is because forces were unhappy that the more accurate version produced fewer potential suspects. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

DCPC a.k.a. the digital #commons policy council is finally on #Bluesky Please support our work by following us and spreading the good word! :-) @grazulis.bsky.social @ramyachandra.bsky.social @nidhalaigh.bsky.social

Meet our Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social, who is recognised as an international leader in the regulation & governance of data & digital technologies – including AI, the internet & 3D printing. Find out more about Angela and her work➡️ acss.org.uk/professor-an...

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

Doing interdisciplinary comparative law

No surprise that a hidden meeting (i.e. not on official record) between Thiel and Johnson/Cummings in 2019, just before Palantir captured NHS data, is to me the most interesting find in Boris files so far. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New Fellow @nidhalaigh.bsky.social is Professor of Law & Technology at @dundee.ac.uk! Angela’s research explores the interaction between legal frameworks and new digital technologies, in areas such as evidence, sector specific regulation and human rights. ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Very honoured to be among them.