'The Court’s judgement... is a devastating indictment of the impartiality and competence of the OfS, implicating its operations, leadership, governance, and strategy. It raises important and urgent questions for the government as it plans to grant ever more powers to the regulator.'

I congratulate my former colleagues at Sussex on the victory in challenging the fine brought by a partisan Office for Students, one only ever intended to hurt, not help, free speech. As a firsthand witness of some of the events to which the fine related, it was clear the OfS was wholly without merit

Well done the Sussex legal team! "443 The fair-minded, informed and not unduly suspicious observer would in my view conclude that there was a real possibility that the decision-maker here was biased in the sense of having a closed mind to the legal and factual merits of the University’s position."

Competence porn. How have we come to this?

Very excited by our new Sussex AI promotional video www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dS...

<phone rings> LIDINGTON: Hello? TRUSS <phone>: David! It! Is! I! LIDINGTON *sighs*: Hi Liz HAMMOND <next room>: Who is it? TRUSS: It! Is! I! Liz! Truss! LIDINGTON: It's Liz Truss HAMMOND: Cool. Tell her I said "Fuck off" LIDINGTON: Phil says hi. HAMMOND <shouts>: I didn't Liz! I said Fuck off! /1

FWIW, the most relevant recent post is www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/ , but I can't recommend Mr. Zitron's newsletter enough for keeping up with the current LLM insanity.

If, like me, you cannot attend then here is the livestream bit.ly/HamedHaddadi... (don't worry I have checked and unlike most things here, the link does not go to onlyfans)

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A quite excellent resource from the much missed Ross