“Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a ‘AI will replace workers’ strategy.” ~ hachyderm.io/@evacide/116...

ICYMI, @byrobdavies.bsky.social and I worked on this important investigation abt a company that gets £millions per year from councils to house ppl in temporary accommodation, while companies owned by other members of the same family are accused of tax avoidance. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Think it’s important to note that the Spectator is one of Paul Marshall’s publications, who also owns GB News and Unherd, and once liked tweets from far right and conspiracy accounts which called for "mass expulsions" of immigrants.

There has always been resistance to automated technologies that try to undermine the power of labour. That’s why my PhD is looking at how journalists resist AI technologies in the newsroom.

Again @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social shows that he doesn't realize that "AI" isn't a single technology. These "good" products are all significantly different.They have little to do w/ the technofeudal, technofascistic monopolies Klein (unknowingly?) boosts when he writes on AI. NYT editors wake up!

It was a pleasure to work on this with freelance journalist @jwsal.bsky.social, who knows a lot about local government, housing and human rights, among other things. He is also a diligent reporter. Editors should commission him.

Thinking especially of one former colleague who got annoyed when I criticised him for saying that he hoped the Supreme Court decision would bring clarity to the ‘trans rights debate’.

Since the lede is a bit buried: @wikipedia.org appears to be engaging in union busting

Staff and students protesting the lockout by management at Goldsmiths are calling for the new Green council at Lewisham to come and support their action to resist cuts.

This is why we need rent controls, or else we get greedy landlords like this guy who already owns 6 properties by the age of 27 which he can then use to gouge renters who have few other choices. Build homes and cap rents.

Steve Harrison in Peckham is still so nostalgic about that one time it was hot in 1976 that he’s starting fights on Nextdoor.

The way BP has just fired the chair of its board because “serious concerns” have been raised related to “important governance standards, oversight and conduct” suggests he's done something pretty bad. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

Democracy in Turkey is under attack. The EU has the power to take action on the dismantling of Turkey’s democratic opposition. Political parties and elected parliamentary representatives have suffered gravely under Erdoğan’s rule.

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

Spot on. Even on its own terms - a CMA investigation, a new price comparison website - this is totally inadequate. Tokenism at its worst.

"AI SUCKS!" www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Seems like gaslighting to say this while investing such a pitiful amount of money in fixing the housing crisis which is one of the primary causes of this affordability crisis.

Never forget that Labour abdicated their responsibility to speed up the energy transition but agreed to increase defence spending to double the current £70bn a year by 2035 because Trump told us to.

Since I’m doing a PhD looking at how people resist the imposition of AI tools, I very much enjoy seeing content advocating for neo-Ludditism.

🚨🚨 #brexit: UK pitched single market for goods with EU in pursuit of deeper trade ties but sources say it was rebuffed where EU suggested a CU or economic alignment through the #EuropeanEconomicArea. We are back to #Labour's very damaging #redlines. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shocking moments in Turkish history as Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, once well-liked opposition CHP leader likened to "Gandhi" and former presidential candidate, forces his way into CHP headquarters in Ankara with police, tear gas... K.K. replaced Özgür Özel against CHP's will, with a court decision last week

The leader of the opposition party in Turkey on TOMA (anti-riot police vehicle).He said "From now on, we are only in the streets.” This is a fight where only one can win! And this is why antagonism cannot be eliminated from democracy. Enemies of democracy aren't our friends or legitimate adversaries

In case anyone outside Turkey still cares, today marks another turning point for Turkish “democracy.” A major threshold has been crossed.

“After the government jailed the Istanbul mayor and CHP presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu, and other CHP mayors and officials on bogus charges, it is clear that the Turkish authorities want to remove the current leadership of the CHP as a viable force in politics.” New from @hrw.org ⤵️

If you're interested in the problems that local authorities are having in divesting their pension funds away from complicity in genocide, I've written a report about Lambeth's pension fund and the dispute around its investments in complicit companies. open.substack.com/pub/investig...

If you're interested in the problems that local authorities are having in divesting their pension funds away from complicity in genocide, I've written a report about Lambeth's pension fund and the dispute around its investments in complicit companies. open.substack.com/pub/investig...

The FT says the UK government is looking to completely replace some NHS staff with AI. I don’t really understand how the government thinks AI will increase growth when it also anticipates job losses.

I love driving in the car so I can listen to LBC’s Vanessa Feltz discuss why 1 million young people are out of education and work and entirely blame the young people while a succession of 50-plus callers blame social media for making them unable to find work.

Had to look this one up but yes that happened.

Did a Tweet about how landlords were costing the UK government £40 bn a year in housing benefit and it made landlords really mad.

If I was the Cuban commander in charge of their alleged drone fleet I’d have the Wikipedia page listing Trump properties bookmarked on my laptop Can’t stop an invasion but they have to know the national freak out that would occur if a Shahed smacked the 18th hole of Trump Doral during cocktail hour

The most dangerous wrong ideas in public policy are the ones that sound so intuitively true that any attempt to push back or even nuance them can be sneeringly dismissed as academic foolishness that flies in the face of 'common sense'. I... may have written a book about this. 👀

Easy to say 'they've all been made mentally ill by social media' but if you just take a step back and look at what social media is a part of - unrestrained neoliberal capitalism - which has wide ranging mental and other health effects on the ability of people to work, you would be more accurate.

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Goldsmiths’ useless bosses are pursuing punitive action against staff taking action are a huge escalation and I 100% support the staff in going on strike.

The Pope vs. Gen A.I. ys a face off Ich wolde nevir have ymagined bifor

This is quite an impressive speedrun of 'soft left becoming very right wing in order to win power'.

"I'd be remiss if I didn't also point out, as an American trans person, that Labour's bathroom policy is significantly more bigoted, invasive, and restrictive towards trans people than anything that any American Republican red state has managed to implement."

Well this has got to be one of the most depressing things I've read in a while. Woman forced to adopt AI or face threats to her career has come to adopt an 'AI inevitability' mindset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Reform councillor admits to not knowing anything about her job.

This is exactly why I asked the government this week what fixed and rotary wing aerial wildfire capability the UK has and what consideration is being given to strengthening it ahead of a strong global El Niño event.

Do I have any Turkish speaking followers who can explain why ‘geyik muhabbeti’ which literally means ‘deer conversation’, is a phrase meaning casual conversation or schmoozing? www.instagram.com/reel/DYB5Eh8...

It’s not about the numbers but about the feeling created by the erosion of state infrastructure. It doesn’t matter how much you punish immigrants or reduce the number of international students if you don’t also build any houses for people to live in and fund council services.

London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

What does it say about the creeping fascism of contemporary Britain that the country’s imminent “most left wing prime minister for two generations” has to immediately sign off on one of the most extreme and cruel border regimes in Europe?

Someone come and pick up your dad, he’s written a book called ‘Centrists of the world unite’ and says he wants to show that being a bourgeois white guy who is perfectly comfortable with the status quo power relations is ‘intellectually exciting and emotionally fulfilling’.

The owner of The Telegraph, German company Axel Springer, uses Palantir software across its publications.

How Palantir is becoming embedded in major newsroom operations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-palantir-becoming-embedded-major-newsroom-operations

This is really one of those iconic videos that contains so much textual depth about our over reliance on machines and automation, our insane investments in those technologies and their inability to replicate the creativity of humans.

A Reform councillor accused of shaming a disabled man and a dyslexic colleague, has been put in charge of Special Educational Needs at his council Sam Journet has faced a barrage of complaints for bullying and intimidation whilst regularly using Meta-style camera glasses to film residents and staff