I’m sure Rupert Lowe and Nigel Farage will express rage about this and quickly condemn it.

The AI Con, an excellent book by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social is costing 1.99 dollars on Amazon US today amzn.to/4uJmdE1

Do no evil has devil in the detail.

Whenever I see Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its empty little microworld of cliffs overlooking the cosmic void, I long to stand on its soft and dusty crags in absolute silence.

Hugely important story from Queensland where Indigenous people are being dropped from any positions of influence. This is just the start. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

anyway the goal of AI is infantilizing people to the point they have to pay a subscription fee to perform basic tasks, pretty obvious

Après moi, la piscine.

History: first time, tragedy. Second time, Douglas Adams.

Maths warning. If you can't tell the difference between an exception and a consistent trend, for your own sake, never ever gamble.

Just so, and it is absolutely damning on British liberalism generally that this stuff has been tolerated for a second, because our centrists plainly either approve of it, or are unwilling to make trouble for our horrendous politicians www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Mirror, mirror on the pool...

A full-on week, fighting to #SaveUKAstronomy & PPAN from 30% funding cuts. There were highs (👇hanging out with fab-folk) & lows (@ukri.org trying to erase history in old Council minutes) but the amazing support & ❤️ from the wonderful wide astro-community makes it all worth it. Onwards and upwards 💪🔭

If you haven’t yet sent a note to high school students in Gaza preparing for their exams, there’s still time!

"The intended purpose of these figurines remains unknown" largely because it is a group of artifacts that was incredibly heavily looted. There are barely any found during excavation in their original contexts. See the work of @davidwjgill.bsky.social and Christopher Chippindale. 🏺

'I don’t know how many more times I can ask...Odai is not just a story on your screen. He is a child whose bone was shattered...He now needs another surgery...If you have ever wanted to change someone’s life, please don’t scroll away today. Help Odai. Share his story. Stand with him.'

Paul Laverty is so cool, 100% correct, also a great writer obviously

Esteemed in honour www.bbc.com/news/article...

Endlessly disappointed by historians willing to accept the Dan David Prize. This appeal outlines why no historian who respects their own work or supports our discipline should lend this prize their name.

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Climate change science requires politicians to act to decarbonise the economy. Conservative politics are demonstrably incapable of acting. Call an election win a 'justification' if you like, but any oil worker who relies on Tories to save their jobs need to look at their coal miner brethren.

There Is No Alternative, also known as TINA - how Margaret Thatcher bullied the U.K., and now a phrase deeply associated with neo-liberalism. Maybe it’s the headline writer rather than Clinton who chose those words, but they are so deeply coded.

This just in: meta workers can’t believe the leopards they built to eat everyone’s faces are eating their faces😮 www.wired.com/story/andrew...

It’s not my world but - a private jet of that size is surely a huge headache. Maintenance costs, crewing, storage, limited airports. And why would you want so much capacity? How many gaudy Presidential suites do you need?

Where’s Claude Monet when you need him?

You’ve got to admire Trump’s contribution to tourism. People are travelling many miles to come and view his pool

Reform stopped. We can stop the Far Right!

Shocked, shocked to learn that 4x4 drivers generally don’t care how dangerous their vehicles are. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Hello, am I speaking to Power? It’s Truth calling. I’m afraid I have some tough news.

“Tomorrow is World Refugee Day, a moment to recognize the courage and determination of nearly 42 million people uprooted from their countries by war, violence and persecution.” ~UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih

Need a road fixed or a bridge built in your town? How about funding for a rural hospital? Then you need to know that one man, Russell Vought, is about to have complete control over who gets federal funding and who doesn’t. To learn more and to write your elected representatives, hit this link.

Starmer warns Labour against 'turning on each other' after Burnham's convincing Makerfield win The literally blocked him from standing.

'My father has been in a coma since dawn today, and I am helpless. I need your help for my poor father...I need to transfer him to a private hospital. I'm short $250 because the hospital costs are high. Please share my story urgently and donate whatever you can as soon as possible. Please.'

Happy Juneteenth

an astonishing amount of published higher ed comment sprouts from the union of "I want stuff for free" and "stuff I don't like should be banned"

hospitals once focused on restoring people's health. we need to stop medical research to get them back to that

stopping research will not, in fact, do anything at all for "the classroom" creating tenure-line faculty positions, reducing class sizes, and funding libraries will each do a lot, though

"Astrophysics research is in trouble". Yup, we've brought in the big guns to #SaveUKAstronomy, particle and nuclear physics! Thank you @drbecky.bsky.social 🙏 📽️: www.youtube.com/shorts/omICc...

Dundee University's Philosophy Department is under threat of closure. Please sign. c.org/Hvfgzsx2pP

As LLMs became dominant in "AI", symbolic AI research became old hat. Symbolic AI includes knowledge-based systems (KBS), where it was taken for granted that #practitioner knowledge was overwhelmingly implicit and never documented. Guess what happens if you train LLM on documented knowledge only.

No one could have foreseen this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

thetyee.ca/News/2026/05... 14/

Good. Impact factor is silly.

“Honestly, I did not have on my Bingo card ‘New York goes all in on catching up with states that have been implementing child labor.‘”

*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”

1 We are the people 2 we won’t be silenced 3 stop the fascist Now Now Now! @AntiRacismDay #Manchester #NoRacismNoFascism

Celebrate the wonderful unity we have today in #Manchester we are anti fascist & multi gender @AntiRacismDay #NoRacismNoFascism

Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs