Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

I’ve noticed a huge drop off in engagement recently on BlueSky around EU, Brexit and Freedom of Movement. Can you help resharing things? Has anyone else noticed that? #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM #fbpe

Been thinking about the way gAI is being sold to us is as the universal tool, a kind of Swiss Army Knife—especially in higher ed. What might have a use in Compsci doesn’t have a use/is harmful in the humanities and arts, and there is something coercive about how it’s being forced on us regardless.

Alan Kurdi was his name. He and his Syrian family were fleeing war and trying to make it to Canada.

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Historians: this is a worrying development. Historians use the Hansard to analyze what was said in parliamentary discussions. If the Hansard is subject to editing out things that are politically unacceptable at the time, we (and future historians) have a problem.

My final thoughts on CGTN, for those who are interested in anglophone Chinese media, are in my chapter for the 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media - out later this summer: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

This is a shockingly racist call by a House Republican for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported. But instead of being viewed as unserious, it's now being promoted and circulated by LibsOfTikTok, Benny Johnson and MAGA regulars. Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

I’ve been working on C16/C17 obstetrics texts today and I’m here to tell you this basically didn’t improve *at all* until into the twentieth century. (And arguably still hasn’t in many respects, honestly.)

I love watching my follows on Friday nights #totp

This is accurate but so depressing for those of us in the UK who still hold out hope of a rapprochement with continental Europe in our lifetimes. In 2020s politics, unfortunately, emotion trumps reason (and yes, I realise what verb I've just used). I am sick to death of it but can't escape.

ChatGPT having a meltdown is weird and hilarious www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them. Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack. There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.

Exactly this. Labour needs to acquire and publicise some principles of its own rather than this ridiculous defensive strategy.

This is just so depressing. Labour are supposed to be intelligent people. A partial solution - at least - to Britain's economic woes is staring them in the face and they choose not to acknowledge it, while most of the population suffers in many different ways. Only hedge fund people ever gained.

Why would anyone want the US to lead an alliance that includes Europe ? Our habits and customs are completely different. I am European and speak several European languages. My Europe and their US are light years away from one another. I have nothing to do with Trump. Please, let's disengage.

This is a completely inane headline. SEO diktats aside, there is no excuse for this. You know what the situation is in terms of international law. Where SEO has a conflict with reality, you know where you have to draw the line. Please do it.

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

Disappointed in Alan Carr BBC1, several times pigeonholing contestants who happened to be gay as his 'gay' contingent. Could they not just be contestants like anyone else ?

Superb

This was something I learned from marking student essays where the perpetrator had used AI. The reference lists contained the most unbelievable AI-generated porkies, yet the accompanying text was blithely faux-authoritative. Such marking takes more time than is paid for, of course.

OK, this is the last time. If you're interested in disinformation and China, please buy my book. It's now in paperback here, and also digital and hardback. Sorry for spamming you. www.routledge.com/Seeking-Trut...

Out in paperback on Monday 7 October (and £8 off in October) - my 2023 book comparing BBC international TV news with that of Chinese state media in English. The same words but at a less extortionate price. www.routledge.com/Seeking-Trut...

Interested in international news ? Please read the review of my book comparing CGTN with the BBC - in the SAGE journal Journalism, and free to access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....