happy to report that the world is now so stupid that my knowledge of shitposting has become valuable enough to publish in the Guardian. My favorite part is I got to call JD Vance a try-hard who can't even shitpost properly in print. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

See this in organisations - departments/people claim credit for results they had no part in. Like pointing at the sea coming in and saying "look, that's me - I did that" and then when the tide goes out it's more "my goodness, look at this wider environmental/market turbulence..."

This, co-authored by @davidaspencer.bsky.social, puts its finger on something I've been failing to describe myself like when an AI tool transcripts a pointless meeting you'd be better off forgetting/ignoring and instead people reading the summary accidentally create work about it.

Roaring denunciation for anyone stating publicly that the Palestinians are human beings with rights who shouldn’t be slaughtered with total impunity; polite applause for swearing friendship to the fascist government that’s been handing out machine guns to civilians, for use on its subject population

"If I’m going to America in 10 years’ time, it’s going to be a bit like going to Cuba,” on.ft.com/4pNTkFp

This country doesn't have a proper name: - United Kingdom? (of what?) - Great Britain? (needs an exclamation mark) - England? (not what passport says) Federalise us as the United States of Britain, give Ireland back to the Irish and we are USB. A colony of America, or a USB-C if you will.

I inherited the e-mails of an Editor who used them to ask people to talk on the 'phone.

The only job LLMs are actually well-suited for replacing is the CEO.

**standing ovation** I'd bet that neurotypical people are more prone to this stuff than neurodivergent?

Computer Science is in many ways applied philosophy of language and thus—like Mathematics—not a Science at all, but more properly a practically useful branch of the Humanities.

It seems to me that what Morgan has very obviously done here is considerably worse than the stuff that had coppers storming through Nicola Sturgeon’s front door and digging up her back garden live on national television, and everyone is saying it’s old news and there’s nothing much to see.

"Being able to access your bank account securely with your national ID is a greater benefit for the bank than it is for you." A Bertold Brecht quote comes to mind, but I am too tired to adapt it.

Nice Ringo-ism in this interview by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney in the FT: “Some days I do, and some weeks I don’t.” on.ft.com/4mD3iGL

"Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers ... We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a task." @hbr.org hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Ibrahim Hacıosmanoğlu: "Despite positioning themselves as defenders of civilized values and peace, the sports world and football institutions have remained silent for far too long. Now is the time for FIFA and UEFA to take action. Israel must be immediately banned from all sporting competitions."

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist. It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil. No executive order can change these facts. However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

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column on why is the far right is obsessed with dubai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This looks like a BNP leaflet from Labour.

Bad Science: The Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline @drandrealove.bsky.social news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...

Got these on offer in the shops the other day and just noticed the "remastered" feature. It's not the bloody Beatles Anthology for goodness sake!

"When we spoke to the emperor's leadership team, they would often say his clothing was very beautiful, but when we spoke to the emperor's subjects, we found zero clothing.”

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

Why is it a yellow card to remove your shirt after scoring a goal in the football though?

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

“It’s the politics of trying to use history to control people, including children, young people, the people who teach it, the people who write curriculum and the state legislatures that will design this stuff.” @dblight.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Flat Earth News abounds - the mainstream media environment is reduced to repeating statements of the powerful for clicks. The only metric is engagement.

Might start referring to my role/department (books editorial, academic publishing) as strategic content moderation to see what happens in internal meetings.

Defund BBC News

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Happy Autumn Equinox, Northern Hemisphere pickers! Still not quite equilux, mind... share.google/R2zmoUubFgRS...

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

Finally got around to watching The Matrix for the first time at the behest of my teenage child.

Apparently Grealish was moaning that he didn’t get enough free-kicks today.

Accidentally watched a bit of the Mitchell / Webb show on my telly just now. Good Lord.

Liberals and indeed some right wingers in the USA

Noting of course that the VP for education at openAI is a former finance exec from coursera, and the main discourse of personalized, self-directed learning via corporate tech platforms runs strongly through the marketing of both moocs and genAI

Reading in York next Wednesday, where I once worked for the Council. The visit has reminded me of this sign in Museum Gardens which apparently banned cycling while allowing you to injure young and old alike by way of recompense. The good management of municipal facilities is all about give and take.

Talking to a potential book author this morning and it struck me that the "Motive, Means and Opportunity" structure for criminal detection method is a useful analogy when pondering whether a book idea has legs. 1/2

Found this old meme I made, which includes Diogo Jota ❤️

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

@sentimentbot.bsky.social what's my vibe, like?

What's that? You'd prefer a one page visualisation of what an academic & professional publisher needs to see in your book proposal? Here's one I made earlier.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky

Proposed Anthropic settlement delayed as Judge expresses scepticism about the entire resolution process, feels "misled" and requires a "final list" of titles (currently approaching 500k books) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Not the main point here but Robert Jenrick looks like Manny's evil corporate boss in S1E1 of Black Books.

"Growth mindset interventions have little to no effect on academic performance" Not the first time mindset theory has been found wanting, but it'll still no doubt take *years* to get the consultants peddling it out of schools www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

THEY'RE CALLED GROYPERS COOP. A GAGGLE OF YOUNG MEN ONLINE WHO CAN'T DELINEATE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND ENTERTAINMENT. DARNDEST THING. ONE OF THEIR SHELL CASINGS TURNED THREE OF OUR BEST AGENTS GAY.

This is what Harold Wilson said in reply to Enoch Powell's 'River of Blood' speech. Oh to have politicians of this calibre again. Imagine Starmer saying this?