Siri, who is the last fucking person in the whole world who should be lecturing others about road safety? road.cc/content/news...

The common thread between the Orban, Trump, Farage, etc. is that they’re taking their supporters for a ride. Sure, they hold the repugnant values their voters like, but their main motivation is personal enrichment. They don‘t care a jot about ‘the people‘, they just want a palace made of gold.

Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.

I doubt any prospective student is likely to read this, but if your PhD proposal looks like it was written by ChatGPT then I will not want to supervise you. If you can‘t write even a research proposal by yourself then you are not ready to carry out research.

It‘s difficult to maintain the idea that populism describes the idea of the sovereignty of common people, who struggle against corrupt elite, when paradigmatically populist leaders openly revel in being corrupt elites & claim the mantel of kingship.

The laws of war are not mere niceties. They are lessons from centuries of blood agreed upon to keep the world more stable. Violating them isn’t hero cop who cuts through red tape to get things done, it’s psycho cop who crosses lines in ways even the rule benders find appalling and must be stopped.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Hans Jonas in the 90s pointed out that we are gambling finite gain against infinite loss.

Schumer just can’t wrap his head around the fact that his opponents do not respect him and will not keep their word to him

Good, he‘s a misogynist who tries to encourage others to be misogynists.

My university advertises to me a series of events on seizing AI opportunities for pedagogical innovation🤮. All have been scheduled during the forthcoming strike period, so it‘s going to be interesting to see if there‘s an AI-enthusiast/scab crossover.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

If the logical consequence of your position is that parents have a right to starve their kids to death, & that children are property of parents until they run away, then normal people will abandon their position. Not so Murray Rothbard & the right-libertarians like him. Dreadful & weird.

I first realised what a ludicrous moral vacuum Murray Rothbard was when I read his views on children. If you want to know the kind of repugnant arsehole these kind of US ‘conservatives‘ look to for inspiration, Rothbard‘s views on kids really paint a picture.

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.

Should we not think twice before imposing ChatGPT to all students? If not, what's the point of all the mental health-related accommodations?

‘Would you support or oppose Maurice Glasman being made to cage fight a large tiger?’

Glasman is an absolute weirdo.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

UK university news just this week: 163 jobs at risk + course closures at Leicester; 300 jobs at risk at Dundee; modern language & music courses being closed at Nottingham. Every week it‘s the same. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is literally no screw-up and incompetence that David Frost will ever take responsibility for. The man is utterly incapable of self-reflection. His ego is so huge that he cannot comprehend his own failings, no matter how monumental and obvious they are. Private schooling is a hell of a drug.

Give Sandwich Guy the FIFA Peace Prize!

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PhD project on the evolution of animal memory now available in my research group, through the TREES DLA: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo.... Come and join us if you're interested in the evolution of animal minds and you want to do some cool experimental evolution!

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

‘Raaar, Raaar, plans to tax London motorists per mile driven make it so I don‘t want to drive in London, this is a terrible policy.‘ - My friend, that is the policy working just as intended and delivering an excellent outcome.

Semi-regular reminder that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in degrees and home ownership once the legal barriers were removed. The problem we are faced with is that men would sooner burn down the world than admit they are not now, and never were, naturally superior.

I keep reading the name 'Ross Douthat' and each time it's because he's a regressive, authoritarian wanker & I end-up wishing I hadn't.

The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay

In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

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Oh god, it‘s Poppy Outrage Season again. ‘Honest‘ Bob Jenrick has kicked it off nice and early with a complaint that he saw a politician not wearing one for five minutes. I look forward to a TikTok of him policing the streets, haranguing people over poppies.

Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.

Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities. It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

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Guess if you're not an ethicist, biologist, environmental/climate scientist, creative, cog scientist, housed near data centers, privacy expert, software dev who fucking knows better, comp scientist ditto, worker w/o work bc of deluded execs, or just abt anyone else, maybe it's just, like, 2 things

This is absolutely playing in my head in the voice of Orson Welles.

There are some organisations that would seriously tarnish their image by doing something like this. But for FIFA, everyone’s response is “Yeah, that tracks.”

Ah, who can forget the famous Kuruman Missile Crisis and the invasion of Bantry Bay by US and South African exile forces in 1961?

I strongly suspect an absolutely beautiful paper I‘ve read today is fatally flawed and I really don‘t want it to be. I‘m going to have to read it again, looking for evidence that I‘ve made a foolish mistake. No idea what to do if I can‘t find that evidence.

I'm currently reviewing a paper that does a much better job of making some arguments I try to make in one my own papers, which itself is currently under review. I'm both grateful to the author & jealous of them.

My history colleagues (we're a joint history and politics school) are currently in a strategic review meeting, finding out how many of them the university plans to make redundant. I feel sick with worry for them. Politics staff aren't currently at risk, but we go in right after them. A horrible day.

Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:

Our Vice Chancellor reassures us that planned redundancies won't decimate the university. Since the leadership is cutting 4% rather than 10% of staff he's technically correct, so that's fine 🤷‍♂️.

Every single University in the UK is struggling with costs that have increased, for years, at a higher rate than income. This state of affairs is intentional: this Labour government wants there to be fewer, poorer universities. The Conservatives before them wanted the same (but more hatefully).

*screams in fire warden*

The post also looks at some of the myriad dangers the Security Institute have discovered when investigating AI models. It's alarming....