When women critical of gAI in academia/industry speak out about it, the response from people who want us to use the tech and AI pushers is quite clearly shaped by misogyny, even if they will deny it. We are "emotional" "irrational" Luddites, etc. Our ladybrains just can't handle/understand it.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)

never seen a "this me?" post but first time for everything I guess

"Housing isn't a human right" just means "I think human beings should be homeless if they are icky enough to me," and I'm pretty sure that's just called being a bigot.

"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."

we're going to win, they know it, and they shudder every day about it

So many bad-faith attacks on Zack Polanski. His own partner works in palliative care! About a third of carers are migrants. Among other things, Labour has banned them from bringing their partners and kids here. Labour pretending to care about them is nauseating.

"You're A Govt Of Cowards Who Won't Tell The Truth About Migration" 🇬🇧 www.instagram.com/reel/DR4Qqcb... Zack Polanski

Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn. VIP lanes and crony contracts. Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme. Money handed out for non-existent employees Newly formed companies got public money No competitive tenders Poor checks on quality. How much would be recovered?

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Nigel Farage ‘was my vicious, persistent tormentor’ at school www.thetimes.com/article/81bf...

Bloody hell -they're actively seeking out meetings with those who've accused universities of “poisoning the minds” of students, claiming they spread a “twisted interpretation of history.” Surely they're clever enough to realise kissing far right arse will not stop the book burnings if they get in

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice. The UK is following the US model. Wealth concentrated in fewer hands. 24m can't attain minimum standard of living, real average wage unchanged since 2008, public services eroded, profiteering is rife.

School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation. Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust. Govt doing more PFI deals.

Preliminary investigations show a gas leak triggered the explosion, which also flattened nearby homes, authorities say.

This is absolutely disgusting. Larry Summers discussed wanting to fuck a former Harvard student who was Chinese with Epstein. He nick named her "peril" a reference to the racist "yellow peril." Larry Summers needs to resign. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Thinking about how a couple of weeks ago, I was alone in a courthouse bathroom during a trial break, and someone (probably opposing counsel, but Idk for sure) reported "a man in the women's bathroom" and a cop barged in and demanded I leave the stall in the middle of doing my business.

"Iran is facing its worst water crisis in decades. With no end in sight and authorities warning they may even have to evacuate the capital of 10 million people, residents like Ensani are scrambling to respond." www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

Samir Zitouni, the rail worker who saved passengers from stabbings, leaves hospital www.bbc.com/news/article...

We just raised $1 million dollars for our transition to City Hall. The groundwork to make this city a fairer and more affordable place is happening because of you.

exhibit B bsky.app/profile/newy...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

2m UK pensioners live in poverty, 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension. Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending. Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.

Who could have predicted that mainstream media and politicians mainstreaming far-right talking points and symbols would embolden fascists (except all the research available on the matter)? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

‘While the relief efforts are heartening, the devastation is overwhelming. The road to recovery in western Jamaica looks tremendously long.’ Luke de Noronha on the aftermath of Hurriance Melissa, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

To balance the glut of articles interviewing New Yorkers who claim they’re going to leave the city if Mamdani wins, someone should interview my wife and I who want to move back if he wins.

Such a symbolic win in the fight against reactionary politics considering Trump threw his weight behind Cuomo and the mainstream Democrats were very coy in their support of Mamdani Opposition to Trump & co must be based on radical opposition to all forms of oppression

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

7 minutes of Zack on Sky News. Nice to see some wide ranging questions and time for longer answers. news.sky.com/video/share-...

Mental health boost!

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.

One of the few remaining reliable sources of commentary on the state of American politics has been destroyed.

To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.

Italian police seize €1.3bn from Campari owner over alleged tax evasion. Won't happen in the UK? City of London Police funded by Lloyd's Bank, UK Finance. HMRC makes sweetheart deals with corporations/rich, which parliament can't examine. NAO said HMRC underestimates tax abuse by wealthy.

"Found in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, the mass graves at Chemmani have brought the country’s troubled history back into focus 16 years after the civil war ended." Ingrid Massagé on the mass graves at #Chemmani and Sri Lanka’s old failures of justice:

Reactionaries love to use the "silent majority" to claim democratic support This is because the "silent majority" doesn't exist and they can conveniently speak for it regardless of the clear fact that most don't support reactionary politics Unfortunately, such claims are far too often amplified

Ibrahim’s sister Shimaa has a heart valve condition that the family is really trying to raise the funds to get her treatment for.

Well, since I'm a 'self-hating Jew' for abhoring Netanyahu's genocide of the Palestinians...🤷‍♀️

Militia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in western Sudan, a local activist group has said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...