Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz is the most important 20thC Polish writer you don’t know, though you may know his work from Wajda’s MAIDS OF WILKO or THE BIRCH GROVE, Kawalerowicz’s MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS or Szymanowski’s KING ROGER. More on ENCOUNTERS WITH POLISH LITERATURE youtu.be/Os_F5x_MAP4?...

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

Zack Polanski stood outside Palantir HQ to demand that the spy-tech firm - which has supported deadly ICE raids and enabled genocide in Gaza - gets out of our NHS Say no to Palantir in the NHS ❌👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

I doubt if anyone respects me, but: 1. I've worked in AI on and off since 1985 2. I have a PhD 3. I used to manage an academic department of ~40 AI researchers 4. I've published ~100 articles on it This AI tech is a con. It's a play for corporations to steal industries, wealth, & governance.

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Given recent news, a reminder how Starmer is selling out the UK’s national security to the Trump regime and its cronies in Big Tech.

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

Palantir, which Wes Streeting is giving your health care records to, and which Labour has given a contract for military analytics to, is working with ICE in the United States to work out who to raid. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"

Labour looks set to deplatform the voices of young people by introducing a social media ban for under 16s. Here are four reasons why they shouldn't.

'You can vote at 16 but can't use social media at 15 and 364 days' is not a coherent policy platform.

"All of the reductions in carbon emissions we’ve achieved through sustainable sources and electric vehicles will be reversed by the inexorable rise and insatiable appetite of AI."

They should just rescind it instead. Clearly Machado doesn’t value it. Maybe Trump could share his FIFA Peace Prize with her.

If Kent County Council is Nigel Farage’s “shop window”, it’s becoming clearer every day what Reform UK are selling: a familiar mixture of incompetence and cronyism. https://goodlaw.social/kip5

We must post on the deepfake child porn site, because if we don't, someone else will is just not any kind of credible argument.

I romaine of the opinion that we should continue to mock her. Just cos.

This is a shocking move, and I hope that professional bodies that represent translators will speak up about a major publisher abandoning the use of skilled professional translators to translate books. Books, I should add, that they will then expect the public to pay for #XL8 #LitTrans #Publishing

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

Hmm. The amount of money spent by Reform Councils with the private sector has doubled since the local elections. Wonder what's going on here... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Few thoughts on the "Polish exodus" from the UK. 1. It's not an 'exodus', it's a slow drip. We're fine, thanks. 2. Migration is really complicated. 3. The absolute cheek of the very same media attacking Poles for years lamenting their departure. 4. What you can do? THREAD 🧵

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."

@iandunt.bsky.social You wanted more jokes…

Eh, this is unnecessary. Good human writing works on several different levels and extends metaphor from sentence to book. AI can’t and doesn’t do that, because artificial intelligence is not “intelligent,” it’s just automated. It does not, fundamentally, think. Those who think otherwise are deluded.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

A court has requested a Latin interpreter for today's sentencing hearing LATIN (AMERICAN) INTERPRETER REQUIRED Luckily they added (American), and someone who speaks Spanish has turned up. Otherwise the interpreter might have spent the day translating legal asides, but not much else

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

The EU has fined Elon Musk's hideous creation €120m. We have asked Ofcom: when will you act? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...

Just received annual subs renewal email from Microsoft. 31% £ increase for AI I don’t use and don’t want! “Switch plan” gave no options. Only if you “Cancel” do you get option to switch to Classic and not fund AI. #UNDERHAND

Are you a memoQ user confused and dismayed by what you've heard this past year about the direction this premium #translation environment is taking? Join the club. I'm on a 2 month v12 deep dive to untangle the messaging mess and see what individual pros and small companies really face! #xl8 #l10n

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

On its 40 year anniversary, Jeanette Winterson remembers the creative process behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

Just read “Capitalists Must Starve” by Park Seolyeon & @antonhur.com The title & blurb led me to expect a book about a factory strike... It is an absorbing portrait of Juryong’s whole life - its hardships, how she was treated as a woman, her resilience, determination & passion. A fascinating read!

Well worth watching.