I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

is this an omen

If anyone in the I.T field in the UK has any corporate laptops being discarded because of Windows 11 requirements please either give me a shout or reach to @freeitstafford.bsky.social A UK non-profit volunteer team fighting e-waste and digital poverty by giving them back to the community.

A rare Substack piece from me on the biggest problem with the earned settlement proposals. It's not the unfair treatment of those already here, as bad as that is. It's the forward-looking, permanent change for all future migrants. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

This is dribbling xenophobic grandpa territory, which for some reason is a serious force in global politics.

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

It's common to think of parades and marches and protests as silly and unimportant. There are few rights more basic than the right to take space in public. Not everyone gets that right. If you stop claiming your space, eventually you will lose it.

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

What Our Grandchildren Will Think of Us — Ethel Hayes, 1925

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Past time to get off twitter, british parliamentarians

CHONK PROTON I REPEAT, CHONK PROTON www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Lisa Nandy, deep in thought: but how will I ever give off the vibe of kneejerk xenophobia like the cool kids in cabinet? how can I pull my own stunt that reinforces the notion that we are an unwelcoming country? ideally it will predictably backfire on UK interests too. wait…eureka

from 2019

I 'splain, lord how I 'splain, that "net fiscal contribution" of immigration, or any other population subgroup, is a really misleading measure. backofmind.substack.com/p/better-tha...

some for @adamcsharp.bsky.social

Today I shall be mostly imagining what the Soviet band Combo-Jazz, pictured here in 1989, sounds like.

Today in CAT LOGIC: Just because you fed me EARLIER THAN USUAL does not mean I do not expect you to ALSO feed me at the USUAL TIME.

A year later, I'll say: we will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's circles who have an hour of notice about the chaotic swings in stuff Trump just *says* about the war with Iran.

I don’t know how come everyone in this thread is drinking this early on a Monday, but I kinda wish I could join them

This checks out and is highly worth reading as YET ANOTHER reminder that English-Christian-nationalist culture-warmongering rests on a foundation of utter bullshit.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.

"This is a country that has always tolerated minority faiths" says Kemi Badenoch, showing no understanding of the history that led to that principle in this society, after trying some of the alternatives

I'm all for education, as long as it's backed up with bollards

I can't stop laughing at this LinkedIn translator. Absolute gold!

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Polanski is tapping into something real, a sense that our nation and economy is being drained by rentier economies and vested interests. But it's important that that very real critique doesn't end up in a rose-tinted attempt to resurrect the past, rather than enagage with the 21st century as it is.

Young woman sitting next to me on the bus looks like she was drawn by Jamie Hewlett

If there’s any justice Hetta Falzon is going to go a very long way indeed, and I will be able to say I was there at her Anthony Burgess Institute gig.

It really pains me that, after more than a decade of Bannon and Farage et al, there's not a more strategic approach to media on the left. Independent media is fantastic but not enough, and the sad truth now is that there's a straight line from posting to power. It's ridiculous but true.

I’ve got a joke about deploying AWS infrastructure with Terraform but I’m not authorised to tell it to you because no resource-based policy allows it

Well this isn’t going great is it

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Do any council library staff in Greater Manchester follow me? I have a techy Spydus question.

I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

If you think about it, what has happened here is that the US shut down the Strait of Hormuz and is now using the shutdown to blackmail other countries to do its bidding

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3

Just extraordinary that the antichrist just happens to manifest itself in tech regulation - a thing this one really rich guy doesn't like. What are the chances? Seems really specific but yeah wow what a coincidence.

A beautiful piece of writing.

In the end there’s no getting away from the fact that the government has decided to go far further than any previous govt, Labour, Tory or coalition, has ever thought it decent or sensible to go, and that these changes will divide & exclude people, not help everyone become equal parts of society 4/

Rob Hutton’s evisceration of DCMS was the funniest and angriest thing I’ve read in response to what has happened to UK broadcast media thecritic.co.uk/bring-back-d...

Verity Sharp implies the existence of Falsity Flat

If you could remember the exact circumstances when you created a new drink, you didn’t create a very good drink

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Want to know more about Manchester's textile history and the moral implications of business practices of the era? Free Cottonopolis tour led by exhibition curator Professor Edmond Smith with researcher Dr Haig Smith. 📆Thursday 19 March 1.30-2.00pm. Meet in the gallery on level 1.

So, we are taking Northern Soul Orchestrated to Newcastle City Hall tonight (12th March) and my question to you is...where were the places to go, dance, shop etc if you were a Geordie Northern soul fan back in the day?

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