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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir’s Work for Ed Department www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Is it really 'super flu'?

Congress Allocates $500 Million For Development Of Funkier Bass Lines https://theonion.com/congress-allocates-500-million-for-development-of-funk-1819579171/

It's what they do.

Looks an interesting read

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

"In return, the UK government will 'explore' how teachers can use Google’s Gemini AI model for teaching England’s national curriculum" So now we have OpenAI & Microsoft in charge of ppl's "upskilling" & joining to this party Google Gemini as the new model for teaching? 🫠 www.ft.com/content/b20f...

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

Young people these days. Being all sensible and moderate and costing the country a fortune in lost tax revenue.

I'm no e onomist, but this seems precisely the wrong move if risks are increaakng.

I say this mostly because Reform and certain journalists friendly to them seem determined to start a “white flight” narrative since net migration has dropped so dramatically. It’s not true. It’s not even close to true.

From the hellhole. A decade since the OU decided to close its English regional centres. x.com/andrewsgeoff...

Call for papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

AI.

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Just seen Mark Thomas's one man 'Ordinary Decent Criminal'. Recommwnd.

There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. 🧵 1/5

The people who own and control AI will (try to) reshape society.

Not enough to persuade me back, but still, he's expressing a vital sentiment.

Which one is more English?

The MRC is very much more than this, though.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The scale of the exploitation described in this article is quite astonishing.

Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley By my calculation about 120kb of data

In memoriam Jack Dejohnette. Here with Sonny Rollins and Pat Metheny www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2I...

From a 1937 IBM corporate songbook... For more of this see: arstechnica.com/information-...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Another reason to boycott anything to do with Musk. BBC News - The striking Swedish workers taking on carmaker Tesla www.bbc.com/news/article...

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service has stopped sharing certain information with the United States: “Sometimes we no longer share things,” officials say, because the information has been finding its way into Kremlin hands. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Not just one rotten apple. The whole loathsome barrel load are corrupt. Charles' treatment of his first wife, Elizabeth's secret lobbying for tax breaks, and so on. We should vote them out of office. Oh.

I seldom use LinkedIn. Most of my connections there are either academics or trade unionists. So, why, 'based on my profile', does it suggest I might want to connect with a comedian?!

#OtD 16 Oct 1968 African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in a Black power salute as they won medals. Peter Norman showed solidarity by wearing a badge protesting the white Australia policy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8831...

‘Alongside 44 historical buildings and seven archaeological sites, all three depositories of historical and archaeological material in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Scenes You Seldom See: “What I like about the modern world is the way everything keeps changing all the time” Private Eye cartoon from the archive. From Eye 1156, April 2006.

Another one for the list

All of the places in this map - and more - should have trams. We just need to let local areas get on with building things again, as they do in other countries. Read more about how to get there here: futurenorth.substack.com/p/let-tracy-...

Imagine using Meta’s AI in educational contexts or having it integrated into edtech products. When it’s overseen by MAGA representatives like this, imagine asking it what Antifa means, if there is a relationship is between race and IQ or what is causing climate change.

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal. There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

From the Wayback Machine - ICEM 1996

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses. You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

I used an NHS system today. I"m with the panda.

October is National Co-op Month AND 2025 is the UN "International Year of Cooperatives"! Since Wraith Games is a worker co-op, we figured the best way to celebrate would be to share some info about co-ops and why they're rad! Ya'll ready for a thread?

Promises, promises...