Reposted by Aaron AckerleyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14hAI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out. 461085278
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyElizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 171125752959
Reposted by Aaron AckerleySteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not beating the genocide allegations 518381
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 237101623234
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like 25591250
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 18442152
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer 39800291
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 257183414847
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyDe Balie @debalie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How does dirty money shape our world? This Thursday at De Balie, @oliverbullough.bsky.social and Thomas Bollen (@ftm.nl) expose the global system of money laundering. An evening about shell companies, tax havens, crypto, empty high-end apartments and more. Tickets & info: debalie.nl/programma/th...debalie.nlThe Dark Economy: How Dirty Money Shapes the WorldTogether with investigative journalists Oliver Bullough and Thomas Bollen we dive into the shadow world money laundering. A world of shell companies, tax havens, crypto and empty high-end apartments. 069
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...brokenbottleboy.substack.comAllison Pearson’s Action Man fetishA deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. 97630
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Would that be Matt Brittin, former Google executive tech-bro, who has no broadcast experience? 413010
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside. 32927205
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyEd Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you know how low that is for a population our size? 2238
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change 214854
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyDavid Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today would have been the 80th birthday of the Third Programme - BBC Radio 3’s remarkable predecessor. My latest for the BBC marks the occasion with a dip into the programme archives, unearthing some forgotten gems from the Third’s early years…bbc.co.ukThe Third at 80 – a brief history of the unexpectedWeird and wonderful highlights from the early years of BBC Radio 3’s celebrated forerunner The Third Programme 24926
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026📚 GEOPOLITICS (Edition 90) The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces at work around hierarchies and structural… Read the full piece below.subscribe.bylinetimes.comThe different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces at work around hierarchies and structural power. Hardeep Matharu reportsThe different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces at work around hierarchies and structural power. Hardeep Matharu reports 04512
Aaron Ackerley @aaronackerley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You were meant to use the gourmetmental ones! 010
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated. 9771118
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education? 20868181
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🔴 Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held “off-site meetings” with the billionaire media mogul in August bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...bylinetimes.comRupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August 11192116
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyNick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Kind of grimly fascinating as always, coming from the former director of strategy to a Labour PM. There just isn't a future for a centre-left politics that is this hostile to pretty basic progressive values. 3237681
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...democracyforsale.substack.comBREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates. 77895436
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 24/09/2026This is where the logic of media consolidation inevitably leads: fewer companies, fewer owners, and more of what we see and hear decided by a few billionaires. Decades of treating media as a market, rather than democratic infrastructure, created the conditions for this oligarchic system.rooseveltinstitute.orgThe Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt InstituteBilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi... 01811
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Indeed. But Watson’s move is much less problematic than what he and other Labour leaders have done for Palentir when in power. This is just the logical next step.theguardian.comTom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive LewisWhen a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis 0163
Reposted by Aaron Ackerleyelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it's so great and normal that we're spending trillions of $ worth of money we don't have on these people 06220
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tfw when you open a 5000 word chapter that a PhD student has worked really hard on and the UNIVERSITY SOFTWARE cheerily says "ooh this looks like a long document do you want me to summarise it for you?" 3677
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 411470807
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141931741
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58855001509
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Rees-Mogg is the modern Theresa May: someone whose racial politics were so extreme that they laid the foundation for someone else even worse, and then whose dismay at what they had created was intepreted as moderation. But he's still extreme and always will be. 415935
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This University has just shut down all undergraduate Humanities degrees, including History, where we had some amazing modules on Black and African History for first years. 🤡 86125
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One student, reacting to this news about AI, echoed the same terms as a senior colleague: “either there’s an honor code or there isn’t.” Just as AI blurs the lines between fact & slop, for too many students it’s bringing unnecessary confusion to that critical question. 312321
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I dont normally share paywalled links but if yr an academic you may have access to this @chronicle story by some sharp young reporters on an AI situation at Dartmouth. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...chronicle.comDartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI. 920460
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970182264
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To understand and counter disinformation, language skills, area studies expertise, historical knowledge and a wide range of arts, humanities & social science disciplines are requisite. SHAPE subjects are strategically vital for national interests. Is it strategic to let 'the market' shrink them?thebritishacademy.ac.ukMapping SHAPE provision in UK higher educationThis new project from the British Academy maps changing provision of SHAPE subjects in UK higher education institutions. It uses data to visually depict contractions and expansions in provision by a v... 13023
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026'Security chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests.' While shrinking provision in Russian language?theguardian.comNew UK agency will tackle ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham saysPM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence 23613
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“If the crisis is caused by the funding model, why are workers only fighting its consequences?” The #UKHE permacrisis needs a national response. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/brit... 0116
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026My job at the orphan crushing factory is very stressful.ft.comAI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to societyTop researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI 22717169
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In 1975, three men in a grotty London flat started a games company. It brought D&D to the UK, then redefined wargaming. This week on Untitled History Podcast, it's the history of Games Workshop with @jordansorcery.bsky.social. On Youtube or your pod app of choice! open.spotify.com/episode/3iSn...open.spotify.comEpisode 24: How Games Workshop changed the world with Jordan SorceryThe Untitled History Podcast · Episode 2123464
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Your regular reminder that Matthew Syed, who has his own BBC radio show, enthusiastically endorses the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory. 26284107
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMax Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not really surprised that Tom Watson has joined Palantir, given his previous role advising them and, as previously reported by me and @iainoverton.bsky.social in 2025, the fact that his firm, Lodestone, had them as a client in '24 bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins PalantirPeer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan 44427
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyJeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026While the media might find it fun to do another 500 hours of Piker discourse, it might be fruitful to look at the actual political record of Mike Rogers as a lying war-monger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comWhy Aren’t We Talking About the War-Mongering Lies of Mike Rogers?The media's relentless focus on Hasan Piker allows the dishonest GOP hawk (and actual Michigan Senate candidate) to evade scrutiny. 7541148
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyElisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI training is the largest theft of labor in historywashingtonpost.comMicrosoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records showThe quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI. 05619
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump. 2923702928
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026“Scholars have groped for what even to call this dire diminishment of intellectual capacity. “Human enfeeblement” has been proposed, and alike “cognitive surrender” and even “cognitive extinction.” (You could also call it, “losing your mind.”)” - Jill Lepore www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comArtificial Education | The Harvard CrimsonMachine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. 48936
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyCraig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The idea that allowing the Saudi regime — which has murdered journalists, don’t forget — and other foreign investors to up to 100% of CBS and CNN is somehow in the “public interest” twists the term beyond recognition. But FCC’s Brendan Carr only serves Trump and Larry Ellison, not the public. 24631
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out 12415117
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/09/2026‘According to some estimates, hyperscale AI data centres can get through twenty million litres of water a day – as much as fifty thousand people would consume for their domestic needs.’ Martin Thom on datacentres, new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...lrb.co.ukMartin Thom | Human MeltingPlanning regulations were modified last year, with AI data centres redefined as ‘nationally significant infrastructure... 083
Reposted by Aaron AckerleyAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comNetanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensifyIsraeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists 321036487