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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

I don't watch the Olympics to see a fair competition. I want to see some kind of super mutant throw a 16-pound hammer into the face of god

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Doesn't look right without Paddington holding her hand, how's she going to cross over the River Styx?

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

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Illoumalnati @illoumalnati.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Move over Hemingway, "Elon Musk, please help" clocks in at a cool four words

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Heinz Foods salesman, who has sold beans in all 50 US states, says he believes love of beans is the value that played the biggest role in shaping the nation

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I have been lazy my whole life. I was always in trouble for not doing assigned work in first grade and I am still against work today. Laziness is my first pride and joy.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/03/2026

The BMJ study Ben Ryan constantly references does not say or support what he says it does. For one, it suffers from a critical flaw of overcontrolling, which renders its main finding meaningless. Even with this, a close read still found that trans care saves lives. Thread explainer.

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Fact Checked: New Problematic "Finnish Study" Actually Shows Trans Care Saves Lives

A new study from Dr. Kaltiala in Finland is being used to claim that trans care is not lifesaving. Experts say this is false, and the study itself shows trans care likely saves lives.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Time for Government to stop tinkering around the edges and scrap leasehold altogether.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I had a phase in the late 80s when I did a load of drugs and booze. Rented a room in North London and moved all my stuff in, went on a bender, lost my paperwork and could not find the place afterwards. My car was outside too, never found that either.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

You should *only* prepare for a hypothetical, that's what preparing is. If you're already in the situation it's not preparing.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I don’t use these phrases myself, as you’ll have noticed. But I am here to tell you that if we could impose an effective blanket ban on use of any particular phrases and symbols, then this bullshit would instantly shift to different phrases and symbols at exactly the same intensity.

James Ball @jamesrball.com • 3m
I don't support criminalising slogans, except when they're directly used to harass or intimidate.
But I think it's a profound moral (and tactical) failure that campaigners didn't stop using them long ago.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...
That is not, however, how everyone means them. It has never been how Hamas nor many of its regional allies mean the slogans, and it is not how some extremists, fuelled by hate, intend them either. It is also not how many Jews across the world hear them. "From the river to the sea" is heard as a call to abolish Israel, and "globalise the intifada" as a call for violence against Jews across the world.
To ignore this, at a time when innocent Jewish civilians around the world are being targeted and slaughtered in terror attacks is a profound failure of solidarity from people who believe themselves above such myopia. It is as wrong to blame Jews for the actions of Israel in 2025 as it was to blame Muslims for the actions of Al Qaeda in 2001. In truth, the slogans probably contribute little to the motivations of fanatics who would kill - but they contribute to the very real atmosphere of fear.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Blair, Cameron & Starmer’s dishonest halfway house to NHS privatisation by a million stealth decisions is extraordinarily expensive in terms of management time. Which is why English NHS, just 10-15 yrs ago so administratively cost effective (compared internationally), has rapidly lost that advantage

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?" The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue…

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This measurement of how much people contribute ignores the fact that a lot of the low paid "negative" contributors are earning a lot of money for employers/bosses, and doing essential jobs. If we got rid of all hospital cleaners would we be better or worse off as a society? just pay them more

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Oh what a revelation, the starving child already has rickets - a completely unrelated disease in no way related to longer term malnutrition

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Jorge @antartica81.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre. #affordablehousingUK www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

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Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands

All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT. In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.

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'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints

Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I think AI related psychosis will have at least a couple of sub types - one more an actual psychosis, precipitated or made more likely by AI use, and one more like a Folie A Deux which would probably resolve with removal of the AI interaction and not necessarily lead to further episodes

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In cases of psychosis involving ChatGPT, people already say it’s the user’s mental health that is the issue, not the technology. I disagree on several counts. First, the technology is intentionally designed to be sycophantic and imitate sentience, so it’s not comparable to other technologies.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We can now see that the "male priests terrified of being caught in Ireland's biggest lingerie department" episode of Father Ted was not a joke but a wish on the part of Graham Linehan

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/08/2025

We recently covered a new study that showed that unemployment insurance increases bargaining power and thus wages (by 10%) which to me provides further evidence that universal basic income would increase bargaining power, and thus wages, especially for jobs people don't really enjoy.

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New study shows that unemployment insurance provides increased bargaining power. #UBI would too.

YouTube video by Scott Santens

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

There should be a wealth cap at enough for a comfortable retirement. If I gave a specific number, you'd haggle with me, but $N million for some single digit N. No one needs more than that. It doesn't incentivize any useful behavior to let people accumulate more power than that.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/08/2025

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity. tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Some things continue to go well. Just allow yourself a moment to experience it.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

An admirably clear summary of how the ratchet only goes one way, tbf

The reason so many of New Labour’s achievements did not endure was that the Conservative Party which returned to office in 2010 systematically undid them. The Conservatives’ own achievements, such as they are, seem not to be at similar risk. Jeremy Hunt’s irresponsible tax cuts remain untouchable. So does the new electoral system used in mayoral elections (which has made it more likely that Labour will lose them). In too many areas, the government is making little effort to run the country, let alone to change it, instead contenting itself with appealing to a tiny group of swing voters they’re convinced will be key to re-election.

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Black-eye @black-eye.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I'm sorry I cannot hear the Falconer, things are falling apart.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025

“anything we can actually do, we can afford” stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/03/2025

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

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audrey @whataretheauds.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

i have information that proves mr beast is the zodiac killer

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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