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@dwhannon96.bsky.social
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neo-luddite did some research on fair selection, algorithmic mechanism design and multi agent systems mainly will talk about clapton community fc with occational forays into designing rules and systems and public policy

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/10/2026
Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To Junk, the world of high-yield debt where Anthropic and OpenAI will have to play if they want to survive post-IPO - and why the same leveraged loans that killed multiple software companies may be their only option. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-junk/
Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a glorious, splendiferous, outrageous era of crap! Some call it “high-yield,” some call it “speculative-grade,” but to those of us living in the real world, we know…
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi thinks Paddington is the antagonist in a film about Nicole Kidman's righteous quest to capture and skin him.
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Doppelganger Cabinboy T. O'Cellus @cabinboy100.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...
ft.com
Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/08/2026
‘If AI devastates the universities the way deindustrialisation hollowed out shipbuilding, I wouldn’t want to live next to my former workplace, giving guided tours of a now obsolete lifeform.’ Susan Pedersen on the modern British city. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Susan Pedersen · Worker, Hipster, Banker: Modern British Cities
Deindustrialisation was not a long, slow process but a very quick one, erasing whole occupations and transforming one...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/07/2026
The Irish Times view on Mayo’s All-Ireland: persistence finally pays off
irishtimes.com
The Irish Times view on Mayo’s All-Ireland: persistence finally pays off
Mayo finally got over the line and they did so playing like champions
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What is the point of VAR if it doesn’t exist overrule the ref here?
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Need a sedevacantist movement to declare the 2026 World Cup final forever unplayed
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Their humourlessness is really, really funny.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2026
Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
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Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike
Egyptian Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before his country played Argentina A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening. Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed. Continue reading...
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So it turns out the "contract" teenagers signed for their student loans wasn't actually a contract at all, the government always had the right to retrospectively change the terms, and at no point was this explained to those taking out the loans... www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...
newstatesman.com
Government mis-sold student loans to a generation, report finds
A new Treasury Committee report has found that the state did not sufficiently communicate the terms and conditions
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dwhannon96.bsky.social @dwhannon96.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
its nice of Jordan Henderson to play that game much like I would have
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Absolute banter outcome if this ends up running past 5am and pubs are chucking people out during extra time
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If England win tonight they'll face Mexico next. The two countries in this world cup where I've had the best Mexican food.
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 27/06/2026
If Algeria draw with Austria and DR Congo wins today, 9 African teams will advance.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Some good work being done here by @nichemusicmemes.bsky.social on Insta (h/t: @maggieserota.bsky.social):
Cover of Slint’s Spiderland photoshopped into reflecting pool
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/06/2026
Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...
Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety. Illustration of a child holding a phone with a ‘forbidden’ sign on top, against a pink and yellow background
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yes this is a real story. He’s being told that organising a group to clean River Roding is illegal. The environment agency is the one threatening him.
Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.
Bad news! It's not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for... restoring a river without a permit!
Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.
If you think the actions of the EA are outrageous, please email the chief exec Philip Duffy at Philip. duffy@environment-agency.gov.uk to express your dissatisfaction with the EA's actions in strong (but always polite & never abusive!) terms. In particular, the River Roding Trust is calling for:- All threats of prosecution against the River Roding Trust & its volunteers to be publicly withdrawn & stopping all threats to destroy the pond & river channel we have created.
- The EA to instead use its prosecutorial powers against Thames Water to demand that within six months they produce a plan to fix all illegal sewage spills on the Roding by 2030, failing which the EA will prosecute every single illegal sewage spill to the full force of the law.
- The EA to work with the River Roding Trust & guardians of the River Roding to actively protect & restore the River Roding.
Link to the full article by sandralaville is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
2026/jun/17|campaigner-threatened-prosecution-environment-agency-river-roding-cleanup?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
Threads post from "real_mstar_author"

hot take: we should be writing books with accessibility in mind.

shorter chucked paragraphs and more approachable prose should be industry standard
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/06/2026
Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...
youtube.com
Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk · 27/05/2026
This is a fascinating read about the life and times of Roly Gregoire www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Roly Gregoire: Sunderland's first black player describes impact of racism
Roly Gregoire, Sunderland's first black player, sometimes wishes he had never played football because of the racist abuse he found too painful to talk about for 46 years.
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Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ @graceonfootball.com · 24/05/2026
sunderland finishing above newcastle. tremendous stuff.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Oh, I see, so *now* everyone in Sunderland is happy to be in Europe.
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dwhannon96.bsky.social @dwhannon96.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?” 
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Inventing a fake academic medal to award yourself and then realising you have to keep it going next year, so giving it (successfully) to Chomsky is actually wonderful, I respect it
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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 02/05/2026
🚨We have new peak Hackney, I repeat, we have new peak Hackney🚨
Chipshop chalkboard offering Aperol and chips for £7.50
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4 Day Week Foundation @4dayweek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today marks 100 years of the weekend. We’ve assembled outside Ford’s Dagenham plant - the birthplace of the five-day week - to say: a century of this model is enough. The world has changed. Technology has advanced. It’s time our working week caught up.
Rally for a 4-day week outside Ford Dagenham Plant. A man with a megaphone leads a chant in the foreground, while in the midground supporters hold a banner saying, “100 years of the 5-day week. Time for change.” The Ford logo can be seen on the gate behind them.
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Saskiarghhhhh Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 30/04/2026
This is quite the story.
bbc.co.uk
BBC obtains Northamptonshire Police video of woman's arrest
Nadine Buzzard-Quashie speaks for first time about her
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/04/2026
This is also an allegory for the way that the encroachment of evil (industrialization and automation) demands that the individual reconfigure the self into a hyperobjective self that takes on the role of the master (in this case an industrial farm or plantation owner) as a desired image of the good
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is how we used to get humanitarian aid to Sudan versus how we have to do it now because Trump wanted to have a little war iandunt.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/04/2026
The coming global food crisis ft.trib.al/hZg0yxi
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The coming global food crisis
Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Tom Waits / Massive Attack collaboration is out...
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Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 14/04/2026
¡Viva la República! 🔴🟡🟣 Today is the 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. We've been proudly wearing the colours on our away shirts since 2018 and now they're on a mural at our Old Spotted Dog Ground home. ¡No pasarán! #DiaDeLaRepublica #14deAbril
Billy Bragg raises a fist in front of the mural at the OSDA tifo of the coloursW1T players with the flagM1T players with the flag
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/04/2026
110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Ten years ago made this piece for Newsnight (one of my first!) for the 100th. Hard to believe just how much has been packed into Anglo-Irish relations, how much has changed, even since then. Much for the worse. youtu.be/RmaIOG9-BBk?...
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Easter Rising Centenary - BBC Newsnight
YouTube video by BBC Politics
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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 25/03/2026
The first MIP solvers have told me that they will try our modified perturbations. Hopefully its as big an improvement in practice as in theory 🙏
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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dwhannon96.bsky.social @dwhannon96.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
bro where the worm headshot
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
Your wish is my command! www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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