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Ed George

@edgeorge.bsky.social
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On s'engage, et puis on voit. Writing a novel. I'm here: edgeorge-blog.netlify.app Joined: November 2024. Twitter: x.com/edwardbgeorge

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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
de hace un par de años ya, pero aún relevante: www.infobae.com/espana/2023/...
infobae.com
El mito de los okupas es un negocio rentable: quién logra que se hable de ellos y no de los verdaderos problemas de la vivienda en España
La ocupación ilegal de viviendas está bajo mínimos históricos, pero crecen las contrataciones de seguros de hogar contra estas prácticas, cuando el problema son los precios del alquiler o el acceso a ...
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org
Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar
On the economics of AI.
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Raquel Marcos @raquelmarcos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
La payasa del PP debería estar detenida por llevar un arma al Congreso y vaciarla en los baños y Maricarmen debería estar en su casa. Qué asco todo.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglob...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
The grooming gang debate: Navigating race, politics, and justice in the UK - Religion and Global Society
Amidst recurring waves of public discourse on grooming gangs in the UK, Professor Tahir Abbas examines the construction of the problem, the role of ethnicity, the impact of media and political biases,...
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@tds153.bsky.social giving #LionelShriver and her barmy neofascist weltanschauung an incredibly easy ride on #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 this morning...
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
The Radicalisation of Young Women
"Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates......
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
this is a tremedous analysis
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...
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‘Once you realise life is finite, you can’t procrastinate’: Mark Steel on the ups and downs of surviving cancer
The comedian tells Tim Jonze about politics, podcasts, family life’s ups and downs and surviving throat cancer. Plus, a remarkable extract from his new memoir
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
i have no words www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations
Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants" Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/01/2025
I find this especially fascinating because it’s the only time I think I’ve seen her discuss acting on an utterly practical level: like, what she does and why she does it. Well worth watching!
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
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Zarina Zabrisky @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It was reported that some Jews in Ukraine fled after watching the film and thus were saved. Not my ancestors. They stayed as they believed that civilized people cannot do mass executions… We know they were wrong. More about the film here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...
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Professor Mamlock (1938 film) - Wikipedia
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Great article. Great people. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
theguardian.com
Manic Street Preachers: ‘The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world’
As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Recipe book cover mockup. Vibrant photo of food ona slate grey counter. Tomatoes, limes, street tacos, a red enamel skillet with beans, chili peppers, salsa, corn tortillas stuffed with picadillo. A graphic effect in the center appears to reveal text by tearing this photo. The text reads "HOW TO COOK LIKE THE PEOPLE YOU JUST DEPORTED Authentic ethnic flavors for bigots who don't deserve them"
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Rubén H. Bermúdez @rhbermu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
'Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro?'. La edición original. Gratis. En PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1H7tm...
Contraportada de 'Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro?'Portada de 'Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro?'
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
www.ft.com/content/7b6f...
ft.com
John Banville on the enduring mystery of ‘Las Meninas’
‘Captivating and magical’, Velázquez’s greatest painting remains an unsolved puzzle
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
a must-read www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun
I didn’t remember committing my crime but I knew I had fallen through the cracks of the system. Could prison really be my salvation?
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
the ignorance on display by #AnneWiddecombe here is astonishing; the restraint of the other contributors is to be admired. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Free Thinking - Common Sense - BBC Sounds
Ann Widdecombe, Rachel Wiseman, Sarah Jilani and Tiffany Watt Smith with Matthew Sweet.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
this is a brilliant little essay: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org
Daniel Zamora, World Upside Down — Sidecar
On T. J. Clark’s Bruegel.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller
The scope of the Cop26 net zero banking alliance may have been limited, but the exodus of six US banks signifies a seismic political shift, says senior research fellow Adrienne Buller
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Big @thedigradio.bsky.social ep: intro to Stuart Hall's Marxism w/out guarantees w/ Michael Denning. Marxism as method to analyze historically specific complex contradictory capitalist social formations and what it means for making working-class socialist politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
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Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
longreads.com
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads
Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
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Lifeboat Capitalism
Some burn, some drown, and some make money either way.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
who knew? www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02...
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New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care |
A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
pero ¿ya no es tiempo de que nos libremos de la absurdidad judicial que es la acusación popular en españa?
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Riccardo Bellofiore @r-bellofiore.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
As usual, the best new years resolutions are this. #newyearresolutions #woodyguthrie
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/j...
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Jimmy Carter's Blood-Drenched Legacy
A few days ago former President Jimmy Carter announced that he has cancer and it is spreading. While it would be premature to assume this spells the end for the 90-year-old, it does present an opportu...
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...
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Israeli soldiers burn Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, force hundreds to leave
Health officials say they have lost contact with staff at the northern Gaza hospital after Israel forced 350 people out.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Genuine question. In *all* the MSM reports of the 5 journalists killed yesterday, the Al-Quds Today agency that they worked for was described as "affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad" (exactly that form of words in *all* the reports I could find). /1
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Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the ‘phoney Tudor windows’. That flat will always mean home | Michael Rosen
Six decades on, in my mind’s eye I can still walk around those rooms and hear my parents’ voices, says children’s author Michael Rosen
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👉✌️¡Libertad para Maduro y Cilia! 🟨🟦🟥 @libertad-maduro-ci.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
La transición al nuevo modelo se llevará a cabo —gracias a la libertad capitalista — sin control y como desee la compañía. Una parte significativa de los 60.000 repartidores podría quedarse fuera de las contrataciones. ¿Qué derechos se están garantizando entonces? insurgente.org/editorial-el...
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EDITORIAL. El “avance” pírrico de Glovo: donde la ley no llega, debe llegar la lucha
El reciente anuncio de Glovo de que transformaría su modelo de negocio para “cumplir con la legislación” llegó casualmente un día antes de que su fundador, Óscar Pierre, tuviera que comparecer como…
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Chartbook Reissue: Reading Grossman's "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate".
This newsletter is strong stuff.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As far as I can tell this is a pretty consistent and (to those In The Know) by this point rather familiar finding: whatever it is LLMs are doing, it's not deduction in any good or reliable sense. Worth stressing tho, cos there's a lot of public misunderstanding here. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/l...
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Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
Irrelevant red herrings lead to “catastrophic” failure of logical inference.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
edgeorgesotherblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/e...
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“Eine große Schwierigkeit”: Marx’s Representation of the Circulation of Fixed Capital in the Reproduction Schemes
In one part of his discussion of simple reproduction in the reproduction schemes at the end of Capital II Marx discusses the replacement of fixed capital. Marx paints a numerical picture of some co…
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A Labour government, ladies and gentlemen. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #OpenTheBorders
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Deportations reach five-year high despite concerns of rights groups
Campaigners fear lives could be put at risk as government sets record number of deportations
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
desperately trying to stay under 10,000 words....
Corner of a computer screen showing a word-processor wrod count on 9,999 words.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is extraordinary. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Muhammad Shehada and Adam Shatz · Gaza, Before and After
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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 04/12/2024
have uploaded them here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/16ivc...
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Dropbox
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#JamesMeadway on fire. Tremendous stuff.
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Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In one of the drafts for the second book of Capital, there's a footnote where Marx is remarkably clear about his relationship to Hegel. Written somewhere between 1868 and 1870, it’s quite similar to the famous passage in the 1873 postface to the second edition of Capital Vol. 1, where... 1/6
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Labour Left Podcast @brynhgriffiths.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The latest Labour Left Podcast explores the tradition of the Communist Historians who inspired the creation of organisations such as @sslh.bsky.social You can hear the podcast with Prof Harvey J Kaye here 👉 youtu.be/gNE6C_sb58Q?... Please share if you like it. 1/2
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Icymi: Chilling quote from this fantastic piece on antimicrobial resistance in war-torn nations: “If you dismantle the health infrastructure of urban life, you can take more lives than bombs could ever do.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/m...
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Modern Warfare Is Breeding Deadly Superbugs. Why? (Gift Article)
Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East.
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
labour government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Husband and wife to be forced apart by Home Office deportation flight
Man scheduled to depart for Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving wife in UK, but believes his life will be at risk
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Ed George @edgeorge.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
didn't waste any time, did they. bastards. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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UK and other European states suspend Syrians’ asylum applications
Austria prepares ‘repatriation and deportation’ programme to country where president has just been deposed
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