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Happy Birthday 🎂 to Pauline Black frontwoman of The Selecter, actress and author. I would encourage everyone to read her autobiography Black By Design as it is a very powerful read and insight into her extraordinary life and the challenges she faced throughout #ska #2Tone #TheSelecter #PaulineBlack

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 11h

Or just more confected controversy - 'how could you not know' attention harvest

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 11h

Yes, hence Streeting's NHS hubris deeply counterproductive

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 11h

Some good stuff here and makes clear that Streeting's (ego rather than evidence led) NHS reforms have been abysmal and system paralyzing. Much to do.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/10/2026

*Even their financial infrastructure is a strange ouroboros, a self-inflating ring of I-loan-to-you and you-loan-to-me *It's like Enron with Nvidia chips instead of natural-gas

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 21/10/2026

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

We are looking at a montage of four medieval bats. Two look quite cheery, one is flying away in indifference and the fourth has to be the concept for batman.

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Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

I’ve been listening to Alan Bennett read Winnie the Pooh from 1984 on Radio 4 Extra. The BBC has just announced it’s closing the station. The enshitification of life is really on a roll.

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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Over time, I have reluctantly concluded that my optimism was naïve. I now see evidence-based medicine as a deeply ill enterprise." Manski throwing bombs 💣💣💣 arxiv.org/abs/2607.23660 #statssky 📈📉

I critique a set of entrenched methodological conventions that collectively create systemic dysfunction in statistical research for clinical decisions. These include: (1) the prevalent use of hypothesis tests to compare treatments, (2) remoteness from patient care of the methods used to evaluate the accuracy of predictions of patient outcomes, (3) poor practice of meta-analysis to combine findings across studies, and (4) widespread research with incredible certitude. It appears that the dysfunction is held in place by three factors: (i) rudimentary instruction in statistical methodology received by medical students and residents, (ii) reliance of clinical researchers on consulting biostatisticians, wo act as statistical gatekeepers in evaluation of grant proposals and paper submissions, and (iii) institutional practices of research funding agencies, medical journals, and governmental bodies that regulate medical treatment. I conjecture that systemic changes are necessary to break the existing impasse, moving statistical research to a better equilibrium.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Minister speaks school economics ignoring actual context and market experience

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

This is good on "incremental degradation" of broadcasting quality. Tragedy that same process happening in health, social and educational services too.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Care should put people before profit. Yet around 80% of the UK's largest care home providers are owned or backed by private equity. It's time to end profiteering in social care. Agree? Add your name 👇 party.coop/campaign/soc...

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End private profit in social care

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · 13/10/2026

how your email finds me, 15th century

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

As is the shameless acceptance of state funded benefits and contracts for the uber rich beneficiaries of shrink the state 'trickle up' economics.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

As practiced by all harmful industries: "shift blame to consumers, invoke complexity, argue that a suite of insufficient measures will add up to a solution."

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

The opportunity cost for the public sector of 50 years of neoliberal disregard for its specifics and actual outcomes is immense.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Would benefit from investment from taxing private sector for negative public health outcomes of their activities.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Mark Zuckerberg is leading us a merry dance: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Mark Zuckerberg is leading us a merry dance: the Stephen Collins cartoon

Whatever next …

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who or what is behind the direction of the government’s AI policy? According to minister for artificial intelligence Kanishka Narayan it’s, er, AI!

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In a nutshell, I've yet to encounter a system that is learning/trained via a) actual recorded social interaction; b) transcripts that capture the full range of resources that people use to interact; c) findings from the analysis of interaction. 2/8

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (2026), 1–16
doi:10.1017/S0267190526100233
What is “conversational” about conversational
technologies, products, and services? Insights
from conversation analysis
Elizabeth Stokoe , Saul Albert and Cathy Pearl
Abstract
“Conversational” technologies, products, and services are in the headlines more than ever.
But what does it mean to be “conversational?” We address this question through the lens
of six decades of empirical research in conversation analysis, which has identified and
described the foundational structure and interactional machinery of human sociality. We
consider not only how tacit notions of “conversationality” manifest in technologies, products,
and services, such as role-play, communication training, and chatbots, but also in
research methodologies such as focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and laboratory
studies – all of which rarely acknowledge how researcher–participant interaction shapes
the data collected. Drawing on a range of examples from different institutional settings, we
consider how and whether such technologies can or should leverage “conversation” in ways
that reproduce “naturalistic” interactions – and ask what might count as “naturalistic” in
this context anyway? We argue that if human conversationality becomes a benchmark, then
humans themselves will fail tests derived from normative, not empirical, understandings of
how social interaction works.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...

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The secret life of sewers

From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Most 'innovation' discourse is this - preference for shiny lucrative hype; antipathy to doing the work to really understand problems and use an evidence informed approach. Money spaffed on hype marketing, not invested in real research and development. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alienating evidence based medicine vs. innovative medical device marketing: A report on the evidence debate at a Wounds conference

Wound care management is one of the largest segments of the UK medical technology sector with a turnover exceeding £1bn in 2009 (BIS, 2010). Using dat…

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? A key shift away from neoliberalism is not delegating responsibility for the consequences of lazy think tank led light touch policies down to individuals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"In 1994, Doug Altman famously remarked that ‘We need less research, better research, & research done for the right reasons’. His words have never been more relevant." Read a free copy of our @intjepidemiol.bsky.social letter on 'why epidemiology should not be automated': zenodo.org/records/2308...

Front page of manuscript from pre-print server

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Deja Vu from the Tories this morning, just in time for Halloween, stop young people having social security rights and watch the streets fill with homelessness www.cost-ofliving.net/maddening-ne...

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Gothic morality tales & neoliberal capitalism

A gothic victorian morality of undeserving welfare claimants dominates in an age of zombie neoliberalism capitalism.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Christian Cargnelli @chrisl7000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

47 years ago today, @jonsavage.bsky.social reviewed Wire's album "154" for the Melody Maker (29 September 1979). @robertrotifer.bsky.social

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Priorities (from latest @adamtooze.bsky.social chartbook)

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Which medieval creature are you? Pause to find out.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Siouxsie Sioux on London’s Westminster Bridge before the Houses Of Parliament, 1980, by Adrian Boot.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Morning Bluesky.

B&w film still: three women and two men conduct a seance

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A century 🎂

John Coltrane, holding a tenor saxophone

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a celebration of 100 years of John Coltrane. one of the earliest mentions of him in print: the Louisiana Weekly of 15 January 1949. And Ralph Gleason's praise from the SF Chronicle, 15 Sept 1960

"Eddie Vinson's New 'Kid' Band Is Sensational," with Coltrane listed along with James Young, James Rhodes, William Garland and John Coles

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

20 minutes of favorite things: the Coltrane Quartet in Belgium, 1965: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYM...

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John Coltrane Quartet My Favorite Things Live in Comblain-La-Tour 1965

YouTube video by Vince Cho

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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Spooky Snodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As Sean Lock said about online gambling “I haven’t been pestered this much to do something since I was potty trained”

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