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Dr Fiona Harvey

@fionajharvey.bsky.social
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Digital Higher Education in UK. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.
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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With US Govt Sites After Going Rogue OpenAI SAYS they did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with the Education & Commerce Depts & the SEC www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t... This is prima facie criminal. We do not lack the laws—we lack leadership.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Dr Fiona Harvey @fionajharvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Dr Fiona Harvey @fionajharvey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
multijimbo.com/2026/09/12/r... @multijimbo
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revisiting something old
The toolmaker koan is the idea that an intelligent species will develop tools before it develops the wisdom to use them responsibly. Looking back, it’s an idea that has crossed my desk on more than…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor & Predict the Behavior of Dissenters—& has already Reported Folks to the Police prospect.org/2026/09/09/a... Sounds like DHS?!? So Anthropic claimed they won’t help the USG to illegally spy on folks—but they’ll do it themselves?
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We have joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance as its latest member! We'll work with the alliance to share our expertise in data governance, open standards and responsible AI. Find out more. buff.ly/jRqXPEC
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Open Data Institute joins Digital Public Goods Alliance
The ODI was founded in 2012 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, placing us at the heart of the data economy. Our primary mission is to foster transparency, accountability, and innovation…
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans They're infecting us — and actively making us dumber. flip.it/gQK6Ux #loligarchy
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Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans
AI's wide proliferation shares some striking similarities with the ways viruses spread, as an international team of researchers argue.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
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Dr Fiona Harvey @fionajharvey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Stop the Race to Replace Humans
A remarkable coalition is united: stop the billionaire race to replace humanity with AI. If you agree, add your name.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you are going to describe something as a 'protest' you should be able to state what is being protested about with some degree of certainty.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 05/09/2026
These masked thugs must be treated the same way as Extinction Rebellion & Just Stop Oil when they blocked, or just planned to block, roads - 3/4/5 years in jail. www.theguardian.com/environment/...?
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Amsterdam has paused construction of new data centres until 2030, to allow more analysis of impact. But 'in London--the biggest hub of data centres in Europe--development is accelerating'. Over 20 London sites have been selected for development.
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Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground
The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. Its priorities are being called into question
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/08/2026
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it. www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/08/2026
In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
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Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
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mary @roughrider994.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/08/2026
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them. www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
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Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
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W.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'll be willing to buy the desirability of data centers once they locate one in Beverly Hills and one next to Mar-A-Lago.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I picked up almost as much from the library as I did from school—real history, not that polished nonsense we were fed!
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Actually flawless.
A four panel comic strip by Twonks featuring a round headed figure demanding a pizza at a restaurant then proclaiming “wow look what I made” when the waiter brings him the pizza
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Getting into university is just the start. Breaking into highly competitive careers without the connections, financial resources or industry knowledge that wealthier peers can rely on is another challenge entirely.” That’s why we launched the Career Skills Bursary with @bloomberg.com 🚀
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'This small but striking display of medieval documents also includes a 1402 receipt from Richard (Dick) Whittington and others documenting the purchase of property in Hertfordshire and the apprenticeship of Katherine Nougle 1392.' Currently at the London Archives. #Skystorians
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Display: Spotlight on Medieval London
See a selection of items from our rich collection of medieval archives, including a rare opportunity to view two illuminated manuscripts.
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is why data centers are the hottest topic on the planet 🌎
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’
Kemi Badenoch, who joined US anti-abortion activists and European far-right parties at ARC, described energy secretary as a ‘villain’
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
👏Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Admin Climate.us is database of federal global warming & climate research that recreates climate dot gov, a website that the Trump admin erased www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c... bravo @relindsey.bsky.social cc @sonaar.bsky.social
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Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration
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Jen 🐦‍🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters
They say ‘the machines of the future’ will be as smart as people…Oak, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Vandal Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
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Dr Fiona Harvey @fionajharvey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Russia set Britain on fire. Demand an inquiry.
The men who tried to set fire to Kier Starmer’s house were taking orders from Russia. Our research shows this was not an isolated plot. It was part of a wider Russian operation on British soil. Add yo...
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Dr Fiona Harvey @fionajharvey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Vote Reform for mass unemployment. If Farage and Tice win, they'll destroy a million jobs, while offering nothing in return. Spread the word: for the sake of their billionaire funders, they will throw you out of work. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nothing says stupidity like Reform's obsession with destroying British jobs | George Monbiot
Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/06/2026
Psst, buddy — fixer 4 is back, and it shipped the wire-up not the cop-out. Dodge a collision and never ride exports: the local badge scoped truthfully.
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multijimbo @multijimbo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Fluttering heart’s songs Their harmonies rising high Distant as church bells #DailyHaiku #haiku #Sunday
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 22/05/2026
Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button
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Microsoft is letting Office users remove an annoying Copilot button
A floating Copilot button has irritated Excel users the most.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/05/2026
"He who pays the piper picks the tune..."
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
More than 29 million gallons of unbilled water flowed to Quality Technology Services’ data center campus under development in Fayetteville, Georgia, after two industrial-scale hookups went unaccounted for. ground.news/article/data...
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.
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