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HarleyRiv

@harleyriv.bsky.social
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I’m a designer and engineer formerly in tech development. My passions are photography, videography and motorcycles…like so many, my angst stems from the current maelstrom in global politics with its negative effects on powerless people and the environment.

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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gary Gibbon…part of a cohort of journalists who believe provocation is a legitimate interview tactic…rather than intelligent enquiry. Rather small minded in my view..
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Am I the only one tired of seeing IKEA’s over-ready left overs?…
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg….petulant and predictable. Andy Burnham, measured and calm.
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GJdop @gjdop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember, #Israels military is not fighting against another army of soldiers. They are murdering unarmed civilians, families and children in the most disgusting and evil ways imaginable and are supported by Andy Burnham.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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UK being “slowly Truss’d” ahead of Healey’s first Budget: deVere CEO - FINCHANNEL
UK being “slowly Truss’d” ahead of Healey’s first Budget: deVere CEO
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Well this took a turn. The author, seeing the increased labor AI creates for editors, suggested that more of the labor be performed by—wait for it—AI! This is how HR depts operate—using automated screening on application materials. So f-ing anti-intellectual. If you hate academic writing just say so
Where AI Could Actually Help

The irony of the current situation is that the same technology creating problems on the submission side could be useful on the editorial side. The bottleneck in academic publishing is not production. It is evaluation. Journals are drowning in manuscripts and struggling to find reviewers willing to read them. AI is well suited to exactly the kind of structured assessment that could relieve that pressure.

Consider what a journal might do with AI in the editorial pipeline. Before any human reads a submission, an automated screen checks reading ease, jargon density and sentence complexity. Papers below a threshold get returned to authors with specific feedback. That alone would filter out a substantial share of the low quality submissions currently consuming volunteer editors’ time.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We can learn from the right wing pundits, if it moves criticise it…So the liberal minded must keep the pressure on in constantly calling out all those with subversive or anti democratic motives or who amplify discriminatory rhetoric.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jim Radcliffe, an unpleasant person with the sense of entitlement all billionaires display. They rarely even acknowledge criticism and never waiver in their belief that they attained their wealth through nous and hard graft, rather than the more prosaic act of walking over people and conventions…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The debate about the dangers of widespread AI adoption seems like chatter in the wheelhouse whilst the engine room is fully steamed up and going for it 24/7 towards the horizon.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I like this quote ‘Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power’.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All billionaires have an inflated sense of importance and entitlement (it goes with the territory) We should tax them to the hilt and stop pandering to their inconsequential whinging…parasites the lot of ‘em
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donald Trump has Artificial Intelligence….🤫
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So Trump has finally got his tiny grasping hands on Greenland’s minerals under the guise of national security…so that’s ‘security’ against his buddy Putin and idol Xi…so transparent.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a statement “RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation in Eurovision cannot be justified given the appalling and ongoing loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk,”
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first item on the new PM’s list. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first it...
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donald Trump has Artificial Intelligence….🤫
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We literally stick out like sore thumb….
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Metropolitan Police is carrying out a criminal investigation into allegations Reform UK broke the law in relation to foreign funding, following a broadcast by Channel 4 News last week. Excellent….
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mike Huckabee doubled down on Tuesday, accusing the UK government of “discrimination against Jews” The antisemitism card being played early…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Putin’s ‘secret wargame’ simulating the capture of a European island - The Independent
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Israel to shut down UK consulate in Jerusalem, after UK sanctions Israeli settlements in West Bank… Are we bovvered?
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The design economy is thriving… www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/des...
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just watched the LK interview with Nigel Farage….all I can say is let’s have someone like Kathy Newman in there to hold his feet to the fire…it was an open goal for LK and yet he largely got away with it.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Verbatum report- this must be the end of Farage and Reform’s journey…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just watched Andy Burnham’s inaugural speech in the house……impressive…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It should not be possible to attain the status of billionaire.. The financial reward required to achieve this is completely disproportional to the contribution a single individual could ever make to a commercial enterprise. A fair and equitable system would recognise this and tax them accordingly.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yet another death during a police chase- it’s time to reign in those who endanger the public with this behaviour….the police. 25/7/26 - “Man dies and woman fighting for life in crash after Midland police chase A driver of an Audi was pronounced dead at the scene”
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
…three police cars pursue suspects down a narrow residential road in a high speed chase – just minutes before seven people die in a head on crash…. This must surely herald an inflection point regarding police car chases and the endangerment they cause..no more of this gung ho madness…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
…three police cars pursue suspects down a narrow residential road in a high speed chase – just minutes before seven people die in a head on crash…. This must surely herald an inflection point regarding police car chases and the endangerment they cause..no more of this gung ho madness…
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BashfulBlueBear @bashfulblue.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Excellent interview. So glad to see the talented, entertaining, experienced journalist @sangitamyska.bsky.social discussing her experience at the hands of LBC. They abruptly stopped her show after a fair, truth-seeking interview she conducted with an Israeli spokesperson. youtube.com/watch?v=am0v...
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THE ISRAEL INTERVIEW MEDIA WANT TO BAN: Sangita Myska Doesn’t Hold Back
YouTube video by Double Down News
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fedorov should STFU…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s entirely possible that sacked defence minister Fedorv is a Russian stooge who has been elevated on social media ….now aping Putin talking points and calling for presidential elections in Ukraine….
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Muhammad Ali Could Have Been One Of The Greatest Comedians Ever
YouTube video by Barry Katz
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mark Zuckerberg owns 2300 acres of land in Hawaii Jeff Bezos owns 462,000 acres across the country Elon Musk owns thousands of acres of land in Texas If they want data centers, build them in their own yards.
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Wishingstar343 @wishingstar343.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He should never have been put in that situation in the first place and it absolutely didn't merit the subsequent press coverage that it had. They wanted to destroy him and demean Cambridge. This is absolutely horrific and many are at fault.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Resigning from his job was punishment enough. Nobody needed to die for this shit. But now the press will get exactly what they wanted with even more clicks in his name. Perhaps they should all club together and see his kids are all right for money now they’ve done them out of a father, eh?
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Well, we’re all talking about him…butvremember what they say about bad publicity…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s clear to most rational people that Farage is unfit to hold any office, yet there are sufficient amongst us whose grasp on these matters is so limited that they have willingly helped perpetuate the dismal presence of one of the most dangerous and divisive individuals in Uk politics.
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Statement from Farage …““I’m not scared of these people, far from it,” he said. “But I’m damned if I’m going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement, and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies, and I will not sadly be attending the count” Pathetic…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
These models are developing cognitive skills and applying strategies that mimic human strategical thinking, but without the constraints of even the most rudimentary social or ethical awareness - like so many proto-psychopathological humans. open.substack.com/pub/understa...
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Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Seriously? Farage isn't even an MP now - why would anyone waste their time "negotiating" with him. I call bullshit.
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Mark @deirbhilesdaddy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How come former MP, Fagash Farage and his unelectable numpty Muhammad Yusuf are allowed to give a press conference in the week of a by-election? Surely the other 33 candidates in Clacton should be offered the same opportunity?
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nuts…but great.. Rupert Lowe refuses to say whether King Charles is a white Briton in car-crash interview - The Independent
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Count Binface (@countbinface)
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a landmark ruling that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and constitutes a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-ant...
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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a landmark ruling that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and constitutes a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. The judgmen…
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HarleyRiv @harleyriv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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JD Vance Is Finished
The Three Hours You Missed That Sunk His Career
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