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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 16h

A user's guide to watching grifters at work. Without these techniques they wouldn't have a business model. Should be on the national curriculum.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Radio4Extra (2m listeners) costs 1/6th of Match of the The Day (2.5m viewers) and all the MoTD money goes to TNT and Sky.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘hurty words’ becomes ‘irresponsible language’

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Should be clear for everyone now that Reform is a white nationalist party not ‘populist’.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From ‘girlboss’ to #stayathomegirlfriend: The romanticisation of domestic labour on TikTok "stay-at-home girlfriends unwittingly mimic the popular feminist doctrine of ‘empowerment’ & channel ‘girlboss’ culture through their work as influencers"

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s not a coincidence that the channel is hostile to net-zero and Muslims. He organises a conference every year that calls them a threat to Western Civilisation.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He is not burning cash. He is investing money to shape political discourse and public opinion in line with his ideology and interests. And it's a successful strategy. Also, for a billionaire losing 10 million is like losing 1000 pounds for a middle class person.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone in the comments is treating this as real.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A significant proportion of the British public seems to believe Britain is a free floating island of undeserving welfare dependents existing independently of global weather systems and events.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jonathan Haidt is arguably the most impactful social scientist in recent years with his calls for teen social media bans. Maybe because he inhabits that 3rd space where the distinction between pseudo and rigorous research is unclear to non-experts and therefore easily exploited.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026

I do wonder sometimes if certain people in Labour have ever met the modern working class. I know in reality they have, but it never feels like it. Working people are overwhelmingly literate now! Most know people of other races! Many have gay friends or family! Some worry about climate change!

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a way to make a living, angering violent racists, supplying them with targets and attacking the rule of law.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anyone seen any usage figures for this? Anecdotally, I haven’t met anyone who’s even heard of it let alone used it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Government offers UK adults free AI training for work

The online lessons give advice on things such as how to prompt chatbots or complete admin tasks.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Could begin by appealing to them.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a leading spokesperson for the British far-right who’s a regular guest on GBNews. Why would he post evidence English ethnicity is social construct to claim the opposite?

By the way, @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, I have had a look at my own DNA.
I'm

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Learning styles adjacent discourse doesn’t inspire confidence either.

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Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sigh indeed. jonathansimons.substack.com/p/making-the...

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Wil Housley @wilhousley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

in this book we explore digital society as situated action and in relation to automation, generative A.I. next generation social media, synthetic sociality and agentic A.I. imaginaries. #EMCA #interactionism www.emerald.com/books/monogr...

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Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation

In a world transformed by digital innovations and a social life increasingly digitally automated and augmented, Digital Society, Interaction Order and Auto

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why expect schools that don’t have resources - staff, equipment, tools, software, links with industry, careers services, etc. - to do this when it’s always been the purpose of HE colleges? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Pupils to be offered vocational GCSEs in radical shake-up of system in England

Courses such as finance and construction form part of PM’s push for education ‘that offers a path for everybody’

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Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest Guardian long read is about the people trying to get their ideas into Britain’s new government and whether Burnham is really prepared to be that radical. Grateful to the many people who spoke to me for this - read it online or in Saturday’s paper: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain

The long read: The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Incentives already exist for academics to game their article citation metrics and online mentions. What gaming might happen to get *AI* to cite and mention academic papers more too, now that this can also be quantified? www.amicitedby.ai

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Am I Cited by AI?

See how often AI tools read and cite your research.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine how crap the English football, cricket, and rugby teams would be if you had to be of ‘Anglo-Saxon heritage’ to represent them. And what would the test be? Imagine this lot in government.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What are the odds he’s never earned more than £12,570 a year but drives a 200k Range Rover?

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was completely unaware there was any science behind these claims. How does AI make a bio-weapon on its own? Aren’t humans already capable of making bio-weapons?

How exactly would Al kill us all?
Coxon, Hubinger and Amodei have not given precise details of how Al might dispose of humanity. But there have been attempts to flesh out scenarios. In a speculative forecast called Al 2027, developed by the non-profit Al Futures project, an Al unleashes a biological weapon to kill humans off and thereby make more space for solar panels and robot factories.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Strong ‘you can be arrested for just being proud to be English now’ vibes.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This suggests Meta is a global agent of MAGA’s far-right ideology that opposes feminism but permits antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning 'social topics' such as civil rights or feminism

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week Piddington, the tiny Oxfordshire "village that roars", voted overwhelmingly to leave the UK if asylum seekers move nearby. I wrote about the far-right's new ground zero and why the government should stop talking about "legitimate concerns". nicolakelly.substack.com/p/piddington...

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Piddington's legitimate concerns

How a tiny village became ground zero for the far-right

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Higher education shdt be part of any effective response to 'NEETs' (given one of the Es stands for education this shouldnt surprise). Not the whole solution, w/other educational & training pathways needing strengthening It serves no one - least of all young ppl - to see HE as always wrong for NEETs

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Higher education is good, actually.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shouldn’t be news to anyone that these companies are operating in bad faith.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What she going to be talking about the ‘conspiracy of international Jewry’? Why would the organisers want to platform this?

In November 2025, Nekrasova was fired by The Gersh Agency and dropped from the upcoming film Iconoclast following her podcast interview with far-right commentator Nick Fuentes.
In the interview on her podcast, Red Scare, Nekrasova praised Fuentes with comments such as "I'm such a fan, honestly."
Additionally Nekrasova, Khachiyan and Fuentes discussed
"international Jewry" multiple times, advancing offensive stereotypes about Jews, Italians, Asians and others.

Council.Nekrasova has said that
"Francis is not the real Pope, we all know it... You're not gonna get rid of the Freemasons. You're not gonna get rid of the Jews. They infiltrated the Church a long time ago."

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The playing field is not level: “According to analysis by Newscord, 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned – compared to 13 articles by the same media outlets on James Orr in the week after the broadcast of the undercover filming he was featured in”

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The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is going around as essential reading and for very good reason. Honestly the most incisive and full summary of the longtermism/x-risk pathology I have seen. Every stanza is a gem, and the closing is genius, but my personal favorite, because I have had this exact conversation almost verbatim:

[nitter.app post excerpt from banteg]

>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
> expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
> extremely thoughtfully

›reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
›still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
›epistemic robustness achieved

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With his insistence that pseudoscientific racism should be allowed in the tent, fundamentally, Pinker is as irresponsible as RFK with his ‘research’ into autism and chemtrails. In some ways more so, with the amount of symbolic capital he wields.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you read the replies you’ll see that Pinker was always a race science supporter, it’s just that nobody paid any attention. Maybe we should start noticing when celebrity scientists are fans of pseudoscientific ideas, and adjust our opinion of their competence accordingly

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

Separating out real AI risk means you have to somehow be able to separate out what is: 1. Usual big tech hype 2. Clever lobbying for 'regulation' that helps AI companies 3. Sci-fi/cult informed BS 4. Group hysteria 5. Legitimate warnings grounded in reality. Good luck trying to unpick that!

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The default response from Reform is domestic abusers’ logic - ‘look what you made them do’.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The right, via the war on woke/cancel culture/free speech/censorship industrial complex moral panics, have created a permissive environment for racism so successfully that Lowe & Goodwin can complain about too many kids of colour in schools within the great replacement frame without consequences .

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More Orr. 'The former student alleges that the academic’s claim not to have been disciplined contradicts assurances they say they received from the institution.'