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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I will note the Oxford bias in believing that St Catharines College (became a full college in 1860) is somehow St Catharines Hall, which became St Catherines College in 1862.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

'The Court’s judgement... is a devastating indictment of the impartiality and competence of the OfS, implicating its operations, leadership, governance, and strategy. It raises important and urgent questions for the government as it plans to grant ever more powers to the regulator.'

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I congratulate my former colleagues at Sussex on the victory in challenging the fine brought by a partisan Office for Students, one only ever intended to hurt, not help, free speech. As a firsthand witness of some of the events to which the fine related, it was clear the OfS was wholly without merit

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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Well done the Sussex legal team! "443 The fair-minded, informed and not unduly suspicious observer would in my view conclude that there was a real possibility that the decision-maker here was biased in the sense of having a closed mind to the legal and factual merits of the University’s position."

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The University of Sussex, R (on the application of) v The Office for Students - Find Case Law - The National Archives

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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Competence porn. How have we come to this?

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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I am so waiting on you cooking haggis next time we're together...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

<phone rings> LIDINGTON: Hello? TRUSS <phone>: David! It! Is! I! LIDINGTON *sighs*: Hi Liz HAMMOND <next room>: Who is it? TRUSS: It! Is! I! Liz! Truss! LIDINGTON: It's Liz Truss HAMMOND: Cool. Tell her I said "Fuck off" LIDINGTON: Phil says hi. HAMMOND <shouts>: I didn't Liz! I said Fuck off! /1

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Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

FWIW, the most relevant recent post is www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/ , but I can't recommend Mr. Zitron's newsletter enough for keeping up with the current LLM insanity.

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The Subprime AI Crisis

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intel...

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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

To clarify, that's Hamed's inaugural talk from 17:30 this evening, which will be not only fans - are we piggybacking the NGN event on the same stream?

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Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org · 08/01/2025

If, like me, you cannot attend then here is the livestream bit.ly/HamedHaddadi... (don't worry I have checked and unlike most things here, the link does not go to onlyfans)

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Why did the Star Wars movies come out as 4,5,6,1,2,3? In charge of scheduling, Yoda was…

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Ian Wakeman @ianwakeman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A quite excellent resource from the much missed Ross

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