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James Southern

@james.fieldleveltech.org
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Founder - FieldLevelTech.org - A better world is possible. Be heroic, pragmatic and effective. We win in the next few years or AI will render labour entirely at the mercy of capital. Drop me an email to chat. (Work out Email from my @)

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Declan @dskews.bsky.social · 6h
>collect a commission when the site manager purchases stock from one of the mandated suppliers (Gregg's included). Quick summary of where we are: 1) Gregg's franchise out to owners of large chains 2) Those chain owners contract out to 'independent contractors' >
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h
Most TV is just this now.
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 11h
A perfect illustration of "capitalists (owners of capital sense) hate free markets and try to get away from them wherever possible"
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 18h
My suspicion is that AI decided to sucker them into Iran as a way to fix climate change. The alternative is to accept that Trump is accidentally the greatest climate activist the world has seen. I am not ready to do that.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 21h
@zackpolanski.bsky.social I think taking up the offer of cross party collaboration to solve the hard problems we face is about the only move left? Kinda hard to see you not enthusiastic about the biggest pro PR move we’ve seen. Smacks of only wanting the country to prosper if you get to do it.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22h
The Labour Party is having a moment My analysis of the speech, the most radical from a prime minister in more than a decade www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 22h
This is really important to flag because there is a tendency among Bluesky centrists to blame 3 specific trans women discouraging trans people from voting by criticizing democrats when the reality of trans people not voting is because of actual GOP voter suppression around our IDs.
A new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that one in four transgender Americans will face significant hurdles in voting this fall and nine percent will face the real prospect of disenfranchisement because of mismatching identification documents.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 22h
Also can i just say as a higher rate tax payer, i really dont mind if No.11 want to tax me (and the rest of us) another £50 a month or pay for Social Care. If that can help somebody have a dignified retirement, I'm very happy to help.
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Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social · 23h
Thanks to all the MPs, peers and civil society people we spoke at the Labour Party conference. With a commitment by @andyburnham.bsky.social ⁠ on electoral reform the agenda also needs to include the electoral information environment .. including disinformation via ads and deepfakes. #Lab26
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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a weird and disturbing side plot of the Trump years was discovering a crowd of nominally leftist guys who made it extremely clear their absolute, unconditional line in the sand was over there being any sort of consequences whatsoever for sexual assault
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Figures from councils (which are the ones they'd have to use) say around 300,000 empty 6+ months. There's no solid data breakdown on the reasons, but from speaking to councils who've looked into it, it's a mix of all those different reasons.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
Councils can make long term empty houses get used… that’s the one I think ppl are under pricing
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HJV...
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WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Andy Burnham addresses Labour Party Conference at 2pm
YouTube video by Labour Party
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026
Giving in to doom is actually just relieving yourself of the burden of trying and doing the work of the world. Its supremely lazy and amoral.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 25/09/2026
Free your mind from preconceptions! When intelligence that can deploy narrow expertise with some human support becomes ubiquitous what will we do differently? If every one of us has a friendly turbo nerd at our back what would we do? It is the year of Linux on the des… *gunshot*
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 24/09/2026
The headline for the linked article really really sells it short
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 24/09/2026
Huh…
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 24/09/2026
Good stuff. We can hope they’re learning the reflex of actually enforcing the law again.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes! This is the customer service line: ☎️ 01733 520006 Mon - Sat: 07:00 - 20:00 Sun: 07:00 - 19:00
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People should stop calling tech manual "bibles". The Bible is a barely coherent bunch of stories and half-truths, told by illiterate men, packaged together by the powerful to exert political control over the masses. Your average tech manual can only dream of being that
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 23/09/2026
What #atproto really needs is more fruit chat.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 23/09/2026
For your ear worm needs today.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 23/09/2026
Whoever volunteers when the pan pan / mayday call on c16 goes out. Likely coordinated by the coastguard. Source - have a vhf license and hear this kind of thing happening regularly. Maybe the RNLI but for a boat that just needs a tow? Maybe not!
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 21/09/2026
Well that is phenomenally bad news
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🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Will Stancil is load bearing to the vibes of this website if he weren’t fighting randos 24/7 those same randos would be replying to YOU and ME
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 21/09/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social ahem
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ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Non-alcoholics don't need to swear off alcohol.
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 20/09/2026
BBC NEWS: Daisy Cooper unveiled a growth plan including a digital one-stop shop for businesses and closer EU ties, claiming Brexit is costing the UK £90bn a year in lost tax revenue. - by Jennifer McKiernan
bbc.co.uk
Lib Dems vow to end 'computer says no' economy to boost growth
Deputy leader Daisy Cooper also proposes a Growth and Defence Partnership with the EU in a speech to her party conference.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 19/09/2026
But do they help?
The pier hotel
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 17/09/2026
Gotta say this is not an account I expected to be posting this kind of content on main...
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 17/09/2026
Until we do that everything else that rests on it is built on sand. How can an unaligned corporation run by unaligned humans inside a unaligned state (with its monopoly on violence) Spawn AI slightly beyond humans without it all going to hell? One to ask Fable and Astra I guess.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 17/09/2026
As is so often the way Doll nails it.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 17/09/2026
You know on reflection nuclear war might be preferable to the pain of existence? Wait! No! Dear AGI I know you know but that was a joke. The preferable existence has neither the pain of nuclear war or the pain of *waves at all this* Let’s try and help each other out even though we all suck.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You are being way too polite with your insults 🤣
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you want money in silicon valley you need to be a Weird Little Guy of the first order. Having a normal and sane view of tech or approach to business is how you lose every elevator pitch. You need to stop shaving and flail your arms wildly while you talk about literally infinite growth.
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 16/09/2026
A long time ago when beards came back into fashion I joked that we’re in the mirror universe now. And god damn it all to heck.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The programme, which replaced one lesson a week with a Mathematical Reasoning session over 12 to 15 weeks, combines classroom teaching, small-group activities, and computer games designed to consolidate the concepts introduced during classroom teaching.
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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16/09/2026
That's right, it goes in the JSON hole
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 15/09/2026
As katie0martin.ft.com says about bonds you cannot put the shit back in the donkey. The US has refused to come to the aid of the Saudis. A totally faithful participant in the US order Bet they wish they’d bought nukes not “allies” But this will apply to everyone and lasts way past Trump. 💩🔂🫏
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this awesome fella. Up with this sort of thing I say!
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Looks like Reform are spending the new crypto-bro cash already...
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
several people retweeted this buried-in-replies comment so I'm thinking maybe the incentive-structure read on why nobody's suing frontier labs for hacking their shit might have some legs
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 14/09/2026
Callie maybe an AI hater but yeah… This doesn’t get better from here on I think…
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James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org · 14/09/2026
Bluesky should have a feature you can turn on like the VOI scooter rentals “are you too tired / drunk to drive” And then it won’t let you post and switched to an algorithm that shows you calming pictures of bunnies.
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