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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven’t said anything about the strikes yet (I am so ANGRY but despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage etc etc). So it can’t be me the carefully worded HR email is about, telling us all to be nice to everyone (implying SMT?) including on socials, on threat of disciplinary action?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.

But we need to go further.
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We moved quickly in the G20 and smaller groups to deliver an urgent, practical response.
We came together to agree principles - which everyone implemented at home in a way that was right for them. And it worked.
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And we will work towards agreeing a single set of global principles and standards to ensure the transparency and access we need to increase our preparedness - and to ensure that Al development is safe.
This will bring together welcome initiatives from others - like that proposed by Norway this week.
As His Majesty said, the task before us "is not merely to advance technology, but to ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity."
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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can I recommend being signed off for burnout?

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have joined the significant number of people signed off for burnout at the moment. There are a few interwoven factors, but high among them is this: caring about teaching computing ethics against a backdrop of what industry/our departments are doing atm is soul-destroying. Take care of yourselves.

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Students are going to buy drugs anyway, so the University might as well become a dealer

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Amazing, two powerhouses in one place!

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Ohh, THIS is what they meant by videogames encouraging violent behaviour

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5

buttondown.com

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you live in the UK please sign this petition against data centres! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/datacent...

act.38degrees.org.uk

Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!

Are you worried about this too?

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Maybe morality is black and white after all

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A great discussion of something @aggillespie.bsky.social also spoke about at our Refusal workshop in February. One of my rare sources of optimism is that students are often fully driving the push back on AI if only given the space to do so.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.

Poster for the Box Breakers project showing workers at computers, all cast in a bright, lime green.

Quote from Dr Kevin Guyan, Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, which reads: "The Box Breakers project aims to transform how data professionals understand and represent people whose identities exist beyond conventional categories."

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In other news, OpenAI's car went rogue after they parked it on a hill and removed the handbrake

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's time to start playing 5E Cas, it's a better system.

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#1 is probably handing them molotovs, but this might be #2

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Boring, played-out sales pitches for an industry that will replace you the first chance they get. You need to rediscover your human purpose, but this ain't it.

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My neighbours have been hand feeding our one and it takes everything I have not to join them

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I do really think this is one of the angles we should be exploring for limiting the amount of AI cheating too

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Maybe universities could also learn from this?

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I would say this question mostly answers itself. Their education didn't prepare them for the reflection needed for this outrage.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Anyway, my theory - FWIW - is that lots of the experienced and senior people who are hooked on LLMs are actually having a midlife crisis, and that spending money on Claude is cheaper than buying a Lambo buttondown.com/justenoughin...

buttondown.com

The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Me too 😢 This is my Spotify Wrapped age all over again.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026

“Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are among early adopters that have introduced caps, discouraged wasteful use or pushed employees to cheaper models in a bid to keep AI spending under control.”

ft.com

‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Cars used to kill children, now we want a shot" (also the cars still kill children)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/06/2026

Corporate needs you to find the difference between AI companies and social media companies...

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If I was on the front desk I'd give you a new room and/or help pour the gasoline

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In the middle of a nice safe inferno

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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

ABOUT AI:
Anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to us is a loser, and we want nothing to do with them.

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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

EXC: Shock at Edinburgh Medical School as more than a dozen courses are to be cut, sparking fears of redundancies. One course that generated £500k in annual profit is being shut down. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2613266...

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Fury over 'unacceptable' closures of 'highly-regarded' med school programmes

The closure of the Science Communication and Public Engagement programme has drawn particular ire, with 130 offers rescinded.

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ooh maybe I go to FAccT after all?

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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jesse, head of endorsement deals at BOOingo Wireless @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Good piece, brief and to the point from @drjogrady.bsky.social Gen Sec of UCU: “We are calling for direct government intervention before the crisis spirals further.” Intervention is cheaper than most think, and pound for pound excellent investment in our future economic prosperity.

politicshome.com

The government must intervene before the universities crisis worsens

During moments of political crisis it’s often said there are weeks when decades happen. This has been one such week.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"People everywhere are picking up the mantle of collective resistance....Educators and students are pressuring their institutions. Victims and their families are suing. Tech employees themselves are campaigning. Group chats for more organizing abound. People are marching." - @karenhao.bsky.social

theguardian.com

The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI

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James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I think I'd genuinely rather an official Tory than Streeting

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Only one week until the first virtual assembly of our Critical AI Network “How do we break something that is already broken?”. Three days of quick-fire presentations + keynotes on AI in/as Education, AI in/as Law, Governance & Politics, The Ecology of AI/AI & the Environment cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p...

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