Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible stuff. 12599155
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being 202709412
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Worth noting that the 'white heat' speech (1963) contained a bunch of futuristic assertions about automation that wouldn't seem out of place in a Sam Altman or Jensen Huang speech today 111
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No time for the Orange Order and I'd rather their marchers gave up and went home, but if the Northern Ireland political settlement can be thrown off course by a single march in Portadown then today's events are not the cause of that but simply the trigger for a collapse that was coming anyway 181
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Can a bunch of equations strung together and executed through electronic logic circuits feel pain? No 040
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58854811503
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/09/2026Breaking news: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health service website in June, in the latest high-profile cyber incident involving AI ft.trib.al/4jiZWL2 125943
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point. 431135320
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 33602263
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime. 591608422
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeEmiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...thebureauinvestigates.comGovernment makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year 8235155
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…gov.ukCost of undergraduate provision and qualifications in EnglandA study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England. 65538
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tom Watson of Tele2/Watson fame decides that mass surveillance is great, actually 187
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833131341
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeNorman @noaasm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Another example of how instead of actually focusing on enforcing existing (!) tech laws, Brussels throws in new complex legal acts… Yes, I do agree that there is underlying issue, which need to be addressed, but I am not sure the current approach is right 097
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721802539
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My understanding is that the evidence shows LLM-based assessment gives better 'marks' to LLM-written things (essays, grants etc). So by choosing to use LLM-based assessment, UKRI will likely penalise every academic who actually writes their own grants unassisted. Grim. 412744
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If anyone was wondering why the UK's economy is stagnant it's because half of the average person's post-tax income goes on energy and housing and for lots of people a chunk of the rest goes on childcare. Not much left 010
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This movement has become exceptionally toxic. Its most mainstream voices justify filming trans people without their consent, and throw terms like “pervert” around thoughtlessly. 511416
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I realise I repeat this on like a daily basis, but please me restate it again - the ‘status quo’ in the UK for decades was trans inclusion. What we have now is not really precedented for a 21st century democracy. 222053
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeRachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026AI could kill us all within 10 years! now that I've got your attention, our only hope is that all threats to my business model be crushed, 076
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Trump is a bully and a braggart, a self-confessed sexual predator and a purveyor of racial slurs... Most people would not welcome such a man into their home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.” Irish Times editorial on Trump in Ireland.irishtimes.comThe Irish Times view on Trump’s visit: a less than welcome guestMost people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation 22942337
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today's important 25 year anniversary exclaim.ca/music/articl...exclaim.caPhil Elverum Learns to Embrace the Legacy of the Microphones' 'The Glow pt. 2' │ Exclaim!"I don't know why I punish people for liking songs I've written," he says of the album's 25th anniversary 000
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... 321420631
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So sick of this chauvanism from STEM boys whose narrow education and life experience means they can't even imagine any other kind of personal fulfilment or contribution to society 150
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239371776
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’. 23743331491
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026WTF - first BBC question to Pat McFadden "Are you focusing too much on the protestors, and not on the issue that millions care about: small boats?" 60758172
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The BBC's coverage of all this has been so utterly woeful that I think I will finally cancel my TV licence. No interest in paying them to apologise for fascists 020
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I made this observation before the last election, but a real weakness with Labour and particularly the manifesto was a total unwillingness to acknowledge anything structural. There was just no theory of why the economy had stalled, local government had failed, or why law enforcement was anemic. 819635
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“The guidance will see Trans+ pupils segregated in third spaces, their personal agency and autonomy diminished, and their teachers forced to self-censor in the classroom, all of which serves to invisibilise Trans+ youth in the public sphere.” The British government continues to trash trans kids.wearequeeraf.comSection 28 2.0: A complex web of anti-trans guidance that will make it vastly harder to overturnAnti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to ques... 04616
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/09/2026So in one week: 1) Reform get stung for dodgy finances, and the regulators play pass the parcel about enforcement 2) Farage announces plans to largely dismantle independent scrutiny of govt, and barely any press discussion of it 3) Masked thugs blockade a port, with narry a word from senior govt 491821642
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is still stronger than anything by the government and I feel like I am going mad? 25541107
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391279
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If it was a live terror situation you would expect the BBC to have sought confirmation from the Police before reporting that “Counter Terror Police won’t let Farage on stage”. 👀 25215
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934422236
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Stop calling far-right thugs 'protesters' ffs. 15529133
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes Cambridge looks bad over the Orr thing, and yes this comes soon after it looked bad over the Arday affair, but let's not forget that it also looked bad over a damning employment tribunal judgment in the meantime 0101
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year 13024141023
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeTamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026'Everyone in UK public life has quiet quit their jobs but will get really angry if you point that out' latest 422565
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeReuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A year on from releasing our audit of Uber's pricing and pay algorithms, our collaborators @workerinfox.bsky.social have filed this class action lawsuit in Amsterdam. Drivers across Europe may win €billions compensation for violations of their rights under GDPR: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comUber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithmLandmark lawsuit claims tech company’s pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings 1199
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is why I find the whole ‘oh yes we need to show the public migration is handed control’ stuff from labour so stupid as well as immoral. The public at large isn’t basing their concerns on evidence or migration rates! How much clearer can we see this 1243398
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeUnofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026B&Q and Five Guys among firms which paid staff below minimum wagebbc.co.ukB&Q and Five Guys among firms which paid staff below minimum wageMore than 600 companies underpaid staff, with £4m returned to workers, according to the government. 188
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It really is incredible how often the British government simply forgets that Northern Ireland exists 0153
Reposted by Jennifer CobbeCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in the future" this person is TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and the BBC is scaremongering about their choice not to breastfeed a baby that they do not have and have given no indication of ever wanting to have 19752174
