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Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social · 4h

My new novel is out a week from today — tough timing because of the election & uh, you know, the world. With book reviews an extinct species, it's hard to get the word out. So tell your friends! Meanwhile, I've started the next one, folkish horror set in a bog at a remote Maine hunting camp. Onward!

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 2h

Biti bod prifysgolion Cymru yn brysur yn torri y nifer o ieithoedd Ewropeaidd a gynigir ynddynt. Dangos agwedd ynysig tu hwnt

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please don't pick up canisters shot at you by police. Even if you can differentiate between tear gas and stun grenades, both of those canisters burn hot or explode and can seriously injure you Throwing it back at the cops might be rad, but the mvmt also needs you with all of your limbs intact

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Ashley Rolfmore (she/her) @ashley.rolfmore.com · 4h

They’re also unofficial “third spaces” in a lot of towns that they’re in.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 14h

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5h

I've got a good idea for how the BBC should pick the live action show's next showrunner. Ask them how this show fits into canon. If they give any answer other than 'what on earth are you talking about?' 'who cares?' or 'grow up', they are immediately disqualified:

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First look at 'TARDIS Crew', brand new CBeebies animated adventure from the Whoniverse | Doctor Who

The TARDIS is set to welcome aboard a whole new generation of fans in an exciting new animated series...

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DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 3h

Think it was Richard Wyn Jones who observed that you don't get much more 'somewhere' than Remain voting Cymrophones living on Ynys Môn. The whole thing was projecting a very metropolitan idea of what people believe onto places where for various reasons that might not be true.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

at some point IRL and online will be indistinguible and someone will ask Kemi Badenoch what she thinks about this

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 15h

Based on this skeet, I’m predicting Labour will launch a relentless attack on Games Workshop

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 14h

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to reassure Chris Philp that the French navy have no idea who he is?

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chad @chadomalley.com · 15h

It’s the year 2042: Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k franchise accounts for 12% of England’s GDP. Due to its economic importance, Parliament now spends a quarter of their sessions arguing over the replacement of Firstborn marines with Primaris. Marneus Calgar is on his 27th model.

Primaris-scaled marine on the left with Firstborn on the right.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

J.G. Ballard, lost in the supermarket

"It was ironic that the author of such unsettling work was a quiet and serious family man, who lived most of his adult life in a modest suburban house in Shepperton. His editor Malcom Edwards recalled how Ballard, on receiving the first payment for the film rights for Empire of the Sun, decided to splash out by visiting his local supermarket. After wandering the aisles for some time, he returned home with a tin of salmon." (Adam Sisman in the Guardian, 25.04.26)

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 23h

This sounds like a cool place for a Traveller scenario. Hrm!

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

developing a safe and reliable driving automation system is such a vast and complex task, which can be undercut by even a little sloppiness, that it's impossible to develop them in a rigorously safe way if you also buy into a utilitarian permission structure that justifies cutting corners short term

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the kindest way possible “it’s the phones” works the least in India, where the Supreme Court gave Modi a pass on culpability for the 2002 sectarian unrest in Gujarat. Resurgent right-wing nationalism in India is definitely not the fault of social media.

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Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Social media is an accelerant. Listening to folks who know about South and East Asian politics makes it clear to me it’s not just “phones” here. One universal reasoning doesn’t capture this for me, sorry.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love how euphemistic 'recruit workers' is here. Silly ministers, don't they realise they need to snap their fingers and create funding for training, and then travel forward several years for those workers to be trained?

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finally, it's a matter of research integrity that one designs and performs the best study possible at any given point in the scientific process, given the resources, where best = one that has the highest probability of producing net epistemic gains. 50 years later, the original design ain't that.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Replication cannot be an epistemic shortcut to bypass the scientific process of incrementally eliminating error. At this point I find this kind of lack of understanding and lack of respect for the scientific process infuriating. There are no shortcuts.

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There are no shortcuts to theory | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

There are no shortcuts to theory - Volume 47

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Statistical power has been lionized in metascience. First, you care about statistical power only bec your whole scientific vision relies on the results of a hypothesis test. Get over it. Second, power can never make up for poor design, lack of theoretical understanding, or biased samples/measures.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We still don't know how large or reliable the effect is" suggests you need more exploration bec you have not stabilized the effect yet. That is not something a replication (esp. non-exact), however large, can answer for you. You need to do more groundwork to figure out what phenomenon you study.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That this was seminal work and very well cited is not good enough reason to design a mega-study that cannot give you the answer you need (whether the effect is true or not/whether the original study was good or not). There already are published replications. And many ways to evaluate research.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't understand this. 52 years later, why try and replicate the original? It's obviously not going to be the same study. The world has changed; cars, traffic, and people have changed. If one is interested in false memory, why not design the best study you can? What can you conclude meaningfully?

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hypothesis: what prevents 'zionism' from being a useful term is its transformation from an ideological category to an identity category. Let me briefly explain

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The GPEW's 'Zionism is Racism' motion is rightly being condemned as antisemitic across the political spectrum. Separately, I wish that the transphobia in our political parties attracted a fraction of that condemnation, but alas it does not.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Years of working in left archives and engaging in left politics has made me wary when I hear or read "Zionist" - not because it is inherently offensive or abusive or antisemitic - but because it provides cover for a huge range of different arguments and attitudes. Political parties should know this!

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes people put a stank on it when they say the word and pretending they don't is naive.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s massive amounts of red tape that are caused by immigration control and the hostile environment and its biggest advocates are the very politicians who complain about excessive regulation. Enormous costs for employers, landlords, universities.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A quick look for sentences passed down (a while ago, yes) for others convicted of bombings in the UK suggests - and I know that the legislation is different - that 15 years is at the lower end of what he might have expected.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Herein lies one of the biggest recurring, and escalating, issues with hostile anti-asylum policies, they don't tackle gangs. Instead they penalise the victims of gangs. It isn't the gangs piloting boats, it is normally people seeking asylum who are forced to by the gangs. inews.co.uk/news/represe...

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I represented the pilot of a mega dinghy. Why Channel migrants are still arriving

Defence barrister Audrey Mogan has seen firsthand why new legislation is bound to fail

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at 150 years*. They mightn't rebound. They are also truly amazing creatures. There's greenland sharks swimming around that passed underneath Franklin's doomed ships, or that existed when Henry VIII was being a dose *nothing wrong with being a late bloomer

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Humans are such a frustrating species. They are considering a cull of greenland sharks due to pressures on the fishing industry. But as usual, nature isn't the problem, people are. It's just much easier to kill wild animals than to address the tougher issues. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“If every Greenland shark in Baffin Bay vanished tomorrow, the inshore fishery in Avannaata would still face too many boats working a quota under pressure, rising costs and no alternative employment,” he says. “When margins are narrow, a longstanding nuisance becomes intolerable.”

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For some of those fishing these waters, however, the shark is not the leading cause of losing gear. “There are more and more ‘ghost lines’ and they are too heavy to pull up by the machine we use,” Jensen says. Ghost lines are discarded or lost gear that can get entangled with new lines, breaking equipment and trapping marine life.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Greens are seriously injured over an absurd, unnecessary, over-broad, political hand grenade of a motion going off, and now every right-wing group is shooting point-blank at the corpse. Great job!

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This gaslighting is honestly jaw dropping. It’s not enough to take away our rights, but you also chide us for not pretending anything has changed?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those whose families lived through the Jewish traumas of Mitteleuropa, it isn't that esoteric why Zionism was once seen this way, even as it has now become Kahanism. The lesson here is not unique to Zionism, but the opposite - how easily liberation movements become the thing they once hated.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It would be better for everyone if resolutions saying “Zionism is racism” also said, for example, “Hindutva is racism” and “Sinhala Buddhist nationalism is racism.” It might make Jews feel less singled out, but it would also force pro-Israel people to defend their ideology on its own terms.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 05/10/2026

Mahmood’s ignorant and contemptuous remarks about Cabinet colleagues on The Rest is Politics Idiotcast are on the front pages of today’s Times and Telegraph. Normally you’d expect Burnham to sack her immediately but we live in an age of idiots.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It really is. It’s the key.

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The difficulties of developing a workable antinationalist politics in the era of the nation state system: "Why this is nationalism, nor am I out of it."

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gosh, the discourse on here is depressing this evening. Here's Ozzy taking a nap in a basin, for anyone who needs it.

Grey furry cat sleeping in a basin, paws sticking up.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The videoconference with FGWM (Myanmar) was particularly worrying. One of our comrades was explaining the situation they are going through under the military dictatorship and the impossibility of organising legally, when the Thai police stormed into the room and the camera cut out" :- @iclcit.org

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III ICL Congress: from Italy to Palestine, Myanmar or Brazil

On 25, 26 and 27 September, the 3rd Congress of ICL took place in Massenzatico (Italy), at the Cucina del

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The “crusader march” would be more historically accurate if instead of going to the palestine fest they just robbed and torched a random church bsky.app/profile/unra...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting.

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