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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Philipp Krüger @philippkrueger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man weiß garnicht, wo man anfangen soll. Die Grundbehauptung, es gäbe immer mehr #Gewalt gegen Polizeibeamte ist unbewiesen. Kriminologische Rahmenbedingugen sprechen dagegen: Es gibt in unserer Gesellschaft schlicht immer weniger Gewalt. Zusätzliche Straftatbestände wurden in den vergangenen...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm sure there's a pattern here but I'm damned if I can make it out.

How misperceptions divide along party lines
Reform UK supporters think half of London’s population is Muslim. Their median guess of 50% is notably higher than the equivalent figure for Conservatives (40%), who guess next-highest, and more than three times the reality of 15%.
Different parties’ supporters misperceive London's ethnic make-up in different ways. Green and Labour supporters most overestimate the White British share, guessing 50% against a reality of 37%, while Reform supporters most overestimate the Black and Asian populations, estimating each at 30% against realities of 14% and 21%.
On the crimes that have genuinely risen, it is supporters on the left who are most often wrong. Violence and sexual offences have both increased in London, even if rates of both are still among the lowest in the country, yet fewer than half of Labour and Green supporters recognise that either has gone up – compared with majorities of Reform and Conservative supporters.
Reform supporters have the most inflated view of the risk of crime in London, guessing that 40% of Londoners were victims of crime in a single year – more than three times the reality (12.2%) – and are most likely to wrongly think total crime has risen since 2019, with nine in 10 (87%) holding this misperception.
Reform supporters also most overestimate how unsafe Londoners feel, guessing that 70% do not feel safe walking alone after dark – 10 points above Conservatives (60%), the next-highest, and almost double the reality of 37%.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/09/2026

SpaceX was the first tech company to get immediate investment-grade rating after going public. OpenAI and Anthropic now pushing for same. Remind me where I've heard about collusion of ratings agencies leading to a crash? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPO

Investment-grade designation would unlock cheaper financing for AI labs and their infrastructure partners

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On the narrow question of policing: although it's changed somewhat in recent years, the default British policing approach to protest (especially protest with risk of violence) is containment and surveillance, followed by subsequent arrest. However, there are some real problems in this case.

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 02/09/2026

Die Polizei Chemnitz fordert Thomas Gottschalk wiederholt („DRINGEND“) zum Stellen eines Strafantrags wegen eines Satirevideos von @politicalbeauty.bsky.social auf, verbreitet bundesweit eine Anleitung, wie man den Adenauer aus dem Verkehr ziehen kann, und führt auch sonst einen gruseligen Kreuzzug.

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23 Dekra-Gutachten, GSG9, Thomas Gottschalk: Die merkwürdige Jagd der Chemnitzer Polizei auf den ZPS-Protestbus

Die Polizei Chemnitz geht mit auffälligem Eifer gegen den Protestbus des "Zentrums für Politische Schönheit" vor. Unterlagen, die MDR INVESTIGATIV einsehen konnte, zeigen: Die Beamten versuchten über ...

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We’re at #EISAPEC26! Stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand to learn more about publishing in the journal or say hi to our Co-Editor in Chief @monicaclua.bsky.social

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Given that all bodies of water will eventually be called this way, I hereby preemptively rename the goldfish habitat in my parents‘ garden Pond of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are you presenting a paper at the CPERN stream at #ESAWarsaw2026? Then you'll be interested in Global Political Economy. We’re a cross-disciplinarity, spanning international relations, sociology, feminism, PoliSci, Econ and more! Learn more here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This kicks ass because it acknowledges that ALL the steps of the writing process involve thinking, and NONE can be outsourced to AI without losing something of the whole. I co-sign this declaration of hostilities.

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hi LG, that isn’t possible.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Delighted to hear today that the answer to ‘who will supervise PhDs whose supervisors are being sacked?’ is ‘hire hourly-paid supervisors who were sacked in the previous round of sackings’. This rather whiffs of fake redundancies.

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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Umstritten war nicht die Frage, ob Intelligenz von Eltern an ihre Kinder vererbt wird. Die Kritik setzte an, wo individuelle Vererbung auf ethnische Gruppen hochskaliert, diese so hierarchisiert und daraus gesellschaftliche Wertungen abgeleitet wurden. Das ist sozialdarwinistische Argumentation.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"every feature is a property development in disguise: a data center on entitled land, financed with debt against the structure and leased to tenants on take-or-pay terms. This is not a software business that happens to own servers. It is a real estate business that happens to compute."

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"The AI build-out... is increasingly financed not by selling overpriced equity but by contracting future cash flows and borrowing against hardware.... That is not the architecture of 2000. That is the architecture of 2008." www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second...

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The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom

The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

AI hyperscalers are now 16.1% of the S&P 500 Semiconductors 19.2% Both trade with a market multiple JPMAM In all, 51.5% of the SPX is AI-related

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 03/07/2026

So Isabella Weber was right, and all the serious economists who lost their minds over her were wrong? Got it.

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All these "ha! such a commie" comments in response to this tweet as if this isn't in line with fascism. “You have inflation only if you want it . . . Inflation is a lack of discipline. I will see to it that prices remain stable. I have my S.A. for that.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New article on the MAGA counter-movement against ESG and DEI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Citizenship in the News 🇩🇪 DW: A family from Togo has been stripped of their legally obtained German citizenship under a racist colonial law, leaving them stateless. Unable to return to 🇹🇬 as they were forced to give up their Togolese citizenship for the German one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0d...

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Germany revokes family's citizenship due to racist colonial law | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@alfdubs.bsky.social remains one of the staunchest defendants of refugee rights. He is, as usual, absolutely correct here. I won't hold my breath, but Burnham should absolutely rip up Starmer and Mahmood's entire legacy of hostile immigration and asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs

Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Universities don't currently have a 'business model'. Home UGs do not provide it, and overseas PGs are viewed as too (geo)politically volatile to be relied on. Hence, we're in the situation where the highest-ranking 30 universities live off the other 100, aka 'accumulation by dispossession'

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 24/06/2026

Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ordered a full length mirror from Dunelm - arrived shattered which was unsurprising since it didn’t have any foam packaging. Ordered replacement: also shattered, same story. Ordered from Ikea: also shattered, same story again. I now have three broken mirrors in the hallway waiting for the bin men.

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

(Trigger warning: any sociologists among us may wish to avert their eyes to avoid spontaneous combustion resulting from exposure to the worst theory of social action I have seen in decades) For the rest of you, beware if you are “unhappy” or “looking for justice” you may be on the road to terrorism

Image from the UK dept for education. The “pyramid” theory of terrorism. Image of a pyramid, with layers in ascending order labeled “unhappy people”,”looking for justice”, “frustration, perceived grievances and anger”, “seeks like
Minded individuals or groups”, “further radicalisation”, “attack”

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tonight, in Oxford Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox addressed an empty chamber at almost midnight. This happened because Oxford residents, ordinary residents, showed up in their thousands to make clear that Oxford rejects the racist and divisive bile that Robinson and his ilk spread.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

the AI claim is very likely a lie here. Korean right-wingers have a history of trying to put their horrible shit into popular culture and the CEO of the group is a well-known chud. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09/s...

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Why a South Korean Starbucks Ad Mocked Murdered Protesters

Far-right meme politics shows how strong anti-democratic forces remain.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

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Palestine Action terror ban remains in place after Home Office wins appeal

Government's decision to proscribe group 'struck a fair balance', Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr tells Court of Appeal

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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Which is the crux of it. Previous governments dismantled third spaces, family and child resources etc. Current councils of all stripes are closing youth clubs and libraries. There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026

20) Bearing that in mind, the current UK Govt is putting together an even more expanded toolbox for rights limitations and authoritarian mechanisms that any future Govt can use for easily expandable ends. This will become about YOU if it isn't already (the harm in many communities is already real).

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On the (frankly terrifying) current state of things in the UK. (Terrifying both in developments themselves and in how they have been alternately minimized, enabled, egged on, and legitimated by the media and the Labour government)

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I thought this was fake, but as per their Instagram account, the Oxford Union has invited Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox to propose the motion "The West if Right to be Suspicious of Islam". The institutions of this country, and I'm afraid this is one, are spectacularly failing to meet the moment.

Screenshot of the Oxford Union's Instagram announcement of the motion, stating its title and date (17 June).

A sharepic of the Union, showing pictures of Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox, and Jonathan Sacerdoti as speakers proposing the motion, and Michael Doward, Jacob Rees Mogg and Abdullah al Andalusi as speakers opposing it.

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Belfast last night is the future for the U.K. some people want. The political voices condemning it so far seem to be mild and weak. We need a wall of outrage from people of influence to make it crystal clear that this is not who we are and will not be tolerated.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

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U.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

oh, coming off a period of wage growth that has been weaker than anytime since napoleon following the great financial crisis and people blame HE for the graduate premium disappearing

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