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Peter Campbell

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Reader @ Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 20h
“insiders expect [ #BBC Director General Matt]Brittin to confirm TV and radio network closures after delaying plans to announce the changes this week. #BBCThree is widely expected to be in the firing line, while there is also concern about #Radio4Extra being among the services under threat.”
deadline.com
BBC Staff Revolt Over Job Cuts By Posting Laughing Emojis During Call
BBC employees expressed defiance over job cuts by posting laughing emojis during a management call this week.
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sing hosannah, music has been 'solved'.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is pretty bad, and getting shared a lot. www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... The only thing I would say is that during this period, in my experience, the problem has been the extreme consolidation of platforms much more than anything I can imagine AI doing right now?
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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: UK national museums & galleries "will remain free, to all of us, forever". Speaking at Tate Liverpool yesterday, Culture Sec Lisa Nandy put the debate to bed, pledging to defend free access "for all of us, and all people across the world" 🏛️ 🌍
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"If you're evil, you're not bad." I'm going to have to stop you there.
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'We are grateful for the time and effort you put into your submission'
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Already hearing lots of anecdotes of 3d modelers losing all their gigs, just like the copywriters did a year or two ago. This doesn't kill all animation, but if you talk to people who do light youtube animation, they will tell you upping quality has no effect on views. This is good enough.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW COVER(S)!!!! For our first WIRED Woman issue, we did no fewer than four covers, starring the iconic Patti Harrison as our favorite tech leaders, in our favorite moments for them
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this guy lol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎬🎭 Dr Victoria Durrer, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, will work with colleagues in Ireland and the UK on a new Research Ireland / AHRC project that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of migration and mobility in the screen industries. www.ucd.ie/research/new...
ucd.ie
Six networking awards to boost UK-Ireland collaboration in the creative economy
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
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> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/09/2026
We want clean air and water and a livable climate. Instead we are getting AI to record all of our conversations through a watch.
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The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac
Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Channel 4 has just announced its biggest cuts to its workforce in its history, with 28% of employees to lose their jobs.
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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 08/09/2026
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And I? Are my concerns also legitimate, my lord?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.
Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.
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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"A record of 4807 proposals were submitted to this competition, up 22% from 3928 in last year’s call. Of these, only 8.8% could be funded." erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu
ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe's next generation of researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across E...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
The policy also bans companion chatbots across all grades. www.theverge.com/policy/98822...
theverge.com
NYC bans AI use for students until they reach high school
The policy also bans companion chatbots across all grades.
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I hope Dyson make no further interventions elsewhere in the bathroom.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Very good piece on how the shit is about to hit the fan as the AI companies have to start paying for data centers when they come online in a big way, starting next year www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser... Hopefully, even brain-dead billionaires can see this coming.
groundbrkr.com
The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 31/08/2026
Big tech giants reported more than $160bn last quarter in "other income". The source? Equity stakes in other AI companies ... Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ostEx9j
Bar chart showing quarterly “other income” reported by Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia from 2016 to 2026. The figure remained relatively small until surging dramatically in 2025 and 2026, reaching more than $160bn in the latest quarter.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
More from me and Justine Pedussel wonkhe.com/blogs/the-tr...
wonkhe.com
The Treasury is bankrupting three nations' universities
With funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Exclusive: Boney M is in talks to perform at Reform UK conference next month, PolHome understands A Reform spokesman told PolHome: "Several exciting acts are under consideration for our conference after-party. This will be confirmed and announced in due course”
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Boney M In Talks To Play At Reform Conference
Exclusive: Disco band Boney M is in talks with Reform UK to perform at the party's conference next month, PoliticsHome understands.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
youtu.be/zFVUI4BtLSk
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Nigel Farage in PaRappa the Rapper
YouTube video by anothermartz
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
OpenAI put out research this week which found no correlation between revenue per employee and use of AI, Fortune reports.
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 NEW: London continues to pull ahead of other regions in top grades. Our analysis of today’s Level 3 results shows that 32.7% of pupils in the capital received grades at A or above, up from 31.9% last year. This is the largest increase of any region, with the London gap continuing to widen 🧵
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
AI-generated papers are getting scarily good. I’m looking at one that might have seemed impressive if the authors hadn’t had the misfortune to have me, author of the dataset they claimed to have used, as reviewer. Reviewing is hard enough without having to consider if you’re dealing with fiction
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/08/2026
How could things in UK higher ed possibly get worse? Hello for-profit universities run by a firm owned by the Bettencourt family and Canada's biggest pension fund. www.ft.com/content/f094...
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Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Do not collect data you do not need, and birth sex is almost never something you need."
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
David Latchman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of University of London He was found guilty of research misconduct by University College, London. He blamed his postdocs. Nice to see strategy, networking & playing the long game win out in the end 😉
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
bostonglobe.com
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).
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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
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