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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD

@tayroc122.bsky.social
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PhD Development Economics, SOAS, University of London. Specialise in digital automation, AI automation, gig economy, informalisation of labour and impacts on wages and employment in Nigeria. Mind you, I'm an AI sceptic, so don't try to sell it.

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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 4h
And that kids, is why I don't play platformers.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 6h
Won't anyone think of the well circulated opinions of multi-millionaires who are milking their legacy product for every remaining penny?
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 9h
I seem to recall you joining the Linux club. You can maintain your own cloud, locally.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I don't want to be the old gatekeeper, but some of these converts didn't suffer through Catechism being taught by a misanthropic nun as a teenager and it shows. In that they didn't have the dumb ideas hit out of them with a ruler.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Huh Dante was more right than he knew when he talked about multiple circles of hell.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Well fuck. Capitalism IS bad'.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Local man ruins everything
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something to remember when hearing the C-Suite class discuss AI.
CEOs like unemployment because the inherent threat is vital to keeping wages low.
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026
The reason that all this happened is because too many Americans thinks it’s cool and funny to be ignorant assholes. It’s not funny.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Daily reminder there's no such thing as unskilled labour. Merely uncompensated.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the Chris Pratt variable.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up -- Everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I should add it would be about another year before I told anyone, as I felt 'emasculated' and embarrassed by the whole ordeal.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It took me about a year. I remember sitting in a statistics class and realising that I had been abused a year earlier. The realisation was almost as traumatic as the actual event, since I was still a teenager and I had to pretend to pay attention to the class and had no idea who to talk to.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Are you committing your forces of empire to a decades-long unwinnable war, including in a place nicknamed "the graveyard of empires"? Do you need to bring the public "on side" for the war crimes you're already planning to do? Well, look no further than "prestige television"'.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mystery box your way out of this one.
A Helpful Guide to Star Wars versus Star Trek
Star Wars:
Don't start with the 'first' movie, let me tell you where to start. Looks like rusted farm equipment in space. In summary: the past was horrible. J. J. Abrams Ruined It. 

Star Trek: Don't start with the first season, let me tell you where to start. Looks like a cruise ship in space. In summary: the future is incredible. J. J. Abrams ruined it.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They don't want to extract surplus value from their heirs, defeats the whole point of capitalism
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ẞ_cuck functions as a ratio of reasonable beliefs to socially responsible actions.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'Logic dictates workers should own the means of production, as the owners contribute nothing of value'. 'Shut it down'.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was trying to explain at a conference how crazy AI people are. The problem is they're so crazy that people think I've gone mad when I try to explain their claims.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't want to say the answers will be in this database, but they won't not be: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify?
Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EA killing Westwood was the canary in the coal mine we all ignored.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of people in the Irish diaspora aren't worth the time. I usually call them Irish-Americans. I guess we can add Mr Sheeran to it.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I sincerely doubt the scientific merit of this statement.
Tuvok, from everyone's favourite Star Trek Voyager
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So Snidely Whiplash was your awakening, eh?
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Careful, I pointed out elsewhere that we don't have good regulations or practice in place for the safe disposal of Lithium-Ion batteries and I got accused of spreading 'right wing Daily Mail propaganda', despite being a leftist who is mostly being critical of the unregulated eWaste producers
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I got a record player for my office and have several jazz vinyls. Dunno why but that does the trick.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If only a random economist had pointed this out in the mid-19th century so we wouldn't all be taken by surprise...
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Marx Karl Marx
Alt: Marx on the phone, its Karl Marx
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you're not going to already, maybe it's time to give GTA VI a pass.
rockpapershotgun.com
Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
Court filings from the battle between GTA 6 studio Rockstar and fired workers have revealed how Rockstar accessed a Discord server set up by union organisers.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'
timeshighereducation.com
Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’
Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'Dad, why did print media die'? 'Well [son/daughter/nonbinary] it's because as scientific denialism and fascism raged it stuck to covering just the dumbest things and having the worst takes'.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
'Reasonable consumers know how anti-consumer we are' sure is a hell of a stance to take, but here we are. Join me in the Linux and anti-DRM world my friends.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
'Reasonable consumers know all about our anti-consumer practices' is one hell of a stance to take but I'm never surprised to see corporations take it.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer's last act in British politics is to remind everyone how petty, useless, corrupt, and self-centred he really has been all along.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Regardless of the politics a Black individual may hold the white supremacist right will view their existence itself as 'far left' and persecute regardless.
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reading 404 media has restored some of my faith in what journalism could/should be
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Might not be your cup of tea, but I'm curious if you have any love for the Transport Fever series?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what all those 'Data Centers' are being used for. To track your every movement and everything you do and say. And if they don't like you, they will cancel you, shutdown your bank accounts, imprison you. Or just kill you.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Update
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There are two kinds of people, those who can extrapolate from incompelete data and those
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Dr Taylor Rockhill PhD @tayroc122.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Britain doesn't handle our new climate-change induced heatwaves well. And it's killing people.
youtu.be
Why British summers are uniquely bad
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Racism 101 White people always get the benifit of the doubt 👻 👻 👻 Meanwhile Black and Brown people only get...
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L.A. Noire Doubt Meme
Alt: L.A. Noire Doubt Meme
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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Terror campaigns also act as a social deterrent, in that they are designed to cause enough fear in institutions and allies: If you support Black people, we will come for you, anywhere you are, 24/7."
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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish folks made an effort to look out for and protect Black academics before we enter the news cycle. So many of us are struggling quietly. It's literally killing us.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
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