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Technology Ethics Professor academics.arucad.edu.tr/academic/vi…; Futurist/Futurologist; Author: 'Conscious' vicgrout.net/the-book; Socialist; WokeAF; Vegan; Husband; Dad; Grandad.

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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sorry that I’m repeating this request but we still need responses. Please spend a few minutes completing this questionnaire if you can. Also share if you can please. It’s for a Masters research project. I think the results will be useful but we need a larger sample. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Teachers' Desirability for Control and Their Acceptance of Generative AI Use by Students: An International Study
Dear Participant, You are invited to take part in a research study exploring university teachers’ attitudes toward students’ use of generative AI in their academic work. The study is being conducted a...
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re all Flo.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
100 experts, chaired by an eminent professor with personal experience, spend months researching a report saying young people today have it tough. Fortunately, Carol (Living in Spain: Union Jack profile), Terry (motor bike) & Dave (holding a fish) will be along in a moment to tell them they’re wrong.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s already in the wrong hands.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A few years ago, the most outrageous dystopian fiction imaginable couldn’t have credibly suggested sane people needing to say, ‘I stand with the RNLI.’ But here we are.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Forget keto, folks. This is the 2026 diet!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The day may come that I understand the FB algorithm, but it is not this day.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ich bin ein binliner
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hmmm …
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It’s wild how your head goes walkabout as you get older. Yes, I do indeed remember locking the door; quite vividly, as it happens. But that could have been today, yesterday or last week. It could have been our house, my university digs or that Lego aircraft hangar in Rivendell I dreamt about!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There are many virtues of a good friend: empathy, trust, loyalty, respect, etc. are all admirable. But in hot weather, an often overlooked quality is being more attractive to biting insects than you are.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s wild how your head goes walkabout as you get older. Yes, I do remember locking the door; quite vividly, in fact. But that could have been today, yesterday or last week. It could have been our house, my university digs or that Lego aircraft hangar in Rivendell I dreamt about!
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Miles @miles101.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bad
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Interesting that, so far as I’m aware, without this being discussed, we seem to have implicitly authorised tech companies to take these ‘risks’ on our behalf?
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
And no-one warned them? Astonishing!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Can I ask for help from teachers/lecturers in completing a survey for a Masters student please? Will only take a few minutes, but will be much appreciated – as would sharing further. Thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Teachers' Desirability for Control and Their Acceptance of Generative AI Use by Students: An International Study
Dear Participant, You are invited to take part in a research study exploring university teachers’ attitudes toward students’ use of generative AI in their academic work. The study is being conducted a...
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Can I ask for help from teachers/lecturers in completing a survey for a Masters student please? Will only take a few minutes, but will be much appreciated – as would sharing further. Thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Teachers' Desirability for Control and Their Acceptance of Generative AI Use by Students: An International Study
Dear Participant, You are invited to take part in a research study exploring university teachers’ attitudes toward students’ use of generative AI in their academic work. The study is being conducted a...
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I can’t conceive of any problem to which the solution might be Wes Streeting – with the possible exception of the question ‘Who would it be most fun to strap to a trolley in the corridor of an underfunded NHS hospital for three days?’
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I did some maths.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
… which it was … before the war
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Life eh?
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This little ‘detail’ is quite a way down the Cyprus drone attack story, isn’t it?
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I’m sure that’s not how it works
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is, of course, stupid. Technology was supposed to have us work less - not more. But, as I've said over and over, it's not AI and what it can do we should fear, but who owns it and what they'll do with it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 21/01/2026
if you think that winning an argument is the same as being right then you'll never understand why no-one likes you
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.
Screenshot of an X post from FactPost (@factpostnews) with the headline “US citizens detained by ICE speak out,” followed by a quoted account describing being dragged outside, put in a headlock, repeatedly saying “I’m a citizen. I have an ID,” and an agent responding “That don’t matter,” plus hearing wailing and crying from detainees and banter and laughter from federal agents. Below the text is a split-screen TV news image: on the left, a heavily armored officer in a helmet and gas mask with the caption “MINNEAPOLIS ON EDGE,” and on the right, a blonde female news anchor in a white blazer in a studio. A lower banner reads “CHRIS JANSING REPORTS,” with an MSNBC-style logo and a “LIVE” timestamp.
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
No joke so funny that AI not getting it can’t make it better!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Those speech marks doing some work there.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
America breaking international law: Good Russia breaking international law: Bad Israel breaking international law: Good Keep up!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The same people who said, ‘The law is the law, and you don’t break the law,’ when a few climate protesters shinned up a bridge, seem remarkably unconcerned when a country illegally invades a sovereign state and abducts its leader.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
they will burn the world to ash before they blame capitalism even when they literally mention “profits over people”
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Passive voice doing some AI heavy lifting here?
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I assume I’m entitled to back pay?
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Not planned, and didn’t see the link until afterwards!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Well ...
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I bet they proof read that a few times!
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
He’s there on the list A lot more than twice. It’s clear to us all He hasn’t been nice Orange Man is going to go down
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A London family wants £180k a year tutor for one-year old child to help him become an English gentleman. Tutor must have gone to "the right kinds of schools", knowledge of horse riding, skiing, the arts and music. This is the real island of strangers where class wars are inculcated at young age.
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Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
The advert seeks
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Is there published rota for Southampton managers? I’ll need a few months’ notice when it’s my turn.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car loan compensation scheme. Resents compensating victims. No one forced banks to sell another dud product to boost profits and exec pay, not tell customers of secret commissions. Directors should personally bear some of the cost.
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Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car finance compensation scheme
Lender’s chief executive says redress proposals could affect jobs, supply chains and broader UK economy
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Vic Grout @vicgrout.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
‘Breakfast’ is such a great word. Only the English could present the concept of going to bed and sleeping as abstinence!
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