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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I reckon most of us can think of quite a few other options, you racist pillock.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026

Norway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05

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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Compare the coverage Badenoch is getting right now, when her party is in a poor third place, with how Ed Miliband's leadership was covered at a time when Labour were actually leading in the polls

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

They're polling eight points lower than their general election result, which was itself the worst in their entire history, their leader couldn't explain the big defense policy they opened conference with, none of their big new tax cuts are funded, and yet it's still covered as a triumph

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent front page here

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To the west, Indians have dominated the Arab Gulf economies long before the modern Gulf states were established, Indian traders dominated the East African trade centered on Zanzibar To the east, they were major players across Southeast Asia Like they call it the Indian Ocean for good reason

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anytime the Brits needed anything done in the Middle East, it was the Indians doing most of the fighting

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Mesopotamian campaign - Wikipedia

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

This is the same issue with the hiring process and TA too now that I'm thinking about it: Higher volumes of shittier resumes that TA has to wade through which makes the entire process bad for everyone involved.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The average increase on code volume after the adoption of agentic AI studying 700 firms is 4,000 additional lines of code per programmer. The advantage of junior engineers writing code without the use of AI is senior engineers had to spend less time on code reviews.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

10 years ago, inspired by the very first post-Brexit Conservative party conference. I may have been a bit harsh on TM, considering her successors, but I’m still proud of the rhyming.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we're nothing close to done yet.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Curtis yarvin is now, and has long been, a complete piece of shit.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is your software a “product”? If not — and it harms you in some way — you may not be able to claim compensation. That needs to change, the government’s law reform advisers suggest. And product liability law might be extended to online marketplaces like Amazon. rozenberg.substack.com/p/consumer-p...

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Consumer protection

Will Amazon have to pay compensation if it sells products that cause harm?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch attacks Burnham as "a man who was happy to serve in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet". A bit rich from someone who served in Liz Truss's actual cabinet.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch says that Labour "don’t get a clean slate just because they have changed leader". Yet whenever she's challenged on the Conservatives' record in government, she dismisses the question on the grounds that she wasn't leader then...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm old enough to remember the 'free trade with Trump will save us' phase of Brexity derangement (enjoy your coffee, tea and bananas while you can, US friends 😀)

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nearly all were people of color.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 07/10/2026

If you think of GB News as the media wing of Nigel Farage’s political project, the total subsidy funnelled his way by its owners and his crypto donors (just four men) tops £200m, writes Alan Rusbridger

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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in ...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BIG NEWS: Up to 75% of global energy demand could be electrified by 2050 with technologies we already have. Progress is slow and the barriers are mostly political and institutional. Today we launch the Oxford Martin Electrification Accelerator to change that. oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/electrification

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is possibly the worst thing I have ever read. It should be the only headline on every news source. It won't be. If you've experienced sexual assault, maybe don't read the details.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She is a dreadful politician. She makes dreadful speeches. She’s still massively racist towards Muslims. Nonetheless, her saying this is a good thing.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My entire twenty years of thinking, writing and sometimes doing public policy has been half the time about asking "this enormous tax cut you propose, you don't know how to pay for it do you?", and it's becoming incredibly tedious

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW | A corrective to the obituaries… HERE LIES JEFFREY ARCHER The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

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Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's my latest at Public Notice:

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s diplomacy Jim, but not as we know it. Has he looked at pictures of the demonstrators rather than just read what Natalie’s shown him?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

High school football players threaten to sexually assault female student-message her in group chat. "If you think Cornell was bad just wait for us," text said. What's worse? Some parents are excusing the football players' behavior saying, "Boys will be boys." Boise, Idaho.

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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"...his studies in prison..." ...meaning once he finally read one of the actual gospels. Would have taken about an hour and a half...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Trump demonizes cities, remember this: Residents of "blue" states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help. Just thought I should point that out.

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How Blue States Help Red States | Robert Reich

Robert Reich explains how states that vote Democratic send money to states that vote Republican.Watch More: The Monopoli

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/10/2026

seeing one headline about Ford killing off sedans confirms the bias that automakers impose a taste for big, inefficient vehicles, even though Ford is a tiny fraction of the market... the black pill that US consumers really fo want ever-bigger, more powerful cars is too depressing to accept

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be absolutely clear: Most of what I post is self promotion / domestic politics / stupid shit; the war is none of those things, and my posts won't make a blind bit of difference; criminalising pro-Palestine campaigners is disgusting; Nethanyahu belongs in the Hague. This motion is still bad.

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The mere fact that anyone is rich enough to spend that much money to avoid being taxed is maybe the best case that these motherfuckers need to be taxed

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender

The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Free childcare for the rich and lower benefits for jobless young …well at least we know Badenoch isn’t pitching for the youth vote….

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The people behind effective altruism are borrowing so much money they’re trashing dividend stocks, which proves they’re actually anti-utilitarian.

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Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

São Paulo, 3 de outubro de 2026. 📷 Ricardo Stuckert

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just think it's amazing for someone to assume they understand a problem better than the thousands of engineers and scientists who have studied it *all over the world* for four-plus decades now

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