Emailed you!

Followed you now!

Just messaged you.

A whole blog post? Loads of videos contain no more content than a single Bluesky post.
But everyone makes the bloody videos because social media platforms want us to sit on there for longer, waiting to work out if the video is actually relevant or interesting so they boost videos and hide links.

I actually agree on AI! I didn't set the petition up myself, just sharing to get the ball rolling...

I got to my mid-40s before seeing a photo of someone with smallpox and wheeew.

'Fact-checking' as a solution comes up against the basic concept of 'unknown unknowns'. If you don't know what's inaccurate, how do you know what to check?
And if the user doesn't know what to check, how can it be quicker and easier to use a tool when you have to fact-check every single sentence?

...No one seemed to care about the Home Secretary making up stuff to justify attacking human rights, it was all about Clarke being disrespectful.
And so onward to Boris Johnson who lied basically as his default communications approach.

It's not just anti-intellectual, basic facts simply don't matter if it's a good story.
The point when I realised that was back in 2011 when Ken Clarke got in the shit for pointing out that Theresa May had lied in her party conference speech about a man not being deported because he had a cat...

Go full Glass Onion (hope you've seen it or that will make no sense!)

I find basically everything about that ad weird and uncomfortable.

☝️This is a really thoughtful piece by a US professor on the dangers of students relying on AI.
👇And here in the UK students are furious at being ripped off when they find out that large parts of a course they've committed time and money to are dodgy AI content.

Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...

Agree with dodgy y-axes being a Bad Thing. And with this one I just had a moment of thinking - what, working hours are 15-20 hours a week now? Then I realised that the bottom of the grid isn't 0-35 hours but 30-35.
Interesting though

It seems unhelpful to me to frame the question as shame or pride, because it supports the argument that raising awareness about colonialism/slavery is about trying to make white British people feel personally ashamed.
Rather than just 'interesting history that can help us understand the world today'

To add, I just looked up Wikipedia to check the fact that David Olusoga was brought up in Gateshead (unlikely Geordie!), I read:
"He was one of a very few non-white people living on a council estate. By the time he was 14, the National Front had attacked his house on more than one occasion."

Harsh. He may be crap at spotting traitors, but as a historian, he does know something about fascists.

Actually, UK electoral boundaries are decided by an independent commission with a public consultation process, so we can’t have US-style gerrymandering over here.