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Cassidy R. Sugimoto @crsugimoto.bsky.social · 19m

Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!

Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 19h

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3h

Have a look at the @raeng.org.uk People's AI Summits. Excellent initiative. raeng.org.uk/policy-and-r...

People's AI Stewardship Summit in London

The final People’s AI Stewardship Summit took place in London. This summit focused on exploring the themes of AI in healthcare and infrastructure.

raeng.org.uk

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4h

Living in Britain in 1984 | BBC Archive @bbcarchive.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwNW...

Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21h

🇬🇧 London friends! I will be in town later this week for a cool public event with @chrislintott.bsky.social (wegottickets.com/event/676292) and will be hanging out a few days. Come to the event and say hi if you can!

The End of the Universe

After a magnificent* 13.8 billion years** astronomer Chris Lintott (Sky at Night) and Steve Pretty (Hackney Colliery Band) lead a funeral and wake for the universe, as it sadly heads into heat death. ...

wegottickets.com

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 21h

📍Starting in 15 minutes!

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor
@cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

📺 Join us online if you can't join in person: buff.ly/J9LqdU6

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

Whoah! When did Benjamin Bratton stop thinking?

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 4d

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Is European AI A Lost Cause? Not Necessarily. | NOEMA

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

www.noemamag.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

Amusing levels of narcissism to think that a future administration would spend its time hunting you down because you're so strong and dangerous

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 1d

Fwd: Fwd: “I hope this email finds you well”

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched this 18 times

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

He also enabled this nugget of comedy gold in the abandoned Blobbyland/Crinkley Bottom

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, if you don't know this, it's part of the finest piece of physical comedy in showbiz history www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksdb...

Who Remembers That Time Mr Blobby Destroyed The Big Fat Quiz Set? | Jimmy Carr

YouTube video by Jimmy Carr

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

Also I want to know ‘sponsored’ by whom?

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the sense of entitlement could be an impediment?

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d

It's quite something. I think it's the knowledge that there are no alternative bubbles in town. Here are the All-In lads owning the hype cycle. (Hype cycle has actually always been an insiders' tool).

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Accountancy and consultancy firms are starting to AI - that can lead to problems www.ft.com/content/934c...

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI

Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

www.ft.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d

The UK's EU rebate alive and well post-Brexit

'Life-changing' £26m EuroMillions win claimed by UK ticket-holder

However, the winner of Saturday's £10.6m Lotto jackpot has yet to come forward.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Misha @mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Geological timescales FTW

Cartoon showing two hills.

First scene: "hey Frank" (hill 1 to hill 2, while hill 2 has a castle on top of it)
Second scene: "what?" (hill 2 to hill 1, while hill 2 has a full-blown modern city on top of it).
Third scene: "nevermind, you had something on your head, but it's gone now" (hill 1 to hill 2, while hill 2 only has a bunch of rubble on top of it).

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

I think we should ask Waymo what regulatory roadblocks they feel are preventing them from rolling out in Europe. My guess? The actual answer would be that they don't see their tech working well enough and they don't see a market.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

Also, is Euan Blair still rhyming slang for Leicester Square?

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 5d

Karl Marx would have been a menace on social media 🤣

Marx would have been chronically online and leading the worst pile-ons.

#marx #karlmarx #funny #originstory

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d

Rye Lane is on BBC2 tonight 9pm. The lovely escape you need from real life
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Rye Lane

Two youngsters, reeling from bad breakups, connect over an eventful day in south London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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