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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 2d

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 3d

She's never going to be in a position to implement it so in a sense the practicalities are indeed irrelevant, but I suspect that's not what she means

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 3d

Aside from anything else, 'who cares!' as an answer to 'how would your policy actually work?' is very Kemi Badenoch

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 3d

Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party

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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 3d

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 3d

The Home Secretary is now planning to find a way to criminalise the "cumulative effect" of protest.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 3d

I don't always agree with Macron, but it's promising to hear him speak of democracy and infrastructure in exactly the right terms.

Politics is finally shifting towards the reality of our digital environment.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

"...all those who are playing on or with this [digital] infrastructure will have won. And we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 4d

Unreal disconnect between the kind of economy the UK thinks it has versus the kind of economy it actually has

See e.g. all the talk of fishing during the Brexit years, the denigration and ongoing destruction of the higher education sector, etc

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 4d

“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.co.uk

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 4d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 4d

A 224 year waiting list, something like ELEVEN generations. What, you bequeath your healthcare to a descendant?

And then you will have the constant refrain of anti-trans activists "oh, most trans people don't even have any treatment", that's because down to you, the Helens and Weses of the world

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 4d

The gender clinic files is out now!

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Check out our podcast on Monday for our coverage on this.

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

www.wearequeeraf.com

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 4d

Oh look, the thing everyone said would happen has happened! And somehow accusing those people of supporting child abuse didn't stop them from being right? How could this be?!

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 4d

All this but also - (v) often gets blamed for things that aren't its fault

(the governing law for getting signed up for email spam in the UK is the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, specifically regulation 22 thereof)

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 4d

GDPR is a great example of the sort of regulation which (I) creates a bunch of effort for people who want to comply (ii) gets innocently over-zealously deployed (III) becomes deployed as an excuse for orgs not to do things they don't want to and (iv)is fairly easily disregarded by those who want to.

Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 4d

Also actually I am sick of how much you hear about GDPR when absolutely every fucker signs you up to their email list by default no matter how careful you are not to opt in.

Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 4d

Unusual for a tech CEO to state the terms of the deal quite so clearly

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 4d

Are you paying us? Where?

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 5d

Six years ago, almost to the day, Apple removing a similar app from the Hong Kong App Store was seen as such a breach that Tim Cook wrote an all staff email to defend it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 5d

It really seems like the core project of the whole tech industry right now is devaluing (and monetizing the devaluation of) everything that makes us human, including the experiences of love and grief

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“Within seconds, the AI extrapolated from the limited amount of information that I had given it and, based on my somewhat intentionally emotional prompts, produced a personality that immediately reminded me of my father.”

ChatGPT Resurrected My Dead Father

My own private Frankenstein

www.theatlantic.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 6d

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

www.404media.co

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

one of the most important conversations tech companies should have about every new feature and product is "how can this be abused" and in OpenAI's case they apparently decided to make that the selling point for their new app

this is a million lawsuits and ruined lives waiting to happen

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6d

extremely well put

An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.

The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable. Starmer is—though you would never guess it—the captain of the liberal team. His job is not to find consensus, but to hold his own coalition together.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6d

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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