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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 2d

Grease. I know.

Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 7d

Absolutely cracking article about AI, and how so far it has failed to replace radiologists. Despite consistent predictions that it will.

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 11d

3. Note found on the desktop of a previously anonymous Red Wall MP after he's been arrested for shooting up the Compass agm with an assault rifle don't at me

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 11d

Omg

Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 11d

Sunder says...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d

There are half a dozen candidates for most absurd sentence or claim in this essay. It is especially weird on race

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12d

Come for the really good essay by Patrick Maguire, stay for the really bad one being shared (approvingly!!) by some Labour MPs: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 11d

I read it in a Russell Brand voice while simultaneously imagining someone shouting PARKLIFE between every paragraph.

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 13d

this blew my tiny mind

Gently shake phone.
A picture of a black cat on a black background in the centre of a black and white glitchy surrounding. When you wiggle your phone the cat seems to jiggle in the centre even though it’s a static image

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 16d

Bear stress

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Soleil🌻✨️ @besoulovely.com · 21d

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21d

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.

Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 23d

It can draw you a new one that's made of fingers. The downside is that the beard will be on your elbow.

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'll put it on the shelf with my other dad joke trophies. 🏆

Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Sep 5

I KNOW.

Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Sep 5

Let's hope they can see clearly now that Rayner's gone.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty row

Rayner’s departure is deeply damaging to prime minister who had initially stood by her

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Sep 5

I bought a flat that had had a Section 20 major works notice served on it, and the conveyancing solicitors didn't spot it. I found out when a bill for £10k dropped through the door a year after I moved in!

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turnedtofire @turnedtofire.bsky.social · Sep 2

Please share this widely. There is simply nobody else doing what the Disability News Service does with such breadth, depth, regularity and rigour in the UK. There are so many stories of genuinely life-threatening import that would not have been told without its investigations.

John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · Sep 2

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK.
Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-n...

Disability News Service needs new subscribers

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fu…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Aug 30

AAAAAAAH HAAAAAAAHHAAA AAAAAHHH!

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Aug 7

Absolutely the best thing I've read about AI hype to date. (ht @mjrobbins.com)

open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

The Rage of the AI Guy

I'm only asking you to observe the world around you

open.substack.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Jul 23

Also, 'by whom', surely?

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DOG UNIT @thisisdogunit.bsky.social · Jul 22

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War Pigs - 2009 Remaster

Black Sabbath · Paranoid · Song · 1970

open.spotify.com

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · Jul 22

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

www.londoncentric.media

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Jul 18

I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...

May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive

On Trump, Epstein, and TV

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jul 9

New post just out:

"Optimism of the will"

In which I look at Labour's big plan for the NHS and why it's determination to wish problems away will undermine it.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

Optimism of the will

Evaluating Labour's plan for the NHS

open.substack.com

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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · Jul 10

Toby Take? Surely 'Nangle Angle'?

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