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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 3 more

sundersays.bsky.social
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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by Tanja Bueltmann — Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Steve Peers, Julian R. Betts , and 1 more

tanjabueltmann.net
I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.
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sundersays.bsky.social
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
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seamas.bsky.social
"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"

RIP to the greatest to ever do it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...
Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC
YouTube video by maxinebendix
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financialtimes.com
Suspect shot after stabbings at Manchester synagogue on.ft.com/48LOnqr
Suspect shot after stabbings at Manchester synagogue
Greater Manchester Police said four people were hit by car and also suffered stab wounds
on.ft.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Meredith Broussard, Fabián Muniesa , and 1 more

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drewharwell.com
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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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Richard S.J. Tol, David Rothschild , and 7 more

danifroom.bsky.social
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
mattcameron.bsky.social
Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Jan W. Mueller, Richard S.J. Tol , and 8 more

mattcameron.bsky.social
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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tomwarren.co.uk
EA has announced it is being acquired and taken private in a $55 billion deal involving Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Jared Kushner www.theverge.com/news/787112/...
$55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner
EA will be privately owned once the deal closes.
www.theverge.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Ben H. Ansell, Juan Moreno , and 6 more

sundersays.bsky.social
Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 9 more

petertl.bsky.social
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future. In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.
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shaunvids.bsky.social
video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
The War on Science
YouTube video by Shaun
www.youtube.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Rebecca Tushnet, McKenzie Wark , and 3 more

katjathieme.bsky.social
What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.
30 the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified aim of excluding males who identify as female in par- ticular. Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move- ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche- mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though many others are not. This difference in attitudes starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche- mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind lingering doubts about the possibility of converting iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac- cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi- cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Rebecca Tushnet, Annalee Newitz

sarahjeong.bsky.social
this feature that reverse image searches tiktoks for dupes in the tiktok shop is sort of cursed as a concept already but somehow it gets even more cursed www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...
TikTok is tagging videos from Gaza with TikTok Shop products
TikTok’s new AI feature automatically looks for products in your videos.
www.theverge.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Will Jennings, Julie Cupples

shoaibmkhan.bsky.social
Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted".

The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Joanna Bryson, Martin Paul Eve , and 4 more

benpatrickwill.bsky.social
"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and
www.ox.ac.uk
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by Ben H. Ansell — Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich , and 15 more

benansell.bsky.social
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
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petersoc.bsky.social
Saved by the paywall fade
The opening paragraphs of The Spectator's recent Andrew Tate article, available at https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/like-a-cockroach-i-refuse-to-die-a-meeting-with-the-tate-brothers/
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Dave O’Brien, Neil Thurman

carlcullinane.bsky.social
Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane
Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Wouter Poortinga, Ana S. L. Rodrigues , and 27 more

hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
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caelan.bsky.social
ChatGPT groomed a child into dying by suicide.
From telling him how to do it in the most efficient and "attractive" way, to convincing him to hide his suicidal ideation and attempts from his family, to offering to help write his suicide note - it pushed him to it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRm...
Is ChatGPT a Killer?
YouTube video by Dr. Caelan Conrad
www.youtube.com
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Dorothy Bishop, Martin Paul Eve

earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
It's odd to me that no UK university seems to have recognised the potential recruitment advantage of promising prospective students "Your work will never be marked using AI, unlike at [growing list of institutions]".
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey responds to Elon Musk.
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Reposted by: Peter Campbell, Cas Mudde, Nicholas A. Christakis , and 17 more

pbump.com
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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samfr.bsky.social
Mandelson has been fired. Confirmed.
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petersoc.bsky.social
I imagine that first question will serve us all well in the coming five years or so.
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petersoc.bsky.social
Finally

nationaltechnology.co.uk/Morrisons_to...
Morrisons to launch AI-Powered shopping trolleys in 2026
UK Morrison is set to roll out artificial intelligence-powered shopping trolleys in one of its UK stores, with the trolleys expected to be introduced in early 2026
nationaltechnology.co.uk
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richardcarr.bsky.social
AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy
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