This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
lifelong learning for joy 🥳🥳🥳
Brilliant! Congratulations!
My book cover: bright yellow with the title in big letters ‘Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World’ and the head of a statue making a “shhh” motion.
So the @plutopress.bsky.social catalogue is out and… my new book is in there! 🥳📚
Scroll to page 14 to read about it: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u... (it’s for fans of @profdanhicks.bsky.social, or so the catalogue says!)
Our newest free course "Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance" is now available at OpenLearn:
www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
@kingstrs @OpenUniversity @OU_FASS
I am SO EXCITED for this
Zack, they wrote a letter! For a party with zero vision and extraordinarily little will, that’s pretty good going. It’s not like we’re supposed to expect a Labour administration to do anything, is it? Is it?????
i’m dead serious, this deranged insistence that everyone “must” use ai is a labour issue and academic unions should be working to protect dedicated research, writing and thinking time, not staying silent while these losers cheat their way into ever scarcer available positions
My current feeling re British politics is that my hypothetical vote goes to whoever in my constituency is best placed to beat Reform at time of election. I am, in short, *entirely* the sort of voter who stands poised to defect to Greens precisely on the basis of this sort of polling result.
that whole existential crisis about a result in 2019 that gave them more MPs than the Tories had between 97 and 2005 😂
Is this what military types mean by ‘acceptable casualties’
“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”
This. So much this.
What enshittifies everything right now is not LLM use itself, but a general lack of knowledge about what LLMs are and what they do
In today's new blog, Dr. Nia Deliana and Dr. Mehmet Ozay offer insights into how Thomas Bowrey’s account of Bay of Bengal (1669-1679) serves as a record of a global order that was interconnected yet decentralised hegemonically. Read it here:
memorients.com/articles/whe...
yeah sure, all of us are really rooting for Labour to deliver the new migration policy which every Green voter backs 100%
I’m 36 and got a lovely new brown cardigan last week
Maksym Butkevych is right: "And in this war for truth, we cannot lose."
It’s been a pleasure. Thanks for your work!
This was a really good piece! Thanks @pisceanmantissa.bsky.social !
Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️
The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
As I’m a self-loathing member of the bourgeoisie, Shabana Mahmood has my full support
If they could only have converted 6000 more Reform voters they would have beaten those meddling Greens and their pesky illegitimate concerns
We have illegitimate concerns
Illegitimate concerns
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
Thank you for your service. Do you have to pick one? Rank them all? Something else?
Art won tonight
Presumably not the privatisation of the national broadcaster that’s paying his fee for this appearance though?
good point 👏
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