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@scottawbrown.bsky.social

Dad, lecturer, cyclist, karateka - sometimes simultaneously. I work on EU/rope-US-China relations. IR + FPA. Usual disclaimers. PhD - Glasgow Postdoc - Nunn School @ GA Tech Now - Dundee

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Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent β€œformer” different enemies

06.10.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8694    πŸ” 2891    πŸ’¬ 540    πŸ“Œ 484

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

07.10.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 531    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 7
zeldawilliams 
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From Create Mode 
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode β€’β€’ Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams πŸ’”

06.10.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15490    πŸ” 6844    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 478
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French Prime Minister SΓ©bastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month

Out-Trussed Truss

French Prime Minister SΓ©bastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month www.bbc.com/news/article...

06.10.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

05.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1880    πŸ” 590    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 39

I am so tired of waking up every day to learn about the government’s latest idea on how to make life worse for everybody.

05.10.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going to launch a campaign for
British withdrawal from the OECD, just for a laugh

05.10.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 8
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Nokia & Ericsson get squeezed out of the few crumbs they still had on Chinese market.

All the while, Huawei & ZTE have retained 30 to 35 per cent of the European mobile infrastructure market. Huawei 50%+ of German 5G access network.

Absolute economic security folly.

www.ft.com/content/7d08...

02.10.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

That’s… uh…
what

02.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not only false, but it seems absurd that someone would even put that together.

29.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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29.09.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alex Jones raises eyebrows by growing β€˜Hitler mustache’ Alex Jones says he’s grown the mustache, similar to that of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, as a β€˜social experiment’

β€œThey’re not even trying to hide it anymore” final boss

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

26.09.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who was familiar with Navarro’s work long before he entered Trump’s circle - why would you give someone like this the platform?

26.09.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

25.09.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

Grogu. The Mandalorian. The way. Some high jinks.
Oh, you wanted it to have a plot?
Sorry πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

23.09.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering how terrible most of his policies are for US citizens and the world, why would you want him to?
Surely him being distracted by TV is the best case scenario?

23.09.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor.

I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

23.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 774    πŸ” 231    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 27
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Got a tshirt made for the first lecture with the first years

22.09.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from the BBC’s Instagram account, taken on 22/09/25

Screenshot from the BBC’s Instagram account, taken on 22/09/25

The BBC’s Instagram page has six videos in a row from the Kirk event. Unclear why this level of attention is warranted.

22.09.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Nostalgia overload today. Went with my kids, brothers and dad to watch two Thunderbirds episodes at the cinema. Then later watched Jurassic Park with my son for the first time. Pleased to say he loved it. Ended the day with an episode of S1 X-Files. Being a kid in the 1990s absolutely ruled.

20.09.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

20.09.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4679    πŸ” 1293    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 52

How long until he decides opinion polls that don’t reflect well on him and his policies are also illegal? What about opposition political ads?

20.09.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I donβ€˜t want to work for institutions who canβ€˜t employ critical thinking to new tech.

20.09.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

11.09.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6180    πŸ” 1612    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 29
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China tells its tech companies to stop buying Nvidia’s AI chips Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence

China tells its tech companies to stop buying Nvidia’s AI chips on.ft.com/4nqNbxr

17.09.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 15

If Trump starts whining about the lack of freedom of speech in the UK, I bet he won’t cite this as an example.

17.09.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

β€œSuspicion of malicious communication”

Wait, how can an unedited image be considered as malicious?
Do we have laws against embarrassing foreign politicians with their own historical associations now?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

17.09.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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AI and academic publishing - Journal of International Relations and Development Journal of International Relations and Development -

"academic writing is () a form of thinking, a mode of inquiry () a site of intellectual labor. To hand over that labor to machines is not just to risk the erosion of academic integrity, but also means to forgo the very practices through which knowledge is produced."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

16.09.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

14.09.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14966    πŸ” 4200    πŸ’¬ 551    πŸ“Œ 648
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Trump to again push deadline on TikTok sale or divestment, source says The Trump administration is expected to again extend a September 17 deadline for China's ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short-video app TikTok or shut it down, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Trump to again push deadline on TikTok sale or divestment, source says reut.rs/4n3kZQN

14.09.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

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