Chris Hewson

Congratulations! Better brush up on your Marx, Weber and Durkheim. 🙂

I wonder if this one will actually tackle social cohesion, rather than (perhaps inadvertently) victimise the already marginalised?

This is a telling quote on the super tight timeframe for bids to run a £40m AI lab

“The labs being targeted will be able to meet the turnaround time because they have that kind of resource”

Quite a top down approach to research funding?

Not the first recent example of that

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Ye gads. It my undergraduate experience!

Dagnannit, you beat me to that 'joke' by 4 minutes.

Petrol prices --- higher!

If I happen to glance at the clock and it's 5.35/5.36 ish in the afternoon my brain still shouts 'Neighbours time' inside. I'm 44 years old.

I joke about TBI standing for the Tony Blair Institute and Traumatic Brain Injury, but they are probably the only two groups who'd think "Blair, man with a good record on military intervention in the Middle East".

Good to see @ippr.org developing an ontological tenor to their work

I'm sorry, this is just wrong. How can it be 'the best' and also modifiable. Smdh.

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Eddy?

More evidence that the US Government is modelled on the WWE.

Quality tweet (RIP)

It's sad that I knew exactly who you were talking about after the first 15 words.

Our kids' school decided instead to let pupils come in wearing pajamas in order to promote the value of reading before bed. For our household, possibly the most significant education policy intervention of the last 5 years.

Universities are amazing. One added me to the actual payroll to pay a one off fee.

It's Anatoli Smorin I'm most concerned about

Big fan of the jaunty 'hello everyone'

Yes, was just going to make the same point

i see a lot more people saying that AI is better than the "average" social scientist, and a lot fewer saying they think AI is better than they are. Which maybe tells us something about how the view their peers...

Obviously it would not be a good idea politically, but I do wish someone would hurl back Mel Stride's 'we are the party of work, they are the party of Benefits Street' at him. Most of his voters haven't worked for a decade plus - that's a big part of why costs are up! Need to start from that basis.

My early morning enthusiasm for the wonderful sunshine has now been displaced by the eternal March question "is this *another* cold, or the early signs of hay fever?"

What really leaps out from the full piece is how lacking in any interest in policy it is, and how all the reading that has shaped it is visibly just 'social media scrolling':

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

a black and white video game with a score of 1 and 2 Alt: A game of Space Invaders

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