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AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

literally any system in which you know who is in charge upon a transition of government is better than any government where that issue must be settled by violence. "not having a civil war every 30 years" is just an incredibly powerful technology.

Book extract: “One must not wait until the struggle for freedom is called treason. You have to crush the snowball as it rolls: nobody can stop the avalanche.”

The Nazi bar story, and “do not comply in advance”, combined in two sentences by Erich ‘Emil and the Detectives’ Kästner

Perfect Sunday morning thread. Just lovely👇👇👇

Good advice to parents too

The replies to this tell me that telly mostly focuses on stories about men. Anyway, Call The Midwife is clearly the GOAT: it's brilliant feminist drama, rooted in authenticity in its storytelling, and led by and centred on women and our stories.

Had never heard of "Three Cueing" - thank god my kids all learned phonics

Constitutional law during a carnival of cruelty Protecting rights when causing pain is the point of policy

NEW

Constitutional law during a carnival of cruelty

Protecting rights when causing pain is the point of policy

By me

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/constituti...

Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/07/cons...

There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI

One very counter-stereotype experience I had is that my dad who did not go to university was extremely enthusiastic about me studying philosophy precisely on the grounds that he'd always worked jobs just cos he had to, and absolutely hated that, so wanted me to do something I loved instead.

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

“buy quality stuff that lasts” is good advice generally but is especially good for those of us who are, let’s say, decisionally impaired

the cognitive load of getting around to replacing shit that breaks is massive

In his excellent Blood & Treasure, @duncanweldon.bsky.social points out that central planning worked better under Stalin's brutality than under the more humane Khrushchev. This is relevant to water regulation policy.

Want the record to show that I have absolutely never yearned to be a premodern peasant in Europe or anywhere else.

Para 93 of the link.

In the recent interim judgment on the proscription order, the judge helpfully summarised the govt’s position.

It is not obviously stupid to call this terrorist.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

quickly! kiss me so these cops/guards don't think we're up to anything nefarious!! no--i fear no other ruse could possibly fool them it's gotta be the kissing thing

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

New post at my 'Between Truths' Substack.....

'Trans - The Ultimate Culture War'

rolandmcs.substack.com/p/trans

Perhaps the white nationalists should adopt this version to carry around their rallies.

UK water companies had no debt when they were privatised. They've not invested in a single new reservoir in 40 years yet have acquired truly crippling debts by borrowing money to pay out huge dividends. Let them go bankrupt and nationalise the assets not the debts.

So I went for a ride up into the hills north of Glasgow, because obviously. At one point, I was on a vicious leg-breaker of a ramp on a nasty surface, and I had a car stuck behind me. What would the driver do? Would he blare his horn at me and shout abuse for holding him up? Find out in Part 2... 1/

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system:

The Tetanus vaccine
The Measles vaccine
The Polio vaccine
The Mumps vaccine
The HPV vaccine
The Pneumonia vaccine
The Hepatitis B vaccine
The Rubella vaccine
The Diphtheria vaccine
The Covid-19 vaccine

- @hislopmd.bsky.social

Jesus frequently referred to Abba, the Aramaic word for Daddy

A flint knife featuring a curved stone blade secured into a wooden handle using black birch tar adhesive. The dark handle has a small perforation at one end. The tool is displayed on a neutral surface, showing the craftsmanship and natural materials used.

A more than 5,550-year-old well-preserved #Neolithic knife. The blade is crafted from flint and secured in a wooden handle using birch tar. Furthermore, the handle features a hole, intended for attaching a cord.
From the pile dwelling settlement...🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

them: your portuguese is good!

me: thx

them, straightaway: [incomprehensible]

Maybe if I just keep scrolling the news will get better.

"I'm sorry, I'm not available right now." Royal Mail livery.

I gave the Royal Mail digital assistant a low score and it logged off half way through my survey answers and now says it's not available. I'm HOWLING.

From the Guardian: To be clear, no one is saying a weak grip will kill you directly, in the way that heart failure will. But it usually indicates problems far beyond your hands and wrists. We don’t yet have the scientific studies to back this up, but it seems reasonable to assume that anything that improves it will also improve your overall health. It will certainly improve your quality of life.

"To be clear, no one is saying correlation implies causation ... but it seems reasonable to assume that it does."

Thanks, Guardian.

Orwell's Happy Ending Nineteen Eighty-Four has an optimistic hidden epilogue most readers miss

open.substack.com/pub/juliansa...

This was a really good essay on 1984 that made me want to reread the book, which is always a good outcome of any essay

They hate London because it is beautiful Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.

"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."

👏👏👏👏👏 @iandunt.bsky.social iandunt.substack.com/p/they-hate-...