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Welcome to the era of ‘hostage politics’, where Labour is apparently your only hope | Nesrine Malik First it was the Conservatives and now Reform. The only thing the government has to offer is that it’s the least worst option, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

‘This is hostage politics.

When voters are asked constantly to make decisions not on the kind of government they want, but the one they don’t want, something is broken.’

We need journalists like @nesrinemalik.bsky.social right now as everything else seems like a daily deluge of insanity.

I’ve led a full life, I’m ready - it’s time to go

I’m finally giving in, the drip feed of Balatro recommendations has done its work, and I’ve got an empty Friday evening ahead ready to be swallowed up by something absorbing

can she… explain why this is a problem

(On my bullshit again) It's the defence of the *form* of the argument rather than its substance, because its substance is simply too hard to actually defend. Spend time deciding which rules we're using rather than playing the game. It reduces everything - everything! - to the lowest possible bar.

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

NEW on Wonkhe: Cassandra Hugill explores the impacts of unspoken networks, opaque criteria, and subjective selections on PGR student recruitment https://buff.ly/3BZCv6j

Young people’s shrinking attention spans are nothing to worry about. Here’s why | Marion Thain Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world. Young people may well be discovering new ways of paying attention, says culture and technology professor Marion Thain

Interesting counter arguments to the more usual laments, from Marion Thain
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This is insane. It's nauseating. It's the persecution of vulnerable children to score points with extremists.

From a Labour government. For shame. For shame.

Seeing the PlayStation 30th anniversary articles and celebrations make me feel very old that I have an unflattering photo of me dancing at the 10th anniversary party.

Apparently I had one of those in October. As well as an Atmospheric Noise Drone season in February, for balance.

Please add me if you don’t mind! I work primarily on professional development support for doctoral supervisors. And thank you for putting this together

12 Days of AI 2024 – new version out NOW! The 12 Days of AI is a series of asynchronous activities and discussion prompts designed to help you consider ethics and uses of AI, explore a range of AI tools, and connect with other participants…

12 days of AI launches next week. Always interesting from Chris and colleagues at UAL. totallyrewired.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/1...

Thank you so much!

Thank you for creating this - I was just thinking one was needed when I spotted @andrewrowe.bsky.social kindly sharing it on LinkedIn! It’d would be wonderful if you’d add me when you have a moment

Excited to explore how we can incorporate this into our support for King’s research students!

A photograph of a bald and bearded man with glasses. He is holding a laptop and gesturing at the screen while delivering a talk.

I work in doctoral education, and I’m at my happiest talking about researcher development, inclusive research cultures, and novel ways to support PhD students and supervisors.
Here’s a photo of me doing what I do most often, which is gesticulating alongside a PowerPoint.

Love this. And it reminds of a Nietzsche aphorism that’s always stayed with me - “The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”

If the nineteenth century made tremendous progress in mechanical inventions, it too often assumed that these inventions . . . would raise the moral level of mankind. Increasing experience has proved, on the contrary, that the technological development of a society does not automatically result in the moral perfection of the men living in it, and that an increase in the material means at the disposal of humanity may even present dangers unless it is accompanied by a corresponding spiritual effort. . . . To take only the most striking example: one might have expected that the use of steam and electricity, by diminishing distances, would by itself bring about a moral rapprochement between peoples. Today we know that this was not the case and that antagonisms, far from disappearing, will risk being aggravated if a spiritual progress, a greater effort toward brotherhood, is not accomplished.

32. In 1927, Bergson was awarded a Nobel Prize of his own (for literature) "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented."

I am constantly thinking about this passage from his Nobel reception speech from almost 100 years ago 😳

What a wonderful rabbit hole and resource, thanks for sharing!

An aerial view of the long-demolished Art Deco Firestone factory in Hounslow, London, in 1953. It is surrounded by a mix of fields, railway lines, roads and industrial sheds.

One of those amazing free resources that lots of people don't know exists: Britain from Above, with historic aerial photos of the entire country. If you get a free account and login, you can zoom close enough to see your Nan's washing on the line in 1951.

www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en

I've had a go at starting a starter pack for #ResearchCulture, I'm pretty new here so please don't be offended if I haven't found you yet. Happy to add people to this, let me know!

#Research #ResearchDevelopment #OpenResearch #ResearcherDevelopment #ResponsibleMetrics
go.bsky.app/FAzhuGh

After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won't | Nesrine Malik The violence exposed racist narratives based on lies. Yet where is the counter-argument, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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You know what used to create world-class talent? The post-war Keynesian consensus that saw properly funded art schools, regional theatres, and arts labs, and a reasonable social safety net that meant working class people could take risks and not starve or become homeless.

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union. https://t.co/yiq1jamHIT

I wrote something: “Male Historians Explain Things To Me: masculinity, expertise and the academy”. With a huge debt to Rebecca Solnit, Sara Ahmed, Siri Hustvedt, Professor Lucy Robinson and many other feminists before me.

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The Pogues 3030 The Essential Collection is available for Pre-Order Now!http://amzn.to/ZrGluVContaining the Irish legend's biggest hits spanning 1984 to 1996... The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho

I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the first times
I never think about the last

Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams

Agreed, like this a lot, both in content and in format - really considerate to share

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