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Waymo Uses Remote Workers in the Philippines to Assist Its Self-Driving Cars A recent Senate hearing grilled Waymo for using remote workers abroad to intervene when needed, raising security concerns

So-called ‘self-driving cars’ www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-u...

The Children’s Wellbeing Bill is short on wellbeing.

There’s an easy win here for government: adopt the Children’s Society recommendation for a national wellbeing measurement programme.

#ChildWellbeing #Education

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YouTube video by impressive movie31 Unexpected! The Martians were defeated by a song

youtu.be/cOdMzywoUbE

I said it 10 years ago:
savageminds.org/2016/12/13/a...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"

New Paper: “Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums” by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn

This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned…

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology

The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the…

Major Victory for Public Education Comes As Trump-Vance Administration Abandons Appeal on “Dear Colleague Letter” Government’s Withdrawal Brings Unlawful Re-writing of Civil Rights Law to Resolution Baltimore, Md. – Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to require school districts...

I am very happy to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won a major victory against the Trump administration's unconstitutional attempt to make schools censor college classroom teaching on race, gender and inequality.

Will you stop driving your Harley?

Uri Geller?

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...

Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und bräuchten bitte eure Unterstützung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir würden hier gerne die verlässliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wäre eine Riesenhilfe 💝🌟

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

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

Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025 The implications of a year in Trump's new America and why I started tracking Trump - and why I'm not stopping.

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally...

christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.

The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning

@bruces.bsky.social is your site on discontinued innovations still up? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Waymo Has Improved Their Safety Messaging Waymo backs off from their unsupported claim of reducing fatalities

Further to this thread I’ve come across this substack - open.substack.com/pub/philkoop...

*wink wink*
*nudge nudge*
Remember this paper by me and analyst-comrade Dr Emma Tennent? You might have seen it earlier this year. The special issue on "social asymmetries-in-action" of which it is a part is now published. Recommend all the wonderful contributions. Such amazing work by all.

Will he replace Infantino as well?

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week’s chosen reading. Some reading groups and data se…

New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker...

If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome.

#EMCA #EM/CA #Wittgenstein

rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g...

In cities, we certainly need less cars, walk and cycle more. No robot cars on our streets: you get my vote and they of all the taxi drivers

How GM's Cruise robotaxi tech failures led it to drag pedestrian 20 feet A General Motors Cruise robotaxi that struck and dragged a pedestrian 20 feet (6 meters) in an October accident made a number of technical errors that exacerbated its failings after the collision, an ...

At least he didn’t drag you behind his car like this Cruise Robotaxi www.reuters.com/business/aut...

I am not sure I will feel safer with Waymos roaming the streets of London

"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Qualitatives - Submit an Abstract Deadline for Submissions: 28 November 2025 We expect to send notifications early in 2026. Please Note: Some Safari users have had difficulty submitting using the form. If this is the case, please try...

The SSSI 2026 annual meeting will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 10-12, 2026, with The Qualitatives. Submit abstracts at www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract by November 28th, 2025. More information at www.symbolicinteraction.org/North-Americ... or www.qualitatives.ca/CFP.

Dr. Christopher Conner will be presenting research on conspiracy theories and QAnon in Kansas City. Please RSVP, attend in person, or join the livestream.
Live Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xkj...
For more information visit: kclibrary.org/events/consp....

Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft Click on the article title to read more.

"Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft" Claudio E. Benzecry reviews "Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World among Glassblowers" By Erin O'Connor #sssi #bookreview #culture #sociology #glassblowing doi.org/10.1002/symb...

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Not sure if this is the accepted view on the relationship between handwriting and learning but it’s one piece of evidence for the benefit of motor skills for learning - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....