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Libero e visionario, Rino Gaetano nasceva 75 anni fa - Notizie - Ansa.it Per l'anniversario un inedito, un concerto e un film (ANSA)

Libero e visionario, Rino Gaetano nasceva 75 anni fa

Thanks @caraleavey.bsky.social hot off the press new paper from my ethnography of coastal towns highlighting how the political economy of housing is exploiting and harming vulnerable people and deprived communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I don't have a synthesis to offer, just the consideration that technology is not inherently disabled-friendly. Like architecture, technology has to be "made" accessible - or a tool for access - and most of the time this is not the case.

‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out? Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences

I wonder whether we have completed the circle of therapy and we are now recycling (chip versions of) psychoanalysis.

(Anyway, as an Italian in an article about dreams, I would expect that they suggest at least a couple of number).

Also, isn't this standard narrative for mid 19C MCR, otherwise the 19th depopulation of the central districts by the emerging middle classes to the suburbs would make no sense...

Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated

"She uncovered evidence of doctors, engineers, architects, surveyors, teachers, managers and shop owners living alongside weavers and spinners."

Not very surprising since this has more to do with the transformation of the elusive concept of middle class, rather than with Engels being "wrong".

Exactly! I mean, it's hard, it's also unfinished work and there is always room for improvement. That's also why it is easy to use language proficiency as a proxy for discrimination.

That's my experience too. In the UK often it's enough to have a foreign accent to be seen as someone "who never bothered to learn the language".

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...

Do British/anglophone people know what a B2 level is? Is not a rhetoric question. I have often been in conversations when someone was criticising someone else for their "very poor English" just to discover that the "poor English" was actually a B2 or C1 level.

It's always only standard received pronunciation for these kinds of courses... I happen to have only US/Canadian teachers, and after ten years, I still discover words that I don't pronounce in the British way.

Yes, also as a student, the core of my learning was through books, and some of the best pages of theory/ethnography were in monographs.

Unfortunately, this seems to be quite a common trend. I cannot say that I am good at writing books, but I think that they offer an opportunity for analysis, depth and experimentation that articles do not offer.

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79 The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died

I am so sad to hear about Diane Keaton. She was one of the actresses I liked the most. Talented and unconventional, she has been such a refreshing presence in the cinematographic landscape of my youth, otherwise dominated by unreasonable images of perfection and ultra-femininity.

Mind, History and Society Seminar, 16 October 2025 The Future of the Autism Concept Discussants: Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green

If you're interested in history or social studies of mental health and illness, psychology or psychiatry, and are in Manchester on 16 October, please join us for our first Mind, History & Society Seminar, a conversation on the future of the #autism concept.

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Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana - Notizie - Ansa.it Un operaio di 58 anni è morto in un incidente sul lavoro a Corsano, in provincia di Lecce, mentre era impegnato, per conto di una ditta edile incaricata dal Comune, nella realizzazione di una vasca per la raccolta delle acque piovane. (ANSA)

Un operaio è morto nel Salento. Costruiva la vasca per l'acqua piovana

The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist Psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton has written a book about growing up with a mother or father who is grandiose, entitled, exploitative and lacking in empathy. She discusses how to recognise the signs – ...

I have noticed a resurfacing of controversial, old-fashioned psychological labels, such as personality disorder or, as in this case, narcissism, and they are often used to blame parents - or let's be honest, mothers. These are for mental health what ultra-processed foods are for nutrition: very bad.

To be honest, I have been in meetings like that, just longer...

(P.S.: To me, it's wonderful to see that what LLM is reproducing are standard Anglo-American communication practices).

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4/ Skin colour, accent, name or whatever are used by some employers (and landlords) to judge whether to carry out a check. Foreigners face checks but so too do ethnic minority Brits. Existing system is a recipe for discrimination.

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about

In the UK, the highest level of identity theft is reported (almost 40%), compared to other EU countries, where it is significantly lower and usually does not have the same devastating impact due to the existence of more robust systems to verify identity.
And this is just one reason.

The biggest losers of this are undocumented migrants, who will see even less spaces in society they are not excluded for, but I am sadly confident that this government too sees this as a plus.

I do not think there is ultimately a valid reason for digital ID, but I can see some for a mandatory ID (as long as it is free or almost free of costs, and there are extensive resources to get more vulnerable populations on the system)

3) the pilot EU Settled Status was probably digital mostly to cut on costs. The UK probably would have the resources to put in infrastructures for routine in-person registration and the production of physical IDs as most European countries, but it would cost and take more time

2) with the dematerialisation of almost all migration statuses (a much worse idea IMO), ID for all could normalise the procedures non-citizens go through, and if both groups are on the same digital platform it might make checkers more lenient of temporary server issues

That said: 1) having undocumented (no passport or driving license) citizens in an age of extensive private ID checks is a major factor of exclusion, even without bad policies such as the Hostile Environment or voter ID to make things worse