@ctmccartney.bsky.social
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
with the country at war, the president is golfing today
Khanna on Fox News: "There was no imminent threat. Now there's a threat to the United States. We've created a threat."
MOTHER’S DAY IN AMERICA:
Omg I love you Mom you are the best mom in the universe I am supremely grateful for your beautiful, awesome, precious soul.
*hands over actual unicorn that farts diamonds*
MOTHER’S DAY IN UK:
Hi. Here’s a card from the petrol station. What’s for tea?
Ideally the President of the United States and the stupidest person on the planet should be two different people…
These are literally war crimes, under the Geneva Conventions.
Rather unfortunate that our managers had already moved far in reorientating our entire education system towards the immediate performance of 'results' and away from gradual deep development.
www.scottishmortgage.com/en/uk/indivi...
Atrocity upon atrocity.
Every detail here is worse than the last.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Seems totally legit. When limit was 30mph I used to think that getting hit by a car was quite risky, with potentially really shitty outcomes - and would most likely hurt a great deal. Now - 20mph - I reckon I could come out on top in battle with a car - bring it on!
/s (in case not obvs!)
We’ve closed the #StraitsOfHormuz by mistake
Yeah damn imagine if a not very bright person with a shady personal life was running a major world power.
No.
Some more client journalism from the Guardian here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I regularly get student feedback that says I go 'too fast' in lectures - so whoever can listen to me at 1.5x speed - good luck to them.
Do Americans still have lead in their paint - in their car fumes? I'm at a loss to understand just how thick many of them appear to be? How did these people graduate from school?
I can't believe this is even a question at this point... when do we do royal visits to countries that have started/ are in the middle of a completely illegal war?
To retain the last shred of sanity I have remaining - I'm just blocking 'AI' fluffers from now on. I just can't read their nonsense without feeling like I'm going to explode. Can 'AI' be useful? In some limited cases yes, but this isn't what most of these people are discussing.
“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler
#AcWri #AmWriting #WritingSky #AcademicSky
Did this guy seriously say that this voluntary, ridiculous war - that double-bombed a girls school - has been executed "superbly" - do these people hear themselves?
Nature published another pile of trash
i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields
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On students using AI: "They were getting worse, and feeling better about it"
STILL seeing this at my local garden centre. Arrrgh!
Peat needs to stay in the ground. It's an essential store of carbon, critical for biodiversity & under threat. Demand peat-free compost! And complain if you see peat on sale.
The Royal Horticultural Society agrees: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat
Meanwhile, employers demand unis give them pre-packaged graduates they no longer have to train. And unis are judged on how many of those have a high-paying job within 18 months.
We need actual policies that have the long-term health of our societies at heart, not shareholders' profit margins.
"How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence: The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing."
I was sent to boarding school when my parents moved abroad and it obviously didn't kill me but I do find it hard to believe they still exist. as.ft.com/r/1d18a0f9-f...
There is a wise old saying in litigation that if you are "surprised" at what your opponent is doing, then you are in the wrong job. You may be disappointed by what an opponent does, but you should never ever be surprised.
Trump is "surprised" by Iran's response to being attacked.
Dear America,
DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR FECKLESS GOVERNMENT! WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS INSANITY?
Signed,
Most of the rest of the planet
Shout out to everyone with a shit mum. Look at you, you did it anyway. Nice one, keep going x
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.
Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.