Scott Davidson

There you go!

…the university where genetic fingerprinting was invented and is a core part of the UK space sector….

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

why do they hate England and its language so much

A reminder - the UK govt provides ZERO teaching grant for the teaching of humanities and social science in universities

Don't....have you seen that all the politico UK newsletters editors have to use American English....newsletter about the UK for UK audience....company editorial policy apparently

Because all the producers and forward planners spend too much time on x and think US politics is lingua Franca - and have been primed to see conspiracy theories as high up on public concerns????

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers LLM “tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity” when writing news briefs.

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Life stage is very important. What a pleasant relief to see a report not using the phantom variables/age brackets from marketing…gen z…y etc

The tepid bath of managed decline

Right wing parties in government tend to proclaim....look what we have done for YOU our lovely voters - Labour in govt, look what we have done to annoy THEM...our voters

you could almost say

A group promoting economic
investment into Cornwall and Devon…..had meetings! With OMG….ministers!!!!
Amazing investigative journalism. Can’t believe it’s not on every front page

I wonder - how many meetings News corp have had with ministers…

Meta to launch California super PAC backing pro-AI candidates Meta said on Tuesday it will launch a California-focused political action committee to back state-level candidates favoring lighter regulation of technology, particularly artificial intelligence.

Big Tech| Meta’s huge spending on lobbying to electorally punish politicians who support democratic controls and online safety

www.reuters.com/world/us/met...

I have seen this - anecdotally- older family members. Facebook nostalgia groups with 1 in 5 posts being far right frames and so on
I guess academia’s preference for researching the young means this phenomenon has largely been missed???

It is and was extremely low cost for established institutions to stop using social media platforms that willingly abandoned content screening to block extremism, racism, misinformation etc. That they are mostly all ignoring this - including governments - is an abdication of public duty and ethics.

Ten lessons the Aztecs can teach us today | Sebastian Purcell You don’t need to solve your soul before setting your house in order. In fact, the outer path might just be the way to reach your inner peace

Next week: The Business Secrets of the Pharaohs | Mark Corrigan

#peepshow

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Lots in 5 & 6 earn more money than many in 2

Is there a particular journal you can name as being responsible for publishing a lot of low quality papers?

In case you missed it yesterday: evidence that the glossy millionaire migration reports - the ones that have been all over the media - may be fabricated:

Pensioners need a Summer Cool Payment The heatwave is a new opportunity for a nation addicted to throwing money at the already rich.

Is it possible the NS needs some self reflection?
This was last week? Side splitting othering…

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

#BookSky

Overall Impact of including 16-17 Year Olds:

RFM: -0.2%
LAB: +0.2%
CON: -0.2%
LDM: -0.2%
GRN: +0.2%
Others: +0.1%

And apparently meta are not giving users an opt out option

www.computerworld.com/article/3632...

Can’t wait for the Nick Clegg op ed telling us Meta have done nothing wrong it’s all our own fault

Zuckerberg & Meta now pushing fake doctors on Instagram- programmed to lie about their identity

Why do they hate their country so much

Here’s a little secret - the journalists who write articles about how London has fallen all live in London and love it. They go to the theatre, exhibitions, gigs, pubs, restaurants, parks and know their kids’s schools are the best in the country. They slag London off in print for money. That’s it.

Actually being proactive in reducing bad employment practices and miserable working conditions…sounds great. Why all the loaded language and negative spin ?

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.