Ed Foster

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻

When I was spinning up speculations about a post-capitalist rentier economy, I didn't have the vision to think of human consciousness itself being enclosed, commodified and sold back to us as a monthly subscription. Mostly because that doesn't even make sense as a science fiction conceit, but still.

This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning

& thanks for spotting the error

On the train. Didn’t check my language. But I hope my point still stands.

Of the two main sources of income to an institution - income from teaching students & income from research activity, I would be surprised is less than 80% of income arises from teaching students.

Obvs this reply was complacent - but there’s a tonne of nonsense in tech that never lives up to the hype

Not wishing to be complacent, but Universities were supposed to have disappeared in 2012

#YearOfTheMOOCInnit

What proportion of Hallam’s income comes from the teaching grant? They’re putting the very people who justify that income onto worse contracts. Tossers

#IKnowItsMoreComplicatedThanThat
#TheyreStillTossers

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Goodhart’s law never dies:

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

In this case measuring the proportion of research active staff has encouraged behaviour where the non research active are no longer classified as staff.

Maybe it should matter that the President of the United States threatened the lives of the Iranian soccer team, who can say

Same for Palantir - they should not be offered contracts by govt departments or agencies in the UK which gives them leverage over critical state functions. It's an overtly evil organisation run by fascists.

Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.

Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.

We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.

Eleven years since Terry Pratchett went for a curry with Death. I remember sobbing for days and tbh I still feel it from time to time.
@rhi.bsky.social thanks for lending the rest of us your dad.
#GNUTerryPratchett #ripples #terrypratchett

Actually, this on a banknote

I found the opposite. Well I think that some of the reds specifically, particularly cold red/pink were harder to spot. I’ll be pondering this all day

I found the opposite. Well I think that some of the reds specifically, particularly cold red/pink were harder to spot. I’ll be pondering this all day

I’m currently on the train to that there London, so phone for me. My monitor at home is good, or would be interesting to see if I get a different score. One of my sons has red/green colour blindness, so I wondered if I might do badly at this.

0.0073
That’s good right, or bad, or something

There were no faces on British banknotes at all - not even the Queen - until 1963

So only 12 people had yet appeared on notes from 1970-2005
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/...

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

I feel like the correct phrase here is not “broken”, so much as it is “embarrassingly exposed as the self-serving and ultimately disastrous horseshit of the British ruling class”.

Im now in a quiet space and put on some concentrating music (ie light classical stuff). It’s at the same volume as I had on the train it and hurt my ears because it was al noisy. It’s fascinating how LOUD the world is. #YeahAndThatsNotVeryProfoundIsItEd?

On the train to Birmingham. Along with about 1 million people going to the Cheltenham races. Man - there’s a lot of Stella being glugged right now.

Net zero will cost less than fossil fuel price rise, UK climate adviser says Climate Change Committee report comes after days of turbulence in global energy markets

For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.

I’m beginning to think that being reliant on this oil stuff might not be very good for us

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.