Digital culture R&D, museums & archives and sometime foreign correspondent, MA/MSc grad, struggling writer & ex-blue tick.
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Thread. I met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at U of Roehampton. We’d been appointed during the same mass hiring& spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/
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Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.
Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.
Leave him to me.
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TL;DR We now moderate code like Meta moderates comments.
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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It was cathartic to sit down and discuss time inequalities with Yineng Cai @SixthTone. This Q and A piece could be useful resource for colleagues interested in learning more about the vivid stories within and behind 'The Time Inheritors'! Check it out.
sixthtone.com/news/1017810
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I’m strangely fascinated by the blinginginess of Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Here’s an art historical take. 🧵
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#Bahrain: After 14 years of unjust imprisonment, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja & Sheikh Mohammed Habib Al-Muqdad—along with dozens of other political prisoners—remain behind bars.
35 #HumanRights groups urge the #EU to take urgent action for their release.
Read more ➡️ cihrs.org/release-eu-nationa…
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What if he uses his profits from it to subsidize a living wage for independent musicians and experimental art practices working at the intersection of art, technology, and critical theory?
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I don't always take this advice myself, but social media (and life in general) gets a lot less stressful when you accept that the version of you that exists in random people's heads isn't very important, and you have very limited control over it.
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I have a PhD in demonology, necromancy and curses in the ancient world. Come at me, bros.
The 'basement guys' trolling this woman showing off her PhD owned themselves so hard it's hilarious
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Jane Fonda sets Bill straight.
Maher: "[People] just think the far left has gone so nutty on so many issues."
Fonda: "That's what they're being told, by people like you."
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So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵
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If the 3rd-tier HOUTHIS, who have NO NAVY, can prevent a NATO naval vessel from transiting the Red Sea, what does it say about NATO's naval survivability in a sea war vs. Iran, Russia, China, or all three?
So, the German Navy is having to divert around Africa due to the threat posed by the #Houthis.
Perhaps, they could get @EUNAVFORASPIDES to escort them through the region?
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I am begging General Kelly to call a press conference and talk straight to the American people about all the things he saw and heard.
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.@AyoCaesar: "Theirs no such thing as a free lunch... Keir Starmer has accepted more freebies as leader of the opposition than every other Labour leader combined since 1997" #PoliticsLive
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People of Springfield
They’re eating the cats
They’re eating the dogs
They’re eating the pets
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