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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 20h

JOB

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 @ University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 10h

A… remarkable @survation.bsky.social poll out today of voting intentions in Caerphilly ahead of next week’s Senedd by-election

Reform 42%
Plaid 38%
Labour 12%
Conservatives 4%
Greens 3%
LibDem 1%
#senedd #devolution

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Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social · 1h

LSR is great. Incredibly impressive MP

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 2h

A question, lads. Where does the "free knowledge" come from, and how do we make more of it? What might we call the people whose job it is to find stuff out, such that the machine can feed upon their discoveries? What kind of system could we make which supported the practice of finding stuff out?

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 3h

“The Senedd is unlikely to end up with a majority gov't. So, we will have to work together. I think that's a very good thing in politics. The winners-losers, yah-boo adversarial-ness of Westminster does not reflect how we are in real life. There’s something immature about it.” @lsrplaid.bsky.social

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 11h

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 CAERPHILLY DOES IT

🧀 Caerphilly By-Election
🕵🏽 Chinese Spy Trial
💶 Nathan Gill bribes
✖️ Yaxley-Lennon's sugardaddy
🗳️ Senedd elections
With @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & special guest @lsrplaid.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A2o...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Caerphilly Does It: Welsh Politics, Russian Bribes, & Chinese Spies

open.spotify.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h

the bubble discourse has broken containment

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 4h

AI boom or bubble? why economists fear a global meltdown

youtu.be/OG57rWI7o4o

AI boom or bubble? why economists fear a global meltdown

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 NEW POLL IN CAERPHILLY 🚨

Next week's by-election is a two horse race between Plaid Cymru and Reform.

Now's the time to lend Plaid Cymru your vote to elect local champion, Lindsay Whittle - and stop Reform's politics of division.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💚

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Miriam Endersby @miriamendersby.bsky.social · Feb 10

Hello new people of #operasky! 👋 This is your periodic reminder both that there is an opera feed where you can view a broad swathe of the opera content on this platform, and also that, if you speak more than one language, bsky will only show skeets in English unless you adjust your settings

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

University and College Union members at Cardiff University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action, in an indicative ballot that could pave the way for formal industrial action later this autumn

Union members back strike action in fresh ballot over Cardiff University job cuts and restructuring

University and College Union (UCU) members at Cardiff University have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action, in an indicative ballot that could pave the way for formal industrial a...

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches — he has made music sick."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner, 1888

✏️ Richard Wagner by David Levine

youtube.com/watch?v=PwsY...

Caricature of Wagner sitting at the piano

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

My impression is that there's a long history of conflict in the Middle East and this often creates difficulties for various parties.

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mike @vagabondvivant.com · 1d

"We realize that the AI bubble is about to burst, so to protect our investment we will now let you fuck your computer."

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social · 1d

Tried one once out of curiosity; couldn’t believe people would drink something so revolting

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman one of a number of powerful men who have essentially risen to prominence because they’ve never been asked a single follow-up question

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Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social · 1d

‘And then I knew ‘twas wind’ never fails to raise a smile

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

But the lobby said Badenoch's speech was a triumphant success? I don't understand?

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (12-13 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 27% (no change from 5-6 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 16% (-1)
Greens: 13% (+1)
SNP: 3% (-1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 2d

The VWF funds the performance, commissioning or recording of music by professional British/Irish composers, projects in the UK creating developmental opportunities for composers, or those promoting wider awareness of British/Irish music of the last 100 years.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 3d

apple TV fighting the good fight against grade inflation

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3d

SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY

YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW

IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS

tidal.com/transfer-music

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 3d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 3d

Last week I was at the Plaid Cymru conference.

Based on the current polls, they are the party most likely to lead the Welsh Government after May's election.

This would mean a monumental change to Welsh politics. You can read my analysis here:

willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the Plaid Cymru conference...

What we learnt about the party most likely to form the next Welsh Government

willhaywardwales.substack.com

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