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Björn Heile
@bjornheile.bsky.social
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Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · Nov 14
This is kind of my introductory post. It's great to meet so many people over here again. I'm not a direct refugee from Twitter/X: I have left that years ago but went to Mastodon. That's still great but rather quiet.
As you may know, I'm primarily interested in #music, particularly #modernist.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 6h
Funny how voters allegedly think all the bollocks that Cummings believes in.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
It's a level of risk we'd never accept in any other area. Would anyone give permission for a nuclear plant on that basis? It's just because it seems abstract.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d
If they don't know whether AI is conscious or not, should they be allowed to develop it? This seems irresponsible since they evidently don't know what they're doing and because, if AI really were conscious, it would have rights. Does Amodei want to grant AI rights? If not, he'd have to stop.
biblioracle.bsky.social John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d
I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d
I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d
Jim Ratcliffe has my full support. Anyone who lies about population figures, claims £120m in public money for his own company after paying no UK tax at all, while immigrants pay at least £15bn is my kind of guy!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d
I don't know why vox pops are even allowed. They are fraudulent, manipulative and do not reveal any genuine information.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3d
So, the boss of REF2029 has just quit...
Statement from Steven Hill on REF leadership transition   – REF 2029
2029.ref.ac.uk

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 3d
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today
Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase
Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag
www.newscase.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d
Not that Farage has ever had a workplace or one he attended regularly.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d
Maybe not, but treating the devolved parliaments as weather vanes that only matter as a test of public opinion, doesn't either.

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Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social · 6d
OK. Brace yourself for the most delicious ancient Egyptian hippo. Just lovely. Quite old. sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-obje...

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 6d
I was gonna say there is never a lack of these people! People fell over one another to become Tory leader, after all.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
I'm sure if the UK had illegally hung on to the island for longer, that otherwise inevitable conflict would never have arisen in the first place.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
Which reminds me of this delightful film, which I'm pretty sure Ligeti would have appreciated too.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1883...
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) ⭐ 6.9 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
1h 41m | PG-13
www.imdb.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
I'm kind of reminded of the Panama Papers. 1. Lift the stone, 2. stare in disgust at all the creepy crawlies doing unmentionable things, 3. drop the stone back in place quickly.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 9d
These drugs actually existed.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 10d
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
www.levernews.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 11d
Yes, I think he is more deeply 'intellectually' (if that's the word) committed to the ideology of 'local people vs. global elites' than Farage or Tice. That candidates are parachuted in by a centralised party financed by non-dom super-rich doesn't quite fit the picture.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12d
Regularisation policies have been shown, repeatedly, to tackle exploitation and boost domestic economies. While Labour makes it harder for migrants to be recognised, policies like Spain's are better for everyone. Tougher immigration policies are counterproductive
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants
Responding to critics of policy, Pedro Sánchez says Spain is choosing path of ‘dignity, community and justice’
www.theguardian.com

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Leo von Gripsholm @leovongripsholm.bsky.social · 12d
um eure häuser warm zu halten nutzt ihr … HAIzungen???
Kopf eines Hais, man sieht Nase/Schnauze, Augen und das leicht geöffnete Maul. Es wirkt als würde der Hai schockiertes Side Eye machen.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 12d
And no-one can be surprised, can they?

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 13d
Yeah, everything is my fault. Sorry!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 14d
Nothing quiet about that, unfortunately.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 17d
Wonder if Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin remembers this.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 18d
Recruiting them or, failing that, inventing them.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 18d
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 18d
That does sound horrendous!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 18d
We (UoGlasgow) have just been clubbered with an 'initiative' that significantly increases workload and stress, with no benefit (in fact, I would argue it has only disbenefits).

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 18d
Oh, lovely!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 18d
What is it? (Nice handwriting.)