Andrea Werner
@drandreaw.bsky.social
Teaching and researching business ethics and sustainability at @MiddlesexUni. Reader in the @churchofengland.
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This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
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'Covent Garden' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
February 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
'Covent Garden' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
January 28, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
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Maybe we shouldn't have trusted the cigarette companies when they praised the health benefits of cigarettes
January 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Maybe we shouldn't have trusted the cigarette companies when they praised the health benefits of cigarettes
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above
Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...
Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...
Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
Watching from afar further shift in a worsening polity
emptycity.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above
Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...
Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...
Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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I agree with this bit of flag logic. Canada should seasonally adjust its flag.
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I agree with this bit of flag logic. Canada should seasonally adjust its flag.
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Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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Labour rn: “Shall we put a penny on income tax to pay for the things everyone wants and needs? Nah, let‘s introduce a chaotic hodge-podge of measures that won’t do what we need & will screw the country. When everything falls apart, the people will remember & respect that we didn’t raise income tax.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Labour rn: “Shall we put a penny on income tax to pay for the things everyone wants and needs? Nah, let‘s introduce a chaotic hodge-podge of measures that won’t do what we need & will screw the country. When everything falls apart, the people will remember & respect that we didn’t raise income tax.”
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#OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8237...
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8237...
36!!! years ago!!
Final Wall post of the day: East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate, Berlin on November 11, 1989.
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
36!!! years ago!!
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Final Wall post of the day: East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate, Berlin on November 11, 1989.
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Final Wall post of the day: East German border guards are seen through a gap in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down a segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate, Berlin on November 11, 1989.
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
Photo: LIONEL CIRONNEAU
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Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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John Vicat Cole began painting London shop fronts while studying at the Royal Academy Schools; like Whistler, he was fascinated by the details of the architecture and what the shops sold. This is the frame maker James Bourlet on Nassau Street, London. (c1930)
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
John Vicat Cole began painting London shop fronts while studying at the Royal Academy Schools; like Whistler, he was fascinated by the details of the architecture and what the shops sold. This is the frame maker James Bourlet on Nassau Street, London. (c1930)
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow
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October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow
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“Are you the farmer? We’ve gone on holiday by mistake.”
August 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“Are you the farmer? We’ve gone on holiday by mistake.”