David Eddyshaw
@tacitean.bsky.social
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“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“to use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly”
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Lord Dubs
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."
From Reform-Lite to Reform-Plus
Do you remember the lies Keir Starmer told to secure Labour's leadership? Under pledge six, 'Defend immigrants' rights', among other things ...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."
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Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Late to this, but if the Sunday Times is correct that Morgan McSweeney spent one and a half hours last week with Lord Glasman then he isn't fit to fill any senior position in government.
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Word!
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Word!
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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Buchanan Street Bus Station. A warning and an invite.
Spotter: James Stewart
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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This new proposed UK refugee policy (turfing refugees out after a few years) is bollocks on several levels and I will explain each of them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This new proposed UK refugee policy (turfing refugees out after a few years) is bollocks on several levels and I will explain each of them.
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Le Monde commissioned then rejected this piece from Sari Hanafi despite the fact it argues armed struggle against a nuclear power is an impossible battle and that politics and political imagination are needed to enable Israelis and Palestinians to live together. Pretty shameful from Le Monde imo
La tribune sur le lendemain de Gaza que « Le Monde » a refusée
Le sociologue franco-palestinien Sari Hanafi a été sollicité par Le Monde pour écrire une tribune sur « l’après-Gaza ». Après deux semaines de silence, il a (…)
orientxxi.info
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Le Monde commissioned then rejected this piece from Sari Hanafi despite the fact it argues armed struggle against a nuclear power is an impossible battle and that politics and political imagination are needed to enable Israelis and Palestinians to live together. Pretty shameful from Le Monde imo
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'Nous appelons le Collège de France à revenir sur sa décision et à garantir la tenue de ce colloque dans le respect de la liberté intellectuelle. Nous appelons le ministère à honorer son devoir de protection de la recherche, non à en devenir le censeur' 🤔 Römer et Baptiste doivent surtout se barrer
Interdiction du colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » au Collège de France : « Cette décision ouvre la voie à une ère de censure institutionnelle »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif de plus de 300 universitaires, parmi lesquels Jean-François Bayart, Judith Butler et Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur, s’élève contre l’interdiction de l’év...
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
'Nous appelons le Collège de France à revenir sur sa décision et à garantir la tenue de ce colloque dans le respect de la liberté intellectuelle. Nous appelons le ministère à honorer son devoir de protection de la recherche, non à en devenir le censeur' 🤔 Römer et Baptiste doivent surtout se barrer
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth
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The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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From a Songhay cultural group on Facebook:
"Today, Friday, let us put our siblings who are in Sudan, and all the land of Sudan - especially Al Fashir, in Darfur - in our prayers: may God hold their hand in the situation they are in..."
"Today, Friday, let us put our siblings who are in Sudan, and all the land of Sudan - especially Al Fashir, in Darfur - in our prayers: may God hold their hand in the situation they are in..."
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
From a Songhay cultural group on Facebook:
"Today, Friday, let us put our siblings who are in Sudan, and all the land of Sudan - especially Al Fashir, in Darfur - in our prayers: may God hold their hand in the situation they are in..."
"Today, Friday, let us put our siblings who are in Sudan, and all the land of Sudan - especially Al Fashir, in Darfur - in our prayers: may God hold their hand in the situation they are in..."
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So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output.
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output.
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
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- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
- Caerphilly?
- Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes
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If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
October 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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🔥 @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “The great irony is Trump is the son of an immigrant, grandson of an immigrant, married to an immigrant… in fact, 2 of his 3 wives were immigrants— proving yet again immigrants will do the jobs even Americans aren’t willing to do.” 😬🙃
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🔥 @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “The great irony is Trump is the son of an immigrant, grandson of an immigrant, married to an immigrant… in fact, 2 of his 3 wives were immigrants— proving yet again immigrants will do the jobs even Americans aren’t willing to do.” 😬🙃
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October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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AI 🤝 fascism
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
AI 🤝 fascism
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I love how, when you ask ChatGPT a hard question and it says "thinking", there's a button you can press "skip this step". I guess that's how some human brains work too....
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I love how, when you ask ChatGPT a hard question and it says "thinking", there's a button you can press "skip this step". I guess that's how some human brains work too....
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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“Turn the next election into a choice between Labour and Reform and rely on everyone voting Labour to block Reform” is a bad tactic to start with.
But it’s a *terrible* tactic when you do absolutely nothing to oppose Reform while in government.
But it’s a *terrible* tactic when you do absolutely nothing to oppose Reform while in government.
September 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“Turn the next election into a choice between Labour and Reform and rely on everyone voting Labour to block Reform” is a bad tactic to start with.
But it’s a *terrible* tactic when you do absolutely nothing to oppose Reform while in government.
But it’s a *terrible* tactic when you do absolutely nothing to oppose Reform while in government.
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Do it.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Do it.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.
Search your name.
Take their money.
It’s yours anyway.