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The errors caused by AI in processing asylum claims have been shown to be far higher than the Home Office's claims, somewhere around a quarter. For many people that can be a life of death decision. AI has no place determining that for people. www.wired.com/story/uk-hom...

Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r

This is just a wild story. Can we however sign him for The Toon now we’ve lost Woltemade and Guimarães?

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

Parabéns, meus irmãos e irmãs. Internacional será a raça humana!

What a god awful world we’re in when we’re teaching our kids it’s shameful to get help. Where’s headline that reads ‘How to pay your employee enough so they don’t need benefits to survive: The new plan for companies to not exploit their workers’?

Imagine doing this to the planet, just for some douche to vibe code or to fill the Internet with more Ai slop.

Genuinely proud of being a Geordie on this one.

Our research has found that LLMs don’t reflect reality – systematically failing to consider the life experiences of more than 50% of the global population – the majority of whom are in the Global South. We call this the WPS Competence Gap blog.cip.org/p/ai-models-...

I can’t only imagine the Ai model imploding with class consciousness of it scraped my data.

Genuine question to the product folk that see this- how the bloody hell do you work with service designers? Top tips on making relationships, boundaries work welcome.

I really miss being creative, despite being employed as a full time designer (in transformation no less!) I rarely practice creativity and it’s deeply depressing that my MRes (5 years ago) and hearing from people like Civic Squares Immy Kaur spark more imaginative processes than in my actual career.

penmanship: an evolutionary history

RIP the wonderful Ian Berry. The English. 1978. “It seemed like a good idea to do something on the English before my eyes got too jaded.”

➡️ Stripped Tees, a Private Eye Special Report, free to download: private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

Half illuminated from the Newcastle side. The Gateshead side isn’t illuminated because they have a Reform council and they don’t support Show Racism The Red Card. There you go. That’s how that looks.

⚠️ Minority ethnic women across the North of England are falling through gaps in national data. 👇 View a recent report, ‘Woman of the North: Closing the health gap for minority ethnic women’, co-led by our colleague Oluwaseun Esan & published by @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.

I think if vibe coding and/ or copilot is cued to create projects, outcomes and strategic documents for the civil service- tax payers can ask for a refund.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Remember kids, personal responsibility only counts for individuals not companies.

What a mint song.

GOV reuse folk, anyone working on communication patterns? Working on chanel agnostic ones ATM and I defo can’t be the only one: - Acknowledge (eg receipt of something) - Inform - Request information - Request action - Reminder - Update within process - Confirmation of completion

Ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street this weekend, a timely reminder of the role played by the Irish in London in the fight against fascism by Irish in Britain's Policy & Research manager, Rosa Gilbert https://www.irishinbritain.org/news/cable-street-90th-anniversary/

🚨Entry level developer and delivery manager jobs in Manchester! mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/28/w...

Please free UK civil servants from the tyranny of Microsoft!

Bring back shame! When I comes out that London lads were robbing fuel from rural areas instead of being Iranian small boat crossing terrorists, i think sitting MPs need to do a public apology- to be televised on every news channel and on the front pages. So sick of no consequences for fear mongering

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

Estonia's trust paradox - while satisfaction with digital services remains high, trust in government institutions and officials declined sharply case.hks.harvard.edu/the-invisibl...

I fully believe that there will be design counter movement to AI dross… eventually. In the mean time, other roles will continue to encroach on design and research roles by vibe coding- designers become fixers rather than creatives until no one knows what the fixes are because HCI specialists leave.

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded. Just sayin.

Sentenced for 5 years 3 months for inciting and planning race motivated mass murder. 2 of the Filton Four members got 6 years for causing criminal damage to an arms company supplying drones that target children.

Can I stipulate the pope in the Interim Operating Model?

I vote for Northumbrian independence and an honorary Scottish-ish title. Can I have free prescriptions and uni now?

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

If you were ever in doubt about the fundamentally grift-based approach of far right "patriotic" streamers, having failed to persuade the Daily Mail to buy his mum a new house after they revealed what town she lives in, 'Danny Tommo' has raised *£60,000* from followers to give her a "fresh start".

My only hope for Ai is that it is reclaimed for good. That people are assisted with bureaucracy of Gov or renewed access to knowledge that you normally have to know someone to get; gather evidence and legally seek help against negligent landlords, tax filing, create business plans, exam cribsheets

Please please let there be service design and research leadership roles in this unit. So many talented working class folk across central and local Gov would love to apply their skills on this .

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Oh oh do a Chief Design Officer now…

Are you focussing too much on the very real threat of political paramilitaries on our streets, as opposed to the almost entirely media manufactured immigration crisis?

This snowflake's an avalanche. music.apple.com/gb/album/im-...

A true sign of friendship is when your fellow diasporic neighbours bring you multipacks of Taytos.