Timo Betcke

Timo Betcke

@timobetcke.me

Professor of Computational Mathematics, University College London. My views reflected here are my own.

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George Potter 🔶
@georgepotter.bsky.social

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley
@lottelydia.bsky.social

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org

From the govt's press release: "The developer estimates that Jackdaw will create 27 new direct jobs and safeguard 273 existing jobs that would otherwise be lost." Odd that so much is made about this being good for jobs. Your nearest out-of-town supermarket likely generates more jobs.

Timo Betcke
@timobetcke.me

Congrats to Danny Kruger for finally finding an audience that is even more racist than he is.

David Wilcock@davidtwilcock.bsky.social

Stony silence for Danny Kruger at a Reform rally as he suggests party could win over UK Muslim voters - as long as they swear 'allegiance to the British state' rather than the 'global Islamic community'

Timo Betcke
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A colleague recently said that a good effect of AI will be the downfall of classical academic publishing, and I wholeheartedly agree. No tear lost for publishers who have for decades enriched itself from content they neither produced nor edited.

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Otto English
@ottoenglish.bsky.social

Imagine how much easier it would be if Musk's tech wizards invented... brakes

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

is one of those situations “DAMMIT i’m in a michael bay movie again”

Timo Betcke
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Iran is a theocracy that sponsors terrorism and executes teenagers and is our enemy. Saudi-Arabia is a theocracy that sponsors terrorism and executes teenagers and is our good friend and ally. Can somebody explain this to me?

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Saudi Arabia to execute man for being at protests and funerals when he was 15

theguardian.comSaudi Arabia to execute man for being at protests and funerals when he was 15Rights group says Youssef al-Manasif was tortured and first met his lawyer five years after arrest for non-violent crimes A young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was aged 15 to 17, say human rights groups, in the latest example of the kingdom’s surging use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Youssef al-Manasif was arrested in 2017 and accused of crimes including joining demonstrations for religious freedom by the Shia minority and attending funerals that the Saudi authorities deem to be protests. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the specialised criminal court, a secretive tribunal set up for terrorism-related cases. Continue reading...

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Peter Jukes
@peterjukes.bsky.social

So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦
@angel-shalagina.bsky.social

As a Ukrainian, this hurts more than I can explain. We never expected the US to fight our war. But we certainly never expected its president to make deals with the aggressor country trying to erase us. Ukraine is fighting for survival. And watching this happen feels like a terrible betrayal.

Timo Betcke
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I will not forget the long list of Tories and right wing media outlets who cheered on Trump’s election in 2024. They were traitors to the interests of the UK then and they are still traitors now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Timo Betcke
@timobetcke.me

Christian Nationalism is just a euphemism for Nazis.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

“Christian” pastors cheering on public executions when the whole Christian faith is based on the abhorrence of the gruesomeness of a public execution shows how far Christian Nationalism is off the rails.

Timo Betcke
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I don’t know if this number is correct. But it is clear that we will only solve the far right problem in the USA and Europe when Putin is dead.

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com

Right wing bot activity on social media - MAGA, Deform, AfD, etc - is down 50% because a lot of it was running out of data centres severely damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. Odd. Do you think right wing agitation and Russia are connected?

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Sven-Erik Volberg
@volberg.bsky.social

AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany

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Wolfgang Blau
@wblau.bsky.social

Germany’s AfD mourns the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline as an attack on ‘Germany’s energy sovereignty’ - with Russian gas. All you need to know about AfD.

Joerg Lau@joerglau.bsky.social

„Gegner der deutschen Energiesouveränität“ haben Nord Stream zerstört, sagt der AfD-Chef. Souveränität gibt es nämlich nur durch Unterwerfung unter russische Dominanz. Noch Fragen?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

Jesus Christ Cornell

Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻@thathagengrrl.bsky.social

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧
@andrewknightfella.bsky.social

I was wrong about Burnham... I have slagged off this man for years. But he's ticked two out of three boxes for me. The BIG THREE for me are; 1) Brexit 2) Russia 3) Trump Burnham is doing good on the first two far! (If he can punch Trump in the nose as well I will start building statues to him)

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Andy Burnham says rejoining the EU among all ‘the options’ being considered – UK politics live

theguardian.comAndy Burnham says rejoining the EU among all ‘the options’ being considered – UK politics liveThe prime minister says he wants to open a debate about the UK’s future relationship with Europe Good morning. Andy Burnham’s speech is getting a mixed review in the papers, but there is general consensus that it is a consequential one – not one that we will have forgotten within a fortnight or so, but one that will make the next list of all-time important Labour conference speeches of the last 50 years. If you are still catching up, here are three good places to start. Continue reading...
Timo Betcke
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Let's replace Maths with hymn singing... Said none but a bunch of weirdos and fascists.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.

humanists.ukReform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymnsReform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...

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Simon B.-M.
@simonbm.bsky.social

Replying to @katebyrne.bsky.social

The three far-right parties, Tories, Reform and Restore have about 50% together. All want to leave the ECHR and therefore the Council of Europe and blow up the GFA and TCA. It would be a worse crisis than Brexit

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Randahl Fink
@randahl.bsky.social

We have a choice between telling future generations that we let Russia kill, rape, torture and plunder in Ukraine for longer than World War 2, or we can change our actions, so we can tell future generations that we sent the Russians back to Russia where they belong.