“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
Fears NHS has begun review that could end free Trans+ adult healthcare 👇
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*MSM (obviously, although I always read that acronym as 'men who have sex with men')
Alongside the humanitarian disaster, the scale of environmental disaster of this war is almost unfathomable. And all the MMM can talk about are oil prices, what about the cost of the release of toxins and CO2 into the atmosphere?
Just a quick reminder that our Vice Chancellor said this into a microphone in front of university employees last week and thought nothing of it!
There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.
1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.
Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
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A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
My heart breaks for every child lost to this horrific and senseless conflict, I cannot imagine the pain of their families.
I'm really hoping we can return momentum to this mental health project for Palestinian kids who were in occupation prisons!!!!
Because this is a project of hope, and one that we can all blessedly join in with and help make happen. Read more and chip in: chuffed.org/project/hmg
Is the proof in the room with us right now?
NEW: The Scottish Secretary has said that he expects Anas Sarwar is now clear his 'responsibility is not to be a commentator on British politics' after the Scottish leader called for the Prime Minister to resign
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️
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I don't know the answers to any of these questions but this pamphlet is fantastic and has made my day! Please tell me this isn't a hallucination.
Important survey on impact of HE redundancies. It's really important that APM staff fill this in too.
@uonucu.bsky.social
100% this 👇
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
Congratulations, this looks fantastic!
Join us next Tuesday, at the IHR, London or on Zoom for 'The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India'. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians
Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
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CJZ science in the news:
Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle
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