It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.

This is not a joke.

We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

I think so much of what we do is trying to distract ourselves from contemplating the fact we will die. When my mum was dying of cancer there was a weird level on which it’s relaxing that everyone is talking about death all the time. Like we’ve stopped trying not to see the thing in the corner.

But as corporations gather more and more data on us all. The day when Tescos or Meta (or Cambridge Analytica) can look us up in a UK biobank data set and find out about our abortions or our antidepressant prescription cannot be too far away, surely?

I think we expect everyone not to rape children, tbh.

Confidential health records from UK BioBank project exposed online Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds data from flagship medical research leaked dozens of times

Oof #1 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I want to watch the film where Joan Collins and Patrick Swayze get together.

But yes, also, it’s an attempt to block feeling like you could lose it all. I imagine most billionaires are terrified on some deep level.

I think that if you realise your obscene wealth is - on some level - unearned, then you feel compelled to give it away, found charities, etc. Whereas if you want to hoard it like a dragon with a pile of gold, then you have to construct mental structures that justify that.

Well yes, definitely that. But I wonder if being successful makes it easier to start embracing right wing ideas. “I’m rich because I’m better than other people, and I deserve to be.” It must be more psychologically comfortable to think that, than think you’ve just been lucky and it’s unfair.

There is that.
In fact, far too many prominent scientists frequented pedo island.
Is that more to do with being prominent than with being scientists?

It’s not an energy crisis. It’s an oil crisis. If we heated all our homes with wind and solar, the Strait of Hormuz would not affect it.

There is that. Scientists working in universities are surrounded by different messages than scientists working for BP, or Airbus.
And doing a science degree doesn’t mean you work as a scientist, in any setting. Plenty of people go into well-paid things like banking.

And some of the physicists;-)

I think they covered up the lever with loads of signs saying, “It’s all immigrants’ fault!”, “It’s all women’s fault!”

The problem is the billionaires hid the lever.

Feels like we kind of have a real life trolley problem with billions of people vs a handful of billionaires but nobody standing by the lever.

It's interesting how this reveals a mechanistic view of learning. Only the outcome matters, not the process of getting there. Personally I really enjoyed learning to drive. We must remember to make learning to read a joyful process as well. ♥️

I always had the feeling as a child that some teachers liked children and some teachers didn’t. Maybe the ones who don’t, don’t really want to be in the classroom, and they can’t imagine anyone else could either. They think we all need to just get through it for instrumental reasons.

OK this is nuts.

A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.

You can do it at home. You can buy Petri dishes and agar on eBay.

Of course.

Please write an academic paper where you use it as the first part of one of those titles.
"Just make schools better, ya numpties: Parent/expert discourse in modern education debates."

Just make schools better, ya numpties.

Pushing MORE children into mainstream, without giving loads of extra resources and support, is just going to push lots more families into reluctant HE.
And at the same time the gov (with the children’s well-being and schools bill) is trying to make HE much harder and bully parents.

Home ed numbers have tripled in the last ten years. Mainly (as far as anyone can tell) driven by SEND children who are not coping in mainstream, aren’t sufficiently supported, and whose parents finally decide they aren’t forcing protesting children through the school gates any more.

The SEND white paper is being presented as a drive towards inclusion.

More children with SEND in mainstream schools.

But this would only work if serious adaptations to mainstream schooling were being proposed, and they’re not.

So we see it for what it is. A cost saving measure.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

Great article. I particularly liked(?) this part, about the way manosphere talking points were used to justify the shooting of Renée Good at the very highest levels of the US gov. Reactions that say "duh, the right was always misogynist!" while not untrue, miss the point. This is escalating

I had a baby 12 years ago, so obviously my wages went down and have not recovered.

The medium is indeed the message, and the message is that slavery is the ghost in the machine. Notice how “AI” is extracting from the collective creativity of humans, from a genre associated with Black political struggles, to produce white supremacist slop rap.