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ICU doctor and author of Life in the Balance and Life Support

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And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social πŸŽƒπŸ™πŸ½πŸ‘‡πŸ½

01.11.2025 01:04 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

@anilseth.bsky.social briiliant talk. Thank you. If on the off chance you’re wrong about AI becoming conscious, how will we know? Or will we?

01.11.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What a treat to hear the fabulous @anilseth.bsky.social deliver the Voltaire lecture last night. AI may never be conscious but it’s still a serious threat to humanity.

01.11.2025 09:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolutely @deborahmeaden.bsky.social πŸ‘

01.03.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 3352 πŸ” 567 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 10
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Don't Believe Him Podcast Episode Β· The Ezra Klein Show Β· 02/02/2025 Β· 14m

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

03.02.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m getting very strong Crimea vibes from this.

07.01.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 1187 πŸ” 257 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 39
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Tony Slattery: Comedian and actor dies aged 65 He was known for his quick-witted improvisations on shows like Channel 4's Whose Line Is It Anyway.

The saddest news about a troubled soul but huge comic talent. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

14.01.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

09.01.2025 03:06 πŸ‘ 32006 πŸ” 9214 πŸ’¬ 319 πŸ“Œ 102
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This whole Greenland thing is such a mystery isn’t it? What could have possibly prompted it? Oh wait…

08.01.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 822 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 17

Facts becoming an endangered species

07.01.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fossil fuel companies

06.01.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 13286 πŸ” 2732 πŸ’¬ 265 πŸ“Œ 101

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘professor Alexis Jay. Great interview on Today

07.01.2025 07:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk now polling on whether the US should invade Britain.

So that’s what Greenland was about…

06.01.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 542 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 53
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Starmer's best moment as PM And the Powellisation of conservative thought

Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.

It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.

06.01.2025 20:04 πŸ‘ 2493 πŸ” 677 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 96

Other schools are available

05.01.2025 09:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to Farage defending musk on the BBC this am it baffles me that people can consider him to be the solution.

05.01.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now you’re talking! Brrrr

05.01.2025 09:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Charles Bukowski said it best:
doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.

02.01.2025 07:18 πŸ‘ 7722 πŸ” 1330 πŸ’¬ 175 πŸ“Œ 54
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πŸ‘‡

26.12.2024 22:26 πŸ‘ 5294 πŸ” 1892 πŸ’¬ 191 πŸ“Œ 85

After that maybe they can ask him how Brexit is going

03.12.2024 11:00 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0

Ha ha ha superb

02.12.2024 14:25 πŸ‘ 740 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

And all with the active aid and connivance of the site’s owner. Our online discourse is deeply unwell.

30.11.2024 14:39 πŸ‘ 645 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 0

Pleased overall with the assisted dying result. Risks with both outcomes but going back to first principles in a free society I believe we should offer this choice to the terminally ill. Then we need the safeguards and monitoring to avoid unintended consequences

29.11.2024 15:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pleased to see this pass. And glad to see it do so by such a clear margin.

29.11.2024 14:59 πŸ‘ 481 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 11

If the student immigrants only stay temporarily then did 290 000 students visa holders leave too last yr? In which case no problem?? Or how many actually left?

29.11.2024 12:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Proud dad

Proud dad

Here we go

24.11.2024 19:55 πŸ‘ 488 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0