Ivan Brown

Unless you're reading this from your private jet, the same system is oppressing us all.

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WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square

Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field.

#StopRosebank

A screenshot of an online news article with the headline: "Labour voters want Starmer to ditch Brexit red lines and rejoin EU customs union instead of raising taxes." The sub-headline states that "Some 67 per cent of 2024 Labour voters back rejoining the customs union instead of raising taxes, a new poll shows."

This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋

Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

So far, I've watched "Kabul Beauty", "Radio Dadaab", & "Meet the Barbarians". Looking forward to "Khartoum", "Another Place", and others. Being immersed in one of these is totally different from watching a typical news bulletin about refugees.

Invaluable educational journey through the excellent 20th Refugee Film Festival (by "Japan for UNHCR"), online + screen shows. Spreading it around my local community, connecting it to "intercultural communication" in my university seminars, etc. www.japanforunhcr.org/how-to-help/...

‘I can’t go on anymore’: Mazón resigns as Valencia leader and acknowledges mistakes during deadly 2024 floods – Europe live Mazón faced daily calls for his resignation after flooding in October 2024 killed 229 people

At last!

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Not entirely serious about the P. Marshall connection there. Rhetorical / sarcastic 🙃

We remember
#RejoinEU

“He doesn’t really know why he sacked me,” Ms Powell has told friends. “He was told to do so.” Good God…
Yes, McSweeney MUST go. I wonder if he’s working for Paul Marshall…?

This really shouldn't feel so unusual and like such a breath of fresh air. Almost a relief.

If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.

ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

Just unbelievable…
Oh, but then maybe not.
Hoping people will get off Meta platforms.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary .

Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Zack Polanski, "Let's subsidise good behaviour, rather than subsidising fossil fuel companies, oil and gas"

"There's no coincidence that this Labour government took £4.1 million from a hedge fund that have assets in oil and gas, arms and gambling"

12. Thank you for reading the whole thread! 😊
CARM is designed mainly for training for institutional settings (neighbourhood dispute mediation, etc), but has anyone else adapted CARM for L2 conversation development? Please share any experiences or knowledge of others’ work! #CARM #L2IC

11. CARM-related sources (II):
Stokoe, E. (2014). The Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM): A method for training communication skills as an alternative to simulated role-play. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 47(3), 165−185.
www.carmtraining.org

10. A CARM-related source (I):
Stokoe, E. (2011). Simulated interaction and communication skills training: The ‘conversation analytic role-play method’. In C. Antaki (Ed.), Applied conversation analysis: Intervention and change in institutional talk (pp. 119–139). Palgrave Macmillan.

9. It was intensive preparation work, but the implementation and response felt like a breakthrough.☀️ I'm excited to continue developing this line of work and exploring the potential of CARM in training in L2 conversation and intercultural communication.✨

8. Students’ in-class engagement and post-session write-ups were impressively positive and thoughtful. Several mentioned major shifts in their understanding of language, communication, and interactional competence. Some in-service teachers suggested adapting CARM for their own subjects.

7. …unlike traditional methods (model dialogs, conventional role-play), or other CA-based activities that involve upfront transcript-distribution and play-through of whole episodes, which tend to convey a piece of interaction as an indivisible fait-accompli.

6. This CARM-inspired approach led students to “live through” the interaction turn-by-turn, contemplating moment-by-moment contingencies in a sort of “slow-motion real-time”, and focusing on interactional practices - action-formation & action ascription, from the participants’ viewpoints.

5. I stressed that various different utterances and trajectories were plausible - NOT “one correct answer”. I occasionally diverged from the usual CARM turn-by-turn process, incorporating various scaffolded tasks (offer a selection of candidate utterances, alternative orderings of actions, …).

4. We focused on how these assessments were occasioned, the assessment formulations themselves, responses and other sequential consequences.
CARM (in short!): Reveal & play the extract one turn at a time (more or less), pausing to grasp the unfolding situation and consider possible next actions.

3. I used data I had collected in Japan and the UK, focusing on intercultural conversations in which cultural assessments occurred that were linked with locally relevant cultural categories (e.g., reacting after tasting home-made bread, or recalling an episode of trying sushi).