Flora Cornish

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

Highly recommend!

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”

These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

Jared is correct. Read Theory

"Whatever states are today, they are not what they once were—in part because, as Dasgupta chronicles, the state now faces serious competition for center stage in the organization of human society."

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Red Flag Alert - Israel in Lebanon | Lemkin Institute

Lemkin Institute of Genocide Prevention have issued a red flag genocide alert for Lebanon. Britain needs to break ties with lsrael for once and for all and cut British political and military participation in Israeli genocide.

www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

This 👇 is good.

Studying philosophy of mind in my Psychology degree in the ancient 1990s, we had fun questioning the nature of consciousness and if machines could ever have it. We learned about neural nets and artificial minds!

AI execs acting intrigued about consciousness is commercial crap

Thanks for tip! In return: I am enjoying Small Prophets

Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon !
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While strategic petroleum reserves can cushion against immediate impacts of the US/Israeli war against Iran, people really have not prepared for fertiliser shortages and what that may mean for food cycles in the coming year:

(Source: Bloomberg newsletter 6 March)

Discovered that Small Prophets (BBC show) is just the salve I needed for war anxiety. Highly recommend if you are in that space.

The cover of This Slavery graphic novel on a black background, with the British Book Awards Logo and the text Shortlisted Book of the Year Graphic Novel

A photo of the six shortlisted books in the graphic novel category: InvestíGators by John Patrick Green, Dog Man: Big Jim Believes by Dav Pilkey, Bunny v Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business, Who Killed Nessie by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith, This Slavery by us and Ginseng Roots Craig Thompson

We’re flabbergasted to see This Slavery shortlisted for Book of the Year: Graphic Novel at the Nibbies!

What an incredible list to appear on, and isn’t it great to have a graphic novel category

Thank you for posting. This is very very important and so personally painful to me, it is hard to contend with. So thank you for raising awareness🙏🙏

Folks, don't let the NHS inertia gaslight you. This is so so important. Remember this right for when you need it. ❤️❤️

Great news, celebrating graphic novels 📖❤️

Registration open for Radical Statistics annual conference "Using Data to Promote Progressive Change", London, 14.03.26
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Programme here www.radstats.org.uk/conference

I'm doing a workshop on ECR wellbeing - with a critical use of underpinning data

Please come!

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Lots of good gems here - definitely worth your time

"If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race."

"The purpose of a system is what it does" (cybernetician Stafford Beer)

So excited to try this! 🙏🙏✊️

Your turn to power map! Your turn to power map! 1 Make a copy of this presentation. (One copy per group.) Shortcut to this slide: bit.ly/djspowermap

Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...

What a great exercise, so well structured, I love it! 🙏

I would love if I could draw on this for a participatory methods course I am designing (properly credited to you)? Thanks for sharing. So cool.

I am so bewildered about people completely out of touch with their humanity. We are temporary beings with warm blood and warm relationships. Right???

This is interesting. I feel in some ways they're still missing parts of the problem, even if they did refuse. But note who DID spot the issues - a Mum and a Wife. Women scholars were raising the alarm on E*stein for years but were often told they were jealous, or not good enough to even be invited.

Oh god that it such a good way of putting it. When medicine is so flowcharted and leaves limited space even for professional expertise and judgement.

😭 even in quite progressive schools in my experience

Kids in secondary schools getting punished for "talking back" if they try to disagree or add to a teacher's limited explanation or argument

The erasure of long covid - everywhere, but especially in the global south. In Brazil, people have the symptoms but no words for it, clinicians can't see or diagnose it, employers, family friends don't get it and invalidate people's experience

THIS is what AI is for.

Surveillance, target identification, and autonomous decisions to bomb.

Sorry dear humans who love life and beauty 💔

The "productivity and efficiency" of AI powered military tech quoted in this article is actually a terrifying empowerment of militaries with supercharged surveillance and immediate obliteration.

The old bricks-and-mortar panopticon we worried about is childs play in comparison.