Digital culture R&D, museums & archives and sometime foreign correspondent, MA/MSc grad, struggling writer & ex-blue tick.
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Free Norwegian and Australian Human Rights Defenders Abducted in Cambodia - Sign the Petition! c.org/bs4rP8cRNG via @UKChange
Marjorie Halligan’s Bayeux Tapestry at Bexhill Museum bexhillmuseum.org.uk/bayeux-…
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Thread. I met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at U of Roehampton. We’d been appointed during the same mass hiring& spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/
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Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.
Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.
Leave him to me.
Everything that is wrong with the current government is down to this git.
Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it manchestermill.co.uk/stop-lo…
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TL;DR We now moderate code like Meta moderates comments.
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
A quiet Sunday spent bouncing ideas off Claude AI to see how they stick, the conclusions going into a blog (not for publication but for reference). But if published, how to credit it? Claude AI thought about that, then blogged on it itself. Follows. open.substack.com/pub/rohanj…
A lovely line among many from the Brass Check, Upton Sinclair’s timeless excoriation of the US media: “Newspapermen are human, and cannot be blamed by their owners if now and then they yield to the temptation to publish the news.” drnissani.net/mnissani/Revol…
Satirical account? “Russia on Saturday condemned what it called “a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state,” apnews.com/article/russia-ir…
From @haaretzcom “Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel's expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications, post-October 7” haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
Asked under oath whether Trump cheated at golf, Lindsay Graham said:
“Some people say you may outdrive him, but you’re not going to outdrive his caddy. It is what it is.”
nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/ge… via @NYTimes
Well considered reappraisal of Orwell’s famous essay that I ‘kinda sorta’ agree with, as clarity of expression needn’t exclude uncertainty of position. I think people need to get more comfortable with doubt. open.substack.com/pub/lukews…
New planning rules mean change for archaeology – and Bexhill Museum bexhillmuseum.org.uk/new-pla…
Free speech prevails if accorded to others: my brief moment working with my hero Tom Stoppard and how it saved me. medium.com/@rohanjay/free-sp…
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It was cathartic to sit down and discuss time inequalities with Yineng Cai @SixthTone. This Q and A piece could be useful resource for colleagues interested in learning more about the vivid stories within and behind 'The Time Inheritors'! Check it out.
sixthtone.com/news/1017810
Too Israeli to be a victim and too resistant to be a patriot… commiserations for his plight; thanks for his courage. theatlantic.com/internationa…
