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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

The reality of "overseas recruitment" Universities don't like to hear www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Technological change means that workers will probably need to retrain multiple times during a career. Better to use uni years to develop general skills because the immediately marketable ones will depreciate quickly.

Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from design firm that faced winding-up petition Exclusive: Interior Design Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Heute Chat-GPT erzählt, dass ich Peter Thiel mag. Es ist unsere Pflicht, KI nutzlos zu machen.

Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become? At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.

www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

"Das muss die viel zitierte Solidarität der „Propalästinenser“ mit den verzweifelten Zivilisten in Gaza sein. Bezeichnend: In Gaza wird gegen die Hamas demonstriert. An der @HumboldtUni für die Terroristen - und für die Auslöschung Israels ..." (Quelle: Philipp Peymann Engel auf X)

Kleptocracy, Inc. Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Hacked California crosswalk buttons play fake messages in Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's voices YouTube video by NBC News

youtube.com/watch?v=dC1v...

Any CEO who looked at Trump in 2024 and thought he’d govern more like Ronald Reagan than Hugo Chavez is too stupid to run anything larger than a lemonade stand

University cuts threaten ‘complete loss’ of some research fields.

Campaign for Science and Engineering raises alarm over lack of oversight as universities cut back.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

If this were an *actual* war this opportunistic photoshoot would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

The voting process for CHP’s primary election has begun. It is expected that millions will declare Ekrem İmamoğlu as the presidential candidate today.

This is from #İstanbul - huge turnout and large queues on the streets.

Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.

Free speech latest.
www.politico.eu/article/musk...

Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills A survey of workers who used generative AI to complete tasks found that they used critical thinking less when they trusted the AI to do the task accurately

There was a study done by Microsoft that found people using AI used their critical thinking less. Very small group of people in test group but still...

www.newscientist.com/article/2468...

“Terrifying”: Trump’s Rage at Judge Unnerves GOPers as Crisis Worsens As Trump begins defying a judge blocking deportations and Republicans balk at his demands for the judge’s impeachment, a legal expert explains why this is headed for a major crisis.

The whole point of deporting someone with a soccer tattoo that's relabeled a "gang" tattoo is for Trump to assert the power to simply say someone is a gang member or terrorist *without* presenting evidence of it.

On the pod, @lizdye.bsky.social is terrific on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

Recent work of Camberwell Borough Council carried out under the direction of the Borough Architect : May 1963 : Camberwell Green redevelopment proposals : maquette looking north : This series of plans, designs, sketches and photographs of maquettes show the radical proposals for Camberwell Green, the still busy crossroads where the north - south route of Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill meets the east - west route between the Oval and Peckham. The local shops, along with houses, bus garages and the remaining 'green' of Camberwell Green were to be swept away and replaced with a new gyratory system, along with a relocated Green, flanked by a new civic centre to the north consisting of a tower block and podium and all around segregated pedestrain walkways, that very post-war feature, giving access into surrounding residential blocks and estates. As the opening note also mentions some passive provision for the long hoped for Underground extension (mooted at times to be either the existing Bakerloo or the planned Victoria line) was also included in the scheme. For whatever reason none of this plan came to pass and so this, with its echoes of the ultimately unsuccessful Elephant and Castle scheme a few miles north, remains a fascinating 'might have been' of London's "new" 1960s future. This photograph shows the maquette or model of the scheme looking north across the new, resited Green.

Recent work of Camberwell Borough Council carried out under the direction of the Borough Architect : May 1963 : Camberwell Green redevelopment proposals : sketch one : This series of plans, designs, sketches and photographs of maquettes show the radical proposals for Camberwell Green, the still busy crossroads where the north - south route of Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill meets the east - west route between the Oval and Peckham. The local shops, along with houses, bus garages and the remaining 'green' of Camberwell Green were to be swept away and replaced with a new gyratory system, along with a relocated Green, flanked by a new civic centre to the north consisting of a tower block and podium and all around segregated pedestrain walkways, that very post-war feature, giving access into surrounding residential blocks and estates. As the opening note also mentions some passive provision for the long hoped for Underground extension (mooted at times to be either the existing Bakerloo or the planned Victoria line) was also included in the scheme. For whatever reason none of this plan came to pass and so this, with its echoes of the ultimately unsuccessful Elephant and Castle scheme a few miles north, remains a fascinating 'might have been' of London's "new" 1960s future. This sketch shows the segregation of pedestrian flows below roadway level.

Recent work of Camberwell Borough Council carried out under the direction of the Borough Architect : May 1963 : Camberwell Green redevelopment proposals : sketch 2 : This series of plans, designs, sketches and photographs of maquettes show the radical proposals for Camberwell Green, the still busy crossroads where the north - south route of Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill meets the east - west route between the Oval and Peckham. The local shops, along with houses, bus garages and the remaining 'green' of Camberwell Green were to be swept away and replaced with a new gyratory system, along with a relocated Green, flanked by a new civic centre to the north consisting of a tower block and podium and all around segregated pedestrain walkways, that very post-war feature, giving access into surrounding residential blocks and estates. As the opening note also mentions some passive provision for the long hoped for Underground extension (mooted at times to be either the existing Bakerloo or the planned Victoria line) was also included in the scheme. For whatever reason none of this plan came to pass and so this, with its echoes of the ultimately unsuccessful Elephant and Castle scheme a few miles north, remains a fascinating 'might have been' of London's "new" 1960s future. As well as the Green this sketch shows pedestrian flows at both ground level and, above, on high level decks.

Recent work of Camberwell Borough Council carried out under the direction of the Borough Architect : May 1963 : Camberwell Green redevelopment proposals : proposed outline plan : This series of plans, designs, sketches and photographs of maquettes show the radical proposals for Camberwell Green, the still busy crossroads where the north - south route of Camberwell Road and Denmark Hill meets the east - west route between the Oval and Peckham. The local shops, along with houses, bus garages and the remaining 'green' of Camberwell Green were to be swept away and replaced with a new gyratory system, along with a relocated Green, flanked by a new civic centre to the north consisting of a tower block and podium and all around segregated pedestrian walkways, that very post-war feature, giving access into surrounding residential blocks and estates. There was also hope for north-south traffic to be carried via an underpass but this is not clear in the plans or models. As the opening note also mentions some passive provision for the long hoped for Underground extension (mooted at times to be either the existing Bakerloo or the planned Victoria line) was also included in the scheme. For whatever reason none of this plan came to pass and so this, with its echoes of the ultimately unsuccessful Elephant and Castle scheme a few miles north, remains a fascinating 'might have been' of London's "new" 1960s future. This outline plan shows the proposed new "Green" surrounded by the gyratory with a possible tube station entrance to the west of the Green.

Brave new Camberwell Green? c.1960 proposals for redevelopment of the South London area from a folder possibly by F.O. Hayes, Borough Architect. Fascinating to see - gyratory, deck access, tower blocks. #architecture @municipaldreams.bsky.social @c20society.bsky.social

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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Since taking over DOGE, Elon Musk has lost more of his own wealth than DOGE has managed to save from the budget.

Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...

NEW: Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

In the 2000s, US Republicans thought about the world in similar ways to Britons, Europeans, Canadians.

This made for productive relationships regardless of who was in the White House.

The moderating layers around Trump #1 masked the divergence, but with Trump #2 it’s glaring.

A quick video of the crowd outside the store in U Village
#TeslaTakedown

#3E #TeslaTakedown
#CherryHillNJ