Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
Andrew Hobbs
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Bots now generate most web traffic, accounting roughly for 60-80%.
In our latest blog post, we share how we are managing this shift for OAPEN Library & @doabooks.bsky.social using Cloudflare & Anubis to protect stability while keeping #OA sustainable.
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"It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write."
Manchester friends! I'm doing an event with the wonderful organiser and urban historian Isaac Rose an another launch for the paperback of Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain. Spread the word and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
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“Trump, I think, just doesn’t have any idea what’s going on. That’s the bigger worry—that Rubio and Witkoff and Kushner are saying, OK, we’ve got it, but I don’t get the sense that Trump himself really understands anything that’s going on here.”
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
But fundamentally, a ban like this lets Big Tech off the hook for creating and profiting from these harms. What young people, and all of us, need is safety by design.
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Sam Wetherell
In Northern Ireland, the involvement of loyalist paramilitary groups in anti-immigrant violence "makes it particularly dangerous given their long history of violence, intimidation, and coercive control."
From Shannon Doherty & @suchitauppal.bsky.social
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Rima I Anabtawi
Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why
