Health & Social Care frontline • Policy, research, advocacy & campaigns • Doing good things for #VolSector • People powered change fanatic #ABCD
Birmingham, England
Joined April 2012
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Victoria Silver retweeted
“My comedy comes from a place of frustration, but also [from] a genuinely optimistic belief that if enough people learn about these injustices, we will be able to stop them,” says Cody Dahler
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Victoria Silver retweeted
.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”
@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.
They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.
And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
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Zohran Mamdani: “I don’t use much AI in my day-to-day life. You have some of the leaders of the creation of this technology saying there’s a 10% chance that humanity could come to an end as a result of this. I think when that kind of language is par for the course, when companies are asserting that each of them has faced something similar to the Hugging Face incident, it does demand a level of response that goes beyond just the political topic of the day. I think there has to be regulation of this technology at every single level”
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Nuclear weapons, the financial derivatives which caused the 2008 crash, social media, now A.I. Since most legislators struggle to comprehend them, we need to design democratically meaningful forms of oversight. Don’t close those humanities departments just yet. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
Victoria Silver retweeted
Les Inrocks ont 40 ans ! 🎂
Graham Coxon, guitariste de Blur, nous raconte comment il a découvert Pulp au Festival des Inrocks, en 1991. Il pensait que Jarvis Cocker était… français.
Victoria Silver retweeted
Zohran Mamdani on the Gaza genocide: “There’s a book by writer Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The reason that stays in my head is it’s such a succinct way of describing the fact that the more years pass, the most people will feel comfortable coming forward and saying that was horrible. And we’ll eventually get to a point where some of the people responsible will start to say that was horrible”
Victoria Silver retweeted
We can't do 'good' in the economy with an economic theory that only tells us how to fix markets if and when they fail. The common good is an objective, not a correction, where the how matters as much as the what. Telos and Polis!
Join me in Barcelona for the launch of my new book, published in Spain last week: Bien Común: Una nueva economía que funcione para todos.
@CidobBarcelona | 6 October | 18:30 CEST
Free to attend, register by email ➡️ activitats@cidob.org
Victoria Silver retweeted
Zohran Mamdani explains his definition of socialism to Theo Von: “Socialism to me means you’ll have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that. When people say dignity we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath. Housing, childcare, public transit. No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables, you need these to live”
Victoria Silver retweeted
NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it?
In short, very well it seems.
A quick thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @Persuasion_UK. Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇
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My thoughts on Labour conference therestispolitics.beehiiv.co…
Victoria Silver retweeted
So sad about Esther Rantzen. That’s Life introduced me to the concept of investigative journalism & their vox pops will never be bettered. This is art. RIP.
Victoria Silver retweeted
The Nerve @thenerve_news, the “small and punky” publication launched by five former Observer journalists, has reached 5,000 paying subscribers in its first year
"It was a huge risk but it’s been mind-blowing that we’ve been able to build a successful new title from scratch"
Victoria Silver retweeted
🍂 Coming up in October...
After Amis, the live taping of the My Martin Amis podcast, which capped off an incredible night on Tuesday 25 August at @21Soho.
@Will___lloyd, Kevin Power, @Leon_C_C, and your host @jackaldane, discuss the durability of Martin Amis's literary legacy in the 21st Century.
Victoria Silver retweeted
"Almost all of my books were stolen to teach AI how to create its voice"
But what really concerns Katherine Rundell is what the proliferation of AI is going to do to children's learning.
Listen to The New Society with @tanjil_rashid_ wherever you get your podcasts.
.@Johnny_Marr talks about his "emphatic, guitar-y, catchy, British indie" new solo album 'The Age Of Everything'
#JohnnyMarr
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At our conference last year, Andy Burnham spoke to the need to renew working class ambition.
Today he spoke of it as Prime Minister in his speech at Labour Conference.
Alongside a National Commission on Electoral Reform and public ownership in the water industry.
A couple of weeks back, over 450 people had the pleasure of hearing Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham's (@AndyBurnhamGM) keynote speech at CHANGE: HOW? A Decade of Radical Renewal.
In it, he spoke to working class ambition and how it can be restored:
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PM appears to have taken his cricket bat to vast swathes of the post 2016 economic-political consensus
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Damn man, Andy’s speech is literally night-and-day from the grey and brittle charisma void we’ve had to deal with these last few years
