David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸

I support resistance to 'Cognitive Technology' especially in education but more widely wherever relationships drive outcomes.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

Doh! Someone has been reading Fred Hoyle ... https://t.co/fEWRiDWgzl

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@_arcin @praxiss Can you give the reference please

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

United Kingdom of 'israel' (Andy Burnham's) Cabinet in full:

• John Healey (Chancellor)
Labour Friends of 'israel' (LFI) parliamentary supporter. Opposed recognition of Palestine.

• Louise Haigh (First Secretary of State)
Labeled Gaza a genocide. Accepted up to £50,300 in office and staffing backing from Labour Together (pro-'israel' think tank).

• Ed Miliband (Foreign Secretary)
Personal family ties to 'israel'. Self-described 'friend of "israel"'. Opposed BDS.

• Wes Streeting (Defence Secretary)
20+ year LFI member. Received funding from pro-'israel' lobby (£30k+). Introduced IHRA into NHS. Mentored by Peter Mandelson. LFI funded delegation trip to 'israel'.

• Shabana Mahmood (Home Secretary)
Defended and appealed to protect proscription of Palestine Action. Commended police for enforcement actions (mass arrests) against public.

• Yvette Cooper (Health Secretary)
Instigated the initial proscription of Palestine Action. Accepted over £215,000 from the 'israel' lobby.

• Lucy Powell (Education Secretary)
LFI member. Condemned anti-Zionist campus movements. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Angela Rayner (Housing Secretary)
Accepted a £25,000+ donation from pro-'israel' lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Vocal opponent of BDS.

• Miatta Fahnbulleh (Energy Secretary)
Defended the continuity of UK military component licensing and exports to 'israel'.

• Angela Eagle (Environment Secretary)
Long-term LFI supporter. Voted down parliamentary motions for weapons embargoes.

• Pat McFadden (Work and Pensions Secretary)
Former LFI Vice-Chair. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Jonathan Reynolds (Business and Science Secretary)
Longtime LFI Vice-Chair. Signed off on and maintained existing arms export licences to 'israel' (Trade secretary). Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Alex Norris (Justice Secretary)
Member and parliamentary supporter of LFI.

• Heidi Alexander (Transport Secretary)
Defended the UK's continuing export of F-35 fighter jet components to 'israel'.

• Lisa Nandy (Culture Secretary)
Stated that boycotting 'israel' can be used to whip up hostility. Opposed full bans on arms sales to 'israel'.

• Emma Reynolds (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Prominent LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Ellie Reeves (Attorney General)
LFI member. Backs directives limiting public sector procurement boycotts.

• Douglas Alexander (Scotland Secretary)
Deep historical ties to LFI. Addressed official LFI annual receptions alongside 'israeli' ambassadors and supports anti-boycott platforms. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Stephen Kinnock (Wales Secretary)
Voted in favour of proscribing Palestine Action.

• Chris Bryant (Northern Ireland Secretary)
Long-term LFI parliamentary supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Kanishka Narayan (AI Minister)
Declined to support parliamentary calls for asset freezes or direct state sanctions on 'israeli' officials.

• Bridget Phillipson (Women and Equalities Minister)
Longstanding LFI member. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Hamish Falconer (European Relations Minister)
Former Labour Together consultant. Defended continuing F-35 jet parts trade with 'israel'. Campaigned against emergency party motions labeling actions a genocide. Refused to investigate British dual nationals serving in the IOF.

• Matthew Pennycook (Housing Minister)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Voted against independent sanction proposals. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Anneliese Midgley (Chief Whip)
No known links.

• Alan Campbell (Leader of the House of Commons)
Long-term LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.

• Baroness Smith (Leader of the House of Lords)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Reaffirmed total alignment with 'israel' in official House of Lords statements. Funded trip to 'israel'.

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This is what a captured state looks like.
Britain is not independent or sovereign.
Free Palestine. Free Britain.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@PeynsaertBill A lot of history here ... Zionists howl about a state's 'right' to defend itself. But that right did not apply when we British simply 'rebranded' Palestine as Israel, a colonial 'gift'. Palestinians had to suck it up with no right of self-defence ...

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

E.g. 'Death by Powerpoint', Wikipedia and plagiarism ... and of course the turmoil over 'social' media has flexed us since the beginning of the Web...

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@TPEAssociation #tpea

The effect of the time lag between submitting a journal paper and its final publication seems esp acute when AIEd is the focus. The context in which a paper was drafted has often changed a lot by the time it gets to review & by then it seems dated.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

Mind you, I am also struck by an impression that AIEd is often treated as something unprecedented, a fracture, as if the long history and experience of ITEd has nothing to offer. Wisdom may be lost because of AI-hype, as if what's been done before has no relevance.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@archeohistories A minor link between our present and the Etruscans is the Fasces, that odious symbol of Fascist insanity. Minor because it was 'merely' an ancient symbol of authority rather than evil - inherited by from the Etruscans by the Romans but then bowdlerised by moderns.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

At last, all is revealed. Starmer, leader of an illegitimate govt, has corrupted the rule of law and made explict his cowardly delight in the spectacle of sadistic militarism ... shame on our unprincipled, fascist 'Labour' govt

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

I spent all day in Woolwich Crown Court yesterday for the Filton activists' sentencing hearing with my colleague @daniaakkad.

The court heard that the Terrorism Act was never intended to cover direct action protest.

It heard that all of the defendants had been cleared of violent intent and sentencing them as terrorists would mark a historic first for charges of criminal damage.

It heard that the Suffragettes, who did "a bit of smashing themselves", would have been labelled as terrorists but have now been vindicated by history.

It heard the activists' goal was to stop the supply chain of drones and weaponry to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza.

It heard that attaching a terrorism connection to a case without it ever being heard by a jury was unconstitutional and posed a threat to the criminal justice system itself.

It heard that the "terrorism connection" has been disproportionately used against minority groups and those advocating for them while not being used for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the man who killed Jo Cox MP.

It heard that the law has been reinterpreted since the action took place, meaning the activists could have had no idea that what they did could have been caught up in terrorism laws at the time of the protest.

It heard that the prosecution submitted key evidence just eight days before the hearing, giving the defence no time to review it or even discuss it with their clients.

Despite all of this, Judge Jeremy Johnson, who has already tried to refer the defence's lead barrister for contempt of court and been forced to apologise for it, sentenced the defendants as terrorists.

The judgment was handed down within minutes, indicating Judge Johnson had already made his mind up before the hearing had begun.

Being in court yesterday felt akin to witnessing a colonial crime: punishing activists with terrorism offences in order to set a precedent that taking direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide will not be tolerated.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@PhilosophyOfPhy Nice line:

"Things don’t break because the universe is malicious. They break because chaos is statistically overwhelming. Order is rare; disorder is infinite."

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@TPEAssociation
"Far from the promises of educational enhancement, ed-tech has created educational dependencies – bureaucratic dependencies and now, with "AI," cognitive ones. This is not some weird fluke; this is by design." (Audrey Watters)
https://t.co/0Z0tIxT0KO

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

Haven't seen the movie Project Hail Mary but the book is, well, old fashioned pot boiler sci-fi. For the times we live in, it's junk. Hail Andy Weir of course ... all praise for your craft. 'The Martian' is excellent, but PHM is just silly, pseudo-realism ...

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

Surely a mention of the pre-war terror bombing of Madrid and Barcelona by rot-in-hell Franco is worth a note?

Fintan O'Toole: Donald Trump is like a child pulling wings off flies – all means and no end https://t.co/APauAr9Ge7

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@jjn1

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@WeAreOpenreach
OR is a sad fish; it cannot find or fix faults; it does not engage with users; planning & dev is a mess; comms (its business!!!) are woeful (case in point: copper phone lines). And service providers take the heat for its vacuity.
Be more effective!

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@yasminekho Spare us! This crap has nothing to do with communication ...

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

@europa sad bastard - double-barrel name, probably a private education, he doesn't know what words mean ... generally a twat ...

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

MAGA: Make America Go Away

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

MAGA! Make America Go Away!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works."

It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books...

"We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

"This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."

"Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration."

"But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit.

"The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said.

"And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."

Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that.

The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet.

"But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."

"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."

There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage.

The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is destroying America.

[David Longman 🇺🇦 ☮ 🇵🇸 @DavidJLongman]

Reading Sinclair Lewis: 'It Can't Happen Here'. Excellent timely satirical rendering of Nazism/Fascism. Way too familiar (writing as a UK observer)! Prescient? Yes, a lot. Best joke? The president's surname is 'Windrip' and, like 'Trump', a euphemism for a noisy, obnoxious fart.

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@ThoNg676733 Such a fine band!