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Bitcoin pleb. Spurs idiot. Poker loser. Whisky enjoyer.

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@robinmonotti Feel free to link any papers he has published about climate science.

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@HenryBTCchef @hodlwithLedn Think I'm gonna give this a go. Any referral code or anything I can use?

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@HenryBTCchef @hodlwithLedn Let us know how it goes!

[Andrew Webley @asjwebley]

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@_100Countries @EE @bt_uk Try plugging the phone into the router

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

If you came across this list used to attack climate science, be warned it is from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a rich fossil fuel lobby group. The list is HIGHLY misleading and I will go through each and every one in this mega thread to show you why it is misleading:

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@JAN3com @satoshigallery Where will the other statues be placed?

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@BitcoinCartoon_ Yeah, I am interested!

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

* Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them *

A post from my blog this morning:

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There's a bitter irony at the heart of modern higher education, which too few universities, and even fewer of their leaders, seem willing to confront. This is that universities have, for decades, nurtured within their own institutions the ideology that now aims to destroy them. That ideology is neoliberalism.

Let me explain.

Firstly, neoliberalism's core is anti-thought. At its heart, neoliberalism is not just an economic project. It is a project to restrict the whole basis of debate, of imagination, of critique. This should be obvious, and yet apparently it has not been. Neoliberalism insists that there is:
•no alternative to markets,
•no alternative to private property,
•no alternative to profit maximisation as the ultimate measure of success.

Anything that dares to challenge these assumptions is dismissed as naive, dangerous, and, ironically as ideological. That argument has been used against me for a long time.

Secondly, let's not pretend otherwise, our universities eagerly imported this ideology. Beginning in the 1980s, universities across the UK, and across much of the world, embraced market models. Their leadership welcome the idea for one simple reason: they saw an opportunity for personal gain from doing so. As a result, they welcomed competition for funding, league tables that reduced education to a race for rankings, and a commercial mindset that turned students into customers. They applied “return on investment” logic to courses, to research, even to the arts and humanities. They sold off their own assets, outsourced their services, squeezed their staff, and congratulated themselves on running “efficient” businesses, and were very happy to be treated as such as they used this status to justify their excessive salaries and bloated PR functions that were engaged to maintain this myth.

Third, universities even changed what counted as knowledge. Neoliberalism infiltrated academic disciplines. Economics departments became dominated by neoclassical models that ignore power, inequality, and the environment. Business schools churned out managers trained to cut costs and maximise shareholder value, but rarely to serve society. Even humanities departments too often tied themselves to corporate partnerships and employability agendas. Intellectual autonomy was surrendered for the promise of private sponsorship, and the ability to attract that private money was seen as the true indication of academic success.

Fourth, now all of this has backfired, spectacularly. Neoliberalism never did believe in competition, or access, or diversity. All it believed in was the accumulation of power and wealth for a few. And now we see the consequences of that.  Across the UK universities are cutting courses and making job cuts and desolate this they are unable to contain the financial crises in our universities. The arts, languages, and critical social sciences are especially at risk. Meanwhile in the US, where the US goes the UK usually follows, the far right is explicitly attacking universities, cutting funding, banning diversity programmes, dictating what can and cannot be taught. And they can do that because once you persuaded a whole generation that education is just a market good to be valued solely by short-term economic returns then anything that encourages people to think differently, whether that be to question power, to explore history, culture, ethics, or alternatives to the market, is just a threat.

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See the linked tweet below to continue.

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@Portcitybob @asjwebley @asj_webley Done

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@ThetaTard Wow only a 5p difference. 😉

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@OdoggBrox Up to cloud 99 at the moment.

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@80IQGenius @asjwebley @_adrian Nm.

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@GeordieHODL Same.

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@80IQGenius @FT How can I read this? 12ft doesn't seem to work.

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@BitcoinMicropig TCo?

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@HenryBTCchef A bath full please.

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@Michaeljdobbin Ahh yes, that was on the website.

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Is SWC no longer on AJ Bell? Have a friend who'd like to get onboard.
Neither of us can seem to find it?

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@SGreen21519 Ahh that's got it. Cheers.