Peter Hadfield

UK. Dad of 2, Fond of Cricket, EdTech and Travel. MA Digital Education. Avoiding trouble by declaring these are my own views.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Novara Media spoke to residents of Barnsley who called out rioters scapegoating immigrants: “Your problems are from the top-down people making us feel small because we’re working class. But I'm proud to be working class, and I'm proud to be anti-racist working class as well."

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Putting aside any debate about causes there are three big public policy failures that have made it harder to manage these riots:

1. Stopping processing asylum seekers - leaving more in hotels and vulnerable to attack.

2. Cutting police numbers (still below 2010)

(cont..)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

High time for an AI fashion show

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

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[Jonny Usherwood @jonnyUsh]

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[Peter Hadfield @pete_hadfield]

Hey google, give me an example of tone deaf

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[Rosie Eccles @rosieprimrose]

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[Eldon Street HAZ @EldonHaz]

Well as it's #WorldBicycleDay we're giving another shout out to our newest Eldon Street business @jejamescycles who have transformed the former @YMCAbarnsley on Eldon St into a stunning new bike showroom with support from the High Street Heritage Action Zone. What a difference!

[Jaynit Makwana @JaynitMakwana]

Excel is the most used analytics software of the last 37 years.

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[Jaynit Makwana @JaynitMakwana]

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[Deepanshu Sharma @deepanshusharmx]

It’s been less than 3 days since OpenAI released its latest model GPT-4o

And people are doing crazy things with it.

Here are 10 incredible use cases so far:

[Donald Clark @DonaldClark]

This is insanely good... ask it to be a tutor and it does a SUPERB JOB...

[Peter Hadfield @pete_hadfield]

@PenningtonJ1978 Awesome!! What a feeling ❤️

[Rosie Eccles @rosieprimrose]

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[Peter Hadfield @pete_hadfield]

@Nikki__Sullivan Mental Nikki!!! Great view though. 👍

[Tulsi Soni @shedntcare_]

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Angela Eagle asks Jeremy Hunt about Frank Hester - it's as bad as you think it would be 🙄

Jeremy Hunt, "He's apologised"

Angela Eagle, "Would you return the £10 million donation?"

JH, "He's apologised"

AE, "You're happy to accept the money?"

JH, "Conservative party's record speaks for itself"

AE, "Is Hester a fit and proper person to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer money?"

JH, "Umm.. I was health secretary when.."

AE, "There are a lot of black and ethnic minorities who work in the heal service after all"

JH, "I was health secretary when he got some contracts.. Contracts were with GP surgeries"

AE, "He's got all our data"

JH, "That's a decision GP surgeries have made"

AE, "In financial services we have regulations about fit and proper persons, do you think Hester is fit and proper to be in receipt of hundreds of millions of taxpayers money?"

JH, "He's apologised.. The contacts were before the comments were made"

AE, "So there shouldn't be consequences for having that kind of view or behaving in that manner if you're rich?"

JH, "Ummm, I think the consequences in terms of public shaming of what he's done are significant. He's apologised"

[Rasel Hosen @details_with_ai]

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[Tulsi Soni @shedntcare_]

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Here's how :