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your move, oxbridge [video 7m01s] #TheBoatRace #Oxbridge #ChampakulamMoolam https://youtu.be/QBS2rlp2EoI

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It turns out that #AI is mimicking the output of #Oxbridge / #PublicSchool alumni: plausible bullshit, assserted with eloquent confidence

h/t @Natasha_Jay

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Dr Ian McCormick Jan 11

"leading selective universities should have to limit their intake of privately educated UK undergraduates to a more representative 10% each year, compared with the c. 30% that universities such as Oxford, Durham and Cambridge currently admit." #highered #academicsky #edchat #inequality #Oxbridge

Dr Ian McCormick Jan 11

"pupils from prestigious private schools who went to leading universities were 52 times more likely to reach elite positions in society than those who attended any other schools." #highered #academicsky #edchat #inequality #Oxbridge #education www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Leading universities urged to ...

Leading universities urged to take no more than 10% of students from private schools

Expanding access to Oxbridge and other leading institutions would boost social mobility, say authors of new book

The Guardian

Gary Hall Jan 9

Even if Trinity Hall, Cambridge backs away from this reportedly 'immoral' strategy of targeting recruitment at elite private schools such as Eton and Winchester, it still tells you a lot about what many people in these institutions really think.

https://thetab.com/2026/01/08/cambridge-college-set-to-target-elite-private-schools-for-its-recruitment

Defund them!

https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/

#HE #highered #universities #oxbridge #Cambridge #class #classwar

Cambridge college set to target ‘elite’ private schools for its recruitment

Trinity Hall said 'reverse discrimination' is a concern

The Tab

Gary Hall Jan 6

Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x), by Jade Franks

Really wanted to see this show but it’s already sold out.

https://sohotheatre.com/events/but-maybe-not-me-mates-x/

Still, reassuring to know there are so many people interested in culture that is thinking critically about Oxbridge privilege and how #class plays out in Britain today:

https://openbookcollective.org/books/book/5679981/

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/

#theatre #comedy #classwar #culture #Oxbridge #priviledge

Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x) - Soho Theatre

Fresh from a sell-out, five-star debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, Jade Franks’s award-winning solo show is back.

Soho Theatre

Gary Hall Oct 27

A #video of my 'Liquidate AI Art' talk for the Computer Arts Society is now available:

https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art

‘This talk expands on my recent #book ‘Masked Media: What It Means To Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence’:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

It argues for liquidating #AI #art, not out of a dismissal of #artificialintelligence as techno-fascist, nihilist or parrot-like, but an insistence that art has always been created by assemblages of #humans and nonhumans.

The talk references Frieder Nake’s assertion that art should not be divided into commodifiable styles based on the #tools used, but should function as a radical force capable of disrupting the hierarchies of the art world.

Picking up on this challenge, ‘Liquidate AI Art’ shows how UK arts funding today overwhelmingly benefits upper- and middle-class, privately educated #Oxbridge #graduates.
What’s needed is a #redistribution of resources to support radically different artistic practices.