this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

In the future, no one will ever go to prison. You'll simply be followed around all the time by a robot whose job it is to prevent you from doing crimes, which itself will be followed around all the time by two guys whose job it is to make sure the robot doesn't tip over and fall for no reason.

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

oh yay once again these arseholes read the absolutely wrong thing in science fiction. This time: slap drones

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

I worked harder on this book than any before it. My ex-publisher then failed to pay me what they owed me for it & did their best to ruin its chances of survival. That robbed me of a year of my life & ruined my health. After all that, to see reviews like this one brings me close to tears too.

Had a lovely time at #Novacon. Met some very friendly people who were very patient with the technical difficulties I had with my talk slides 😅 did a bit of Morris dancing. Drank some nice beer. Home time!

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Off to #Novacon this weekend! I’m the science speaker for the event and I’ll be talking about AI, science fiction and ethics! Very excited to be attending and speaking at my first SFF con!

JFC this thread - horrifying and appalling the levels of dehumanisation

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

When Chris first sent his request to me to comment on this story, I asked him to quote me as "long, drawn-out sigh". I'm not surprised but secretly disappointed that he chose some of my other words instead :D

In my career in education I've long found students to be far more realistic about the impact of technology on their education than older adults. To students, the latest tech fad does not present as some radical transformation, it's just some thing they gotta deal with.

Found a great Xmas present for @davidgerard.co.uk (though he's probably already seen it) www.basiliskfoundation.com/store/p/cert...

Speaking at #Novacon this weekend and prepping my slides. Speed-reading Erewhon was not on my bingo card for today but hey, I am totally here for it! (and gosh, is The Book of The Machines still relevant or what?!) www.gutenberg.org/files/1906/1...

Zohran literally just quoted Spider-man (2002) and I am here for it 😊

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.

Sheffield Hallam decided slavery research was less important to its mission as a university than Chinese cash, so it folded to authoritarianism. In doing so, a UK university put the interests of Chinese intelligence agents above those of its own staff. There ought to be sackings.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Take this question to every maga

The problem with the “don’t the tech people realize they are talking about doing chattel slavery with AI” discourse is some of those same people, or the “philosophers” they like to cite, talk cheerily about returning to chattel slavery for human beings

Calling all game developers working on making the future a better place, or addressing the bullshit of our current time in some creative way! Where are you? Let's connect and team up.

I made my tiktok debut for @staffsgames.bsky.social ! www.tiktok.com/@staffsgames...

NHC 5 pm Melissa update for Jamaica: "Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside." Winds "may cause total structural failure." Wind speeds are now at *175 mph*.

This does not represent how all fields attribute authorship and it's extremely sucky. In my field, the last author is usually the person who either contributed the least or whose surname is last in alphabetical order.

I am also enjoying this game and have encountered this fail screen (for different reasons, apparently, lol)

Finally! Someone who is telling the truth!

Please kill me

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Fantastic article in which actual experts on AI and higher education cut through the nonsense surrounding the infinite garbage engines and expose a system captured by the techbro sales pitch. "A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so."

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

@liedra.net "an AI safety research company has said" Guardian Stop Reporting Press Releases As News Challenge

@liedra.net https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/110077525298973789

I’m going to have to tap the sign again aren’t I: STOP ANTHROPORMORPHISING LLMS They don’t have a “drive”, they don’t “resist”, this language use is really dangerous, as it sets the wrong expectations of what the tech can do! Arghhhhh! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is incredible

AHRC Rapid Evidence Review grant results came out today and mine was not successful. It’d be nice to get more feedback than an “6/10, good: meets assessment criteria but with some clear weaknesses” - what were they?? 😩 #ukhe

It’s not lost on me that Cuomo, who has been repeatedly credibly accused of sexual harassment, is using AI-generated examples of gender violence to try and smear his opponent, who has never been accused of it

"When the Obamas installed a swing set for their kids and Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on the WH grounds it was a massive scandal. Trump is literally destroying the building itself and the [corrupt, captured] media just shrugs it off."

Flu jab ✅ Covid jab [postponed to November due to traffic jams meaning I missed my appointment :( ] It's very hard to find private covid jab appointments atm! Been trying to get one for my husband and there's only 2 places that seem to do it in a half-hour drive radius

the latest letter against ai superintelligence is just further evidence we live in one of the dumbest possible timelines. all these people who think they’re so smart getting totally hoodwinked by some skilled grifters already tearing the social fabric to shreds.

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

This is extremely grim.

Week 4 of term and I'm finally starting to come up for air. Just a little bit of air though, but it's very welcome. I've been off sick and such as well, it's been a rough few weeks. Grateful to my colleagues for being there to support me.

I'm having the kind of day that has required phoning home for a chat, cake, a swim, & a bowl of chips. I've managed not to have a little cry. You wouldn't think that parts of an academic's job can be extremely distressing, but they are. The things some of our students study through are astonishing.

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Some people are on an entirely different level