Another thing I personally respect (although alas no longer a local do can only take their word for it!) is the open self-critique and using that to spur themselves on to better interpretation, broadening narratives and intentionally seeking out where their own gaps might be.

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So… now that the show is over, can I catch up with about 3 weeks of lectures in 5 evenings??? We shall see, we shall see…

I didn’t even feel second hand embarrassment, it was so bad…!!

Three questions for U.K. peeps: 1. If you wanted to provide a CPD certificate (or similar) in exchange for participation in projects/events, what are the common challenges/pitfalls? 2. Ditto for providing some form of independent accreditation that would have some credit beyond the program? And +

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Someone commented that listening to Patrick Bateman describing Whitney Houston’s album is like reading a ChatGPT generated analysis and I think just can’t #AmericanPsycho

His manifesto is now acceptable political discourse on Sky

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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

FWIW the most talented, smart people I know of any immigration status in any country have one thing in common: they’re not very well paid or making a lot of money.

It was all worth it in the end!! Had another fantastic time with the Grosvenor Light Opera Company singing the fantastic musical version of A Christmas Carol by Alaric Barrie. Two performances, one day. Weeks of rehearsals! What a lovely way to start seeing out the year…

Sad to have missed this years #MuseTech25 (not to brag or anything but had a user testing session which turned out to be pretty amazing) but the smattering of posts suggest it was the injection of real-talk inspiration it usually is! Keeping an eye out for next years theme… 👀👀👀

'And it's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is, precisely 0.13 percent'

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One of my many hypocritical beliefs is that when I make an End of History joke, it is funny and good, but when anyone else does, they are unfairly disrespecting a brilliant and prescient book and should die in a fire.

In many Western tales, you're taught to slay your monsters. In ours, you dance with them. You heal them. Our film is in its final days on Kickstarter: bit.ly/croc-dance-ks #Kickstarter #animatedfilm #crocodiledance

Me coming back from rehearsals: you know what, let’s actually just go to bed straightaway I’m exhausted Me actually home:… I think we can afford to skim read this weeks course lectures…

Look, whilst I understand all things change and some things must come to an end, I am a little relieved my upper range wasn’t really lowering, I was just singing like a fool with no support and bad warm ups.

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We've been trying since September to get enough support for these families to secure some semblance of shelter before winter, but winter's here and most of them are in tents that provide no protection. Help six families & a camp—then act for their lives. chuffed.org/project/hope...

this Girlguiding thing is so miserable. and so emblematic of the bigot playbook. a poisonous minority of mindless, soul rotted cultists intimidating decent people - who far outnumber them - because they have the backing of Big Transphobe. and for what? to make life miserable for a defenceless few

In fairness, I was warned that the longest part of making a bustle skirt* is the draping but even so can’t believe in 5 hours all I got was some pleating and two pins in…

Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...

Orange bloomers. #coloraday #orangesun #bloomscrolling #gardening

Because I am still an absolute novice at dressmaking, I of course bought way too much fabric for this overskirt BUT otoh… a) it’s a gorgeous colour b) better to have too much then too little and c) I guess this means I’ll just up the volume!

LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

"Access as meditation: A love letter to image descriptions & closed captioning" by Bella Milroy=good+free zine on writing alt text (& similar) as reflective opportunity for the alt-text writer. (39 more zines on accessibility+disability justice, many free, catalogued at airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...)

Just want to do flower arranging for the rest of my days, I think.

love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”

“Benefit caps” (ie reparative amendments for systemic silliness) are just so ridiculous because the money comes back! The money of the working classes always comes back!!! Even our ISAs are too basic to truly drain much from the state lol

These past two years have seen protests across the continent. Kenya. Mozambique. Morocco. Madagascar, where the entry into the fray of the security services, Sudan 2019-style, even sent the president into exile. These protests have to do with anger – rage – at our broken social contracts.

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Right and this is such an interesting… disjoint in UX of LLM interfaces. There are patterns from eg Google’s image recognition tool for visually indicating (as it’s all black box really) reliability and it’s really telling how a lot of UX discourse laser focussed on essentially micro-copy but +

The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...

Genders in cross diaspora-English revealed depending on whether you call the dude restaurant owner ‘uncle’ or ‘boss[man]’.

One of the most infuriating (amid hot competition) things about discussion of closing music departments is the plea 'oh but we love extra-curricular things like orchestras'. It's a wilfully ignorant reduction of what academic music depts do. High level performance is 1 component within ...

Thanks to everyone who came along to this. I mostly talked about taking a more deliberate approach to tech adoption, and shared some of the findings from this research into how the expansion and adoption of tools like Copilot requires diligence www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

Andrew, because he’s a dickhead everyone hates; Mandelson, because he’s a dickhead who made the lobby hacks look like bent clowns. Even then, this was all decided offscreen, far from anything that looks like scrutiny. There are no higher principles at work than “Thou shalt not humiliate the lads”.