It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Ha don't worry! They forgot to cut out my heart before trying to burn me, so no harm done - but the apple harvest is going to be poor this year. The problem with your aggressively horny fertility cult is you won't find another sacrificial virgin in a hurry.

Collecting old beanstalks for tinder/ kindling (I don't even have an open fire)

Oh Christ. Oh Jesus Chri

Blessed Solstice everyone! I'm being treated like a king today! Everyone in this village is so nice and festive - and I've been invited to a massive clifftop barbeque at sunset tonight! Perfect end to a great Solstice festival 🥰

A lot of digital tools are not about reducing work, but rather about redistributing it to a different set of workers. A handy rule of thumb when considering people embracing digital tools is to just see if that person is redistributing their labor or having labor redistributed to them.

Someone on a podcast I watched the other day said that the less skilled a person is the more they seem to be excited by AI, and I can’t stop thinking about that. And of course, it makes sense, because there is a point at which you are skilled enough that AI cannot do a better job than you can.

"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

🌿☕ I don't know who did this, but whoever you are thank you. It is genius 🍄 😂 💥

yes, this needs to be said and grateful to our UCU branch for saying it

i wish ppl understood that a social media ban for kids requires a surveillance state to implement. that's the danger. it's not that i think social media is safe for kids. it's that banning kids hands tech companies the keys to every bit of private data imaginable.

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

We never shut up about it!! And we decided. If you've ever worn a verucca sock in a dilapidated victorian swimming pool, you're British.

A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind". When was that, precisely? The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Can't stop thinking about old episode of Hotel Inspector where a woman was freaking out at a close-up photo of a horse's face. 'But it's nose is cut off! It only has one eye!' She was absolutely baffled by the concept of close-up. Or photography. Or how anyone could tell it was a horse.

I think how institutions not to mention managers etc. respond to the clarified EHRC gender ruling will be a good guide to how they will respond to a far right government that will impose further forms of segregation and exclusion that will impact other minorities. Take note of who you can trust.

Where AI use meets the exact dystopian fascism the boosters told me i was hysterical for fearing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OMG, so trenchant: "we cannot consider AI to be morally neutral...If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less worthy ... then it is not merely a tool 'to be used well,' since it has already introduced criteria that contradict the inalienable dignity of the human person."

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Brother Malcolm said it: "The press is so powerful it will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

Actually finding it deeply depressing that humanities Subject Associations seem to provide endless "here is how to embrace AI" blogs and forums and not "here's what you could do, instead, if you refute the claim of 'inevitability', which is your right". You know, for a bit more balance.

Taking pride in British heritage: Putting wank flags on lampposts :( Or Clifftop walk in horizontal Atlantic rain, peeing behind a rock and pondering whether your ancestor peed behind this same rock 5,000 years ago :)

Working class British taxpayers paid for this compensation to enslavers, and so abolition became a moment of redistribution of wealth to the propertied class.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Post your warning sign

How much nettle soup is too much nettle soup? Nettle season is ending soon!

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

time for my recurring segment, "the Orwell people need to read is Politics and The English Language"

Sharing again:

I. Don‘t. Need. AI. To. Teach. And. I. Shouldn‘t. Be. Forced. To.

ART didn’t respond. It just existed there, glaring at me invisibly in the feed.

AI is "just a tool" but also "every child on the planet must be forced to learn to prompt (train) the machines and edit its output and that is the future of education" do not make sense. If it is "just a tool," we do not have to repurpose the entire architecture, goals, of education.

Slightly diminish a book The Assistant Regional-Manager of the Rings

Steal the goose from off the common, before the common gets stolen from off the goose

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

This is it! When AI bros say 'but human art is derivative anyway', they fail to understand that influence hits human perversity, not probability

Heads up Citalopram / Sertraline 100mg medication takers - “If you have been prescribed Sertraline 100mg tablets and have received batch number V2500425, please check the carton contains the right medication. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Millions of us would like a government that is not viciously xenophobic and does not threaten daily the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. But she's happy to ignore us. We don't matter to the Labour government as much as some flag-waving guy who will never vote for them.

The filling lasted 8 days before coming out. Previous one barely 2 hours. Ffs. Is it worth paying £££ for a crown, when I can't keep anything in my teeth?

Going to point at a comet, maybe.

Haircut accident, because I cut my own hair, and have to take my glasses off to buzz the clippers around, but can't see without glasses, and can't see the back anyway. Please nobody look at the back of my head for the next 3 weeks. Thank you.

Last night I picked nettles and ate nettle soup. Now I am hand-sewing a linen shirt. I don't really miss the 1640s, but at least back then when you heard a mysterious Voice telling you to do weird illegal stuff, it was just the Holy Spirit. Or the Devil. Neither of whom waste electricity.