If you believe that responsible use of GenAI in qualitative research is *possible*, and oppose a blanket NO, feel free to sign this open letter. docs.google.com/document/u/2... #ArtificialIntelligence #Qualitative #SocialPsychology

@38degrees.bsky.social your share link after signing a petition includes X but not Bluesky! Please fix! Thanks.

38d.gs/w9ae I just signed, please join me!

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

Omg a moderately moderate rain warning. Slightly elevated probability of more persistent drizzle. Life in the UK, sigh.

Me: I'd like to save my document on my computer please. Microsoft Word: ah you mean save it in the MicroCloud? Me: No. Word: How about these other places in your MicroCloud? Me: No. Word: This is fun...

Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/bbc-dg-o...

I've finished my shocking dossier of things I don't like about the BBC and changes I'd like made. Can I just post it here or do I have to write for the Telegraph?

Corbyn once wore a slightly Russian-looking hat. Miliband once ate a sandwich clumsily. But those were much bigger crimes so it's fair they were never forgotten. Whereas Brexit, who cares?

INSANE HEAT IN CHINA Unstoppable hazardous heat continue with temperatures today up to 38.5C and 25 stations breaking October heat records (6 Tmaxes+19 High Tmins). Already 3000+ records have fallen in East Asia these 10 days and MANY more are expected next week.

So exhausting..

Hi, UK Home Office here, just circling by to tell you that your book club thing has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Sorry can't say why, national security etc. But the reasons if only I could reveal them are terrifying, terrifying.

Want to make sense of masses of stories in text data? The Causal Map app does that, and the new version is now FREE for core functionality. We are launching very soon. If you're interested in getting a sneak peek, reply here! And it's "Human first, AI next". #qualitative #QDA #CAQDAS

Israel out of the World Cup? Sign now. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

This appalling fascist rally in London is by far the largest far-right event in the UK ever. Isn't it? #stopfascism

Nutshell

Google weather results for the island of Brač on the Adriatic (supetar, Milna etc) are currently about eight degrees too high. Just type "Google weather Supetar" into Google search. What's going on? #weather #Google

I've got a dumbphone I can sell your kids for (checks notes) £99 a month www.theguardian.com/technology/2... That's £2376 over two years. Two thousand three hundred and seventy six pounds.

Are you talking about Gemini or my brain? ;-) This got me thinking of this:

A British guide to terrorism ... meme via The eloquent quirk

#Heroku totally fallen over for us - API and CLI

I wish these humans could just stop parroting their training data already

I was a Shiny guy and then defected to python/Quart/js for the last few months. Every day I think, wow, Shiny was good at making things simpler. #rstats #r-shiny. I only now realise how good it is.

Public Launch of the Evaluation Registry civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/31/p... recent post from UK Cabinet Office and HM Treasury Evaluation Registry evaluation-registry.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/search/ #openpolicy #opengov

Serious flaws in new "intelligent" devices! In spite of all the hype surrounding these so-called "humans" with so-called "brains", a number of serious flaws have recently emerged. Please be wary when interacting with them. Here's why ... #AI #ai #artificialintelligence

xkcd in 2011, prescient as ever. #AI #ai

There's a concept in engineering that you're not taught except through experience; Chesterton's Fence. It says that people don't build fences for no reason, so if you find a fence you don't understand, leave it in place until you understand it or you'll find out the hard way why it's there

Me: I'd like to save this document, please. MS Word: Sure, where would you like to save it in OneDrive? Me: Not there. Just in my own folders, thanks. Cancel that dialog. MS Word: How about this other dialog with some other folders you won't recognise. Me: NO, not those. Just my folders please ...

What could possibly go wrong?

Is it about the young men? Or the young women?

🖥️ Unexpected benefit of coding an app with AI! I save all the instructions I give to the AI in a README: workflows.causalmap.app/readme. So my spec and my user-guide develop as I go along. It's quick and very dirty but it works for me. #causalsky #qualitative #AI

Thank you so much to all the new followers! I’ve been impressed by the spread of this cartoon and how much it resonated with people especially in the U.S.! I hope to keep inspiring you all with future cartoons. It’s a pleasure to have you all on-board! #politicalcartoonist #cybertruckman #zezvaz

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

The relationship of western European states to the USA now is just like Bulgaria or Hungary to the USSR during the cold war?

I'm trying out #deepseek as my #genAI helper in #cursorApp. Feisty: "Make sure to remove any previous hacks (such as a full-page reload) that you might have added for this issue."

#qualitative can you keep AI-driven qualitative analysis rigorous? Here are some thoughts. www.linkedin.com/pulse/just-a...

Derrida and NLP text embeddings anyone? I love the way thinking about embeddings make you realise how many different aspects there are to a single word, or a single phrase, or a whole text, more than you could ever discover in a lifetime.

Just ordered an e-sim while travelling to another country. Used my phone (obviously). Got an email containing a QR code which I just have to scan. With my phone. By tugging hard on my bootstraps repeatedly in an upwards direction I then sailed off into the sky.