96% of deepfakes are non-consensual pornography. 99% feature women. Read @aloner.bsky.social’s review of Laura Bates’s terrifying new book:

UK can't afford to help old people with winter heating but wants to subsidise failing LLM industry just at the point everyone has started to realise their product is basically crap www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

More 'humanities-led' sponging of funds from UK research for Turing-validated bs. As if it's OK to waffle about systems producing "multiple valid perspectives" when actual AI can't even produce one valid perspective! Clown show. www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica..., www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

The goal is to make these systems both unavoidable and unaccountable. They want to turn “ai is inevitable” from hype into actual policy.

Read more on the bigger picture of AI in Trump's education plans here www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...

I wrote this about how to read and why. Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative. Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world. jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

Halfway there! 🎉 Over 50% of tickets for #ICRMC are already sold. Join us for keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social, along with a host of inspiring presentations. Lock in your spot today: www.creativeresearchmethods.com

Follow for rational thought! #HTLGI25

ICYMI: Why Bother With Creative Research Methods? helenkara.com/2024/01/23/w... #CRMethods

AI is routinely making stupid, nonsensical mistakes that even the most incompetent employee would never make. #socialwork open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

🚨 Tickets are officially on sale for the International Creative Research Methods Conference! Join us for powerful keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social. Lock yours in here 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC #CreativeResearch

Tickets are live for this years International Creative Research Methods Conference! 🎉 With keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social , you won’t want to miss this. Grab yours now 👉https://creativeresearchmethods.com/ #ICRMC

New blog post from the Cumbria Youth Co-Research Collective www.linkedin.com/posts/carlis... Do have a read, and share #youthwork #youngpeople #coresearch #research

The Technology Empowered Dementia Independence (TEDI) Network Plus is a collaboration between Northumbria, @cumbriauni.bsky.social and @newcastleuni.bsky.social, and will also involve health professionals, charities, local authorities, industry, people living with dementia, and their families.

Delighted to be one of the Profs taking this work forward. #dementia #TEDIplus

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read and weep.

Bravo, Harvard. About freaking time. The emperor has no clothes on! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

www.instagram.com/reel/DG0wwdh... @jon ronson on psychopaths leading our world!

@amltaylor66.bsky.social: If you're procuring technology, you need to be able to understand what it does and be able to explain it clearly. Automation can't come at the expense of relationships #PartnershipC

Thrilled to announce our second keynote speaker for #ICRMC: Amanda Taylor-Beswick (@amltaylor66.bsky.social) from the University of Cumbria! 🎤 More updates coming soon! #ICRMC #CRMethods

Really honoured to be involved in this brilliant annual #researchevent #ICRMC

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Our long term public contributor Louise Ting is the brains behind the wildly successful diagram outlining how patient and public involvement can be woven into every stage of the research cycle. In this blog she describes how it's taken on a life of its own. #PatientInvolvement #PPI bit.ly/3MBj2KV

Very much look forward to welcoming @jamesbedford.bsky.social on Wednesday at 8pm GMT as #LTHEchat guest joining us from Australia.

I cannot begin to imagine being able to spend nearly a million dollars on a *watch*; having so much money that you run out of things to spend it on so you buy million-dollar watches. I thought I was being profligate buying Aesop handwash, FFS.

Ressa said “Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a ‘world without facts’ and that was ‘a world that’s right for a dictator.’”

“He has now adopted the same bad-faith characterizations of his employees’ work that the political right did, which used it as a bludgeon to force Facebook to allow ultraconservatives to promote things like targeted harassment and intentional misinformation.”

Coffee with the authors! Do have a look, share, come along! #phenomenography www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-a...

Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.

”It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”F Jameson

Great new blogpost from the FTC, highlighting the fakeness of "AI safety" and highlighting harm from facial recognition, revenge porn, and false promises about making the web more accessible. www.ftc.gov/policy/advoc...

Outstanding, as always #booksky

What a headline “Firm led by ex-UK envoy on ethics made £13m on not-for-profit visa services” apple.news/AF-qTe1rZTAW...

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, Sam, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024

Even Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024

Happy #Jolabokalflod Bluesky friends and followers

“Fundamentally, the engine of generative AI is fill-in-the-blanks, or what I like to call ‘autocomplete on steroids.’ Such systems are great at predicting what might sound good or plausible in a given context, but not at understanding at a deeper level what they are saying…”

A couple of days on from #SocMedHE24 I've reflected on what I learnt. Thank you again to Liz Mossop for her welcome address, @amltaylor66.bsky.social for her thought provoking keynote, and to @suebecks.bsky.social for being such a wonderful co-organiser! www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflec...

What an amazing 10th year of #SocMedHE24 Met a number of people who attended #SocMed15. And got home to the most amazing gift, peppered with local histories I had no idea about #StrongandNorthern Thank you SO much @suebecks.bsky.social @dralison.bsky.social and the #SocMedHE community

This is epic! Thank you so much @debbaff.bsky.social #SocMedHE24

What a fabulous day and legacy you’ve created… @suebecks.bsky.social @dralison.bsky.social and Helen. #SocMedHE24

So pleased to be connected @alererou.bsky.social Hope to speak again soon #SocMedHE24

What a complete honour to keynote at the 10th #SocMedHE conference. So much progressive pedagogy, criticality, student focus and collaboration. #highereducation

Delighted to be back in Sheffield - looking beautifully festive 🎄on the eve of #SocMedHE A wonderful event on the academic calendar! Super honoured to be a part of it 🙏🏻

“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” as told thru neighborhood surveillance tech.