Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Doesn't free speech include the right for students to protest speakers? @adamserwer.bsky.social is right, they don't want the right to free speech, they want the right to monolog without any criticism.

If you're interested in participating, please email me at: [email protected] I can't promise I'll respond if there's a deluge, but I'd love to hear from you! Please include a sample of your past work!!

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

(standing in the NARA reading room, “feeding” a raft of unpublished government documents into AI somehow, as the archivists are definitely applauding me, telling it to find the important stuff) “Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”

ah yes from Springfield’s Tractatus Dogico-Workingclass

It shouldn’t have taken this long for his children’s books to get scrutinised in the national press! My god!

A historian of China makes a point about Trump's assault on the Smithsonian. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Samuel L Jackson is 77. This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

I just don't understand how or why academics are citing papers that don't exist. First, you should know by now that LLMs make things up, so if you for some reason found it that way and then didn't double check the citation is real, you are simply an enormous rube.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

December 20th is DePiglio day

This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

The British Press caring so much for “women and girls” that they’ve covered up abuse by a yet another sex pest for decades… …to make space for their transphobic moral panic

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

I have reached out to President Ramaphosa's team to see if the South Africans plan to receive our new anti anti-apartheid ambassador to their country.

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

Cool how there have been fifteen million profiles of McSweeney from all the best-connected hacks in the business, and it takes Steve Reed blurting it out to learn that he maybe thinks the NHS was a mistake.

They're the same companies who are now advertising for temporary positions for human writers to "train AI" to be better at doing the jobs. Which is why none of us should, on any account, do that for them.

This is ridiculous. There clearly has not been a 660% increase in terrorism in the UK over the past year. How much is it costing the criminal justice system to arrest and prosecute all these people for the crime of wearing a t-shirt or holding a placard? news.sky.com/story/terror...

"Globalist agenda". This former Labour MP has been on one hell of a journey

Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford It's mad mythology www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Websites are showing me AI-generated slop ads for fake, non-existent “products.” Modern life is rubbish.

The government is still on X. When you frequent a Nazi bar, and give it money, you're a Nazi.

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

If AI was a great tool that worked consistently nobody would have to convince me to use it. Nobody had to convince me to use a smartphone. I don’t use AI for the same reason I didn’t buy an Alexa or crypto: Because I’m not convinced that the product is more useful than the tools I already have.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

They've introduced a wave of deeply unpopular policies, especially with people who would likely give them a bit of leeway, have been corrupt and sleazy, while also being very uncharismatic and inarticulate. Why on earth would they be popular?

Theresa Villiers on Badenoch. Oddly I hope she's right but this is the latest in the Telegraph's 'Whisper it' series. The record of this series is not good.... (thread)

lol. I thought this was a joke, but it's real ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

🤯 One hell of an introduction to this piece by @rivkahbrown.bsky.social.🤯 novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...

Again going to bang my drum: *Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks *Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails *Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent. Gen AI is poisoned at the root.

It’s so utterly gross how many incredibly senior UK politicians go into lobbying. It’s simply corrupt.

You ban gender affirming care, people will just get it from an online source. It's the same policy result as the failed war on drugs.

On U.S. soil, the worst antisemitic massacre in living memory was perpetrated by one of Vance's white nationalist fellow travelers, who was specifically incensed about the Jewish community providing aid to refugees and asylum seekers.

One of my favourite ever lads: egg thief

This is *hilarious*. I actually barked an angry, triumphant laugh.

Great a think tank recognises libraries' transformative power & with costed proposals.As Louie Stowell says "the scheme would need to be paired with funding for libraries & fully trained librarians"