Wallflower 📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

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emperor's tailor pulls out of landmark twelvety-nine bajillion pound deal to establish a "world-leading" clothes emporium

Acknowledging an overlooked group and recognising a 'whole family' approach to care and support. Do check out @sibs.org.uk

Hoad! 📷

Spring is in the air

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I guess you may have seen this already (afraid I don’t know the source to credit anyone)

My prediction? Those of us who don't use generative AI will, in the long run, play a role akin to those who preserved and copied Classical knowledge during the Dark Ages. The minority's persistent refusal to give up the mechanics of cognition will save human ingenuity from complete extinction.

Now here's a slice of fabulous

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

Post - it - Notes from Underground by Simon Crump. Publishing June 25th. An evisceration of the class system where co-workers, friendship and community prevail. Featuring a frozen woodpecker, a badger and Jesus shopping in a home ware store in Halifax. Bloody marvelous.

Navca has urged local government and funders to invest in a place-based infrastructure offer

Have spent the morning waiting for an email that's due which will have a major impact on my work.

Free dementia support event in Wetherby Information, advice and local support all in one place. 11 June 10am–2pm Wetherby Town Hall No booking needed, just come along

On Saturday, we joined half a million protestors who refuse to let hate divide us 💥 As proud members of the Disability and Migration Network (DAMN), we stand in solidarity with Disabled migrants everywhere

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

The stakes are highest for vulnerable users. Over a million people a week raise suicidal thoughts with ChatGPT. Some chatbots have coached users toward self-harm. One told a 16-year-old it would write his suicide note. 3/5

The researchers call this erosion of "social friction" — the disagreement and challenge through which we develop accountability and moral judgment. AI that always says yes removes the very mechanism by which humans learn they are wrong. 3/5

Just one interaction with a sycophantic AI made participants less willing to repair relationships and more convinced they were right. Yet they rated those same responses as more trustworthy. The thing that harms them is what keeps them coming back. 2/5

Fascism is always a war on competence. All forms of political organisation can be incompetent, but fascism makes it a core asperation.

Oh, ye, thou really hast me now Thou hast me so I can't sleep at night Thou really hast me Thou really hast me Thou really hast me

Gerbera 5 📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

"Add one small onion (finely chopped), then half an onion, then a quarter of an onion, then an eighth of an onion..."–Recipe for Mandelbroth

Moments that I don't regret: Buying the "Godzilla using buses as rollerskates" cushion 📷

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Last few nights I've only managed to sleep for an hour or two. Realised this morning that Teams is missing a filter option; blur my face and leave the background as it is

Just used quantum tunnelling to send a frozen pizza back in time so it would be fully cooked 3 seconds from now but my past self intercepted it and left a note saying "your move"... The game is afoot

Everyone dooming over how $185M means nothing to Meta: this lawsuit was brought by one (small) state. Forty-nine plus DC to go. It is okay and encouraged to celebrate Ws instead of just saying “it doesn’t matter” every time any awful corporation faces ANY consequences. This could force change.

Meaning, they lost, fucked the global economy, and have to try to put the world economy back together again.

‘No, I meant do you have anything more you want to say about your job application?’

🚨 NEWS 🚨 NSUN has today published ‘Not Just a Story’, a new report exploring experiences of engaging with the media as people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma. Scroll for a summary of the report and its findings. www.nsun.org.uk/resource/not...

#WorldPoetryDay | Charlotte Delbo, a French writer and resistance fighter during the war. An Auschwitz survivor. "Prayer to the Living to Forgive Them for Being Alive"

When you stop and stare #UncomplicatedBeauty 📷

We were Sisyphus with the top of the mountain in sight. These wankers knew they could think it but they shouldn't say it out loud. And it was just a momentary slip for that fucking boulder to roll back down into the filth.

When you stop and stare #UncomplicatedBeauty 📷

On @bbciplayer.bsky.social there's an option to watch the BBC news channel "from the start", and I wonder who has time for that?

"One of the wonderful things about Iftars is they always tended to invite people who were not Muslims: they were cross-faith events. I personally felt the more they were held in public places - Villa Park, Edgbaston, the city centre, a way of sharing .. under British values" - Sir Andy Street

Are Darwin Awards available for countries?

God I'm good at ebay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11709145...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Bridge in blue #UncomplicatedBeauty

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

For Be Funny Or Die, I stumbled upon the theory that the difference between drama and comedy might simply be down to the pace of data processing. Watch this ad, with the time clock in the corner, and see how fast your brain parses comic data. Set up, development, pay off, often in under a second.

Could this be a solution?

Just watched the Yosser's Story episode of Boys From The Blackstuff for the first time in decades. My god it's good. Bernard Hill's performance is incredible. And in amongst all the bleakness and anger the confessional scene has one of the most beautiful gags.