It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

the way I always describe Sam Vimes is that ACAB includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes

Disagree with this purely because it implies that third-party consultants in universities have gone away. The likes of the Nous Group are still out in the open peddling the same multi-million pound grifts. www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

The vitriolic and, yes, misogynistic hatred of Sturgeon was really striking. Like the "Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht" back cover literally revels in putting the uppity woman who had the temerity to run Scotland back in her place so that men could be put back in charge again.

Decent haul from Glasgow Zine Fest today.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Just heard Grizz Chapman died. Truly a nice, warm man who loved comedy and loved the recognition he got from 30 Rock. Did a handful of shows with him my first few years in New York and couldn't have been cooler to everyone he came across there.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

Brits love the GC movement because its a form of fascism cloying and twee enough for them.

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

There should be tie-in novels for sitcoms like there are for Star Wars and Star Trek. Maybe we deserve the gritty backstory of Susan, the lesbian from F•R•I•E•N•D•S.

The guidance issued yesterday is a disgrace, and shows just how low Labour have sunk since the days when they believed in equality and human rights. But this is far from over. Legally, politically and practically, this can and will be fought. greens.scot/news/ehrc-gu...

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

I’ve said this before but, do you know why the new EHRC guidance doesn’t make any sense? it’s because when you try to write clear laws or guidelines based on bigotry, they don’t make sense. they can’t. because they’re not coming from a place of reason, they’re coming from fear and hate

1998 btw Truly insane how far backwards rainy fascist island has gone on trans rights and acceptance

The "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd sure seem to want to put their feelings into legislation.

Shared in the Discord for @janewayolh.bsky.social's The Lower Decks symposium: I've been working on migrating content from OJS 3.4 to Janeway and have developed some open source Python scripts that work against the OJS REST API and export data in the format for Janeway's Import plugin.

what a weird country we've built where the prime minister gleefully announces no fucker wants to come here any more

This is why you really shouldn't trust the immediate reporting on, eg, the code, or about legal cases. It is genuinely remarkable the extent to which reporting does not get even the most basic details correct. Please wait for actual analysis from the law and policy experts working in this space.

This @janewayolh.bsky.social symposium has also reminded how much I hate Discord. Horribly confusing and cluttered platform. I tried the open source alternative, Stoat once but I think my problem is with this whole class of software.

Shared in the Discord for @janewayolh.bsky.social's The Lower Decks symposium: I've been working on migrating content from OJS 3.4 to Janeway and have developed some open source Python scripts that work against the OJS REST API and export data in the format for Janeway's Import plugin.

The Times coverage of what the Code is likely to contain is embarrassingly wrong. It talks repeatedly about what it will tell employers to do – but, of course, the guidance is only for service providers and associations. This is a question of basic accuracy and understanding. Shameful.

I'm attending The Lower Decks symposium on @janewayolh.bsky.social and open access publishing today. I'll be online but the in-person event is in Dublin and I've been reminded, not for the first time, how irritating it is that there are multiple different time zones which use the code 'IST'.

“ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months.” #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Aye. That’s the point m8

£0.5m to specialist LGBT+ domestic abuse services literally only sounds like a lot of money to spend on that to exactly the kind of people who hate queers and think they should be battered out of existence. This is not something for a government to brag about as if it makes them sound good.

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

A Scottish Daily Express post came up on my Facebook and the comments were largely people deliberately misgendering Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan because they mixed her up with Q Manivannan who they were actually trying to misgender.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

Chuffed to announce we are now the publishing partner for the Edinburgh Student Literary Journal! Founded in conjunction with the UoE Literature Society, ESLJ provides a space for the publication of academic essays and book reviews produced by university students. open.journals.ed.ac.uk/eslj

STOP PRESS yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social described Tarkovsky’s STALKER as “The Detectorists, but Russian” and I may never recover

Framing the Internet: A conversation with James Louis Smith (aka me) https://copim.pub/framing-the-internet-a-conversation-with-james-louis-smith/ #experimentalpublishing #copim #openbookfutures #iiif #iframes

Unironically this is v cool

Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is seeking a Journal Publishing Coordinator to help shape the future of academic publishing in Scotland. To apply and learn more: https://www.sup.ac.uk/news/d9aldr4xeox9ux9fm1jb5xacamwsz4

Two of our Scurl hosted OJS instances upgraded to OJS 3.5.0-4 before 10:00. Not a bad morning's work and the morning is only half done.

The protestations here are ridiculous. Even in co-authored scientific pieces spanning multiple fields, every author should have read and understood every cited article. You should not put your name to something that you don't understand.

"Recent public reporting about organisations restricting access to public repositories due to AI-enabled code analysis illustrates how quickly leaders may reach for blanket closure in response to uncertainty."

If you don't regularly check the homepage of the Wikipedia app, you're missing out.

Edinburgh University’s supreme academic body has warned of a “lack of transparency” over a £140m cuts drive Across UK higher education, decisions are taken by a small, unrepresentative circle, with scrutiny sidelined & rewards flowing upward 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611129...

class that apparently now every year in eurovision is people trying to rig it for israel so they keep coming in second because loads of other people are boycotting it

oh well

States committing genocide must not be welcome at Eurovision. Russia and Belarus were rightly excluded after the invasion of Ukraine. But the atrocities inflicted against Palestinians are ignored. Licence fee payers shouldn’t have to fund Israel's pinkwashing propaganda.