Messaging the group chat after getting your diagnosis.

Good that this has been properly researched since it's obvious to anyone with an understanding of how LLMs actually work.

Britain: we have foreign people doing jobs Britain: dont like it Britain: *bans all the people doing jobs without visas* Britain: *suddenly needs people to do jobs* Britain: *hands out work visas to people to do those jobs* also Britain: HOW in the HELL did the NUMBER of work visas JUMP so HIGH

You couldn't make Father Ted today because it's already almost 3 and it takes more than a few hours to make a sitcom

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Very few folk turned out to protest about immigration in Dundee today but there were lots of us there to counter them just in case. We were a strong friendly crowd, singing and chanting all afternoon, reclaiming the saltire and welcoming refugees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎶 #dundee #scotlandwelcomesrefugees #saltire

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Never thought I’d see Nazi salutes thrown on the streets of Glasgow. Screen shot shows one of the organisers of yesterday’s far right rally commenting that this is ‘beautiful’. They are telling us who they are. Believe them.

AI really has gotten to that point that NFTs did where it's not just the tech itself being noxious it's the people who are most invested in it being noxious and having these communities where they reinforce one another's terrible behavior online

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

It was absolutely tremendous to give the fascists of Glasgow such a miserable day today - topped off by the police clearing off the last of their dregs. One thing was notable, though. Scottish fash have moved to Trump, Charlie Kirk 😂 and American Christianity as their new 'cause' Zero identity.

Message boards used to moderate out Nazi content.

The neo-fascists were outnumbered the whole time. There a lot of them especially around 1330 when they attempted to do speeches but they were always outnumbered by anti-fascists and most of them left quickly once they realised we were having a better time than them.

This article significantly undersells the extent to which the racists were outnumbered and outsung and, ultimately, the total victory of the anti-fascists.

I've heard media is covering the event by being vague one the numbers and the police involvements-- it was like 10:1 antifascists vs fash, and the only police involvements were when the raged out dregs of the fash side threw punches at the cops who were trying to get them to leave.

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

The best reaction when fascists turn up to try and provoke and dusrupt a pacific demo? Start street party!!! ❤️ Well done Glasgow good #antifascist people!!

Fascist numbers dwindling now. Glasgow is anti-racist ✊🏾

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

This Saturday. Glasgow. Buchanan Galleries steps. Come in your numbers and show that the far-right will never be welcome in our communities. There is a counter protest planned by the fascists, so a strong presence is necessary. Antifascism is everyone's duty. @sutrscotland.bsky.social

just a reminder that the scottish greens are the only parliamentary party in the uk that’s socialist and anti capitalist *by manifesto* for years. there’s an opportunity to push the gpew that way *right now*, if we’re talking about electoral opportunities

All the people who sneered at Polanski (and at the Scottish Greens) for not immediately promising to stand aside in favour of the mailing list that may never be a party might want to think about what's the most likely route to a meaningful left bloc in parliament at this point.

Why wait for them to figure out if it's going to be ours, yours, theirs, all at once or nothing at all? Time to join the party that's already making a difference! members.greens.scot/join

There's always money in universities for proprietary systems whether surveillance hardware or LLMs or Microsoft's genocide-supporting products but money for actual staff is never guaranteed.

like, the fact so many of the flag fash were convicted domestic abusers — nearly half — isn’t just a correlation. it’s because domestic violence, the use of violence to control a home, is simply the domestic expression of fascism

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

Same with commercial proprietary software when we could have been investing in people and building our own infrastructures.

Interesting times have happened over the last twenty years while we have wasted millions of pounds in public resources pursuing commercialised forms of open access publishing.

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Thanks, Microsoft, but I'll turn this off because I'm a competent adult and was recruited for my role partly because I can do all these things unassisted.

When I advise getting a mastodon account (on a European server) I mean it in the same sense as "you should get a crystal radio to listen to the BBC". It being a bit jankier really isn't the point.

Even I don't release software this shoddy and I'm not a billion dollar company.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

The eternally-great thing about open source: if something doesn't exist, and the devs don't have time to work on it themselves, you can just implement it for them! If they decide not to take it as-is, you've still helped explore the design space. And if they don't accept it, but you need it, fork!

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

Executive fella on the train next to me this morning was using ChatGPT on his phone to generate justifications for downsizing teams and cutting jobs.

The condition "if we don't maintain high levels of immigration" rather suggests a solution to this problem that isn't encouraging suicide.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Admittedly not an expert here but I feel like the answer here might be "yes"

Bertrand Russel is how i aspire to respond to people

The follow-up post is the best part.

Just signed up as a regular monthly supporter to @kcommons.bsky.social -- very straightforward to do and a very good place to send any cash you can spare ✅

Error messages in 2005: "Error 45ODX: Batching cache error. System critical." Error messages in 2025: "Something went wrong. Try again later :)"

They've been told that racism is wrong but they've also been told that the views they hold are right. So if the views they hold are right then they can't be racist because that is wrong

macOS Tahoe is macOS version 26 and is the 22nd major release of macOS. It is the successor to macOS version 15. Clear?

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