One of the best takes on "AI", including AI in higher education, compared to the majority of writing almost guaranteed to rehash all the tired and useless tropes from writing on the crisis in higher ed (what is wrong? everything. what shall we do about it? nothing) open.substack.com/pub/theconvi...

some things you can really only do the once or they become rote but if I could relive one moment this here would be high on the list www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s67...

Thought this was a nice thoughtful take on AI use - not blaming them for using the tech but equally, making the case for writing as communication and the struggle as the point www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Didn't know we could just make up international prizes and award them to ourselves?! I like the defense of "it's not illegal to make up a worthless award"

Tired: They‘re NPCs Wired: I’m an NPC

Really exciting funded collaborative PhD position with Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and some excellent colleagues - share with your foodies! Combines food, community and social change with space for candidates to shape it to their own desires...

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Ah yes, I'd forgotten that scientific evidence could just be revoked and therefore made untrue. May as well stick your fingers in your ears and say "la la la I'm not listening"

AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from

This looks really cool - a history of play!

This is a good reflection on change work and networks and how stuff moves: tickled my brain this morning. Something about connecting a nascent movement for doing better... medium.com/onioncollect...

Autocorrupt is a tiny drunk gnome inside your phone that is doing the best it can.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

“His insomnia leads him to sit and read in his armchair. Like in the old days, when the computer didn’t limit his time so drastically.” —Enrique Vila-Matas being brutal @ everybody alive

This is such a cool image - so tiny, but kind of tripe-like? A bit mesmerising

Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive are hosting a talk by Ståle Holgerson on his new book, Against the Crisis 4 Nov 6:30-8pm Civic House free but ticketed www.eventbrite.com/e/against-th... “The most clarifying dissection of ‘crisis’ as concept and reality to appear in several decades” --- Andreas Malm

I hope this day is soon

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Schools are back (in Scotland) and somehow I still can't do everything? It's almost as if society is not built to facilitate full time working, caring parents to have any peace or hobbies or a life...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

The people who hung this banner outside the Labour headquarters have been arrested and will face trial in the UK in January. These are the extreme Orwellian measures Western governments must take to normalize Israel's genocide and war crimes.

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

governments would rather beg consumers to reduce their minuscule individual resource usage than go to therapy* *properly regulate corporate energy consumption and end the use of fossil fuels

Extraordinary words from an extraordinary man

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

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What if every game does not in fact need an optimisation bot? Can I just... Be bad at it but still enjoy it? (NYT games, I'm looking at you)

There's dystopian and then there's whatever this is...

pretty shitty that young people now have to learn with both a 24/7 torrent of entertainment microtargeted to their neuroses in their pocket and a learning environment full of chirpy little prompts to press a button and fake their homework so they can spend a little more time in the neurosis torrent

This. I want to show all my students this. Because they think a plausibly strung together sentence means something it doesn't.

The horror. The absurdity of everyday stuff while you know it's going on.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Okz this is pretty useful, and allows me to consider this place as a kind of work adjacent procrastination

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

Come work with me (and Ross Beveridge (PI), Andy Cumbers and Allan Cochrane) on what we think will be a really interesting project!

This is a nice case made for letting snakes stay. There's a critical parallel with the way we treat humans who are being/going to be displaced by climate change...

"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come work with me (and Ross Beveridge (PI), Andy Cumbers and Allan Cochrane) on what we think will be a really interesting project!

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Places I've heard of so far - UEA, Durham, Kent, Cardiff, Northampton, Canterbury Christ Church, Dundee... York & Northumbria recently did VS cull and not sure if progressing to further cuts or if that's stemmed the tide for now. This is a genuine crisis!

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