ChatGPT can't even get basic facts about Fargo (1996) right, but it gave me the wrong answers very confidently. If you don't know about something, AI is not the place to ask. If you've been enjoying AI lately, ask it about something you know. Watch it fumble. Lose faith. This is the way.

ICE hasn't been this unpopular since the Titanic

Average salary among Russell Group vice-chancellors increased above £350,000 last year, despite these universities losing almost 7,000 staff members due to cost-cutting www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

My poor broken bike. Hamish, my 2009 Honda CBF600, took a low impact spill on some unexpected black ice quite some time ago and has been in the garage ever since. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of fixes (he was never in primo condition anyway) but I really do need to get wrenching again!!

And this is why librarians are almost always the #1 champions of Open Access - because we run up against these brick walls of commercial enclosure and artificial scarcity ALL THE DAMN TIME, and if it frustrates users, for us ou can multiple that by 1000%.

This year I am going on a seven week hike along the GR11 (hiking the Spain/France border coast to coast, wild camping where possible) and I want to commemorate the event with a new watch. I have earmarked this Casio Gshock (solar powered, radio controlled time) and wow, I am very excited.

This right here! Academic textbooks used to be much more widely available as eBook versions and easy to provide, but publishers are pushing a "1:1 eTextbook model", whereby the institution has to buy one eBook for every student on the course, which can costs tens of thousands. (1/2)

The Frasier ski lodge episode is on channel 4 right now and my god - its no secret but this is peak Frasier

K-POP Demon Hunters was amazing. My only complaint was that it ended too quickly, which is a much better complaint than something dragging on. I laughed and I cried and I danced. On a long train journey. On my phone with earbuds.

This is definitely my experience. Students are also finding AI Generated content posted to ResearchGate and using it in their assignments.

pals you gotta quit spotify

I was shady towards #TheBeastInMe. It is uneven, it is heavy handed, it is not subtle. But it was fun!! A blast. Guilty pleasure 💯. I mean, I watch ‘90s Melrose Place… I have no right to be judgy about anything.

Saw Sunset Boulevard for the first time ever and on the big screen no less. What a an absolutely stacked movie. So big yet so intimate. Wonderful.

My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech. Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!

#TheBeastInMe - definitely a guilty pleasure, melodramatic and a little silly but a good time

So the only queen who doesn’t get a choice is PM, my absolute favourite queen of the season so far?! Brutal!! #CanadasDragRace

Just sharing a pic my wife took last week of our dog sleeping IN MY BED while I’m at work.

Cake for dinner last night. Cake for breakfast today. Cake for lunch. Not sure if I'm in heaven or hell.

I wished the man at the Post Office a merry Christmas and he was so confused it’s a miracle I’m still part of society and I didn’t spontaneously combust with embarrassment

The worst thing about buying anything secondhand on eBay is the AI generated nonsense that people put up describing the object. JUST TELL ME THE CONDITION INFORMATION I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR ARTIFICIALLY GENERATED ADJECTIVES

Visiting family in South East England and jumping Jack flash these train prices are absolutely grinding my gametes

My electric hob - which came with the house - is dogshit and cooking a stir fry is a devastatingly unhappy experience

I need to work on this model more than once every couple months. 😂 My first Gunpla! This is an official model of a Zaku Mobile Suit as featured in the series Mobile Suit Gundam. Bad guys always look cooler - fact. It’s how you can spot them!

This month's temporary obsession seems to be vintage automatic watches. 2months ago it was mechanical keyboards (never bought one though). Today I won an 80's Orient Tri-star (automatic movement) on eBay for £35. These were mass produced&inexpensive, so I know it's not a special find, but I'm happy!

2 episodes into Netflix's #TheBeastInMe. Not prestige intense drama, but fun guilty pleasure. We giggle every time Clare Danes Googles something with one finger (isn't she supposed to be a WRITER?). For this series, SHOW DON'T TELL seems to mean showing us google results. Matthew Rhys ELECTRIC tho.

Walkabout Mini Golf in VR is diabolically amazing. The treasure hunt aspect is next level fun. So simple, but so rewarding and addictive.

Ah, temperature feels like -5 c this morning. Time to get the big coat out of storage and walk the dogs.

In our #DCCRPG game our lv1 wizard wanted to enlarge our warrior before a fight. The warrior was shrunk down to the form of a tiny baby before growing back to 10% more than his previous size &the wizard was bathed in holy light while a blue star burned on his forehead. This game is weird. ❤️

"Weeding Is Fundamental" an episode from the podcast 99% Invisible. It's about the practice of weeding books, and how an earthquake in the late '80s sparked a furore around the practice of weeding. Really good stuff, if you're into books or libraries LISTEN. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...

Experimenting with smelling nice... just a little bit for myself, not for anyone else... not trying to be obnoxious or make anyone gag. A little bit of CKin2U and I'm feeling real nice.

Our hacker character was the star of the show during a recent #BeamSaber game. Turning the tide and evening the odds. Hacks, counter hacks, databombs and taking control of enemy turret systems. She's not often available for the sessions but this time she SHINED.

Primo Research Assistant was something we trialled at RGU, though I must admit I didn't attempt any "controversial" searches. Such a thing shouldn't really be a barrier in academia. We SHOULD be researching such things. What's going on.

Boyka! Boyka! Boyka! #ScottAdkins #Undisputed #Boyka

Reading the Dying Earth book by Jack Vance (my intro to the author) and just finished the chapter/short story “Ulan Dhor”. Wow!! 🤯

One of my favourite things to do as an adult is to obsessively research a future purchase and make spreadsheets comparing all the variations, models and alternatives. Conditional formatting, colour schemes, and scores. ALWAYS at the expense of a more important task. Is there anything better??

Next week my lunchtime #DungeonCrawlClassics game will finish our first funnel (Portal Under The Stars) and we will level up our level 0 characters!! Then I’m hoping to get the gang together for a night out so we can blast through Sailors On The Starless Sea in a pub, with cold beers and hot snacks.

In the UK legit protest groups are being criminalised. Surveillance is omnipresent and the online safety act is forcing people to give their data to untrustworthy sources. If that isn’t enough to steer you towards a VPN know this…. A VPN allows you to watch Project Runway season 21 on Disney+.

Going through a brief but intense phase of really wanting to buy and build a mechanical keyboard for using at work. They are so pretty.

Everyone is talking about The Life of Chuck and until this minute I assumed that the Dane Cook movie “Good Luck Chuck” was having some kind of unexpected resurgence. Can we talk about how uncanny and weird this poster is though?

Wow, #DungeonCrawlClassics is great. I’ve landed here on my TTRPG journey, having travelled the probably familiar road of #DnD, #pbta, #fitd… I think I’m going to stay here a little while (not forever of course)! I’m curious - what systems have u got wonderfully stuck in? Which did u drop quickly?

I did it! I fixed the faded and blue LEDs from my TV by replacing them with spares on eBay and watching a lot of YouTube. No specialist tools, just a screwdriver, a credit card, a table with a blanket on it and a cup of tea.

My old second hand LG TV has turned blue as the LED backlights have gradually died. In January I bought replacement LED strips but I’ve been too scared to do it. Mustering up some courage to try it today. Wish me luck.

Fantastic 1hour #DungeonCrawlClassics session today, our 2nd hour in the funnel "Portal Under The Stars". Two more level 0 characters met grisly ends, and as the hour ended, we rolled initiative... seven determined peasants wielding rusty swords and pitchforks piling in on a gigantic snake demon.

I’m now running 2 lunchtime games at work. I’m running my library team (mostly newcomers) through #ChasingAdventure. I’m also running a #DungeonCrawlClassics level 0 funnel for a library/research office combo. We play DCC today and I can’t wait to slaughter more PCs!! The body count is high!!

If you play TTRPGs online and don't want to use Zoom/Teams, try kSuite by Infomaniak, it's free, it has it's own online conference tool (Kmeet), it also allows you to save and host the video recordings. You get access to an online drive. www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite/my...

1/2 🧵 I'm GMing Beam Saber. An entanglement involves a PC's loved one becoming enlisted alongside us. I've had my players give me a brief outline of an NPC and I will roll to see who has been enlisted. A simple prompt has led to some fantastic world building and PC development. I ❤️ #BeamSaber!

Friends last night I made dinner from a recipe in a BOOK rather than on my phone. What a delight. It never went blank or rejected my wet thumbprint. No ads. No pop ups. This is new tech I can get behind. What a time to be alive.

Brilliant piece from Simon about the OSA, why it’s bad news and how to work around it.

They've tackled the Alien and Jurassic Park franchises, now they are tackling the Mission Impossible franchise. Hitting a real sweet spot between film criticism and just being humans who love fun movies. I'm really enjoying this run. Highly recommend you give this a listen.

To all the students that laugh at my little jokes during a referencing presentation or literature searching refresher... thank you. You literally give me life. To the students who stare blankly - no hard feelings honestly, I get it, I really do!!