RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Thanks! I'll put that in my to-read list.

Junior staff in publishing are forever dealing with horrors, but a horror that's theoretically aimed at destroying their jobs is additionally gross.

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

I’ve had a few fruitless conversations with UK civil society over the years along the lines of: you know the far right is outplaying and out-strategising and out-organising you in every way, while you’re wanking around with a Mastodon install and calling it impactful advocacy b/c it’s decentralised

Nic Cage is kinda like the inverse Jared Leto, I'll watch just about anything he's in.

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: We don't have primary sources from that period, as is often the case, but the candidate's performance (Nome et. al, 1-2) in the surrounding years (Ibid., 2-3) builds sufficient pattern (Ibid., 1) to move forward.

Have I ever told you about my favourite spice? Hockey Pulver is pure salt licorice/salmiak bliss. You can sprinkle it on whatever you like, of course, but I mostly use it on ice cream and in smoothies. It’s good on popcorn too.

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

We are going to have a harder time prying the reasoning of AI out of people , than the technology. They are leaning on the idea that humanity will anthropomorphize ( and forgive) things that remind them of hegemonic power Than people who challenge it

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?