Got there in the end. May the receiver enjoy every performance.
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Got there in the end. May the receiver enjoy every performance.
Thinking of all those affected in our community and beyond during this difficult time.
People need to do more of this.
Many congrats. Such a pity I had to miss it.
Remember Americans when you are dying and bankrupted by the worst healthcare in the Western World and the most expensive in the entire world.
It is all so you can blow up schoolchildren halfway across the world.
@abbeytheatre.bsky.social Nightmare trying to buy gift vouchers on your site and no answer on phone.
This is a necessary action @ec.europa.eu
A very joyous day for me to finally meet @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social in the flesh after 4 yrs since our first email exchange.
Thank you to the Jhabvala sisters for the acknowledgement in this posthumous collection.
Extraordinary speech by Arundhati Roy. open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
Horrific thought! Ethics are highly questionable.
BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄
Many congratulations!
A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings.
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. We should demand Israel are banned from the competition. Sign and share the petition if you agree my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie
I can also see the appeal of audio books on long journeys. I wonder what it is about the podcasts? Maybe too fragmented. I like documentaries and some interviews unless too much gassing; but not chat show things so much.
I enjoy them as I do other tasks at the same time. I never listen to books to be honest. I would rather read them.
And where are all the other Gibraltarian born writers?
Comes highly recommended.
You know when you just think.,, maybe not 🙄
Clever!
Yikes!
We need more schemes like this! They make the state money and ensure world class creative talent can become world class creative talent!
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Irish doing same thing. A sneaky means of creating barriers.
So is the process transparent or not and how can it be clarified @simonharrisireland.bsky.social
Let’s hope the Dutch Govt will be listening though. Academia needs functional support.
the settlement process is already extremely complex, lengthy, and expensive; these proposals to make it even more difficult to settle in the UK are cruel
please take the time to respond to the consultation, which closes tomorrow
Poster showing ICRC President with her words: What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms.
Red Cross President: What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms.
