i think this is an important point - not just the way ai coding tools can affect an individual programmer, but the way it interrupts a social practice / a community of people making software
Yup! The only lessons UKRI have learned over the last decade has been how to appropriate the language of EDI without actually meaning it
Maybe this will be the performative cruelty that will finally convince reform voters to vote labour!
This is deeply suspicious. I don't believe anyone can turn around a competitive multi institution £40 million EoI in 2 weeks.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.
I don't listen to predictions from a man who was so confident that the blockchain was the future that he named his company "block".
See also, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.
I heard today in a meeting that by 2028 my institution will be fully AI enabled. I'd love it if just once, managers were made to define their terms.
Feb 14, 2025: Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment
Horses in London c.1900: 300,000
Horses in London now: ~20
A LOT more free. 🙏😊🐎
Every day we stray further from the light of god (complimentary)
Tech feudalism here we come! Deskilling poor people allows the ruling class to further separate themselves from average people, and to extract more rent from us.
Yep. I'm starting to do oral exams in one module, where I sit with each student and we discuss and reflect on what they have learned.
Teaching is a conversation and too many people (tech bros and managers) have lost sight of that.
Just awful. We have been told that we don't generate enough profit, as if thats ever a thing that education should be required to do
I am so angry at this shit. In theory using this would violate my institution's regulations and should result in expulsion. But I expect that we'll soon be told that we need to embrace this technology because it empowers students.
Of the many things that piss me off about this, the fact that this also "participates" in discussion posts for you is disgusting.
Using this damages your classmates learning without their consent.
Shout out for the learned societies keeping a beady eye on the state of the disciplines that university senior managers are so swiftly dismantling. Keep an eye on the state of UK university Geography with the help of the @rgs.org 's new report, published this week.
It was an awful time. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever fully recover from the stress of it all.
Oh wow. That's deeply depressing. The instructor we had in geography was much more senior and less human.
Reminiscing about the Australian consultants that were brought in to give us 1 hour of training on online teaching. Key takeaway: wear lipstick or a hat to seem more engaging.
love a bit of continvouclous morging
Just waiting on The National's reporting on this:
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America. not even once.
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Definitely not just you. I regularly review things and add comments to the editor explicitly saying that if the authors address my minor comments, I don't need to see it again. And yet!
This is a depressing example of the rot at the heart of capitalism. Nothing can ever be finished, but instead has to be constantly revised and "updated" to extract more rent from consumers.
Notepad was feature complete 30 years ago and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Oh man. Just wait til Lucy finds out about the millions of others also in this situation. She's gonna be so mad!
