Cormac Deane

Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning

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In Portuguese it's Diario de um Banana, which I think captures the bentness of wimpy, by which I mean thinly coded talk for gayness

Mobility chair on stairway beneath quaint tiled sign for squash courts

Control room #1
Judge Dredd, 1977

there's something Baudrillardian about that statement

Starting my Christmas wish-list now
#control #controlroom

Wow I'm surprised I got that! Really great film

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Moral Collapse - Gaza and the West Re-watching Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt recently, I was reminded of Arendt's argument in Eichmann in Jerusalem that one of ...

Conor McCarthy and Pankaj Mishra on atrocity in Gaza.
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We deserve better than delays to landmark health legislation Alcohol labelling laws have repeatedly been delayed, with American tariffs cited most recently, write Sara Burke and Norah Campbell

"Even in the snakes and ladders that is politics, it’s unusual to stop a piece of reform that you yourself created and championed."

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Israel army says expanded Gaza operation includes 'moving most of the population' Israel’s security cabinet agreed to the ‘possibility’ of distributing much-needed food to the starving population of Gaza.

The IDF seem to be running low on euphemisms:

Israel army says expanded Gaza operation includes 'moving most of the population' jrnl.ie/6696110

Mycelium but I don't believe 'em!

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It might sound at first like a gimmick - writing an essay per week on the same film for a while year. But these essays are beautiful and they point the reader (this reader, anyway) towards many unseen films and books. If you like film, you should follow this on Substack.

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain — lessons from a radical city Sam Wetherell’s provocative history explores a postwar struggle against obsolescence and its relevance for the country’s urban future

I've reviewed a new book about Liverpool for the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/7ec5...

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Is Brave New World a display of American and Zionist superiority? Eoghan Lyng argues that the new Captain America film is a chilling warning of what the United States and Israel are capable of, before cynically demonstrating mercy on their terms

The new Captain America film is a chilling warning of what the United States and Israel are capable of before cynically demonstrating mercy on their terms

Eoghan Lyng writes:

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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it.

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A control room scene that I haven't seen. Must watch this movie now.

Great news for Matheson, and for all of us.