Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
We’re heading into scarce Lime bike season, winter troopers
Happy gotcha day to my best boy. Two years ago he was sad, sick, and scared. Now he’s a round, happy, and chaotic tiny criminal. It’s the redemption arc we all deserve.
Say what you will about the new £185m Schwarzman Centre in Oxford, but my office is essentially the Severance set
I’ve got to say I’m not all that impressed with these chimney sweeps
I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
Detained at his own brother’s pleasure
She’s figured out that if she sticks her paw into the auto feeder she can get a few biscuits out
Tuxedo cat loafing on a purple sofa
Rate the loaf
Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
The galaxy light!
A small purple boy
this is a thing that has happened organically among readers of the book and I feel so blessed to have listeners who engage with what I do in such creative ways. thank you all, I work hard at what I do and you make it deeply worth it
Goblin mode
Amendment passed
Passed by a huge majority
This House will now vote on staying in bed until spring. All in favour raise a paw.
I think this is an all-time high (low?) for #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Being kept company tonight by an umbrella stand full of swords. Very festive (and handy for getting into presents in the morning) #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Yes, the risk of reading it is that it may result in an ongoing obsession with failed arctic voyages
Would definitely recommend! It was my favourite book I read last year. Retells the story of the lost Franklin expedition with supernatural themes.
We found a churchyard cat. He had things to say.
“Newly declassified British documents expose how radioactive clouds from nuclear tests in Australia took days—not hours—to clear, contaminating vast areas in the lead-up to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.”
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
Have had the new tMG album on repeat (it’s great) and I would love to know if @themountaingoats.bsky.social has read The Terror
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