Really exciting funded collaborative PhD position with Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and some excellent colleagues - share with your foodies! Combines food, community and social change with space for candidates to shape it to their own desires...
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Ah yes, I'd forgotten that scientific evidence could just be revoked and therefore made untrue. May as well stick your fingers in your ears and say "la la la I'm not listening"
AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from
This looks really cool - a history of play!
This is a good reflection on change work and networks and how stuff moves: tickled my brain this morning. Something about connecting a nascent movement for doing better...
medium.com/onioncollect...
Autocorrupt is a tiny drunk gnome inside your phone that is doing the best it can.
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
A much needed addition to the holiday calendar!
“His insomnia leads him to sit and read in his armchair. Like in the old days, when the computer didn’t limit his time so drastically.” —Enrique Vila-Matas being brutal @ everybody alive
Not sure exactly why your thread made me think of it - maybe because he's trying to think about what the path could be or at least what the infrastructure for the path needs to look like
Have you read Lifehouse by Adam Greenfield? He's sort of wrestling with this idea (perhaps a bit more cynically), but his solution is building what we need for when we inevitably need it, and he sees a lot of good in the little experiments
This is such a cool image - so tiny, but kind of tripe-like? A bit mesmerising
Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive are hosting a talk by Ståle Holgerson on his new book, Against the Crisis
4 Nov 6:30-8pm Civic House free but ticketed
www.eventbrite.com/e/against-th...
“The most clarifying dissection of ‘crisis’ as concept and reality to appear in several decades”
--- Andreas Malm
I hope this day is soon
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum
Don’t know who made this but thank you
Schools are back (in Scotland) and somehow I still can't do everything? It's almost as if society is not built to facilitate full time working, caring parents to have any peace or hobbies or a life...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
The people who hung this banner outside the Labour headquarters have been arrested and will face trial in the UK in January.
These are the extreme Orwellian measures Western governments must take to normalize Israel's genocide and war crimes.
My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.
If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
governments would rather beg consumers to reduce their minuscule individual resource usage than go to therapy*
*properly regulate corporate energy consumption and end the use of fossil fuels
Extraordinary words from an extraordinary man
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
What if every game does not in fact need an optimisation bot? Can I just... Be bad at it but still enjoy it? (NYT games, I'm looking at you)
Yes, F likes adventure stories, battles and magic, so there's a bit more plot and character development!
I should say, we read simultaneously - I just like to be able to talk to him about the books, esp when they get a bit intense
Doesn't necessarily stop... I've been reading the Alex Rider books with F - we've read most of them (~14) since Christmas. That's more fun than the magic key though, if I'm honest
There's dystopian and then there's whatever this is...
