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Sutton Trust reaction to the Government's response to consultation on unpaid internships - The Sutton Trust The Government has published its response to the consultation on unpaid internships.

paid internships must be the norm, transparently advertised and properly enforced.

Opportunity shouldn’t depend on your parents’ bank balance. www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

We have FOUR excellent paper prizes to be awarded at the conference: Paul Maharg Legal Ed; BILETA-EJLT; Taylor & Francis IRLCT; Ken Russell Prize (Best PG)... All with a £250 award, potential publication... & general fame & fortune. Full paper due 17 Mar. Details: www.bileta.org.uk/annual-confe...

I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Pancake expert here. The annual rush to harvest pancakes on a single day has extremely deleterious effects on the local pancake ecosystem. By all means pick a few pancakes for your own use, but please leave some on the bush so that it can recover in its own time.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

Ripon starlng murmuration captured with Victorian-era techniques

Today in non AI art and news… www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/....

Noticed a bit as well; hope so!

Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings The age of social media has shown humanity a fair few truths about itself, not all of them flattering. But once in a while, one of the waves of discourse that roll through the internet really does hel...

Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings

Judge OKs Sanctions In Valve Fight, Warns More May Come - Law360 A Seattle federal judge on Monday granted video game maker Valve Corp.'s request to sanction a rival litigant over discovery violations just ahead of a trial on the company's allegations of bad faith ...

"A Seattle federal judge on Monday granted video game maker Valve Corp.'s request to sanction a rival litigant over discovery violations...and threatened to issue more over a legal brief that contained fake quotes and fabricated citations generated by artificial intelligence."

Carolyn Pedwell www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts/people/... cultural and media theorist/affect, language and AI; digital media; the politics of empathy; and feminist, queer, critical race and decolonialising, all the good stuff. Can intro if you want!

Is The Guardian okay??

... and I can't also stop thinking about the short film “I’m Not a Robot” which won awards in 2025 for exactly this scenario. And I thought, surely it wouldn't just be the box check. Do recommend the film.

Well, it's finally happened. Unable to create an account because the recaptcha won't recognise I'm not a robot by my clicking a button. I guess this is how we find out now?

Teaching Wagatha Christie today on defamation… Vardys agent way ahead of the times…https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/rebekah-vardys-agent-dropped-phone-in-sea-to-hide-evidence-trial-hears

"The US is rapidly burning bridges with its trading parties ... that make it increasingly difficult for US to provide leadership and guidance on global norms for copyright exceptions and limitations for AI. This is not some minor issue."

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Data Centers, Riches and Rebellion in Big Tech’s Inland Empire Dean Jackson looks at the politics of data center development across Ohio.

Big Tech and data center developers promise 21st century jobs for de-industrialized Ohio towns. Residents aren't necessarily buying it, citing concerns over energy, the environment, and tax incentives. Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson surveys the state of affairs:

Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism - AI & SOCIETY The rapid development of digital technologies, including AI, is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. Yet, while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, ...

Worth a read:

This paper argues that and how features of contemporary digital technologies, their governance, and their political context mirror features of fascism. It concludes with a call to resist these new, anti-democratic forms of governance and domination

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Important professional news: I’ve realised there is a nice sized bird nest just outside my office window (now that it isn’t pitch black all the time.) Commence Baby Bird Watch 2026

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

European alternatives for digital- HOPING for more ethical and sustainable futures, we shall see. Now is the opportunity. european-alternatives.eu

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.

*looks at volatile mix of general-purpose chatbot, overly persuasive natural language interface, vulnerable user base, weak guardrails, growing headlines of harms to people*

*pours heavily targeted advertising into mix*

openai.com/index/our-ap...

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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards The debate over generative AI in games continues.

Indie Game Awards actually following through on their ‘hard stance’ on gen AI and pulling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s game of the year award for non disclosure: www.xda-developers.com/clair-obscur...

If you're an early career researcher (incl. PhD student) working on AI regulation you can't miss this!