Thomas Cheney

lived in Bradford for 5 years, only time i felt unsafe was when i got out of work and hordes of drunken white men were going home after a football match but apparently Bradford is highly dangerous for non muslims!

its giving fox news anchors who live in new york declaring new york to be a dangerous hell hole

even the simple answer is London, Newcastle or Camp Hill Pennsylvania and none of them are right really

where I am 'from'? well how much time do you have to discuss that answer....

like there's a lot about Badenoch that I don't like and I don't think her own identity politics match with her politics but a lot of the flak she's getting on this really does scream I've only ever lived two places: London and the town my parents have lived in for 40 years

than 'American' being any real aspect of my identity - BUT it took trips to the US in 2019 and 2024 to really cement that in my own head (sat in a cafe in my US 'hometown' and realising that no actually this is part of my past not my present)

yes, obviously white guy born in UK so that's a big difference but my own feelings about 'American' being part of my identity have shifted a lot over the last 25 years - and I'd say in the last 5 years I've really come around to feeling that I'm a Brit that happened to grow up in the US rather

its the Corbyn lots obsession with membership numbers that fascinates me - like sure party members are important (he says as a member of a political party) but the Tories prove basically every election that member numbers don't translate proportionally to votes cast

yeah when we talk about this country not having any money the privatization of national wealth really does need to be part of that conversation (see also public utilities)

I'm tired of being treated like a crank because I want to uphold the integrity of the institution and of education more generally. I'm tired of my opinions, shaped by hours and hours of research, being dismissed because they don't align with what admin already decided they wanted

At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.

We’ve got the classic UK mess that we have laws that can easily (and in some ways correctly) be framed as draconian – but they’re enforced by a regulator that can barely handle its day job of overseeing linear TV, and backed by a government who doesn’t want a fight with Trump and America over it.

like shit lads the bar really is not that high

hell my wife says that the reason she messaged me on eharmony was because i was smiling, wearing a top and NOT holding a fish, also both of us were on a paid dating site under the logic that paying was a mark of being at least a little bit serious about it

Terribly sorry that the chaps are lonely again, have they tried volunteering? Only, there’s an awful lot needs done.

Talk to your neighbour! Start train spotting! Consider tennis! Get a dog and go to puppy classes! What of lawn bowls? What of music lessons! Learn to ceilidh dance! Take French! MY GOD LADS IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE FASCISM.

her 2016 book (AI: its nature and future) was one of those books that shaped how i approach the whole topic

Margaret Boden obituary Cognitive scientist who explored how consciousness arises from biochemical interactions within the brain

In her 1977 book Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man ‘she discussed the philosophical issues raised by advances in AI, and pondered on the potential societal significance of the increased use of AI technologies in application areas’

Obit of Margaret Boden FBA
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additionally, the way to leftistly teach men to be normal is by forcing them to do the work to completely reframe their view of themselves and society, and these teens who are apparently googling "how to make women like me EASY MODE" are absolutely not going to want to do that

i mean doesnt the D5 have a hefty range precisely so it doesnt need 'to be in the right region'?

yep can we have an actual plan so those wholl be tossed on the scrapheap can make plans accordingly rather than the haphazard collapse that is happening

Its fine to decide you're going to focus your R&D and innovation in the Golden Triangle and Oxford-Cambridge corridor, it's part and parcel of eternal regional policy dilemmas. But you should *decide* that, *will* it and be transparent about it. Not let it happen by malign neglect.

happened to me once, they even contacted me the next week because apparently it was 'mandatory' (just ignored them)

The perennial (and boring) issue with most of the unfriendly (and some friendly) EU commentary is the weird failure to realise it is not a fully functioning unitary state and, as a result, in difficult situations it will be prone to disagreement, slowness etc that might compromise its objectives.

bet there's insurance issues too

New FRUS volume just dropped on SDI and the Reagan administration's strategic modernization program, compiled by @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social.

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