Dr Laura Hodsdon

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Double rainbow over a white lighthouse with sandy beach

A nicely timed walk at Godrevy yesterday

“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."

Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.

#Peston

Photo of vineyards in autumn yellow colours

Autumn colours ❤️ #alsace #elsàss

Huge lettuces in a supermarket

And it turns out lettuce doesn’t need to be wrapped in plastic either

Photo of vegetable section in a supermarket with baskets of different types of mushrooms, with an autumn leaf decoration

Always delighted to see the veg sections in French supermarkets - these are local mushrooms, thoughtfully and respectfully presented, not just shipped in from wherever and vacuum packed as in the UK. And a real celebration of local produce in general. (Very little organic choice though, sadly.)

There's a lot happening in this photo. It's an island taken from a boat. On the left of the island bank is a felucca sailboat, and a line of chairs is an informal ferry queue. In the centre, sprouting from some trees on the island, is a billboard. To the right are the concrete struts of a flyover.

Flyover linking two banks of the Nile and a billboard planted on an island, itself only accessible by boat

Large blue wooden door with Arabic writing above the threshold, and two white painted hand prints in its centre

Door with hands, Cairo

Image shows a wall with a bright yellow background and a mural of mosque domes and minarets, with city buildings behind

Mural in the City of the Dead, Cairo

Photo of a run down but lush looking farm land, with a cow grazing in front of a ramshackle barn and palm trees, with a minaret nearby and modern city buildings in the background

So lucky today to visit Qursayah Island on the Nile with @landscaperesearch.bsky.social - farming and fishing communities just a stone's throw from the modern city - and to support verynile.org up-cycling programme of plastic waste from the river plus their delicious community cafe

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please tell BBC News we’re sick of 4 MP Party Reform being rammed down our throats daily with drivel like this👇🏼report

The @libdems.org.uk have 72 MPs, Greens 4, SNP 9 but they don’t get a look in 🤷🏼‍♂️

Soon BBC News will report what Farage has for breakfast 🙄

As it happens I met this fella a couple of weeks ago. He was doing voluntary work to make habitat for bees and butterflies.

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Yup

You can now read all of Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage for free via Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Black and white photo of square concrete blocks on a rocky foreshore. They are at strange angles and could pass for ordinary rocks.

Oh yes, hello #TidesOutTuesday! Definitely a hashtag I can embrace.

Concrete plinths, all that remains of Newlyn WW1 seaplane base, forming a stone circle, with the ruins of Penlee quarry behind

Thank you my dear! Xx

We propose a heritage literate ‘revoicing’ of ICH that accounts for these increasingly plural social contexts, and ensures ICH's role in societal resilience into the future.

It focuses on live cultural events as ICH in Cornwall in the UK, Frisian, in The Netherlands, and Livonian areas in Latvia and Estonia. We asked a wide range of people - from locals to tourists and everyone in between - how they engage with and value national minorities’ ICH.

revoice.falmouth.ac.uk

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural he...

*Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe* is out today!

Using data from the JPICH Re:voice project, it explores the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage

www.routledge.com/Revoicing-In...

it seems like AI has got really good at making up footnotes, including a jstor stable reference (that links to something else) and a journal title/volume number/page range (for a different article) -- so on first glance they all look totally legit

Photo of post titled ‘most people seem unaware of AI’s climate impact’ with text underneath explaining that ChatGPT uses a surprising amount of water.

Email saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper" Said paper is my PhD dissertation, "The Role of The Hippocampus In Configural Learning"

This is my PhD thesis

I did not ask for this

I did not consent to this

I did not approve of this

I was not compensated for this

I would not have advised this

I do not like this

And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Last week to apply for this funded heritage PhD with Historic England - application window closes 25 May.

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Not the worst day at work

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Participatory practice and heritage for all This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: The potential of participatory practice to positively engage both und...

*Fully funded PhD in heritage klaxon*

Excited to invite applications for an AHRC-funded CDP with Historic England and the Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University.

Deadline 25 May.

www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/centre-heritage-culture-society/participatory-practice-and-heritage