😶 stuart reeves 😶

highly apropos for this thread

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Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@francescaorfw.bsky.social is there a PDF somewhere?

not sure we subscribe to this journal...

I imagine one of the purposes of such critiques is not only to argue against present strains of 'AI*' advocacy but also to distance cognitive science from becoming further implicated in the daily absurdities of 'AI' advocates

* I use this to mean all strains incl. 'AI', 'AGI', 'agentic AI'

some of the most stringent critics of 'AI' (i.e. generative models etc.) have come from a cognitive science perspective / background

given the deep relationship between early AI and cognitivist traditions, it feels a bit like a feud at times

"cohort-independence" is exactly it

I was also thinking about the transcendental quality of "immortal"

presently, "AI" now - in many places - simply means "new technology"

huh, that's not good

our place wants us to inform them of any trip regardless how it's funded, then the trip is covered in general work travel insurance

On the Certain Blindness of the Excavators of Ethnomethodology’s “Heart” Kind of review of: Graham Button. Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology: The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology. London: Routledge. 232 p. ISBN 9781041112877

There are proper book reviews, there are rogue book reviews, and there are hooligan preudo-book-reviews. I've done the last one for "Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology" by Graham Button. My verdict: don't read it. #EMCA

www.academia.edu/145024268/On...

ethnomethodology is the ultimate anti-discipline - which is both what makes it interesting (its constant rejection of disciplinary boundaries) and annoying (its constant rejection of disciplinary boundaries)

Pdf link?

can we talk about the use of the word "immortal" by Garfinkel?

#EMCA

This meme never gets old

is that not just part of your institutions general business insurance though?

Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an "extraordinary moment", there was some "irrationality" in the current AI boom.

hotdog car guy from I think you should leave TV show - saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

sorry

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A doctored image of three paragraphs from a large university's press release, replacing platitudes with the words "we must cut jobs".

I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university .

I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.

So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.

our #CSCW2025 paper on human-robot collaboration argued against this idea

medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

Lancaster University industrial action begins Monday with 1 in 4 jobs set to be axed Staff at Lancaster University will begin industrial action on Monday November 10 over management’s threat to axe one in four staff, the University and College Union (UCU) announced.

Senior management at Lancaster University insist cuts of 1 in 4 jobs are “difficult but necessary”

This means “we messed up the finances & you’ll be paying for it”

www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

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you don't even need any interaction

Lenny is "conscious"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

it's pretty embarrassing tbh - thinking "we've cracked it" on the basis of simply being confused by language

I mean to your OP, "too long" is definitely insufficient unless appended with "and here are the sections which are unnecessary and the reasons why"

there is something liberating about knowing you only have 8-10 pages and need to focus your purpose to that end, though

a lot of papers are too long though

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

university leaders are simply executing stated government plans for HE (regional subject 'rationalisation', slimmed down sector overall)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I just like that video

I mean I also hate it - shudder

YouTube video by WorkSafeBC Circular Saw Kickback | WorkSafeBC

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you're doing what indoors???

Now that em-dashes have been ruined by their overpresence in AI slop, we might as well switch to something better⸻namely Unicode U+2E3B, the 3-em dash⸺or at the very least U+2E3A, the 2-em.

YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy WTF Is Going On?

Talking about whatever the fuck this is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Jf...