Andrew Armstrong

Really interesting! Don't know the band but now you've made me interested in checking them out through the nerdity of itemised bills and gross vs net and carnet. A real shame (live) music has become the pursuit of the middle and upper class though. That stings.

Not maybe the best introduction to the setting but I can't say no to any attempt. After Foundation and it's divergence from the base plot I do wonder what will happen!

Every UK national newspaper prints identical front page Journalists and music industry urge Labour to abandon plan to water down copyright laws for AI firms, amid threat to £126bn creative industries

Good stuff inews.co.uk/news/every-u...

Filled it in. Left a few comments it seems very leading to suggest more member surveys were in any way right. While I feel UCU structures need a revamp just trying to avoid them avoids governance. Was this from the GS?

Really scummy behaviour tbh especially since the added "features" are not exactly needed or really any good. Unless you want to sound like a weird garbled mess a lot of the time.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

I read this earlier and it is pretty usual now to write something that seems to make sense then make leaps of logic further on. Like saying Starmer set them or that if they were brought down it'd "save departments" just crazy.

I think the gist of this list is everyone except Cambridge and Oxford mmm.

I'm just glad Slow Horses is still going! They cancel a lot of stuff...

L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in.

Been 10 years but I do love this, read it to my wife as a bedtime story. She was bemused! www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

Didn't realise this was happening wtf

Yeah kicked your ass QM, top of the league! Oh wait...

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

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Absolutely astonishing that could ever be considered in a time of financial strain.

Happy new year! 2025 will be challenging but I hope to post more social things as I go along.

Great line

YouTube video by PurpleColonel Can Black Mesa Replace Half-Life? (Analysis/Comparison)

This was a fine 30 min comparison of BM and HL1 worth a quick watch youtu.be/_eZASMjHxuA?...

Merry Christmas all! 🎄

Out of interest what's the Chair of Court do? Is there a public list of ordinances or similar I can take a gander at?

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

Interesting article on the use of genAI in Universities. The poor teacher to student ratio, ways of teaching and assessment and poor methods to tackle genAI (or policies around it) are clear. COVID mixed with the rise of genAI means it's not been an organic rise

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oooh! 😀 A Banks novel spec script would be quite an undertaking. Most would be an entire series of episodes. Explaining stuff that takes paragraphs of text on film succinctly would be an adaptation and a half.

I admit my ignorance here but have you done any screenplays? 😁

Did you miss the London eye?

Super difficult to do but starting with a more democratic governing body and less VC power I guess is a step in that direction.

I wasn't around then but it's a lot more "customer" focused now. To the customers detriment mind you.

Out of interest is there any example model of what would be good University governance?

Awful stuff sorry to hear you've got it. I am seemingly luckily not affected with long COVID - it's bad enough not being able to smell still after a shorter run of it earlier this year.