Gatsby

A metal collar that is shaped like a horseshoe and anchored to a piece of wood.

COFFIN COLLARS like this one were used to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century. The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, making it nearly impossible to remove the body from its grave. Bodysnatchers sold corpses to medical schools. #skystorians

If you don't follow Dr Fitzharris, you are doing Bluesky wrong.

And put "The Facemaker" on your Christmas list. It is outstanding.

Very poor tonight mate

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

A very concerning thread

Swings and roundabouts I suppose.

I am one of those teachers who wants absolutely nothing to do with AI and hopes to be retired before it consumes the education sector and ruins the requirement for independent thought.

Everything I read about it, is depressing.

Forward that link by DM man.

Don't forget how successful Shankly was considered to be by the time he retired

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And that is exactly why it was better in 1975

If any teachers are worried they will be replaced by AI robots anytime soon, fear not.

The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.

In a secondary school, absolutely not. The SLT workload is too onerous for a HT and two DHTs.

Mamdani got a humanities degree.

His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Ludicrous

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

🤣

I'm not denying my roots, i'm just better than everyone now.

Me? I wouldn't jump for a score. I wouldn't get off the couch for 20 quid.

He is hanging decorations for his birthday party. Eddie throws him a quid and he tries to catch it and falls off the ladder and breaks his leg. Spends his party in a pair of leg casts.

a man in a white shirt and black tie looks up ALT: a man in a white shirt and black tie looks up

Every human emotion can be expressed by a Rik Mayall Gif Stella.

More every year

a man wearing a floral shirt says honey we 're going into battle ALT: a man wearing a floral shirt says honey we 're going into battle

Oh like that is it?

The legend that is the Japanese Ambassador to the UK enjoying a bowl of Scouse in Liverpool

I may be on the other side of the Atlantic, but this news gives me great pleasure

I hate this thing and have no idea what it means! I asked the other day and the kid says 'it's a meme'

Infuriating

He had a criminal record in Sweden before arriving here and thus gave a false name to claim asylum. Just for context