Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

Impressive timing by Shabana Mahmood for today to be the day she announces her asylum policy 'inspired by Kristi Noem'.

Going to need to do a little video addressing "it's ableist to be against generative AI" before I am driven insane

The tenor of the defence of copyright seems to be “let the markets decide” and the large corporations in the “creative industries” want to have a cut in the pie. It is not altruism or concerns for authors or artists

Amen

An actor asked what he should primarily work toward. Grotowski answered, 'Sincérité in extemis, mais lés details en cristal,' which in English means what it sounds like: sincerity at its most extreme, but details in crystal.

- André Gregory

UK to delay difficult decisions on AI copyright rules Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries

“We want them to rule out a text and data mining exception, or a wider commercial research exception,”

The question is kicked down the road, again, for now.

Thank you so much, didn’t know and it’s v helpful

If people are academics for career reasons, then there are other better utilitarian careers out there.

Gaming the peer review system? Was never predictable enough to game it.

Don’t get the enthusiasm for the Karpf blog post because if you haven’t been asking yourself what kind of the question you REALLY want to answer, then what on earth have you been doing all along

From The Telegraph Merz: Iran should not be protected by international law German chancellor positions himself as Trump's closest European ally in condemning Tehran.

Not judging Germany by its history, but its current failure. How on god’s green earth did they put this man in the top position?!

Revalue what you really want to work on - yeah I do that but then I don’t get time to do it bec I need to write feedback to machine generated texts

Defunding happened prior to gen AI but the latter makes the effects of the former even worse bec of exponential workload. This is not just about publish or perish

That blogpost about AI is not the biggest problem in academia (general defunding and devaluation is)- yes and no bec they are enforcing each other in acceleration and intensity

Rules don’t matter anymore … I also need to realise this now

gen-AI is breaking academia and democracy an if you are an academic and use it for non legit purposes you should be ashamed of betraying professional ethos

This makes me sad bec that’s what I thought but the reality nowadays is that a professor spends most time giving human feedback to gen-AI essays for box ticking exercise. No time for learning, thinking. Still sinking islands of intellectual community in pockets of resistance.

I don’t like to respond to daily news like this but today I just can’t anymore

Insanity

I don’t know if there is any buy in except being dragged into a mess with no upside for the traditional US allies

1/Can US maintain European and East Asian buy-in for an extended Iran War?

The pain will multiply:energy, food,commodities, refugees, regional stability...

Coalition mgmt during wartime is very hard because countries face unequal burdens & have their own domestic politics.
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Not sure what’s worse, that or someone hard inputting/destroying an entire sheet so that there were no formulas and audit trails left (it was a staffing sheet)

Three paragraphs from the NYT describing how four A.I. chatbots did a bad job preparing federal income tax returns in the US.

“Using a system you shouldn’t trust with your taxes to blow people up. 2026 in a nutshell.” #GenerativeAI #AI #chatbots open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

“Our real kin are those we have chosen.”

(from Guy Davenport’s journals)

The world is getting closed and not in a good way …

Ideally not but if necessary will do… the Russian airspace is still open to Chinese airlines I think but has been closed to Korean carriers since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Diasporic people will know this sinking feeling from Covid

Flight radar map of flights over ME

Europe to Asia flights operating through a small window of Georgia and northern Azerbaijan only now, I need to get to my parents end of this month 🙏😓

My favourite special day and the children look so delightful 🥰

Saying the quiet part loud is a new level of admission

Look I know you like vibe coding in Claude but Claude likes doing double tap strikes on elementary schools so maybe giving them your money is straight up wrong