Hilary Robinson

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

When asked to summarize a major news story, AI assistants routinely misrepresent or misdescribe one major detail of the story so significantly as to communicate the wrong idea 45% of the time, with Google being the worst offender: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Paywall.

Newspaper clipping about the incident

London folks: We are trying to find the location of an old fuel works people tried to burn down during the 1926 general strike. On North Street in Charlton/Greenwich: the Medway Oil and Storage Company. Could anyone help us find where this was? Thanks for any assistance!

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

How on earth did JD Vance have the gall to lecture Europe about ‘free speech’

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

Photo looking through two large concrete tunnels at a golden sunrise in the still darkened and empty desert

Land artist Nancy Holt,
Sun Tunnels (1973),
Great Basin Desert, Utah at sunrise #WomensArt
#SummerSolstice

Elon Musk using a chainsaw (labled DOGE) to cut off the head of a Goose sitting on 3 golden eggs, labeled "science", "Rx" and "Tech" Musk says: We're going to save billions in bird feed!

#AcademicSky #Science #Doge

@christhomsbauer.bsky.social & I have started a spreadsheet where we're tracking the NEH awards from this new announcement: www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...
This came after over 1000 grants were canceled by DOGE on April 8: impact.ach.org

If you'd like to help/join us, please reply #AcademicSky

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

…and left women (talking from the UK) take communities with them 😉

That’s not my experience, and it’s not my point, either. My point is that wanting to fill roles with people who have been historically marginalised without addressing the structures that marginalised them in the first place is a deeply assimilationist approach, which changes nothing.

Women citizens arrest oil executives Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences

Women citizens arrest oil executives - Solicitors Journal

Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wo...

Women citizens arrest oil executives Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences

www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wo... (Though need to point out that here in the UK we have had 3 women Prime Ministers, all conservative. It's not women, it's their politics).

I’ve often said Musk’s X is like Cambridge Analytica gone global, and it has the same backers - Steve Bannon and now Dominic Cummings

There's some truth to that truth statement

Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.

The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Plus: they don’t know how to communicate to us/general public.

When free speech isn't protected by factchecking, it is no longer free speech. It's propaganda.

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it."
-- Joseph Goebbels

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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The enshittification of general practice It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...

The enshittification of uk general practice. (He’s talking about our paper!!) led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social
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SCOOP: A thread on how demands for national & local govt inquiries into child sex grooming gangs are more complicated than lots of people including Elon Musk want to beliefe. Via Telford.

Labour took over Telford council in 2011 & worked to improve child safeguarding after abuse dating back to 80s.

A couple hours drive NE from London (M25, A12): one of the small Suffolk coast villages - Orford, Walberswick, Dunwich…

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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.

There's still time to submit an abstract for the Gender and Education Association (GEA) 2025 Conference in Manchester. GEA conferences are my favourite by a country mile 👇

www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...