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The irony of declaring "we tested for the real-world" underneath a picture of two gibberish rulers

Word Count 114: Basic Income just works Unfortunately, so does churning out 200 AI-generated books per year, it seems

Basic income works and not just for artists. Many creative people are trying to create their own 'basic income' because the state is allergic to enacting well-evidenced policies, which sadly means some turn to AI to churn out 200 books a year.

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Some of my closest friends are academics, and they worked their arses off, with little to no thanks from anyone. Institutions are made of people, and many of those people risked and even sacrificed their mental and physical health to support their students as best they could during a global crisis.

*I was the Associate Dean for Student Experience from 2019-2023. Student experience was all I thought over COVID. I know the effect COVID had on students. I see their perspective.

What I don't see is any empathy or perspectives afforded in the other direction in any of the reporting or commentary.

I purposefully don't centre the student experience here. Not because I don't care. I do*.

But because in all these reports, whilst there are testimonies from students, the universities are presented as faceless institutions. Not once have I seen the staff experience centred or even considered.

I'm not gonna fisk the thing, it's too long and I have too much do to. But the way he dismisses Emily Bender as shallow and out of date shows that he's not actually seriously addressing critique, he's bloviating about it.

Exactly that. It's some whiny teen yelling "But you don't understaaaaaaand!" when their parents tell them no.

Started reading that, and it's so disingenuous I decided not to waste my time further. The OP dismisses legit concerns about AI with "Oh, why don't they understand!" posturing, at which point I was out.

That is 100% whiny disingenuous self-serving bullshit.

YouTube video by Avie Sheck Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

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Omg! So did I!

That sounds quite shit.

This is certainly my experience.

Just before my time as a County Cllr, Greens stopped council homes being built on council-owned land (the only vaguely plausible way council housing could be built at the time).

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The problem isn’t teenage brains being exposed to social media. It’s teenage brains owning and running social media.

The inability of people to join two really very, very nearby dots continues to astound me.

Experimental Playgrounds Junk playgrounds once let children set fires, saw wood, build towers, and write operettas. What happened to them?

He talks about the need for better playgrounds, including junk and adventure playgrounds, which I wrote about recently.

Of course, it's far easier to ban things than build them. But it's really tragic that there is so little building happening anywhere.

Ok, now tomorrow's newsletter is a 1500 word rant about basic income. Gird your lions.

Tomorrow's newsletter is turning into a 700 word rant about basic income. Gird your loins.

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So the title for the 6 weeks after a broken ankle physio exercises appears to be Make It All Hurt Again. And I only did them once today.

Perhaps I’m too harsh but I don’t have it in me to sympathise with “roll the dice” voters anymore when the dice keep coming up snake eyes

And make no mistake - this matters

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This is appalling. How have we lost so much understanding of the importance of influence in an age so dominated by influencers?

Ooh, ouch. That is no good at all.

My dad had an artificial parting in his hair created by a cat he tried to pick up as kid when the cat did not want to be picked up. Luckily, the scar was a very neat, straight line almost exactly where you'd want it.

A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.

Canary Worf.

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Looking interesting and windswept!

Oh, I think we all know the answer there.

Burrowing owls put on show for local photographer Back in June, Jeff told Grant, Grant told Pete and Pete took pictures he shared with friends and eventually someone told the minister at Cheyenne Hills Church: there are burrowing

the story behind the photo

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