Dr Zara Bain

here to complain about being tired again

But honestly pals

SO tired

I had to sleep from 8-12 because I had a migraine

Then I worked and parented

I don’t think my body is happy with me

Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.

I’ve seen this movie crop up on the LEGEND channel and it is truly the stuff of LEGEND

Do not buy creeptech, do not wear creeptech, and do not tolerate the creeps who do.

I have had a migraine almost every day this week and frankly I’m a bit sick of it

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.

Okay, I'm going to go out and eat food with my kids, but when I get back I would love to see a clutch of you in my inbox telling me all about your transcription projects that you need support with.

Okay?

Okay.

Email me the deets, beloveds, no pressure, but me and my team can help you! Promise!

Who wants a replay of my webinar last night on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance? You can still sign-up using the form here and get the link!

YouTube video by SaltNPepaVEVO Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Official Music Video)

Not nearly enough Salt-N-Pepa going around if you ask me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad...

so glad you enjoyed it!

This was wildly good folks - if epistemic injustice is even tangentially relevant to your research this is well worth watching (hopefully will share some more thought out thoughts later)

Who wants a replay of my webinar last night on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance? You can still sign-up using the form here and get the link!

The migraine that I have

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m supposed to be going to a thing tomorrow for social enterprises and then a big business conference next week as accessibility support staff and I have had to cancel both because of lurg

Small good news

Omg YES

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Please share - and donate if you can!

I'm helping to raise money for Isaac - a Black trans kid seeking vital healthcare in England.

Isaac is lucky enough to have a very supportive family, but they have all been screwed time and time again by the NHS and UK authorities.

Any contribution will help!

Mahmood to stop study visas from four countries due to 'abuse' The government will end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, due to what she says is abuse.

Punishing people from the world’s worst conflict zones for using the only legal route to claim asylum, and forcing them to take dangerous routes instead. Reprehensible and counterproductive as usual.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

Meta is trash and no one should buy these surveillance/cop glasses.

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too.

Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

I had SUCH a blast running this session — thanks so much to everyone who came! If you couldn’t make it, the replay link is coming soon!

Going live with this now if you want to come hangout with me for the next little bit!

Sounds really interesting, congrats

WEBINAR: Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance: An Introduction for Social Researchers - Sign-up Page Expand your conceptual toolkit with our accessible introduction to the concepts every social researcher should know.

‼️ Last chance to join this evening's free webinar with our founder, Dr Zara Bain.

Aimed at social researchers, join us for an accessible introduction to the big, bold philosophical concepts every social researcher should know.

Come along, tell your friends -- we can't wait to see you at 7PM.

Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.

I say this but I have two toddlers unmedicated ADHD and no family help bar a partner in full time retail work so meh, I guess?