Gav Maclean

My goodness that's horrible, I would never have thought about this impact. I don't have any answers though on the regulators.

The shear amount of things we don't think about with this move to genAI

Digging further than the questions of academic conduct, assessment or AI literacy to ask...Why outsource our labour to Silicon Valley? How does "good enough" AI tie into the redundancy crisis of HE? What about librarians and professional services? How does this tech fit with a Trumpian worldview?

Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network The event is aimed at creating a space for critical discussion of AI across our universities in Edinburgh

50 people so far wanting to talk about gAI and the crisis in HE with
@semacrae.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @huwcdavies.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @walkyouhome.bsky.social and more!

Labour definitely doing the Sideshow Bob thing with the rakes

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had...

Get in line, I'm still waiting for various revolutions since the 1970s to pan out.

Always say to my students struggling for a dissertation idea to follow their own interests. An undergrad dissertation and PhD later and I still think I caused irreparable damage to my love of music.

Last FM always useful for my personal music stats.
2014 is when I completed data collection on my PhD about music production... and my listening figures never recovered.

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

I did think it was strange people were saying she was a closeted Democrat, but hey, the discourse marches on.

Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy Revelation comes amid public fixation on American Eagle’s jeans ad featuring the star and a pun about her genes

lol

LOL

The editors of Theory & Society, a storied journal that was thrown under the bus of evo-soc/anti-woke neopositivist sociology, are now looking for contributions that will confirm their paranoia about their (lower?) salaries being the product of some woke BlueSky cartel.

Racing car taking a corner with trackside banners for Zoom all over the place

Good to see Formula 1 management employing subtitles at races 👍

Kamala Harris to release book on presidential run: ‘I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting

Long time? I took 4 years to write a PhD. The presidential campaign was just 9 months ago lol

Alt take: the worst cinema reaction I've seen was a rescreening of Star Trek II and everyone laughed at the funeral scene because of Family Guy. I'm still bitter 13 years later.

Episode 2: the first galactic hairdressing and barber strike! #StrangeNewWorlds

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

I quite liked how it escalated once America woke up to it though lol

If I was a proper professional politician with just a vague acquaintance with public opinion, I would have said to David Lammy saying you're pals with JD Vance is something you keep entirely to yourself.

Is this a clip from The Day Today?

One does not need to pay Simon Jenkins for his take

We need a Patrick Bateman of the left

I am very happy to hear that "bawheid" is now Star Trek canon. #StrangeNewWorlds

the left is responsible for the sexual revolution, maybe the most important development for guys trying to get laid in human history. the right opposes it to this day.

My thanks to Ian Dunt for showing us that being ratioed is possible on Bluesky

why does "the left" need to have a party line on how men can get laid? the right's plan for men to get laid is "legislate women into lives of total desperation and queer men back into the closet". the left saying "that plan sucks actually" is plenty to say

Well into the passive aggressive shared hedge routine with the neighbour. Get it to the stage where their side looks like the problem.