Paul Bernal

UK high streets turn to facial recognition in fight against shoplifting Theft and threats against shop floor workers have risen sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic

Parliament should take steps to ban this technology. There is no good and proportional reason to allow private companies to analyse and store people's biometric data, especially without notice or consent.
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Sorry, Spurs fans, but you don’t leave early. Ever.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Spurs are taking Spursiness to new levels

Participation award…

VAR is bollocks. Again.

I’m a bit of a Monsterverse fan

Here's the thing about using AI for lit reviews ... If you've actually read the scholarship, writing the lit review yourself isn't that taxing. But what's gonna happen is folks will use AI to save themselves having to *read* the scholarship, which will then make the rest of their article trash.

Watching season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. So much better than I expected.

FWIW, Orwell never said that

Yes, they always eat each other in the end.

Well

Much

Ah yes, in-person exams. I remember them.

I do, but I also know that this is a calculated look designed to create a particular impression, and if we’re not allowed to comment on that then the people trying to create that impression win.

That’s not how human rights work. They’re rights that you have because you’re human, not because someone thinks you’re good enough.

Multiple choice is also very easy for AI-based cheating.

Quite. It’ll be bashed from both directions.

This is very good

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This afternoon, I have mostly been marking coursework

Tut tut, no it isn’t. I’m equally scathing of men such as Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Nigel Farage. I even posted about Keir Starmer’s hair.

It’s true!

I wish

True, too. He failed to get my novels published, then dropped me to deal only with Rowling full time.

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Yes, give me full narco-communism now!

It ‘saves time’ only for those who don’t bother to check.

Oh yes. Every word.

Oh yes, me too! We need more anthropologists and historians on our screens.

Is that hippies on drugs?

Yes, I hope the other people get appropriately rewarded