Izzy Eddyshaw

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February is LGBTQ+ History Month! Borrow any book from the displays at Forum & St Luke's Libraries and discover more via the LGBTQ+ History Reading List: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibLGBTQHistoryList. Recommend books you'd like to see in the Library via the form on the Libguide: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/lgbtq

Well whatever you say must be right :)

I just think dogmatism, with some reservations and provided everyone agrees with me, is probably a bit good, sometimes?

Now I don't wish to alarm anyone, but it seems that it's currently not (as far as I can tell) (at this precise moment) (external confirmation needed) (could be wrong) raining????

I think a bit of ark-building is a perfectly rational response to the present horrors

Friends I fear this endless rain may be starting to render me Somewhat Unusual

UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’ Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals

You know you're totally one of the good guys when you're actively trying to (and let me quote here) "narrow the definition of 'inhuman and degrading treatment'". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

diabolical that in order to be able to find where you've put your glasses, you must be wearing them so that you can see to search. Truly the world is unjust

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Play the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens! Guess all 20 book titles hidden in the picture.

I have now got all 20, though there was googling and some heavy hints on a couple from a friend. This was necessary for my blood pressure because some of these answers are utterly unacceptable and because I am a very impatient person full of hate hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com?competition=...

From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs

the vampire community continues to bombard me with unsettling little messages

Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says

Seems bad, but at least we can use PollutionBot3000 to summarise this article with questionable accuracy if we can't be bothered to read it though, eh. Must make sure to consider both the pros and cons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today I cheerfully said to a class full of slightly dazed-looking students, "I appreciate it's Monday morning, so you're probably all a little tired". Blank, befuddled stares followed. Lads, turns out it's not Monday. I'm fine.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

AI 🤝 fascism

got some lads working on some scaffolding on our house, having some very sweet conversations, including but not limited to such lines as: "Mate you're a great scaffolder - you just need to have more confidence!"

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's not being maintained. The notice is the same as the one displayed during a shutdown in 2018.

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed

There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

Had a great time at Titus Andronicus at Hampstead Theatre this weekend, highly recommend. Leaned effectively into the fact that the play as written is objectively hilarious. Also I got given a blanket to protect against all the blood sprays 😊

Genuinely have seen circulating entirely serious suggestions to use AI generated people for library focus groups. Because finding real participants is too hard.

#medlibs #pubmed

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.

But it could happen in UK too.

It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.

Read on!
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They've got it backwards: autistic people take more paracetamol due to all the headaches caused by neurotypical people constantly spouting nonsense takes*

*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world

Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

www.eesi.org/articles/vie...

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity

Co2 and electricity use aside, here's some fun facts! Data centres can consume 5 million gallons of *drinking water* a day, while approx 2/3rds of post-2022 data centres have been placed in areas already experiencing drought or water stress.

it’s time, if you haven’t already done so, to shut down your twitter account, and tell the institutions you are part of to leave too.

there’s no way any UK museum, university, politician or any of us should still be on that far-right platform