Jonathan Paul Mitchell

Isn’t one of the things that are being touted as a central strength / use case *retrieving and synthesising information*? If it can’t do this reliably with basic facts, how can it be reliable with complex information?

you got it boss

Screenshot of a ChatGPT response to a request for a table of recent US presidents. It shows a composite image of an old white man who of supposed to be Barack Obama. Text underneath reads ‘Baruck Obama. January 28, 2010-January 28, 2017’

It’s so perfect that Will Stancil rebuked all the AI sceptics who fail to recognise this magical technology on the same day we discovered we had lived through the presidency of whoever this is

Or Primal Scream: well done that you like Skip Spence, King Tubby and Sun Ra but have no discernible talent or ideas of your own

An incredible thing to say, in public, on Blueberry Day.

Bluesky post by Will Stancil. It reads "Yes, this is the part that's reminiscent of Darwin. It's not that Als are foolproof or should replace doctors or schoolteachers or anything like that. It's that they do things that we thought only humans could do, and raise questions we can't answer about what makes us truly distinct".

"Tell me you've not ready any science and technology studies…" etc.

In my experience on and offline, people who mask / advocate for masking are supportive of vaccination.

There's a far bigger overlap in those who are anti-vaccine *and* anti-mask.

First off, there is little to no chance that the MAHA RFK agenda is meaningfully influenced by strong mask advocates.

Second, acting on the belief that one should mask if vaccines are not comprehensively effective is *not" the same as taking an anti-vaccine position.

A painting with a light grey background. A pair of hands hold a bouquet of purple foxglove flowers with long green leaves curling outwards, wrapped in red material. A skeletal spinal column and ribcage sit in the middle of the bouquet.

We are delighted to welcome back the Connections Arts Centre’s ‘Connecting Artists Collective’ for a group exhibition of new work.
The exhibition will open early for Late Night Belfast at 5:30pm and include an artist's talk between 6.30 and 7.15pm. BSL included.
buff.ly/FSavroC
#LateNightArt

People need to stop imagining that eugenics is just about Nazis, Hitler and Nazi Germany. Eugenics was born in the UK, and rapidly imported to the US, where both positive and negative eugenics made rapid inroads into law and policy on disability, medicine, marriage, immigration and more.

Abolish Spotify

OK, by popular demand, a thread of alternatives to Spotify. Bonus points (& a reskeet) for:

A) Cooperatively owned, at least partly by musicians
B) Open source

In the spirit of harm reduction, any platform that is NOT openly part of the military industrial complex will at least get a 'like.' :)

we no longer see the fuzz on a detuned TV screen, so we no longer see the cosmic microwave background radiation in our daily lives, and somehow that feels like a loss to me

Justin’s list of jobs with highest AI applicability:

1. Listicle Creator
2. Corporate Think Piece Writer
3. Entrepreneur LinkedIn Post Writer
5. AI Conference Presentation Slide Creator
6. AI Conference Panelist
7. Life Coach®
8. Fad Diet Generator
9. CNN Staff Pundit
10. Rage Bait Content Creator

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

A cover image of the 'lad mag' Loaded. The cover feature is an almost naked image of Jennifer Ellison with the caption 'In the pink! Jennifer's first strip in three years - only in loaded!'. Other captions say: "Alan Carr batters us around the ring!"; "Steve Bruce and other blokes who look like old lesbians!"' "Alexa Chung! Arctic Monkey's missus in her knickers!"

Cover of the lad mag 'FHM. The cover feature is Melanie Sykes in a bra and short skirt, with the caption "GORGEOUS! Melanie Sykes will have you for breakfast". Other captions read: "HOT FUMES! BIG BOOTS! SIDECARS! 15 incredible motorbiking experiences"; "'IT'S LIKE AN ACORN, ONLY SMALLER' What happens when women tell the truth"; 'WHY IS THE PILOT BLUBBERING?' Air travel horror special"; "This year's Pirelli girls, look like a movie god, the Museum Of Dirt, women in harnesses".

Two covers from the lad mag 'Maxim', with the subtitle 'For Men'. The top line on both is "Sex - Sports - Beer - Gadgets - Clothes". The left has a cover feature of Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini with the caption "HOT LOVE!". Other captions include"THE ALL-SEX WORKOUT"; "ESCAPE FROM DEATH ROW Six desperate men, one desperate plan"; "FASHION ADVICE FROM WOMEN? Clothes she'll rip off you with her teeth". The right cover feature is Pamela Anderson in a bikini with the caption "WHAM! BAM! BRAND NEW PAM". Other captions include: "30 NEW SEX TRICKS Lips so good she'll wonder where you got them"; "I GET PAID TO BREAK LEGS - An NFL hit man confesses"; "THE 20 BEER WORKOUT Get drunk! Look great!"; "DEATH CRUISE".

In the UK, one of the preeminent mainstream cultural objects for men was the 'lad mag'. There's a days work analysing what's represented in just these 4 covers.

Y'all have to stop reposting accounts that exist solely to post "breaking" news stories that are a couple sentences long without any links or attributions.
Even if they're accurate, they're not telling the whole story or giving credit to the journalists and outlets that are actually gathering news.

So I’m quoted in what I presume is an AI-generated article with a completely fabricated quote. That’s different, I guess.

It’s incredibly easy to just *use a reference manager*

Anyway I came on here to BEG academics to stop using AI in their journal submissions. Yes, that includes for proofing, arranging reference lists etc. I am currently staring at a perfectly decent article, written by a human being, with a useless AI-generated bibliography full of errors.

We need to understand the turn to AI in the context of the derogation of expertise.

While ‘normal’ desire obviously isn’t insulated from all sorts of meditations and influences in techno-capitalist social contexts, there’s something especially grim about hitching the profound attachments of loving another creature to the extractive business model of AI companies

Thinking about this in light of what OP says, and the SaaS factor. You need to reup each month to maintain the very conditions of possibility of your partner’s existence.

Seeking contributors to a zine to hand out at Labour Party conference, about disability and current state of things. 120-350 words per topic.

Seeking contributors to a zine
to hand out at Labour Party conference,
about disability and current state of things.
120-350 words per topic.

Fake quote from me on "Canada Resists"

Fake quote from me on Dean Blundell substack

Fake quote from me in (allegedly) Haitian website

A large number of articles with fake quotes from me have appeared on "Resist"/Dem accounts. I suspect they were written with AI because they are so formulaic. Other "experts" are cited -- all without links. If you see a quote from me without a link to the source, beware. Examples of fakes:

Colin Wright and Colin Wight? Good grief! Thanks for the clarification. Now I’m not sure which one I thought this was.

Yeah, in my head I was thinking ‘self-styled philosopher of the anti-trans movement’, which is something different.

Isn’t this the same Colin Wright who is the philosopher of anti-trans/terfism?

you’re going to give airtime to Let Them at least have the good graces to mention @ifbookspod.bsky.social