Steven Curtis

Criticism of Wolverhampton burial 'fat tax' at council cemetery The move at a Wolverhampton cemetery is due to high obesity rates, a council says.

On the other hand, cremations should be a lot cheaper. Once the fat melts, it will keep the fire burning and they can turn off the gas

Philip Roth, The Counterlife (1986)

Prompted by our class on Israel on my Public & Diaspora Diplomacy module #GI7100, I dug out and read this, which I first read around 1992. Some fascinating meditations on Jewish diaspora identities & their relation to the state of Israel. Say what you want about Roth, this is an extraordinary novel

“Is there language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT?”

Who ARE these people?

Will this do?

www.ft.com/content/918e... UK inheritance tax clampdown will not spark mass sale of family farms, study shows

Congratulations to my wonderful daughter on her brilliant A-level results, which she achieved through her own hard work with absolutely no use of generative AI. She despises ChatGPT even more than I do!

The problem that Trump and Musk have with their AI is the problem they have with universities, scientists, civil servants and much of the media

The greatest line in Frasier comes in season one, episode 13

North Koreans once risked their lives to tune in. Now sil... For decades, people have dared to listen to uncensored foreign radio in a country where that is illegal … until US cuts and politics in Seoul snatched th...

North Koreans once risked their lives to tune in. Now silence reigns
#GI5052 #GI7100 #broadcasting

Quelle fucking surprise

I’m seeing this painting in a whole new light. I’d always thought there had been a full-blown carnival going on just down the street

I suppose “romantic relationship with an AI chatbot” sounds more palatable than “wanking sat at your computer”

David Lammy to host US Vice President JD Vance at country residence Vance will be a guest of the UK foreign secretary at his official residence Chevening, in Kent.

“we share a similar working-class backgrounds [sic] with addiction issues in our family [sic] … and we're both Christians”

Also, they both previously likened Trump to Hitler

The Biggest Signs That AI Wrote a Paper, According to a Professor How do you spot a ChatGPT written paper?

I like the idea of getting students to show you how they created the em-dashes that appear in their assignments. But the ‘citations bullshit’ approach is the safest method of detecting AI-generated work before making an accusation, since you can prove that citations are false or fake

Bob Hope poking fun at Veronica Lake's hairdo in Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Vaughan Williams' fifth symphony was the soundtrack running through my head for most of the walk. There is something timeless about English fields and hills like that

Parts of the church date back to the 900s

My daughter has often observed it from the train, so today we made our pilgrimage to St Hubert’s Church, Idsworth, walking from Rowlands Castle #SouthDowns

Nr Finchdean

Which begs the question: when and where did these people grow up? I enjoyed all of these comedians as a child and they only enriched my life and brought me joy. They didn’t do me any harm.

(Of course, I know to wear my frocks only in the house)

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

AI needs to be rebranded as FI: Fake Intelligence. It is a shallow simulacrum of the real thing.

The thing to understand about Obama officials being prosecuted past the statute of limitations is that Trump’s name is the Epstein files and he doesn’t want them released.

Butters, is that you?

Elon Musk tweeting that his ugly and stupid Tesla cars can drive themselves

Finish the sentence, Musk:

… into pedestrians, walls and the backs of other cars

I can’t see the one which says, “Don’t worry about the threats facing humanity. When artificial general intelligence rocks up, it will solve them all for us”

Is one of them: “Don’t worry about the threats and dilemmas facing humanity. When artificial general intelligence rocks up, it will solve all of them for us”?

UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds Exclusive: university staff report being pressured to change teaching and are told that Chinese surveillance is rife

#GI7100 #China #transnationalrepression

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...

“If I’d had my way, we would have left it in the lab for longer and done more things like AlphaFold, maybe cured cancer or something like that”

Oh well, never mind