TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)

If I had one that didn't have his face in shot, I'd share a photo of me and my youngest side-by-side on the sofa :)

The most important thing to oligarchs is that people come to accept chatbots as a source of truth. It’s the fascist imperative. This is the only way it makes sense to install these systems in spaces where they routinely fail at the ostensible task.

I forgot they'd started doing ebooks! Perhaps there's a sliver of hope after all

It's a shame, because I've enjoyed my last 15 years of e-readers... but I think it's perhaps time to go back to paperbacks

(assuming we don't need the paper to keep the communal fires going, once the data centres have eaten up so much energy that the rolling blackouts kick in)

Oh, for fuck's sake...

So you know: if you try to have a Q&A with a chatbot masquerading as your mate from book club about any of my books, you're in for a disappointment

I couldn't tell you much about character "motivation" half the time. So I don't have much faith in the plagiarism engine there

It's *fascinating* though. I feel like Durkheim in there

Quite *which* god, though, I've yet to figure out...

Seeing more and more of that algorithm=God's will stuff @miseryvulture.bsky.social talks about on socials lately, especially TikTok

The algorithm is "testing you"; it's pushing you, until such time as it "rewards" you

But, like the mind of god, its process are fundamentally opaque; unknowable

And all of it comes down to the same tired bully-logic that says: I can do whatever I want, and if you so much as *think* about calling me out on it, I'll hit you even harder

Then cry that you made me do it

That last sentence is the aptest description I've read yet of contemporary conservatism, which forbids us from condemning racists for their racism, homophobes and transphobes for their homophobia/transphobia, misogynists for their misogyny and "AI" hype-artists for propagating slop

It’s not writing off a portion of the population to say that workers should not be racist to customers! The entire conservative movement has coalesced around the idea that it is somehow discriminatory to judge people by their actions.

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Nearly 20 years on, and my PhD viva - answering questions about a book-length thesis *I'd already written* - is still one of the most terrifying things I've had to do

Suggesting that oral exams are no different than written ones - esp. for those of us who argue better on paper - is laughable

I think being neither publicly nor privately interesting may be the best weapon I have in the coming Bot Wars

Everyone has their own strategies for dealing with racist colleagues, obviously. But I hope Viola Davis pissed in his tea

Liam Neeson in racism storm after admitting he wanted to kill a black man The actor admits he once set out to kill an innocent black man after someone close to him was raped.

It was one of those things where every single sentence was worse than the last, and you're left thinking: so, not only do you think it's acceptable to recount this story, but you're okay doing it ON THE RECORD? (And not, say, to your court-ordered therapist?)

Man historically prone to violently racist outbursts leaps aboard another dangerous, evidence-free culture war bandwagon

These people are like bloody clockwork

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The most excitement he's given me so far is in those ads for another of his projects I haven't watched, where they stuck a false nose and a mullet on him

But I guess we have to hope

I don't think I've ever watched Beige Guy in anything, but every time I've seen him I've assumed on first glance that he was a composite image of several youngish white action men I was too old to have heard of

Still a bit startled he's real

I *love* that title

Awesome work! (What was the vampire book?)

I can't believe they're still doing it! Will they never learn?

Sad to say, at this point there isn't any venue that would surprise me

Fuck's sake. I'm so sick of this shit

Unbelievable. I used to work a lot in the US (not so much the last few years, thankfully) - and I cannot imagine ever being willing to submit to this level of surveillance for travel purposes, much less by decree of an authoritarian government

Huge fucking blow for the tourist industry

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

I'm not normally in the business of asking the universe for favours... but if circumstances ever conspired such that we could afford to get Indira Varma doing the audio for Tradwife, I think I could die happy

I don't know how she does it, but that woman IS Granny Weatherwax

Tired: unseated Tory grifters defecting to Reform

Wired: sitting Labour MPs with a conscience defecting to the Greens

Load screen of the Lemmings game on iOS, featuring several cartoon lemmings (green hair, blue skin, spherical bodies) climbing up a rocky cliff face... And the warning: Characters and events in this game are fictitious. No public person endorses or is associated with this game in any way.

Can honestly say, I wasn't expecting this disclaimer upon opening up the Lemmings app

Damn. All my apps, including this one, just auto-updated... and now I can't do DMs

Thank *you*, digitally-illiterate but surveillance-happy UK govt!

(Obviously drop me an email if you need me for anything that might otherwise have necessitated a DM)