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Craig DiLouie: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the children of red peak
Guillermo del Toro: ah! you mean
DiLouie: no
DiLouie: no i don't mean
DiLouie: people keep making that mistake but i don't mean
A group of handdrawn fish.
Why I ๐งก the web.
drawafish.com
Just draw the fish. Trust me. ๐
Registration is now open for our online conference: basr.ac.uk/2024/01/11/b...
Registration is free - we hope to see you there.
now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities
10.07.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 1687 ๐ 503 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 62Oooh, saw mine on Wednesday and weirdly she didn't mention it, but we did spend a lot of time playing with pebbles and talking about tattoos which feels much more important
10.07.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We did a thing!
and when I say 'we', I mean a lot of good people helped write a book on the academic study of Yoga that is accessible and useful to non specialist scholars and practitioners alike.
I'm really proud of this one!
New redundancies in Higher Education at:
*Anglia Ruskin
*Birmingham City
*Bristol
*De Montfort
*Derby
*Goldsmiths (yet again)
*Greenwich
*Hertfordshire
*Lancaster
*Leicester
Every single day in HE is like this. Nothing will be done.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Now this is my kind of drama
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A lovely, responsible book on Trans lives, co-written by one of my colleagues, is at the centre of this hate campaign in Kent. It was nowhere near the children's section.
Apparently the book simply existing is somehow a 'safeguarding' risk for children.
What on earth.
NEW FROM ME -
Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.
Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.
We're about to become an anomalyโand the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.
tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4
Joining instructions for our next yoga nidra lab on 3rd July, 8-9pm UK time can be found below the line for paid subscribers ๐
open.substack.com/pub/theowild...
Everyone welcome! (even if you haven't been before)
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
maybe doctors could save money by treating fewer patients | maybe firefighters could save money by choosing the fires they put out more judiciously | maybe the bbc should save money by limiting broadcasts to 4 hours per day. in fact why donโt we all do the most cost-effective thing & simply give up
21.06.2025 07:11 โ ๐ 183 ๐ 47 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Happy solstice, loves. It's George's first time at Uffington for dawn. He was very confused by the sitting down and waiting bit, but very much enjoyed the walk
21.06.2025 05:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The summer solstice is just a made-up holiday to sell more henges.
20.06.2025 12:03 โ ๐ 412 ๐ 88 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 4My understanding is that the core mechanics of a LLM means it can never be taught to be right. That's just not what an LLM does or will ever be able to do. It can only be more convincing while it is wrong, which is why they're fundamentally useless
19.06.2025 16:15 โ ๐ 680 ๐ 110 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 16What you definitely want in the mountains is a nav app which isnโt actually deriving its advice from the real world. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
20.06.2025 07:34 โ ๐ 152 ๐ 43 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 7...tamponnant, perhaps?
20.06.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0...stampant....?
20.06.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Latest news in an unfolding self-inflicted disaster, not just for UK universities but for the UK itself. One of our genuinely world-class sectors is being trashed, with all that means for UK economy, soft power, scientific & cultural life. 'World-class' isn't, for once, blimpish hyperbole ... 1/2
18.06.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 141 ๐ 89 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3
I would like to thank @marthasadie.bsky.social for sharing the single best article anyone has ever written about AI.
tl;dr ELVIS can recognise donkeys from behind www.countypress.co.uk/news/2524403...
american watching british panel shows: itโs just funnier. and more human. they know how to laugh at themselves
brit watching british panel shows: heโs a terf. everyone here went to cambridge, heโs married to the producer. he should be in jail for tax evasion. the wrong guy on 8 out of 10 cats died
I have been yelling the same thing. Monarchies are bad but absolute dictators are worse. Americans need to realise that they're not joining the minority of countries with a functioning monarchy. They're joining the scary countries where things can and do burn down at any point.
15.06.2025 14:21 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Something isn't right when children need food banks in such a wealthy country like ours.
Re-post if you agree
At least 8% of women, and 2% of men will develop an eating disorder and numbers are rising.
You're the biggest company in the world in this field. You can change this with one simple decision and help protect millions. Make this information optional again. /end
How about this BMJ article on the responsibility that gyms have to protect clients from disordered exercise patterns?
www.bmj.com/rapid-respon... /4
Any thoughts on the fact that in one study 22% of male and 59% of female fitness instructors were classified as having disordered eating?
equip.health/articles/foo... /3
How about the calorie counters on your equipment that can't be switched off?
Any thoughts on those, given how inaccurate they are known to be?
www.cspinet.org/daily/exerci... /2
Hi @technogym.bsky.social. Quick question - when you made inputting your weight an unskippable part of registering for your app, did you know that you were making all your exercise centres inaccessible for anyone with a history of eating disorders? /1
13.06.2025 15:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Post marking mood is: sleepy hound still in his pyjamas
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