Will Tattersdill

🤣 For me, on audio they're just leaving bag end, and in the films we're on the dangerous road to Helm's Deep! Ahhh December

As a literary critic I am particularly drawn to the COLOSSAL amount of heavy lifting which the word "smooth" is doing in that headline

UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers

Writing a large grant application takes months. Now they're not even going to read them. It is very hard to maintain morale in these conditions www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

The doryaspis in particular is just so lovely!

Thrilled to be speaking at this event next summer!

What a great headline

If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers

This unfortunately matches the sense I got from my (Lab) MP when I went to talk to him about this issue. A single enormous shrug. Baffling

Asked about funding balance, Smith demonstrates how irrevocably we all live in George Osborne's world.

She just says its not their problem. "We might take a view."

I'm stopping now, this is simply the British state shrugging its shoulders about a profound aspect of our society. That's all it is.

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.

per this morning's education committee.

Oh. But, I guess, yay that UUK finally discovered they had a voice and could actually use it to mention, politely, in passing, the utter destruction of one of the UK's major industries. Decade too late but ho hum.

“JK Rowling may claim to be cancelled, but her book sales and platform would argue differently.”

This is a great dissection of the term “cancelled” 👍🏾

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

If you are keen on the rights of natural-born citizens, you should be fiercely indignant about this

If Britain had had this rule 12 years ago, my family would not live here. If you believe we contribute anything, the point is obvious. But you don't *even* have to believe that. I'm British by birth. This would have been effective exile for me

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Covid report lays bare Boris Johnson’s complacency and lack of leadership Damning analysis finds former PM failed to act with urgency and was disengaged in early stage of the pandemic

It would be amazing to be able even to pretend for a day that there will be consequences, but we all know - we always knew - that they'd walk away from it. Why even print the inquiry I wonder www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Oh

Good choiccessss!!!

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

What I do know is that AI is not your fucking game and it's not mine. You see your slop-gobbling VP going one way, you go the other way. You hear me? The LLM-lubbers go one way, you go the other way. Hell, the hard part's done: you already know you don't want to live an AI-inflected life. A whole lot of people out there don't realize that yet, and for some of them the knowledge will only come after a great deal of pain, but you know what you must do. Write a novel, write a poem, scribble them on printer paper when your VP isn't looking if you have to. Get flowers for your desk and frames for your photos, write longhand in a diary every day. Buy a secondhand DVD player and secondhand DVDs. Smell a library, pull faces at a baby, splash cold water on your face. Call your friends on the phone even though it sucks and everyone hates it because texts and DMs suck more, just nobody realizes it yet. Pay for more things with cash and drop the change in a desperate man's paper cup. Cook enough of every meal to share with your neighbors, especially the unhoused ones. Sing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" at karaoke because it's fun and everybody loves it. Live a life out in the real, palpable world that you can be a little proud of; refuse assaults on its dignity. You can only do what you can do, and life will feel wonderful again once you truly get that—fuck, I'm tearing up, believe me, it will shock you how wonderful life still feels. And the rest, again, is not your game.

‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I love a quick LaACPSAC! My students love them too, you can tell by their watery eyes and the way they grip the tables

Friends at Sheffield Hallam University are on strike, having lost over 1000 members of staff over the last 2 years