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Hey, if you're going to write a paper on the subject of academic writing with AI and you reference a book by me that I NEVER WROTE AND DOESN'T EXIST AT ALL, maybe don't submit it to the journal I edit and where I am literally its first reader (and now perhaps its only reader)

submitted 14 hours ago • 25 comments

Good thread here. I was very opposed to universal ID back in the noughties, but have since come round to it being sensible (not least, as Rob says, because we now have phones etc that document our every move).

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

The other side of Upton Sinclair's quote "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

so good! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Long stretches of unsupervised time. Print pornography left in remote places. An inability to get factual answers to your questions. Everyone smoking everywhere, all the time. Bizarre pastimes born of true boredom. Long stretches of screen-free time. Going to the library nearly every day.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

the British press has always been terrible

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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because they're all going to do different jobs. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

If legislators want to take on AI, this awful insidious stuff is where to look. Incredibly dangerous.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This looks really interesting: Rogue One recut and rescored in the style of a three-episode Andor arc that moves “its energy from emulating the jaunty, swashbuckling [original trilogy] to more in line with its prequel show’s feel”. [fanedit.org]

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The right pretends you can fix public finances and services by cracking down on freeloaders, the left that a tax on the rich will do it. Both are dishonest. As is “efficiency savings”/“cutting down on waste”.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

One for the quiz questions. The link between cathedrals and city status was broken in 1889. Nowadays, just because a place has a cathedral it doesn’t mean it’s a city. And just because a place is a city, it doesn’t mean it has a cathedral.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Approximately as useless as any film's description on Netflix.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

submitted 9 days ago • 346 comments

Ok so I didn’t really need that in my adult beverage but thanks for sharing

submitted 9 days ago • 328 comments

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

also just quite funny and bleak to watch all the mainstream headline news on video games when every gamer I know (myself heavily included) has spent a lot of the past year being head over heels obsessed with Balatro, a cheap-as-chips looking game made by literally one (1) random bloke

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

the reporter who asked trump about "TACO" did the right thing but also probably caused a global economic depression

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Trump has finally heard what TACO means (Trump Always Chickens Out) - credit @robarmstrong.bsky.social). He will surely choose the worst possible dumb decision to refuse to chicken out of, and we'll all have to blame Rob for the fallout.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Bouteflika but a superpower.

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Solemn occasion as, in the face of a threatening America, King Charles attends the opening session of Canada's parliament and so of course Justin Trudeau has worn his best Adidas Gazelles.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Something the replies I got yesterday made clear to me was that there are a lot of people who have a guy they're mad at all the time at in their heads, and if you say something that challenges what they think, you become that guy and they talk at you as though you have all of his characteristics

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

If someone asked me this question in a meeting, with the stated goal of being productive, I would walk out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

One of my favorite facts about the Cyrillic alphabet is that it's named after Cyril of Byzantium, a guy who invented a completely different alphabet called Glagolitic

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Good and interesting thread.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Boy everyone on here is even grumpier then normal today

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

ok I worked for a social platform that grew juuuuust enough to get sold before dying (and then got mashed up into TikTok along with other acquired apps) so I think I have some expertise relevant to the “why is Bluesky losing active users” conversation I can’t see all the metrics but…

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

people get mad at me when I say this but it's a Serious Problem for bluesky's long-term viability that the userbase actively tries to bully people they don't like off here

submitted 12 days ago • 262 comments