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State of the world. People sympathetic to Postmodernism, Social Construction and Pluralism insisting on historical facts. People professing that there is a single true version of reality deliberately suppressing historical facts, and making stuff up.

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

Europe will continue to struggle until it challenges the foundational assumptions the US tech industry is built on and stops trying to replicate it in Europe. Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

submitted 455 days ago • 61 comments

I could swear I had Wales on my world map already.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

go.bsky.app/Cfc4Nan Now including @lida-leeds.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

What worries me is that we have (a) news on how over-reliance on computer systems destroyed the life of many, (b) news on how AI will make decisions in all sorts of public and private matters, and very few pieces connecting both.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Hybrid and free -- qualitative researchers, take a look.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning good morning. New edition of Just enough Internet wending its way to inboxes now. buttondown.com/justenoughin...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

'when AI generates summaries, students bypass the cognitive engagement required to actively interpret academic work. It is precisely this engagement – the effort to comprehend, synthesise and relate ideas – that catalyses learning.' 1/3

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

go.bsky.app/Cfc4Nan Now including @infuzeleeds.bsky.social , @lifd.bsky.social and @unileedsglobal.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Today's Ethics Untangled episode features Trystan Goetze (@errantcanadian.com) talking about whether AI art is stealing artists' labour: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Spatial data x quantitative data visualisation enthusiasts, check this paper out:

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I agree with them

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Probably more representative than the chart itself

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

These two Guardian stories on AI suggest the real benefits of that technology are not being correctly supported — but big tech's commercial interests are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The road to fascism is littered with people who were told not to overreact. @chrischirp.bsky.social is not overreacting in this post which highlights how far down the road to fascism the U.S. has traveled in little over 2 months: christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

Two books and a paper I co-authored are part of the pirated-books database Meta used to train their AI. I feel simultaneously robbed and frustrated my favourite papers were not in the list. Will that work be forever ignored by gen Ai users?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Blood in the Machine, by @bcmerchant.bsky.social , is very cheap on Kindle right now. I can't recommend it enough (I'm biased though: I'm based in Yorkshire; working in a School born of textile technology revolution; investigating AI).

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

The argument here is not limited to published authors, but extensible to everyone who ever participated in forums, blogs, etc.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a book about bureaucratic violence and if there’s one thing I wish everyone knew right now, it would be: The people most harmed can’t tell what’s happening or why. Their lives unravel and, more often than not, they are taught to blame themselves—or other victims.

submitted 43 days ago • 75 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 47 days ago • 46 comments

New current favourite typeface

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Remember folks. The only truly safe investment is training yourself to find joy in art, literature, music, history, philosophy, conversation and so on.

submitted 55 days ago • 35 comments

QUniversity of Leeds starter pack, now including @srmleeds.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Cfc4Nan

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

OK. So long as Fortune 500 boardrooms hire Socialists. To save everything really.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 77 days ago • 264 comments