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Stories make sense of chaos. https://laldhillon.substack.com/
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I'm not sure he was though - he aligned with progresives on some issues, but only some, and from a distinctly 'Christian' standpoint. I think there's a line of cynicism here between respecting his contribution to progressive causes and co-opting him.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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I wish - I really wish - that we'd studied language like this rather than masks and bomb shelters when we were taught about WWII.
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It's 100% on purpose. This is the man who wanted to call Amazon 'relentless' after the way he wanted to price out smaller retailers. He's a blunt metaphors man.
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A tool that promises omniscience, but in practice lets those more powerful than you twist your perceptions according to their own interests. A tool Gandalf (Gandalf!) was afraid to use.
The clue has always been in the name.
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Exceptions made for 'Mole's bedtime story' and 'where oh where is kipper's bear', probably because the interactions in those books take him inside the story instead of replacing it.
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As a toddler-parent, kids are hard-wired for narrative. It's how they make sense of literally everything. Gimmicks can be fun, but only if there's a good narrative behind them. My kid has some really clever interactive books but will invariably junk them for a 'regular' book with a story he likes.
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They've also attributed the American failure to economy+migration and reliance on celebrity. They're trying to follow 'voter concern' without thinking that voter concern is shaped by messaging more than lived reality.
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The problem is they pivoted right after Corbyn and won, so internally they'll feel like the tactic is somewhat vindicated.
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He won two elections (one possibly by accident), and people have since decided that he's a genius, and any apparent disaster is actually a cunning plan to end the world.
Which, yes, sometimes it is weaponised incompetence, but sometimes it's just plain old regular incompetence too.
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Give a toddler a toolbox and free reign of your living room, and you'll be *amazed* at all the new ways they find to break things.
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As none of them should. What we've called a trade disagreement is the violent exportation of American exploitation, a demand that no state shield it citizens any more than the US shields theirs. 'If it's good enough for our poor people, it's good enough for yours'.
Nigel would agree, I'm sure.
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Where “bothsides-ism” prevails in the churches, where the slogan, “let us not talk politics” rides a wave of pious silence to protect the economic interests of churches, we sympathize with creeping totalitarianism that is actively destroying the space of and possibility for political difference.
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The thing is, he's clearly way too smart not to see this, he just wants to beef with the EU, which makes the whole techno-feudalism resistance bit less believable. 'Laws shouldn't apply to politicians' is a strange rallying cry for an anti-fascist.
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Like, there's so much more that could be done with this post that would actually serve people affected. Raise funds, signpost to mental health resources, encourage people to lobby their MP, put forward volunteering opportunities. This won't change policies, but it will harm those affected by them.
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This really is it, right? We've decided that 'being emotionally invested and/or morally outraged with something' is the same as 'supporting and showing solidarity with the people affected by it', and it's just not.
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They've built a strategy based on Trump 1.0 (keep your head down, watch what he does not what he says, try and manipulate/cajole him along etc), without considering that what he was gonna do in month one was *blow up the transatlantic alliance*.
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The thing I'm more interested in is the 'British owned capacity' stuff. Right now all this tech is housed in the US and therefore subject to silicone valley. Building it domestically hopefully gives us greater control and makes us less vulnerable to an unreliable ally.
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So in a past life I was a teacher, and although I'm a big AI sceptic I will say that *anything* to help teachers reduce the administrative workload and plan personalised lessons needs to be considered. Right now it just doesn't happen in most cases because teachers are drowning.
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For a future book, I'm toying with the idea of a 3rd act epilogue - main conflict settles end of act 2, characters settle, then 3rd act re-opens the conflict after a time skip
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I'm finding I sort of naturally write in a 3 act shape, but I like to play with a little i.e current book has a dramatic physical conflict that peaks in act 1, but gives way to underlying mystery and ideological conflict in act 2-3
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'Either we're all wrong' doing a lot of lifting there...
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Great grasp of theme, incredible (as far as the doctor is concerned) grasp of character, terrible grasp of plot.
Shown perfectly in the Christmas special, where he even telegraphs a satisfying, rush to the Tardis and throw the bomb into space ending, just to pivot to space magic.
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19mil in shares since he took the job. Suspect most folks would be quite happy to be run over by that sort of bus.
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Does Meta have politics restrictions? Tate, Kirk etc already accumulate millions of views on Instagram, through their own clips and recycled clips.
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I mean, I think that's a charitable interpretation of her reasoning. She did also get off the boat then *immediately* declare that the people who got off the boats were probably traitors, so I don't think she's thinking that far ahead.
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The process of writing is often where the majority of learning happens. The students outsourcing that process to genAI are first and foremost stunting their own learning. It's nonsense to suggest that teachers should sell the rest of their class short in response.
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'Everyone else does this therefore you need to too' is a bad argument if the thing everyone else is doing produces worse results.
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Much like WItcher 3 all the superficially edgy stuff gives way to a story which is really quite human. In terms of character work it's one of my favourite videos game stories