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Sounds like DOGE just fantasises figures.

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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

New Bon Iver. Happy friday youtu.be/5K8xDt9M7Kk?...

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

ChatGPT and tools like it are great for efficiency, but have serious impacts on our critical thinking. My latest for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2468...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Valentino’s Day

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It’s taken a decade for the U.K. HE sector to go from boom to bust. Mass redundancies across the country. Can’t help but wonder how it came to this and how it’s been orchestrated

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Not sure how big this hit is but it’s intriguing go.theregister.com/feed/www.the...

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So Kanye has been openly selling Nazis Tshits. F.

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University staff all knew this was coming. It was wage and pension cuts, workloads, REF, ballooning class sizes, no readvertising vacant posts in teaching or admin. The bubble will burst, and it will be no sweat off the back of the VCs and govt who made it happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone taking bets on which of our unis goes bust first? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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In news that will surprise no one: “Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Off the see Maribou State tonight. Perfect Sunday vibes

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t eat bread these days. But when I do, it’s half a loaf of sourdough or gtfo

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Today I’ve watched Rear Window, Vertigo and now I’m sat watching Blade Runner. It’s all for work. But I’ve loved it

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Meta torrenting files from 'shadow libraries' and basically pirating material for data set training should tell creators exactly how little respect the AI market has for them arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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The success of The Substance reminds me how angry I am that my Film, Horror and the Body module was cancelled this year. For awful reasons.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Forest and Chris Wood, man. Amazing stuff

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Two days in a row, two plane crashes. WTH?

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www.instagram.com/p/DFfGjEGPEF...

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Learning that the human body can regrow damaged tissues is great until you learn that the old vasectomy can reheal even through scar tissue and 5cm long tube removal. Yikes theconversation.com/tonsils-can-...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I used to think I was special being a xennial, being able to live through the digital transition and mobile revolution. But gen A are likely to live through the most radical period of social change. Should be renamed Gen A(I) but I guess that would get confusing with generative AI’s acronym

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Awake with insomnia since 5am. I’ve no idea how wellness gurus manage the early mornings. I’m going to be useless today

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out Deepsix might not need first mover advantage to ruin the nascent AI oligopoly

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I admit I did not have "OpenAI gets Temu'd" as a pale horse but if this is what does it, lol

submitted 27 days ago • 79 comments

Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)

submitted 31 days ago • 47 comments

People who complain about paying taxes act as if they’re the only people who have ever paid tax.

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