Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years.
#mbjune Day 4: Nostalgia 📷
This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete bullshit seem plausible at first.
Read the whole thing.
There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to go viral, creating stronger incentives to create more slop — and all the while drowning out human-created as well as higher-quality content. Which we need, because participation and democracy needs us to have good info.
Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK.
We’re staring down a future where students exit education having learnt little but how to write good AI prompts, and then disguise the fact that’s what they did.
Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon.
I refuse to let the wave on online negativity around this show rob me of the genuine enjoyment I get from it.
Honestly, the fact that they haven’t released Dugga Doo as a single to streaming is just leaving money on the table.
Mozilla is killing Pocket. Dammit.
Time to see how well micro.blog imports laaaaaarge Pocket libraries…
2005: the internet is amazing! This will transform our culture! 2025: Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie.
Seriously proud of my year two journalism undergrads. They’ve shown both a real commitment to core journalism skills, but also finding new and relevant ways of expressing it for younger generations.
Some talent coming through there…
It almost makes marking painless. Almost.
The fact of the matter is that a lot of people want to say whatever stupid thing pops into their head or share the latest bullshit they saw on Facebook or Instagram without any challenge. Science doesn’t work that way.
Down at the Tooting campus to do some social media training.
This is a weird feeling. It’s where my wife did her postdoc…
Just spent 30 minutes in the garden with a coffee and a book, as a lunchbreak.
It doesn’t sound much, but in 13 years of self-employment, It’s been a rarity. But I’m focussing on doing it more.
Why do people still wish their friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, when the friend in question clearly haven’t used the site in nearly a decade?
Some traditional bothiers feel their world, the sacrosanct inner circle, is under threat in an age of Instagram posts and online blogs.
— From Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
The phrase “online blogs” irritates me beyond all measure. It has no place in a book published in 2024. It’s a redundancy - how many offline blogs are there? - that is surely unnecessary decades into the existence of the form.