They can't even prompt AI to write a report in English.
28.01.2026 14:53
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They can't even prompt AI to write a report in English.
Just been asked to verify my age before I can send direct messages on @bsky.app. I can either do this by registering my credit card or scanning my face! Data to be held by some US company I've never heard of.
NO thanks!
Yes, it's bizarre. I asked whether you had changed you mind about it - Copilot said No. But then it takes a logical leap to assume that it must therefore be some sort of core belief.
It's really not very intelligent.
I asked Copilot whether you changing your mind.
Peace at last.
"While the West arms Israel’s war machine, the Global Sumud Flotilla brings aid to Gaza — confronting Israeli bombs and drones." — @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social here calling on us all to stand with Gaza youtube.com/shorts/6sxh_...
I'm in the clear. I hadn't even heard of him until two days ago. I bet half the Brits who are now mourning like they were his best mate hadn't heard of him either.
The gist of the Israeli take on the Global Sumud Flotilla. (They can bomb, they can kill, they can lie through their teeth, they can deny genocide till they are blue in the mouth. BUT, they cannot counter the power of well-targeted humour) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoA...
VJ Day is 15th August in the UK, but 2nd September in the USA. War doesn’t end when the vanquished accept defeat, but when the victors accept victory.
Some thoughts on heroism, terrorism and idiocy.
glynnew.substack.com/p/its-not-ov...
#VJDay #Gaza
I really hope you’ll take a moment and listen to Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour.
He gives an excellent breakdown of the difference between the Corporatists (Democrats) and the Oligarchs (Republicans).
Our choice now that the oligarchs have won?
Tyranny 👑 or revolution ✊🏼.
And for junior academics with piles of scripts to mark, it's unlikely that they would have spotted those quotations. There's also a ridiculously high standard of proof required in many universities. You and I may know it's AI, but, well... it could just be a random mistake.
📹NEW VIDEO -- We hunted for Israel's secret weapons company
A weapons firm owned by the Israeli government is still operating in the UK. When we started investigating, the firm deleted its website. And when we visited its office, the building was empty👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4U...
Higher Education's 'Ratner Moment'?
Some thoughts on #AI, academic standards and the failure of university management.
glynnew.substack.com/p/dont-blame...
For those interested, the Global Labour University also offers free online certified courses through its online academy.
glu.iversity.org/en/courses/j...
Oppressed professors fight back!
My review of Matt Goodwin's book 'Bad Education' on Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/glynnew/...
Isn't it strange that, at a time when anti-genocide voices are being driven off campus, the stories of 'cancellation' always seem to come from the right-wing snowflakes?
My brush with the Woke Right on Substack.
glynnew.substack.com/p/the-academ...
Proposals from staff at Cardiff University
"The university has a larger financial reserve than almost any other in RussellGroup ..."
Cardiff Uni's Vice Chancellor & Executive won't listen staff, only to speculative profiteers, hedge funds & Kazakh businessmen
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Hard to disagree with any of this. The bigger question is why anyone would want to rely on a 'basic' income when it's Trump's and Musk's cronies who decide whether you get enough to eat every day.
This is much nearer the truth than anything I've read in the news.
IGH-LEVEL public opposi-ton ta brial promised acuts at Cardift University i growing. Neil Kinnock is the latest to add his voice following Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, world-leading mathema-ticians, artists and musicians including Sir Simon Rattle as well as the presidents of the European and London Mathematical Socie-ties. Hundreds of musicians from across the UK also grabbed head lines when they took to Cardiff streets last month, performing in protest as the Cardiff University Salvation Orchestra. Lord Kinnock's strongly worded and high-profile letter to Cardiff University's Vice-Chancellor Professor Wendy Larner is just the latest piece of bad publicity the crisis-hit university hardly needs. The former Labour leader, also a former student of the institution which became Cardiff University, knows how it runs and the pressures it is under. He is a past president of the university, after all. His standing, knowledge and association with Wales' only elite Russell Group instituion can hardly be discounted or ignored. Opposing the wholesale cuts and job losses, he hones in on the school of modern languages, as that was his subject. Losing this depart-ment, as proposed, would "dimin-ish" the university, he warns. News of the cuts has spread far beyond Wales or even the UK. Thanks to the global reach of higher education and the pressure to woo higher-paying international students, the news has reached wider potential markets. Cardiff is not alone in facing enormous financial pressure. The forecast £3lm deficit may be the largest of any university in Wales, but others here and across the UK are shedding jobs and courses. And there is a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Bad news travels fast and reputation lost is not easily regained. Cardiff University boasts world-lead-ing academics and researchers from around the globe, but deep cuts risk losing applicants and staff. A thriving higher education sector is important for Wales' economy and employment. Universitie…
Damning Western Mail editorial today for scandal-plagued Cardiff Uni bosses, as public anti-cuts consensus grows:
“And there is a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Bad news travels fast and reputation lost is not easily regained.”
#CUFightback
UK Govt Says It's Not "Appropriate" For Committee To Scrutinise Security Adviser.
This is wrong. The executive needs to be accountable.
There is no law which states that govt advisers are beyond parliamentary scrutiny.
How can anyone assess whether govt policies are right?
Coming shortly to the UK. Because when the drones and hypersonic missiles are heading across the North Sea, what we'll need most are thousands of young men who have done a fortnight's square-bashing.
If Palestinians with guns targeted and set fire to a historic 12th century synagogue & prevented people from tackling the ensuing blaze, it'd be heavily reported across UK news bulletins (if not leading them).
But Israeli soldiers burning a historic 12th century mosque? Nah.
I get the impression that most of you have done the same as I have. You've set up a Blue Sky account and then gone back to Xitter. I hope this BS thing takes off, but so far the discussions seem a bit, well... bland. (Or maybe that's what you like about it?)
Image of steel being made at a steel works
Donald Trumps’s steel tariff threat should be a wake-up call for this government. I have long been calling for the steel industry to be classified as critical national infrastructure – just as it is in the US. 1/3
