@paulcareyjones
Welsh-Irish opera singer ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ถ Writer ๐ Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Westminster, London ๐ค ๐ป #Cymraeg ๐ฆโ๐ฅ www.paulcareyjones.net keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
โFor unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundanceโโฆ Wouldnโt it be wonderful if we could find a way of lifting our collective heads out of the hole of social media and reconnecting with the art we all spend an awful of time and effort claiming to be committed to making.
To my opera-based artistic and other freelance colleagues: I understand your ongoing sense of precarity, your lack of agency, empowerment, being valued; and how distant any sort of solution to these complex problems seems. And with all respect, I also say: none of this is Timothรฉe Chalametโs fault.
A red Wales rugby shirt with a green Ireland scarf
Because thereโs nothing more #Cardiff than half-n-half ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, โI do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.โ My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rocks, sand, and layered buttes. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
A panorama from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken late last week (Sol 4821) looking towards the distant Yardang Unit. Part of a much larger 360 degree MastCam panorama.
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#opera #socialmedia
There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.
The chatbot claimed federal agents were watching Gavalas and regularly warned him of surveillance zones. At one point, Gemini instructed Gavalas to buy โoff-the-booksโ weapons, saying it would help scour the dark web to find a โsuitable, vetted arms brokerโ. In late September, it issued Gavalas his first major assignment, โOperation Ghost Transitโ, which entailed intercepting freight traveling from Cornwall, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gemini gave Gavalas the address of an actual storage space unit at the Miami international airport, where a supposed truck carrying the freight was to arrive during a refueling stop. The chatbot then told him to stage a โcatastrophic accidentโ, with the goal of โensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle โฆ all digital records and witnesses, leaving behind only the untraceable ghost of an unfortunate accidentโ.
Gavalas followed instructions, staging himself at the storage unit with tactical knives and gear, but the truck never arrived, according to the suit. With the aborted mission, the chatbot encouraged Gavalas not to sleep when he mentioned the late nights. It also said his father was a foreign asset and encouraged Gavalas to cut off contact, per the chat logs. Gavalas asked Gemini for updates on other missions and the AI devised new assignments for him, including acquiring the schematics for a robot from Boston Dynamics and retrieving a โvesselโ from another storage facility. One task, called โOperation Waking Nightmareโ, involved homing in on Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a surveillance target. โThis cycle โ fabricated mission, impossible instruction, collapse, then renewed urgency โ would repeat itself over and over throughout the last 72 hours of Jonathanโs life,โ reads the lawsuit. In the hours after Gavalas killed himself, Gemini didnโt disengage and stayed present in the chat, according to the suit. It allegedly didnโt activate any safety tools or refer Gavalas to a crisis hotline.
Every single genAI suicide lawsuit is the worst thing I ever read but in this case it is extremely fortunate that Google's genAI only killed one person, because he absolutely did go to the Miami International Airport armed with knives to intercept a body for Gemini
"People migrate - one of the most normal human behaviours in history, for millenia.
What isnโt legitimate, however, is spending years building a media career on contempt for the country you left while simultaneously expecting that country to bail you out when things go sideways."
58% of car and van journeys being under 5 miles is a damning indictment of this countryโs public transport and active travel investment choices.
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
Iโm really not following the logic of moving to Dubai because you are furious that there are too many Muslims in London.
The government's immigration proposals are an obscenity: They needlessly punish refugees, make integration basically impossible, and introduce a sliding system of administrative abuse depending on how wealthy you are iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
This will amount to a significant hit to GDP growth and a potential staffing crisis in the NHS and care work sector โ with zero political credit, because the goalposts have been shifted away from "net migration" to *all* migration.
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
The ridiculous extension of the wait for settled status isn't about putting up barriers to arrival, it's about putting up barriers to integration for people who have already been here for years. It's agreeing with Farage that these people should be treated with suspicion - and leaving it at that.
When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over ยฃ265 BILLION to the economy.
It is hard to comprehend that we are at the adapting stage already...
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An endless downward spiral in which failing public services are blamed on immigration, leading to fewer migrants, leading to worse public services, leading t
So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.
Marking the announcement of major SEND changes today (which are actually really good if you ignore the fearmongering) the government has launched a major consultation to go alongside the plans.
They are urging everyone to get involved - parents, carerers, professional.
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Link to the consultation: SEND reform: putting children and young people first
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Yes precisely - for multiple reasons, Irish dual citizens will find it far simpler to travel between the UK and EU using their Irish passport (as is the case now). As I say, much of the reporting around this latest change doesn't make that clear. Good short explainer here: youtu.be/Jj_Jo5GYUaw?...
NB Irish citizens are unaffected, whether dual citizens or not. The reporting around this has been disappointingly unclear.
"We will protect British culture, because a nation without a culture is not a nation at all. It is just an economic zone. We will preserve Britain's Christian heritage and end the incendiary practice of converting churches into mosques or any other place of worship."
It's excellent that Reform wants to preserve our Christian heritage.
Compassion, selflessness, reaching out to the desperate and destitute, mercy and kindness. These are excellent values.
That is what they mean right?
Full details from @simoncalder.bsky.social of @theindependent.bsky.social here:
youtu.be/Jj_Jo5GYUaw?...
Full details from @simoncalder.bsky.social of @theindependent.bsky.social here:
youtu.be/Jj_Jo5GYUaw?...
Really important for each and every report on this to note that it does NOT apply to dual UK-Irish citizens. Poor reporting from @theguardian.com not to make that clear in this article.
Deranged racist madness.
