Tomorrow we will hear @drkatedevlin.bsky.social on "The Agreeable Machine", in Birkbeck's wonderful new event space "The Conservatory". It looks like we are almost fully booked, but if you are quick you might be able to squeeze in! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Well, it's probably not binary for starters.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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I'm commenting here as an expert: "JESUS LOL FUCK NO".
Your love of The Fall includes having Blindness as a wedding processional.
Thankfully not a boomer/doomer piece but something that still captures why genAI is part of a bigger problem:
I thought I'd have a fun evening introducing the kid to Derry Girls but instead I ended up bursting into tears yet again at the final scenes of Season 1, much to the kid's shock.
I was blacklisted by the previous UK government for retweeting Parody Liz Truss.
Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:
The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
The Pulp Fiction "say 'what'" meme but it's buckets: Say "buckets" again. I dare you, I double dare you."
new Mary Oliver poem just dropped
Or a book on the ex-wives, including interviews with the ex-wives. I'd read the hell out of that.
No, just three pillows the height of skyscrapers 😭
Sadly not this one. There isn't even water in the room. (Well, there is, there's a tap, but I've made that mistake before.)
Very very tired by work and work-related things. Now in bed in a hotel and the pillow is about 6ft high, I'm not even joking, my neck is at an angle so sharp that a protractor can't cope. I just want to sleep. Am I at the life stage where I need to bring my own pillow? Please, no. I cannot.
Yup. My thoughts exactly. It's one of their Mumsnet Campaigns, apparently. It's an email for people to cut and paste. If I were a cynic, I'd wonder how this campaign was linked to their constant, constant advertising of a phone that blocks content deemed harmful.
A screenshot of the Mumsnet Talk homepage. A banner with a button reads: "Back an u16s social media ban. Write to your MP." And the button reads: "Takes 1 minute"
There's been a banner on Mumsnet for a while now offering a speedy generated letter to MPs to call for a U16 social media ban. Heaven forbid you might want to write to suggest an evidence-based approach...
The prodigal techbro. And, of course, they are then forever hailed as the font of all ethics, despite having missed the whole ethical bit the first time round.
Exactly this. And yet everyone's crowding around with their "congratulations on not being a dick on this particular occasion!" medals.
Sam Altman would feed his own grandmother to the paperclip maximizer.
Every time I see either of these men:
As computing weaves itself into the interstitial spaces of civilization, increasingly every line of code represent an ethical and moral decision.
lol jfc PLEASE all they did was not agree to have their software directly enable fucking WAR CRIMES! No cookie for Dario!
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Our local councillors are all Green so that'd be a good move.
Clive Lewis is my MP and I'm pleased he is. He's rightly had lots of support in my area. But he might want to do himself a favour and think about running as an independent next time.
🏊♀️ How can we use digital tools and data to better support female athletes?
Join us on 12 March for a discussion on the Digital Futures of Women's Sport, with Dr Fiona Lavelle, Victoria Ogunseitan @kingslsm.bsky.social, Lottie Birdsall-Strong, Wendy Martinson OBE & Prof @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⬇️
March 10, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social): "The Agreeable Machine"
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