Dr Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe

Oh, this is gorgeous.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

TIL the word “evangenitals”, for fundamentalist Christians who spend their waking hours obsessing over the gender and reproductive conformance of other people’s bodies, and I am so putting that in my dissertation

Fuck Grammarly

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Finally this long-last meta-research is done!
We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science.

Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu.
@btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social

That's a quote for the ages

Problem: peer review is broken because there are too many poor articles

Solution: Speed up review & reduce human input with 'AI'

No x 10^23.

"Urbanism is ableist!" "Reducing car dependency is ableist!" "Not everyone can ride a bike!" etc. have become very effective thought-terminating clichés, resulting in people ignoring, dismissing or even badging ableist disabled people simply for advocating for accessibility for non-drivers.

Consolation prize of the day *chef's kiss

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

As ever, my boring, practical question is: when none of these policies make any positive difference to the lives of people, or to what the newspapers tell them about small boats, when Farage says you aren’t tough enough, what will you do then?

UK to further curtail rights of asylum seekers Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will tighten rules on access to accommodation and financial support

I see lessons have not been learned from the spectacular loss of Gorton and Denton.

If Labour insists on continuing down this route, then they do honestly deserve to lose the next GE.

Utterly infuriating.

Which may seem like a small point, but it does mean that there should be zero overlap between supporters of FOSS and users of Claude, because that would be completely unethical.

And yet, and yet.

Screenshot of Telegraph headline: Eir Nolsøe Labour is finally getting migration under control. It's a nightmare for Reeves Much lower numbers of migrants would cost the Treasury billions Photo of Starmer and Reeves ث

I’m sorry, what now?

Are you f’king kidding right now @telegraph.co.uk??

Our lies are deliberate and human!

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!

Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds

But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣

Right, let's get started...

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Frustratingly true.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Reform UK proposals for future elections:
-if Reform loses, there was fraud and cheating
-if Reform wins, it was fair

You should. It's that kind of perspective that made me realise 40 years later how brainwashed I was (and probably many of my co-citizens). I never dared to say to anyone that French is easy though - albeit if they are a native UK English speaker, I might raise a pot calling the kettle black argument

"Mais c'est l'exception qui fait la règle" [I'll take my coat]

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 £265 BILLION to the economy.

People are drowning in disinformation on a social media site run by a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

Introduced in 2018 and expanded to all roads by 2020, Bilbao was the first European city of more than 300,000 inhabitants to adopt a universal 30 km/h speed limit. Several years on, the results suggest it has delivered broad benefits on safety, public health, travel efficiency, and quality of life.🧵

Any British politician with courage needs to go or keep going directly at the Mail.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

AP Headline: Fintech company Block lays off 4,000 of its 10,000 staff, citing gains from AI.

Shot: AI drives massive layoffs but Dorsey says he's not inhumane; people will have until Thursday to say goodbye before losing their slack and email.