Bronwyn Clarke

'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3

This trio of books by Pam Inder reveal the hidden worlds of the British workers behind the garments:
🧵 Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid
🎀 Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods - new in hardback
🪡 Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen - now in paperback!

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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…

EileenMuriel. Probably with Eunice as a middle name. They were all a lot older than my Dad.

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat

but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

After I noted
how a century ago
there was a pandemic
followed by fascism
and a world war,
the historian called me
and explained
that a century ago
there was a pandemic
followed by fascism
and a world war
and also by
nuclear explosions,
so let us hope
history stops repeating.

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"AI" is a plague. Nothing turns me off your company or product faster than seeing breathless attempts to shoehorn in the psychosis-inducing slop machine.

I am so goddamn tired of this.

thinking of the thousands of books and movies and tv and music created by actual people that don't get noticed bc they don't get the marketing support they deserve, meanwhile these assholes are shoving the garbage theft machine down our throats with more money than god and they can't make us love it

A million people a week turning to a chatbot in their darkest moments tells you two things: the mental health system is catastrophically broken, and we've built something we're nowhere near ready for. Both can be true simultaneously.

Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

What Covid in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children A growing body of research shows that exposure to Covid-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development.

For much of the pandemic, reassurance about #Covid in #pregnancy rested on one idea: babies didn’t test positive.
New research shows why that was incomplete -- and why exposure in the womb, not infection at birth, is the real concern.
🎁🔗⬇️
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I've not read the book, but I did grow up in Canberra. Plenty of passion, diversity, and wild life there! It ain't all suits and politics :)

Or maybe, making sure people can afford housing, health care and basic necessities, are able to form community by not having to constantly move and are ensured financial security in one of the richest countries on earth might do it? How’s leaning right going for UK Labour? 🫠🫠🫠

About $100bn worth in AI data centre projects are in the offing in NSW, but they could drive up public energy costs www.news.com.au/technology/n...

Small joys. A street sweeping truck just passed by. Pippin watched from the window. I was standing further back, probably not visible. And the driver waved at Pippin.

That's the most important part of this all: that these are things that people will wear and relate to and that fascism is defeated by us forming community and making art and appreciating beauty and love and the colors you want, whatever those colors are.

All the colors. That's us.

There are some amazing people fighting back & they are standouts in a world turned upside down by truly evil people. Please listen to this amazing teacher. Her testimony made me cry & consider sharing this video.

Contact your lawmakers at every level from City council to Congress & Speak out!

The number of people willingly and gleefully outsourcing their brain to the billionaire's plagiarism engine for tasks they're more than capable of doing without it is genuinely breaking my will to live.

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you

an older man with a bandage on his arm says now that 's stealing ALT: an older man with a bandage on his arm says now that 's stealing

Did you write a novel… or did you feed prompts into a machine that spat out strung-together words to form sentences it had been programed to do since it had been trained using stolen work that had been created by a human brain?

If you fed the machine prompts, you wrote nothing and stole from many.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

From Bridgerton to Heated Rivalry, what’s the secret to a good book-to-TV romance? More and more romance adaptations are starting to appear – but what makes the translation from page to screen really sing?

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?

The will of the rich and powerful: Brexit and the Epstein files The Epstein files reveal the role of Brexit in a global network which stands to gain from undermining democracy itself

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

the existence of billionaires is ethically indefensible

A tan and white border collie lying on her cushion, staring intently at the camera.

Pippin thinks I should stop staring at the screen and take her for a walk. She’s probably right. She thinks everyone should go for a walk, ‘cos that would be more people to meet and pat her.