Brian Lucey

@brianmlucey.bsky.social

Grumpy, older, man. Almost done finance professor. Journal editor and reviewer wrangler. Mostly harmless. MAY contain snark and sarcasm. "A cunning Fenian pest"

This basically can be summed up as "Hartlepool, suffering from severe facial bruising, has determined that the solution is to punch itself even harder in the face for even longer" It's very difficult to have any sympathy

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4mo ago

Hartlepool has had the most regeneration funding per head of anywhere in England. But the response from residents, still struggling with the cost of living, can feel muted. Read more: ft.trib.al/t7R6cMm

I asked a number of AI assistant who this was Gemini , kemi; General Michael Collins Claude, ChatGPT; oh noes I can't do people Grok; it's a British army officer from 1917.... 11 rounds of back and forth and it consistently told me that I was wrong..

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A new chapter in Tales of McEvers (est 1973) Summary: STC's are sentient. Sentient beings can get into trouble. The kitchen owes money to some angry fellow machines. McEvers seems a good place to hole up for a century or two... Link: archiveofourown.org/works/844821...

Tales from McEvers (est 1973) - Chapter 13 - Blucey - Warhammer 40.000 [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

Rape, beatings and abuse. It's not a good look for the IDF, tbh It is entirely possible to say Israel has an absolute right to exist and also to say that acting like Blackbeard and engaging in piracy on the high seas is problematic www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

Dr Margaret Connolly says conditions of Israeli detention centre akin to ‘concentration camp’ with regular beatings and sexual assaults

Tom Deasy from Cork described severe beatings of activists by Israeli forces holding them

independent.ie

I don't care if something is written by AI, humans, small green blobs from Epislon Eridani. I do care that it reads well, that it's accurate, that it's giving me appropriate information, that it makes me laugh, cry, think etc. There is a serious bang of witch hunt going on at the moment

I uploaded the abstract of a forthcoming AER paper (not mine!) to 5 popular, well-known AI "detectors". 1 said 100% AI;1 said 80% AI; 2 said 100% Human; 1 said 71% Human 1 And yet we know that publishers are already making decision based on these tools.