Daniel Rough
@haggistamer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨🏫 Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful weirdo. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. A peaceful ferret. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
shirley this can't be true? if someone commanded me to laugh I'd probably laugh at how weird a command that was anyway, but if not I have many things in my brain vault that I find funny enough to elicit a chuckle at least. anyway I hope you've had a laugh today. you deserve it 💜
LinkedIn thought leader: "AI is here! Educators must adapt!" okay but how do we- "The genie is out of the bottle! Your assessment isn't ready!" yeah but could you perhaps suggest- "AI isn't going away! Teachers need to radically rethink the status quo!" can you just shut the fu- "Thoughts?"
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h agoI think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.
tried to start exercising again. could only manage like 10 press-ups but then I thought how often in my life do press-ups occur and how often in my life does eating pasta occur? what's the priority here? so anyway I'm trying to get really good at eating pasta again 🍝
Been asked to run a 2-hour Computing event for visiting students so I'm going with a web-and-physical escape room/scavenger hunt. idk how it'll go but it's fun making it 😄
Rod Liddle: "I wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week" Guardian editor: "Oooh strong start that'll get people hooked" Like what in the nonce was this? 🤮
Barry Lyndon LaRouche@colfer.bsky.social · 2d agoSee also
Happy to share my latest prototype - a mind-controlled air freshener. It makes scents when you think about it! Thank you thank you what a lovely audience.
Wishing you all a happy weekend, a bounteous harvest, affable seas, minimal lice, a vision of splendour, and all the cheese you could wish for 💜
okay you're not supposed to feed the Gremlins after midnight, but at what time can you start feeding them again? 4am? 5am? Sunrise? technically any time is after midnight. don't mind me just here asking the big questions
Wore the Fancy Red Suit to work today. In my focus on pizzazz I forgot my office keys and had to beg for the spare copy. Felt less funky after that but still above average levels of funkiness.
Almost every day I use the monocle emoji. One day I will have my very own monocle to adorn whenever I am sceptical or disapproving of what someone has just said, or if it's an especially fancy chat 🧐
when a mummy Catch-22 and a daddy Catch-22 love each other very much
Am very tickled that on searching "Auchtermuchty" I get the German version first 😂 I really must stop using Google altogether but it's kind of satisfying to witness its collapse in real time
Daniel Rough@haggistamer.bsky.social · last wk.Had a wonderful time! Only downside was when I drove back home I passed through Auchtermuchty and idk I expected it to be more whimsical? It's no Balamory I'll tell you that
HEY YOU THERE if next month you're in the vicinity of the finest city beginning with an E in Scotland then Emma is doing a show there that will be fab and you should probably go to! And look at those 5-star accolades! Rabbie backs talent 🤩
Emma Grae@emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · last wk.A wee reminder thit ah’m sharin some o ma short stories at the Edinburgh Fringe – and huvin a guid natter aboot scrievin in the leid thit’s no a leid. Nae need tae buik tickets, jist turn up oan the day or nicht!
Had a wonderful time! Only downside was when I drove back home I passed through Auchtermuchty and idk I expected it to be more whimsical? It's no Balamory I'll tell you that
Daniel Rough@haggistamer.bsky.social · 2w agoheading to Edinburgh tomorrow to meet my lovely pal @motherofdog.bsky.social! social media can be terrible but I still love that strangers can turn into online friends and then into real-life friends 🥰
heading to Edinburgh tomorrow to meet my lovely pal @motherofdog.bsky.social! social media can be terrible but I still love that strangers can turn into online friends and then into real-life friends 🥰
Calling Scottish folks because fuck data centres. Personally I'd go for yeeting the shareholders into the sun but I guess I'll settle for a moratorium petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...
petitions.parliament.scot
Many years ago I made the infamous banana/curry powder pizza combo (with chicken). Reader, I enjoyed it, despite how it looks. Judge me if you must but I know what I tasted and it was good!
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w agoIn fact pineapple pairs well with ham on a pizza. I would not combine it with sausage or pepperoni. That said, I would probably draw the line at the banana pizza allegedly popular in Scandanvia: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/banan...
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Old Man and the Sea Cucumber
Jason Marbach@marbach.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Catch 22 Pedophiles
everyone is looking for different things but many people are looking for capybara pictures
Professors using LLMs to do their work like this do not deserve tenure, nope. But soon enough, our admins and college boards will be asking why bother to have faculty at all, if they can just pay a bunch of AI agents to "do" academia, and I do wish we would think of AI as a labor issue
James Andrew Smith@drsmith.bsky.social · 2w agoThe natural extension of this: Claude: does Professor X deserve tenure?
sorry to bring this to your feed again but did ANYONE else not know how to pronounce it? 😭
Daniel Rough@haggistamer.bsky.social · 2w agoSchiphol
found a Pokemon card on my adventures today. It is a "Relicanth" which appears to be a fish that's too old for this shit
it's not that absurd in the grand scheme of things, but I remember when I was delivering for Domino's and somebody ordered a pizza with no toppings except sweetcorn and I still get chills thinking about it 😅
SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.
