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Siún Carden

@s-carden.bsky.social

Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry, 2024. Lecturer at UHI Shetland. Anthropologish. Teaches on MA Art and Social Practice etc. From (the real) Newcastle, County Down. https://www.siuncarden.com

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Coleen Murphy@ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Kate Littlejohn@kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is horrific. And while all the calls to sue are well meaning and completely valid, it just shows how much pointless and unnecessary labour these AI nightmares add to people's lives. She shouldn't have to sue, this shouldn't happen, what are we even doing here?

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

A screenshot of the advertisement with an AI image of Lindsey and a brain, with text that says: YOUR BODY HAS A HISTORY. ASK ABOUT IT."
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6mo ago

"The new waterwheel they built to power the loom made the river undrinkable, and when the boss cut my hours in half, I couldn’t buy food anymore, which really made the whole rickets situation get out of hand. But that’s exactly the sort of time you need a laugh, right?"

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

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Patrick walsh@speakerconolly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Started this excellent book on Friday ‘Hard Neighbours: the Scotch-Irish invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity’ by Colin Calloway. It seems an even more important read today. There is no celebratory Scots Irish history.

Book Hard neighbours by Colin Calloway
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
L@banalplay.bsky.social · 12mo ago

People are lonelier than ever, so here is a robot you can talk to. It won't make you less lonely but it will drive you insane. That will be five thousand dollars.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 12mo ago

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

aljazeera.com

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams@halperta.bsky.social · last yr.

Hot take: most online courses taught in universities right now are not designed to maximize student learning. Why not? Because instead of spending money on recruiting and training excellent educators, universities are spending their money on Learning Management Systems that don't work.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Kieran Hurley@kieranhurley.bsky.social · last yr.

remembered this today, which I wrote back at the end of 2023, and thought about how most of the people in the images and videos that prompted it will likely be dead now. My son is about to turn 7

Fighting Age Males [2 columns of text. The column on the right starts first. It is narrow, 1-3 words per line. At the end the lines become longer but more broken and fragmented. The text is transcribed below] video taken on a phone silent men walking through the rubble young men, boys really old men dust and concrete an armchair now and then a part of lamp shards of once lived-in domesticity the men have found someone a child under the wreckage dust still alive one man pulls the child out lifts him up into the strong safe heat of his arms they look to the sky and praise God scroll on still image now men stood against a wall in a line warm colour of their fleshy human skin stark against grey all naked blindfold heads bowed soft bellies skinny legs the shameful shock of it oh fuck scroll past - scroll back- naked men gun point young men, boys really old men thirty to forty fighting age males stripped with hands bound not civilians it says but fighting age at them it says look at these males it says look men look at these Arab men look see look that are these fighting age males look [see alt text of following post for text of left column]
Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · last yr.

In a week when the divide between direct action protest and terrorism disappeared for the UK Government, Anne Alexander, @aliceellafinden.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on the dangerous chilling effect for Art 10/11 ECHR rights with @opendemocracy.net: www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...

Palestine Action ban: We must learn from university protests

Government’s proscription of the group follows months of similarly chilling repression on campuses across the UK

opendemocracy.net

Aoife Gallagher@aoifegall.bsky.social · last yr.

Research from us looking at how social media platforms once again failed to take action on content inciting violence in Northern Ireland last week

Institute for Strategic Dialogue@isdglobal.bsky.social · last yr.

After 2 Romanian teenagers were charged with an attack on a teenage girl in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, social media platforms were at the heart of a coordinated campaign of anti-migrant violence. Read ISD's analysis of an increasing pattern of online mobilisation translating into offline violence.

Siún Carden@s-carden.bsky.social · last yr.

Baubi Urquhart of Yell, Shetland: "photographs of Baubi were once used to illustrate two quite different stories – one about folklore, specifically tales of ‘seal women’ or ‘selkies’ from the Northern Isles of Scotland, and the other about women’s work in the rural economy of the 19th century."

The Story of a Seal-Woman from Shetland – MAA Digital Lab

Baubi Urquhart’s portraits tell two stories—mythical ancestry and rural industry. Eona Bell explores how this woman embodied both in 19th-century Scotland.

maadigitallab.org

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · last yr.

The EU was asked 15 months ago by Spain and Ireland to consider suspending the favourable trade deal it has with Israel. They were ignored.

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Andrew Stroehlein@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · last yr.

"It (the situation) is unsustainable because the Israeli government's blind violence, the blocking of humanitarian aid have turned #Gaza into a place for dying, not to say a cemetery" - Jean-Noel Barrot, France's foreign minister www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Tim Oliver@tjoliver.bsky.social · last yr.

Local journalism is one of the cornerstones of a democratic society. @manchestermill.bsky.social's work on the University of Greater Manchester (formerly Bolton) is a reminder of just what we're missing as so many local papers become hollow shadows of themselves manchestermill.co.uk/the-universi...

The Casablanca Deal: Secret contracts and unexplained payments at the University of Greater Manchester

EXCLUSIVE: Senior executives at the university tried to divert hundreds of thousands in tuition fees into a private company which one of them owns

manchestermill.co.uk