Steven Curtis
@stevencurtis.bsky.social
National Teaching Fellow (2011) Diplomatic Studies | Public & Diaspora Diplomacy | Higher Education | Learning & Teaching in Politics and International Relations | Film and Music
The dimension of the Arday affair which is most disgraceful is his and/or the University of Cambridge’s use of lawfare, including calling the police, to silence a reputable journalist. Knowledge grows through criticism. This tarnishes the reputation of UK HE www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, peer review finds #espionage
MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, peer review finds
UK’s Secret Intelligence Service praised for playing long game and having ‘a taste for dirty tricks’
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Rain! Rain coming into London. I don’t have my umbrella and I don’t give a toss
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
I don't think even Arday could have imagined that the 'sad and difficult things' from the Brazilian woman's 'prophecy', with which he rather immodestly begins his book, would be upon him before it appears in print www.amazon.com/Great-Unfort...
People will "believe that a professor at Cambridge is an especially bright star in the firmament. If you try what you have been told is a chef‘s best dish and it tastes exactly like bullshit, you probably don’t want to eat anything else from the same kitchen" Please read this important post
Rory Waterman@rorywaterman.bsky.social · 4d agoSome notes by little me on recent, hugely damaging, shamefully shameless events at Cambridge University. rorywaterman.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-cambridge-debacle If you read only one article about what has happened, try the new piece by Lanre Bakare in the Guardian, linked in my blog post.
This is indeed a superb piece on the Arday affair
Jonathan Emmesedi@jemmesedi.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 3d agohttps://willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-jason-arday-affair-will-fizzle I'm not sure that I agree with every single point that William Davies makes here, but the piece is a useful contribution to debate, as opposed to polemic, on the Jason Arday affair. >>The Arday story arises in the way it […]
'... time made an error, but you waited for me ...' Portrait of Jennie (dir. William Dieterle, 1948)
I think I have discovered Arday's most outlandish claim: that he is not used to talking about himself
Inspiration and Courage : Jason Arday in Conversation with Rajani Naidoo
YouTube video by University of Bath Race Equality Taskforce
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"The technology they are creating is financial engineering"
Nvidia’s $350bn OpenAI loan is scaring everyone | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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How Trump silenced the Voice of America #GI5052 #GI7100 #broadcasting
How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America
The Voice of America was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message.
newyorker.com
Not wanting to be left out. “Oooh, look! Our bullshit machine is powerful and capable too”
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack 3 organisations
It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.
bbc.co.uk
I especiallly love how It suggests moving a chunk of West Africa to what looks like Namibia, rather than labelling the country. Good work Claude or ChatGPT or whatever bullshit machine spat out this map. The presenter could have done it properly in 5-10 mins www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Finally people seem to be waking up to the fact that adding more data centres to bullshit machines will not produce a step change in generative AI or conjure up whatever arseclown Zuckerberg means by 'superintelligence'. They will simply further fuck up the planet and possibly crash the economy
Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI
Stock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AI
theguardian.com
Today is another one of those uncomfortable times where I find myself looking wistfully back at the Bush Administration.
finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex
Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?
Oh god, I had completely forgotten the days of typing programmes into my computer - a ZX Spectrum - from a magazine. We seemed to have so much time on our hands
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.Above all, my interlocutors insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. 21/
If you use Claude or Gemini, you will be funnelling money to this fascist goon. Clearly you don’t give a toss about the environmental, social or psychological harms caused by LLM use, so perhaps this fact will encourage you to think and write for yourself.
Obviously, schools, colleges and universities need to do better at teaching students how to avoid risks associated with the use of LLMs
Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · last wk.ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
Has anyone tried to coax ChatGPT into killing itself?
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives@spellingmistakescostlives.com · 3mo agoOn the tube
Your daily reminder that if you morons stopped using planet-destroying bullshit machines, peddled by fantasists and fascists, to “help” you “think” and “write” (just as we managed only four fucking years ago), we could end this shit right now
Hobbes@flawedfacade.blacksky.app · last wk.Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
I’m guessing they weren’t allowed to take their sidearms within five miles of poor little paranoid Mr P
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · last wk.LOL
