Sadly, that seems unlikely. It's all become a self-sustaining circle with a whole industry of specialists to turn your proposal into "the way the funding committee will like it". 🙄
John V Willshire
@willsh.bsky.social
Strategic Design, Futures, Wildlife. Expect hedgehogs. Works @ smithery.com Makes https://artefactshop.com Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
We have applied for two UK Government Framework things over the last few months. Now that everything is in on the second, I idly decided to check the total word count. We’ve written 26,373 words about ourselves and our projects. Feels like a lot. But hey, Ask Me Anything now, I have it written.
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Found Snecklifter in our local Waitrose here in Sussex. Thought that was weird, as Jennings had been closed by Carlsberg Marstons… But it’s back! Under independent family ownership since last year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n
Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3d agoWe are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
My heart sinks every time the weekend radio mentions that there is F1 coming up later. It’s boring enough to watch, never mind as a radio experience.
Geoff Mulgan makes the case for 'Cognitive Rearmament' to tackle misinformation and cognitive decline. (The term Collective Stupidity appears, like it.) geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
The Case for Cognitive Rearmament
Taking misinformation and cognitive decline seriously
geoffmulgan.substack.com
"The counseling office checks graduation requirements. Wash U has been working to get software to do the same job. System cost the school $99M to implement. At that price, the school could have hired 20 work-study students for well over a century." globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
globecollegetown.substack.com
One of the things we’re confirming about Anthropic as a culture is that they are in no way equipped to be working on the technology they have.
The Verge@theverge.com · 5d agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
@andrewhickey.500songs.com can’t reply on your post, but funnily enough I have a similar theory my friend Sam wrote about recently in his long piece on greatest hits albums - loudandquiet.substack.com/p/bring-back...
I mean, on the bright side it’s just an old-school double-counting on a spreadsheet issue, rather than a new-fangled AI slop issue.
It’s the 8th October. We don’t need the Halloween decorations up yet, thanks.
This does in fact seem obvious to everyone apart from the people who came up with the policy.
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 5d agoI'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
I mean, there’s a signal if anyone’s collecting…
Julian Hanna@julianisland.bsky.social · 5d agoNew bookmark just dropped
“[Kane’s] entire career is a culmination of graft, brains and hard work... He still jogs about looking like a dutiful first world war trench sergeant who keeps a baby bird in his waistcoat pocket.” 👏👏 @barneyronay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Total Midweek Kane: England’s icon delivers a classic on his way to footballing ultimacy | Barney Ronay
On a night where he equalled Peter Shilton’s England appearance record, Harry Kane did what he always does
theguardian.com
Fake references abound, destroying the integrity of the published record. This will destroy science and the universities if we do not halt and reverse this process bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5mo ago"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · last wk."By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
A proper skewering, but with pity in the eyes of the skewer-holder. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Missile and drone shield - we’ll call it Britannia Shield…” #r4today
Sure Jan
ALT: Sure Jan
static.klipy.com
Yet another of those ‘get home and find a photo you didn’t realise you’d taken at the time’ moments. Goldfinches on the wing. #ukbirds
Yet another of those ‘get home and find a photo you didn’t realise you’d taken at the time’ moments. Goldfinches on the wing. #ukbirds
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
I love that Ross is the only person called Ross in #thetraitors yet everyone only ever calls him ‘Ross Kemp’.
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
