my new chat AI, called Enough, is a small language model that draws on a one-parameter pre-trained corpus—the smallest in history—and answers every question with the same response: “No.”

The American Cancer Society just posted an (extremely extremely rare) Nintendo M6 store demo unit on eBay for open auction: ebay.com/itm/2760844675…

Obvs this was hilarious; it’s my case study in poor UX design in my module in Immersive Media in The Ulster Screen Academy but did we ever dig a little deeper into who actually designed and built this for GOV.UK? Is this something I can find out through an FOI?

Musk didn’t just flood the platform with bad actors, conspiracy theorists, disinformation disseminators & propagandists, he gave them the (imperfect but effective) verification mark that had previously been reserved for proven trusted sources. And now we reap what he sowed.

A great morning at Slemish College today chatting to Mr McAnea’s media pupils about studying all things creative and screen based at the The Ulster Screen Academy. A talented and enthusiastic bunch.

Disinformation is a tool by which people in power assert their authority. It's a way in which people consuming information can reinforce their previous views of the world. It perpetuates harmful stereotypes. It is not ideologically neutral

📚 Considering course options? Explore History, English, Journalism, & interactive Media at Coleraine! 🗓️ Join our Insight Event on 26th Oct. Get a sneak peek & hear from current students. 📝 ulster.ac.uk/study/undergra… #CourseOptions #ColeraineCampus #InsightEvent2023 #WeAreUU

Happy Birthday Peter Mandelson

This is now live: chat.openai.com/g/g-toJUSmG9C-…

We're recruiting for an AHRC Northern Bridge PhD scholarship on digital tinkering, play, and learning to fail northernbridge.ac.uk/applyforastude… Happy to talk to anyone who might be interested in applying. Please share. #playresearch

Exciting news for us at Ulster University Journalism as BBC News NI Mark Carruthers will join us as a Visiting Professor of Media. Our students have brilliant lecturers, facilities and opportunities. Delighted that Mark will help us to lead them into the field irishnews.com/news/northerni…

I'm looking for someone who could deliver some self defence training around the north coast area. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by We are now Research Ireland, it will take place in the Trinity Long Room Hub on June 4th-5th. Full details: drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-s4…

“AI is being used as form of 'shock doctrine', where the sense of urgency generated by an allegedly world-transforming technology is used as an opportunity to transform social systems without democratic debate.” — danmcquillan (@[email protected]) danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism…

Great work here from our Ulster University MA Journalism star Ben Annett on how the pay disparity is impacting student teachers hoping to stay in NI

Nation Student Survey - Help us collect data from students on the thing that you do, but you are not allowed to tell students how the data is used after it’s collected or what implications it might have 🧐 but part of what we do is build data literacy and critical citizenship…😬

This is how execs should sell VR headsets.

Final free tickets available for Alan ‘Dread Pirate’ Hook talk about Interspecies Kinship - See Like a Horse on Wednesday 04 Dec ➡️ free tickets bit.ly/SHDCevents