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Blair is STILL so maddeningly naive about technology, declaring it “apolitical” even while telling the growing number of governments his “non-profit” advises tech will “change everything” 🫠
thetimes.co.uk/article/9a5cb7…

In a festival of demos and discussions, join artists and musicians from University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art and around the world to explore how #AI and the #arts are coming together in media from photography, fashion, and literature to #comedy and #jazz .
aiartsfestival.soton.ac.uk

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

The Prime Minister’s claims of a ‘sicknote culture’ where mental ill health is confused with ‘everyday worries’ are not based on robust evidence - and could lead to policies that do more harm than good.
Our response in full 👇🧵 centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/gove…

Shout out to all the 1st generation Nigerian American students about to be falsely accused of cheating, because some amateur hour AI cheating detector software recognizes that you write just like cousin Chukwuma back home! 🇳🇬🤷🏿‍♂️

Beautiful example here of structured data extraction from an image using Claude 3 Opus - most of the LLM implementation is handled by this tools schema: github.com/timpaul/form-e…

Wouldn't be complete without the Venn Diagram would it?

of politicians lying.” The great Dorothy Byrne on what #journalism should be,+squaring up to Robbie Gibb+Mail+. “Robbie Gibb..completely misunderstands what journalism is. He says that it’s the role of the journalist to explain the opinion of others. No it’s not…”

I was so disappointed to see an episode of Abbott Elementary which assumed that tools purporting to detect 'AI' generated text work 100%, given the number of students wrongfully accused of using ChatGPT because of these tools.

This plaque - last line: 'the Right of Juries to give their Verdict according to their Convictions' - is on the wall of the Old Bailey. But write that on a piece of cardboard today and stand outside a court and you may be sent to jail. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

'The proposed voluntary charter may involve tech firms agreeing to alert parents when their children are repeatedly looking up disturbing content'

And what if the 'disturbing content' the children are looking up concerns the way their parents are raising and treating them?

With the Cass Review out, it already has seen its fair share of criticism. And while some of its scientifically questionable conclusions regarding trans issues have already been covered, I'd like to also focus on additional claims that are also scientifically dubious. (1/23)

Overall, one needs to be cautious when trying to reduce multi-factorial social phenomena to simplifying neurobiological explanations. And it is especially alarming when policy recommendations are based on such a simplistic argument. (23/23)

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'There is not one Juliet. There never has been'

Dr Sophie Duncan (Dr Sophie Duncan) author of Searching For Juliet, gives us the history of Juliet.

THREAD 🧵

Wonderful thread. Black actors have always been cast in Shakespeare's plays.

No, the measure would require social media companies to pro-actively suppress content that the FTC (think: the Trump FTC) is willing to claim harms children, ie all LGBTQ content, content about climate change, content about harm reduction, and other lifesaving information.

'Dog Day Afternoon' is an Al Pacino film made in 1975 about a bank robbery carried out for the purpose of funding sex reassignment surgery, based on a true story from 1972. It won an Oscar. But sure, no one heard of trans people before 10 years ago.

“Being at the helm of the British Library has been – and continues to be – the greatest privilege of my life.”
After 12 years as Chief Executive, Sir Roly Keating has announced that he will step down from the role in April next year: bit.ly/BL-CEO-Update