I cannot emphasise enough how deeply I wish for AI to fuck off

Interested to read this and think about it set against the way AI processes are capturing our work and data, from using in-copyright fiction to feed LLMs, to qualitative research now frequently pushed thru AI for transcription and closed captioning (vs alts like Academic Audio Transcription Ltd)

New report today from Cecilia Rikap with Common Wealth on all the ways Big Tech controls the AI ecosystem - from VC funding to cloud provision to shaping the research agenda - and what we can do about it.

common-wealth.org/publications/d…

Mesmerised. I wish every school had an Assistant Head like this. And the interpretation here is 🔥🔥🔥

🇵🇸🗯Break the silence on Palestine in schools!

Afraid of being referred to Prevent for discussing Palestine? We won’t be censored, we have the right to teach the truth about genocide and liberation!

WATCH: A senior school leader shares her insights via Amazing BSL #Nakba

Sara Horcas-Rufián Afaik Ooona is actually super active in promoting their tool in international unis. We used it at mine as well (in the UK).

OONA is used as a subtitling tool in some translation programmes. OONA is based in Tel Aviv. Spanish universities have announced they will suspend all ties with Israeli institutions deemed to be complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Anybody knows what their stance is now?

I’m sending out emails to past clients today explaining that we need to secure another £4k of paying work for May and another £6k for June to ensure we’re still operating in July.

We’ve got bookings in hand but for projects collecting data between now and July. We need more.

Our research provides the first UK wide baseline of those supported by local authorities because they are destitute - which now includes over 10,000 people in 2021/22 for those who were able to give us data or likely 18,000 people across the UK

The number of people with No Recourse to Public funds is growing - 2.6million people now have no access to the welfare safety net. Many of these are totally self sufficient, but many face poverty and destitution

Migrant destitution in the UK is growing, people are excluded from the mainstream safety net and the local authority back up is creaking without any sufficient funding when social care is under strain - main findings from major new COMPAS research launched today 🧵

This includes yours truly, btw - I am immensely lucky to be able to support myself and my partner, but if you’re wondering why I get so stressed out about finding work when a job ends…well, this is why.

On air now 📢

sohoradiolondon.com

Solidarity in action!

(Yes the ramp was built to code. We made sure of it! We sorely hope it will stay safe from university administration and vandals, and perhaps outlive the encampment so disabled students can access their campus’s only green space in the future.)

I spent most of today at the SOAS University of London Liberated Zone for Gaza helping create a ramp to the encampment on behalf of DPAC (@Dis_PPL_Protest).

This is the only green space on campus, & student have been asking the uni to make it accessible for 3 yrs. We made it happen in 3.5 days.🇵🇸♿️

Two months after Palestine Action took down the painting of Arthur Balfour (famous for the Balfour Declaration) at Trinity College, Cambridge University, the college has divested from all arms companies, including Israel's largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems.

#AltTextPalestine

'it is government policies that are forcing people into poverty and ill health, and that this is where it should focus its effort, rather than attacking disabled people.”
disabilitynewsservice.com/stop-this-onsl…

HORRIFYING: 🚨🚨''Punishment of student activists has been partially outsourced to a private company that specializes in 'behavioral intervention management' on college campuses.🚨🚨

Our new funding award supports researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to stay in research and advance their careers.

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