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Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk) .. more

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 9h
"Today, we are unleashing genai.mil"

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 9h
Amazing how few of these are environmental

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 12h
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/

This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
Cover of the essay. It depicts a Black man, visibly tired and sad, holding a bleading heart that reads The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 17h
That's fascinating. Amazing what emerges once someone threatens to dramatise a set of relationships. (I would totally have watched the other film too).

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 17h
I saw this at school and loved it. Stayed with me - my first sociology of science? Amazing that the BBC could make it, with a stellar cast, as part of a science documentary series.
matthewcobb.bsky.social Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 18h
Opinions differed about Goldblum’s Watson and Pigott-Smith as Crick, but Juliet Stevenson’s portrayal of Franklin was called “a great piece of art” by Perutz, while Alan Howard was uncannily accurate as Wilkins. Crick thought the film was very good, but emphasised ”*films are not history*”.
insect-project.org Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 19h
I have not yet read the Crick biography by @matthewcobb.bsky.social - it's on my list!
If you're quick, you can catch the BBC Horizon Special drama documentary about Crick & Watson, available until late Thursday evening this week. Jeff Goldblum as Watson is 👍.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 18h
Opinions differed about Goldblum’s Watson and Pigott-Smith as Crick, but Juliet Stevenson’s portrayal of Franklin was called “a great piece of art” by Perutz, while Alan Howard was uncannily accurate as Wilkins. Crick thought the film was very good, but emphasised ”*films are not history*”.
insect-project.org Patrick Fullick @insect-project.org · 19h
I have not yet read the Crick biography by @matthewcobb.bsky.social - it's on my list!
If you're quick, you can catch the BBC Horizon Special drama documentary about Crick & Watson, available until late Thursday evening this week. Jeff Goldblum as Watson is 👍.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Horizon - Life Story: A Horizon Special
Film telling the story of the race to discover the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick have the bright ideas and the will to win. But there's one little problem: Rosalind Franklin has the crucial data.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
These guys 💥

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Stop trying to make “so everything” happen
a woman wearing a santa hat says gretchen stop trying to make " fetch " happen
ALT: a woman wearing a santa hat says gretchen stop trying to make " fetch " happen
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Isn’t it great? Isn’t is so everything?

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Patrick Middleton @patrickmiddleton.bsky.social · 2d
Snap!

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
The austerity cuts to
Government comms budgets mean we’ll never see the like of this beauty again. We use it to store our baubles. I’m delighted by it every December

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Samantha Harvey, subtweeting the Future of Humanity Institute, in Orbital

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Scott A. Imberman, Jack Stilgoe

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d
this has become a very important video to me

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
Giacomo is a superstar

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
Had they just not given the creature superpowers it would have been so much better

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Jack Stilgoe, Steven H. Seggie

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Zalatoy @zalatoy.com · 4d
Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
Having now finished the new Frankenstein movie I can reveal that it is, in fact, shit

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
Here in Europe, I think things like Renault Twizys are regulated as 'quadricycles'. Not legal on motorways.

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe, Ludovic Lestrelin

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 4d
The day of a World Cup draw is a day of uncertainty and possibilities when teams discover who they’ll play and where they’ll be in their bid for football’s ultimate prize. There is little uncertainty about another prize: FIFA’s hastily arranged peace prize

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
As Trump Covets Nobel Peace Prize, FIFA Cozies Up to Him With Its Own Award
www.nytimes.com

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 4d
The Scientifc Reports autism cycle article has been retracted: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
AI generated figure about autism

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
When the group railing against groupthink starts to outnumber the groupthinkers, do we rethink groupthink?
jaheale.bsky.social James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 5d
New: Liz Truss will tomorrow premiere the first episode of The Liz Truss Show.

Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".

Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
This is fascinating, and useful for for our project on geolocation and inference
shahanmemon.bsky.social Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 5d
This tool is a wild roasting machine. It's by ente, which is a privacy preserving photo app company. They use Google Vision API to infer things from a photo. While it sometimes guesses the location accurately from surroundings, it's also pretty racist and sexist.

🧵1/5

theyseeyourphotos.com
They See Your Photos
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.
theyseeyourphotos.com

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 5d
This tool is a wild roasting machine. It's by ente, which is a privacy preserving photo app company. They use Google Vision API to infer things from a photo. While it sometimes guesses the location accurately from surroundings, it's also pretty racist and sexist.

🧵1/5

theyseeyourphotos.com
They See Your Photos
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.
theyseeyourphotos.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
This story seemed a step too geologically determinist for me

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
@theonion.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5d
For generations, the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree has brought light to the heart of London.

Thank you, Norway, for this gift of friendship since 1947.
Trafalgar Square Christmas tree Carol singers at Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square Christmas tree Mayor of London at Trafalgar Square Christmas tree

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
Really important research, to which we can add our work on what AI researchers think about some of these things zenodo.org/records/1511...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 5d
Agreed. But the system has been built such that some people's rights and options are tied to particular diagnoses.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d
This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.

I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar