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Associate Professor Mark A. Bassett @drmarkbassett.bsky.social · 4h

The preprint of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣, 𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝘼𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is now available on EdArXiv.

The paper presents a definitive academic critique of AI detectors.

doi.org/10.35542/osf...

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 1h

New release exclusively on 200 gram premium vinyl.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 1h

A clapped-out 90s tribute band to stuff that was relevant 30 years previously.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 18h

How is the "Don't create deepfakes of your teachers" rule going?

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 21h

Congratulations to the winner of the Trump Peace Prize 2025.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 23h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 1d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 1d

A lesser-known historical fact is that Poland managed to organise a pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in 1946.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_...

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 1d

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, The One with the Whale and other delights, on winning the Nobel prize in literature. Brighten up your autumn evenings with some Hungarian gloom.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

Now rank them in terms of the quality of their hats.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

Presumably just you. Good job.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

This week's challenge is to set up a literary journal on a budget of £500.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

It is literally the banality of evil.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

Hacking is just getting access: social engineering, shoulder surfing, blagging, exploiting known defaults, etc. What counts is what works.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 2d

If you were a hacker, why would you use complex technical methods to gain unauthorised access if you could just guess the password? The latter is not just easier in this case but also much less likely to be detected.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

Badenoch has degrees in computing and law, so when she hacked Harriet Harman's email account she both knew how to get in and precisely why she shouldn't.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

If you come over here you shouldn't learn the effing language.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

You don't need the chief justice of the supreme court of New South Wales for a will.

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

Don't dismiss it until you've read Joseph Roth's 1928 novel "Mission Control Brody".

Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

I might ask Sting what he thinks really happened in the Holocaust.

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 4d

On the evening of Thursday October 23rd I’m hosting an event at Hampstead Waterstones where I’ll be interviewing Manya Wilkinson, the author of LUBLIN — one of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

An evening with Manya Wilkinson | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Manya Wilkinson today.

www.waterstones.com

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

It seems like no-one likes the fat right.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

The bigger problem is that it's unpnedicabie.

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Adrian Short @adrianshort.uk · 3d

My sides, they have split.

Please send for the sides doctor.

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