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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1h

They should not make anti-plaque mouthwashes in the same colours as bubble bath.

I will not be explaining and further.

Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1h

I would also note, who has developed distance/remote learning content, it is a lot of work probably more than planning and delivering a lesson. For it to be effective it has to be tailored specifically with appropriate support material and whatnot.

Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 4h

Didn't they already shitcan the metaverse?

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 4h

facotoid in the sense of "a small diminutive version of a fact"

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 5h

They'll try and mothball him as quickly as they can though

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 13h

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

This shot is literally why I no longer buy ubisoft games (ea too for that matter)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6h

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Other than not being white what has kahn done wrong? Seems to keep his head down quite a lot as best I can tell

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

No just the same plot but the same story beats roughly in the same order

Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Inflatable frog goes from strength

Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

You can tell there were no ideas for the sequel because it is basically the same plot but with nicer graphics

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 6h

Rewatched OG tron the other day and it's fine. A cool idea and an OK sci-fi flick for kids. I have a partial memory of enjoying it in the cinema with my mum, so I guess it gets some nostalgia points. But there isn't really anything there to build a sequel out of.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 7h

Socialism is when your landlord makes a sympathetic face

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 7h

I will never vote for a new party that puts queerphobes and landlords in positions of control. Fix that shit first.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 7h

If I create a deep fake catch up lesson don't I have to then watch the video to make sure it is correct? And maybe make some edits? If lesson notes can't be porivided why not just record the lesson in the first place and skip all this extra time/effort?

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 7h

Toddler demands have nothing on pop star riders. My toddler just demanded that I go through the alphabet cereal to serve him a bowl comprising only the letters from his name.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

i’ll never get over this

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 21h

Wtaf

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

In other posts they are both-sidsing the conflict in gaza

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

not "former corbyn supporters" (or current for that matter) as I asked about though.

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

That's literally Corbyn. Where are you seeing rank and file corbyn supporters saying this?

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Where are there posts from former corbyn supporters suggesting the Greens are far right? Do you have any examples?

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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but "political decision needs careful balancing of multiple stakeholder needs" is just part and parcel of planning. Doesn't seem like a reason not to do away with the greenbelt and replace it with a more productive process.

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