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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 4d

Follow the money

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 9d

This project is a conversation.
Consider this your invitation.

Send all questions (and answers) to:
[email protected]

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Jorvorskie Layne's @jorvorskielaynes.bsky.social · 17d

The whole bit about guys who were objectively doing fine but still felt slighted by a world that didn't flatter them enough was depressingly familiar

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · 19d

The story that leave voters/ the leave campaign and reform tell themselves and each other is based on a misunderstanding of British history

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19d

1/3 There’s a strong relationship between Reform / far right support and the Brexit Leave constituency. A continuation of the refusal to accept that Britain is poorer and more unequal not due to immigration but because it is no longer subsidised by an Empire. theconversation.com/brexit-how-t...

Brexit: how the end of Britain’s empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory

The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 21d

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.

A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · 24d

Finally got this episode put together- then found out a fact that would have fit great that i missed! Ah well maybe that can be in a future episode

#podcast #history #StrangerDanger #ScaryStories #psychology #story #stories

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Ep 13: Stranger Danger and Other Scary Stories | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

As kids many of us learned to beware of strangers, but the truth is that stranger abduction in vanishingly rare. However the story still has a grip on our society. This episode explores the myth, the ...

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Julie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · Aug 30

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 31

I managed to mispronounce sarcastic despite it being fairly intuitive 😅

Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hey 👋

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 31

former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · Aug 24

Definitely Amazon should bear the blunt of the blame here rather than the format (still think there should be a Bandcamp for ebooks)

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SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

Huge thanks to the Irish Independent for covering this, (I've just seen a BBC article about a musician this has happened to). For readers, the solution is to buy real books in independent bookshops, a win win for everyone and a lose for the scammers. If you prefer ebooks, be very careful out there 🤯

Feature article in the Irish Independent - also available online - about AI generated books being sold in my name.

Screen shot of the opening of the Irish Independent article about AI generated books being sold with my name on the cover.

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's story time again! This week I interview Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social about writing and storytelling. I had great fun recording this- hope you enjoy listening to it

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#podcast #stories

Ep 11: Telling Stories - Joe Kassabian interview | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

This episode I interview author and podcaster Joe Kassabian about writing memoir, writing fiction and writing podcasts. We touch on the challenges of the publishing industry, working with editors, bas...

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · Aug 12

can't agree more.
more print, local print, traditional publishers, self-made, all of it.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 12

Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Aug 11

is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 12

Counterpoint: There is has never been a more urgent time to write a book. Technofascism is, among other things, an attempt to capture and enclose literature and literacy. Print is a rent strike.

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Aug 11

is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 10

I stand corrected- guess i should have done some googling first! In this case absolutely should be required

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 10

Huh… well today I learned and i retract my previous comment

We absolutely should be doing this!

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’m not sure that the logistics would make it possible. A transmitter on every street broadcasting the speed limit so the cars can pick it up? Or a limiter linked to gps? Plausible but tricky and with many possible failure points

If we’re talking limiting cars to the max in the country absolutely!

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · Aug 8

literally everyone 😅

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book." --Cicero, 43 BCE

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 8

I really really really hope that’s it

Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 8

A great example of how stories can change in the telling, how misinformation spreads and careless or malicious reporting can make it even worse.

A tall woman who was perceived as trans asks a customer in the middle of a shop if they needed help, and this got twisted into a very different story

Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · Aug 7

On how a story mutates as it spreads across the British media…

The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

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The Telegraph's M&S trans shop assistant tall tale turned into a malicious game of telephone...

Who needs proof when you got vibes?

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 7

Awesome thanks!

Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 6

On a related note do you have any recommendations for a “studying history/historiography for dummies” type text?

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Our Stories and Our Selves @ourstories.bsky.social · Aug 6

You know they will all start podcasts 😢