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Stephen Parnell
@stephenparnell.bsky.social
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Formerly an architect, academic and software peep. Now advocating for media literacy and responsible GenAI in HE. Northerner: border collie & brass band lover. Trombone learner (still). Here to learn not argue. Thinking round corners.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Jun 6
I have experimented heavily with GenAI these past couple of years in my research and teaching and can see its potential and well as its dangers. The genie ain't going back in that bottle. So when I leave academia next month, this is where I will be focusing my attention: thinking round corners.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 4d
my feed
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 9d
No thanks, I don't want to unlock any exclusive benefits.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 13d
Sounds like an idea whose time has come
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Klaus @klaustoon.bsky.social · 15d
(New) #Brutalist #architecture: So, let's remember today Theo Crosby's house and Studio in Hammersmith from the late 1950s, which Stephen Parnell (@stephenparnell.bsky.social) is vindicating as an early example of (New) #Brutalism #BrutalTuesday journal.eahn.org/article/id/8...
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 23d
love it! can I use that?
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 29d
How will Starmer react to this now?
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 29d
indeed
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · 29d
Lovely
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
Then cease grading. But wait ... students actually *want* to be graded.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
My fave quote of the day:
"We see things not as they are, but as we are."

But do share!
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
The world is full of intelligence, both articifial and natural.
Yet people still use [at] and [dot] in their online email addresses thinking that bots won't notice them.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
It the Enlightenment was all about establishing knowledge, the Disenlightenment will be about disestablishing it.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
I'm as fed up with AI slop as anyone, but I'm even more fed up with HI (human intelligence) slop.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
If you think artificial intelligence is bad - wait till you see artificial grass.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
The next generation are using completely different media platforms and their relationship with knowledge is completely different. Not better, not worse, different. And we have to deal with it.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 12
Yesterday I was shocked that my daughter told me that Charlie Kirk had been shot. She's 14 and lives in Newcastle, UK and had seen him on TikTok. I had never heard of him until yesterday's news.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 11
Exactly - some assumption on the writers' behalf - how do the they know they didn't deliriously die? Or smugly die? etc
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 11
Do other languages also feel the compulsion to preface "died" with "sadly"? "tristemente murió", "к сожалению, умер", "leider gestorben"?
Perhaps we should just change the English word "died" to "sadlydied" permanently.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 9
the pub?
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 7
It can't think - it's a language model.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 7
I got fed up and left. No way the system will change, so I had to.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 5
wonderful font and marker pen rendering
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 3
Not only idiotic, but also boring.
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 3
Or "video kills the radio star"
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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Sep 3
The medium is the message.
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