I emailed [email protected] and still haven't got owt back about it

"to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses, and even as an interactive tool as part of my teaching"

almost laughable tbh

definitely lots of "whys" :)

isn't this a fairly apple and pears comparison?

would it make more sense to put stuff like "Word" or "my banking app" and "Microsoft the company" in there?

(obviously surveys are fundamentally broken methodologically but let's not go there...)

"please please please start using this technology we have invested lots of money in"

anyone in a research field that is dominated by US researchers gets a clear view of what this hegemony means in practice

it's also extremely instructive, say, for Europeans, to have their own academic hegemony towards other non-Euro participants reflected back at them

Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia

with co-authors @agiselarc.bsky.social, @andrianaboudouraki.bsky.social, Dominic Price, Joel Fischer and @praminda.bsky.social

we need to start a campaign to grant mirrors legal rights because I keep seeing what appears to be sentient beings in them

a whole raft of journalists and politicians just can't stand leaving Twitter/X even given this development because that would mean losing their 'followers'

weird because governments are very good at blocking access to certain other kinds of content if they really want to

www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/20...

I am also one of those people who would like to see small amounts of money just more widely distributed for zero effort - as you know we are now in a situation where some people have vast wads of cash and others have nothing, not even overheads

I think from a grant writing perspective (I admit reviewer admin is always a pain) there are great benefits to lowering the bar to access (fewer words needed) and making it less high stakes one-shot (multi stage process) but I admit this generates more admin too

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a potential alternative question could be: given that many technology initiatives have been claimed as intending to "empower" users but ultimately just result in more administrative clerking for them, how is this any different?

I feel like the classic EM and EM adjacent critiques of quant social science methods (Cicourel) need updating but I've not thought through how - maybe it's just another layer of substrate