Daniel Bundred 🦡
@danielbundred.bsky.social
Head of English; overuse of nautical metaphors; very sporadic blogger. Views are not necessarily those of my employer, unless focus testing reveals them to be very uncontroversial.
The downside of the technology is that it that it creates photorealistic pornography of anyone it's asked to including children; nobody has yet found the upside of the technology.
January 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The downside of the technology is that it that it creates photorealistic pornography of anyone it's asked to including children; nobody has yet found the upside of the technology.
I had this conversation with a bunch of people in the private sector doing jobs very different from our own, they use AI: they don't think that they will work fewer hours for the same pay, they don't think that jobs in their sector will disappear, they don't think they'll do more.
January 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I had this conversation with a bunch of people in the private sector doing jobs very different from our own, they use AI: they don't think that they will work fewer hours for the same pay, they don't think that jobs in their sector will disappear, they don't think they'll do more.
The cost benefit analysis doesn't make any sense. I've never encountered any teacher using LLMs who appears to be spending substantially less time working than I am.
The machine also produces fantasy child porn of your students, you'll need a very significant efficiency saving to justify that...
The machine also produces fantasy child porn of your students, you'll need a very significant efficiency saving to justify that...
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
The cost benefit analysis doesn't make any sense. I've never encountered any teacher using LLMs who appears to be spending substantially less time working than I am.
The machine also produces fantasy child porn of your students, you'll need a very significant efficiency saving to justify that...
The machine also produces fantasy child porn of your students, you'll need a very significant efficiency saving to justify that...
The amount of stories of AI generated CSA material of students in schools over the last year.
I think most of us have been fortunate enough that it hasn't been a factor in our schools.
The AI CSA machine is now an integral part of our personal, professional, and school comms platform.
I think most of us have been fortunate enough that it hasn't been a factor in our schools.
The AI CSA machine is now an integral part of our personal, professional, and school comms platform.
January 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM
The amount of stories of AI generated CSA material of students in schools over the last year.
I think most of us have been fortunate enough that it hasn't been a factor in our schools.
The AI CSA machine is now an integral part of our personal, professional, and school comms platform.
I think most of us have been fortunate enough that it hasn't been a factor in our schools.
The AI CSA machine is now an integral part of our personal, professional, and school comms platform.
Same feeling here. I don't want my name left available for someone else to claim it. There are years of my opinions and interactions with others stored there, they should remain there. I hope that in the future I can return to that account - in the meantime nobody else should have that name.
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Same feeling here. I don't want my name left available for someone else to claim it. There are years of my opinions and interactions with others stored there, they should remain there. I hope that in the future I can return to that account - in the meantime nobody else should have that name.
I think if the account is in your own name, I'd probably advise against deleting it. Just don't use it.
January 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I think if the account is in your own name, I'd probably advise against deleting it. Just don't use it.
The response is always 'we'll put more safeguards in place,' and then the safeguards never prevent the next thing. Adding more specific rules to the system each time there are new 'isolated incidents' is a losing game; the technology itself is psychopathic.
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The response is always 'we'll put more safeguards in place,' and then the safeguards never prevent the next thing. Adding more specific rules to the system each time there are new 'isolated incidents' is a losing game; the technology itself is psychopathic.
Why would there be an increase in competition if the overall numbers competing haven't risen? Assuming no reduced PANs, all it means is that places which would have been empty are simply going to those who would have gone private.
And we're still talking about relatively tiny numbers.
And we're still talking about relatively tiny numbers.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Why would there be an increase in competition if the overall numbers competing haven't risen? Assuming no reduced PANs, all it means is that places which would have been empty are simply going to those who would have gone private.
And we're still talking about relatively tiny numbers.
And we're still talking about relatively tiny numbers.
As tennis isn't a contact sport, I don't see that female tennis players would be put at risk by playing equivalent male tennis players in any scenario. They'd just lose.
December 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As tennis isn't a contact sport, I don't see that female tennis players would be put at risk by playing equivalent male tennis players in any scenario. They'd just lose.
The thing it might demonstrate is that it's possible to handicap tennis by changing the court. The practical benefit of that knowledge I'm unsure of; slightly tilted football pitches perhaps?
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The thing it might demonstrate is that it's possible to handicap tennis by changing the court. The practical benefit of that knowledge I'm unsure of; slightly tilted football pitches perhaps?
If you can't then timetable for the whole team you end up trying to recruit a 0.4 with very weirdly specific hours, basically impossible, or sharing a non-specialist.
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If you can't then timetable for the whole team you end up trying to recruit a 0.4 with very weirdly specific hours, basically impossible, or sharing a non-specialist.
I've certainly encountered issues where reducing time to preferred hours/days means that directed time is as requested but teachers can't be allocated the equivalent timetable (e.g. directed time at 0.8 but timetabled lessons are now 0.6) meaning odd utilisation or irregular cover.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've certainly encountered issues where reducing time to preferred hours/days means that directed time is as requested but teachers can't be allocated the equivalent timetable (e.g. directed time at 0.8 but timetabled lessons are now 0.6) meaning odd utilisation or irregular cover.
It can be kind of tricky. Partly in smaller departments and smaller schools your reduced FTE may not actually be possible to timetable. Even when it is, you often won't get a form, which is useful in gaining perspective outside your department and hearing from the kids.
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It can be kind of tricky. Partly in smaller departments and smaller schools your reduced FTE may not actually be possible to timetable. Even when it is, you often won't get a form, which is useful in gaining perspective outside your department and hearing from the kids.
Most schools don't require that intensity of work and commitment. The workload described wouldn't be unheard of in turnarounds or start-ups, and I don't think we did ourselves justice by pretending that this wasn't what was sometimes necessary and implicitly accepted.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Most schools don't require that intensity of work and commitment. The workload described wouldn't be unheard of in turnarounds or start-ups, and I don't think we did ourselves justice by pretending that this wasn't what was sometimes necessary and implicitly accepted.
Isn't that the basis of 'undercover boss'?
December 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Isn't that the basis of 'undercover boss'?
I think the great paradox of the country is that we are a Christian country, which is why we're not. Bishops of the state religion have a position in the House of Lords, granting them a supervisory role over laws created; their technical theocracy causes them to be reticent with divisive views.
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I think the great paradox of the country is that we are a Christian country, which is why we're not. Bishops of the state religion have a position in the House of Lords, granting them a supervisory role over laws created; their technical theocracy causes them to be reticent with divisive views.
*Mercia.
Magna had already lost Tutt by then and begun a reversion to the mean of its less than impressive MAT.
Magna had already lost Tutt by then and begun a reversion to the mean of its less than impressive MAT.
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
*Mercia.
Magna had already lost Tutt by then and begun a reversion to the mean of its less than impressive MAT.
Magna had already lost Tutt by then and begun a reversion to the mean of its less than impressive MAT.
And the official renderings have no explosions or lasers, so it's doubly obsolete.
December 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And the official renderings have no explosions or lasers, so it's doubly obsolete.
The last of the Nimitz Class, the George H.W. Bush was christened in 2006, over a decade before he died.
George W. Bush broke with convention in naming a submarine the USS Jimmy Carter in recognition of Carter being the only president who'd served aboard a submarine.
George W. Bush broke with convention in naming a submarine the USS Jimmy Carter in recognition of Carter being the only president who'd served aboard a submarine.
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The last of the Nimitz Class, the George H.W. Bush was christened in 2006, over a decade before he died.
George W. Bush broke with convention in naming a submarine the USS Jimmy Carter in recognition of Carter being the only president who'd served aboard a submarine.
George W. Bush broke with convention in naming a submarine the USS Jimmy Carter in recognition of Carter being the only president who'd served aboard a submarine.
The first significant ship named by Trump should thus, by convention, be the USS Barack H. Obama.
December 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The first significant ship named by Trump should thus, by convention, be the USS Barack H. Obama.
The workforce issue will be solved with robots and AI, apparently...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-ran...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-ran...
Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI
The president stumbled through a word salad as he tried to reassure Americans that robots and AI would not replace their jobs.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The workforce issue will be solved with robots and AI, apparently...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-ran...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-ran...
'armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers — all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy.'
If 'scrapped in 2021' counts as a stage of development:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
If 'scrapped in 2021' counts as a stage of development:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
'armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers — all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy.'
If 'scrapped in 2021' counts as a stage of development:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
If 'scrapped in 2021' counts as a stage of development:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
The Independent article sanewashes the announcement. Other than guns and conventional missiles 'It will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers.' apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump announces plans for new Navy 'battleship' as part of a 'Golden Fleet'
President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”
apnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Independent article sanewashes the announcement. Other than guns and conventional missiles 'It will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns, and high-powered lasers.' apnews.com/article/trum...
Given that there's no shipyard capable of building it, or workforce, it is to be equipped with weapons that don't exist - including the railgun whose development was cancelled four years ago - and Trump is taking a personal hand in designing it, I would place my bets on never.
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Given that there's no shipyard capable of building it, or workforce, it is to be equipped with weapons that don't exist - including the railgun whose development was cancelled four years ago - and Trump is taking a personal hand in designing it, I would place my bets on never.
It's not illegal to name vessels after living persons, it's not unusual for US Navy ships; both the Bill Clinton and GW Bush are in progress.
Trump would be the first president to name a ship after himself though...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Geo...
Trump would be the first president to name a ship after himself though...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Geo...
USS George W. Bush - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's not illegal to name vessels after living persons, it's not unusual for US Navy ships; both the Bill Clinton and GW Bush are in progress.
Trump would be the first president to name a ship after himself though...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Geo...
Trump would be the first president to name a ship after himself though...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wil...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Geo...