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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick: “it’s not about the colour of your skin of course it isn’t…” but there weren’t any white faces…

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly walk into the shadow cabinet room. Robert Jenrick walks in…

Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 3d

How Bowie influenced my teaching:

open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

Making Theatre, Fragment Cards

How Bowie and Cut Outs Influenced My Work in 'The Studio'

open.substack.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d

Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 7d

This one is particularly good. “How dare you call our policies racist, some of our voters may have had parents who fought in the war”

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 12d

Never underestimate the power of that 'first conversation':
youtu.be/rF6jWH17k9M?...

Together Against Suicide | You Support Us, Let Us Support You

YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 14d

Having this guy anywhere near government would be a danger to public health:

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 14d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17d

Of all the ridiculous “now that we have [x], we don’t need a knowledge-rich curriculum”, AI is maybe the silliest. How else are you meant to know whether it is right or wrong?

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 17d

Moving from "what's the most authoritative answer?" to "what's the most plausible answer?" turns out to have downsides.

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 17d

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 17d

“creative education has been “set back a generation” in British schools”.

www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/va-east...

V&A East director: My biggest ask is for government to reinvest in creative education - Arts Professional

The director of V&A East has said it is "a shock" to comprehend how creative education has been "set back a generation" in British schools. Gus Casely-Hayford, the inaugural director of the V&A's fort...

www.artsprofessional.co.uk

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · 22d

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Teachers as ‘Devil’s Advocates’

YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 8

If they have any sense just one person will ‘emerge’ as the candidate…

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Bernard Andrews @bernardandrews.bsky.social · Sep 7

Here's my handout from my ResearchEd talk yesterday about the origin of the computational model of knowledge

(and how this view contrasts with the normative view of the Sumerians-Aristotle-Wittgenstein)

I tried to show different strands of thought: technologial, psychological, neuroscientific etc.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Learning is a process that is not purely ‘in the brain’. It takes place in context. What things help it along?” open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

Fish Out of Water

The Predictive Brain, Education And Creating Stuff

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

Human focused protectionism isn’t a bad thing - at its best it sustains the family, the community etc. goodness, I wouldn’t want to give up on any of that.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

You ‘instinctively feel’ is the important thing here. The machine doesn’t. This is partly our strength and the danger of the machine.

Imagine the consciousness of all those white collar workers who are about to lose their jobs, especially in our ‘service economy’…

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here’s one I prepared earlier: youtube.com/shorts/9gjww...

AI can’t write good poetry

YouTube video by It’s Your Time You’re Wasting!

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are part of the community of minds, of the great conversation etc.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

But machines are not conscious of this world. Imagine how bereft you would be as the only animal survivor of a catastrophe and found yourself sustained by a world of machines.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s always our fault.

All creative acts do build on the work of others, yes, we discuss this in the podcast. Being-in-the-world is hugely influential in the creative act.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s got this extreme:

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ffs, it’s got out of hand now:

Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

If your genes can also take the debit of anything bad they do too… parenting is, apparently, not so creative

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

None of that says ‘more important’ though I expect a Didau doodling on a wall will be less fascinating to the populace of the West Country than a Banksy who is, reportedly, from that neck of the woods… are you Banksy?

Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 4

Then the maker and mover and programmer of that robot becomes fascinating.

She/he isn’t a robot of course.

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 3

I didn’t say that, both can matter to us - we respond to the work and to the human being behind it, even if we know little about them. Banksy for e.g. now if Banksy turns out to be AI…

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ffs, it’s got out of hand now:

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Martin Robinson @trivium21c.bsky.social · Sep 3

We know the compiler and we know and are interested in the people of ancient Mesopotamia and get insights into how they lived from the stories. So far away from something created by AI.

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