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Will Mason-Wilkes
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Assistant Professor in Engineering, Technology and Innovation in Society at University of Birmingham
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Will Mason-Wilkes @willmasonwilkes.bsky.social · Feb 6
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PhD Project - Funded PhD-Studentship in the Institute for STEMM in Culture and Society (ISTEMMICS) at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Jan 27
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Dec 5
For those looking for free alternatives to AI imagery, what are the best places to go for interesting creative commons images - ideally with lots of science and art related content?
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · Dec 5
Wow, thanks Sam (and Angela)! I really appreciate you engaging with this. There's also openverse.org and www.moma.co.uk/public-domai... and I expect there'll be others. I'll put out a call for recommendations.
Openverse
Search over 800 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.
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Will Mason-Wilkes @willmasonwilkes.bsky.social · Nov 28
"Ancient Aliens" must have been written about in this regard? I don't know of any academic publications on this off the top of my head, sorry, but this piece is in the conversation might be a place to start: theconversation.com/racism-is-be...
Racism is behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture
The belief that ancient Egyptians needed help from supernatural beings to built the Giza pyramids relies, unavoidably, on racism and colonial attitudes.
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