Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego
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Ernesto Priego
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· Sep 5
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to… | E...
💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London!
A heartfelt thank-you to everyone...
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A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI
When we published our report "No Rest No Security" into Home Office run hotels we found similar issues with the conditions. That was more than two years ago and @ramfel.bsky.social show the situation hasn't improved. People seeking asylum need to be treated better
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Rats, overcrowding and malnutrition common at UK asylum hotels, report finds
Home Office’s three accommodation providers made combined profit of £380m over five years, charity estimates
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Rats, overcrowding and malnutrition common at UK asylum hotels, report finds
Home Office’s three accommodation providers made combined profit of £380m over five years, charity estimates
www.theguardian.com
When we published our report "No Rest No Security" into Home Office run hotels we found similar issues with the conditions. That was more than two years ago and @ramfel.bsky.social show the situation hasn't improved. People seeking asylum need to be treated better
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mechanical Comics Personae #4 Trading Card
A limited editition trading card featuring the image used in Mechanical Comics No. 4 by Ernesto Priego, also used as the cover included in...
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I also made the first trading card of Mechanical Comics Personae. Hopefully will be a series. Super limited run. Because useless printed matter can be joyful. manzanamaspress.bigcartel.com/product/mech... UK only so far, sorry. #ComicsStudies
Fernando Pessoa Lockdown Chronicles #21 Trading Card
Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest...
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On the 30th of November this month it will be 90 years since Fernando Pessoa passed away. A character in one my Lockdown Chronicles comic strips, he's now got his own limited edition trading card. I'll have some at Comics Forum in Leeds if you fancy one. manzanamaspress.bigcartel.com/product/fern...
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I am presenting this week at Comics Forum 2025: Industry @leedsartgallery.bsky.social @leedslibraries.bsky.social and can't wait! Programme: comicsforum.org/wp-content/u... [PDF] #ComicsStudies
Happy Monday. This is Week 7 of 11 teaching term weeks.
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There has been wonderful support and solidarity for Library workers on the picket line these past two weeks. Today, the writer, Zadie Smith, read out her thoughts about the dispute, the Library, the country, its culture and heritage. Her values, ‘arguments’ and solidarity mean the world to me. 🙏👊🖤♥️
The algorithm has some uses... ;)
Essentially our a priori should be asking "do we really need this stuff in the first place?" instead of assuming it is here to stay and that we have no choice but to try to find its positive uses.
...what I wanted and still want is to ask more open questions, including "what is this exactly? How does it work? What are its implications? Why does it exist? Do we really need it? What for? For whom?" etc.
In my own stance on, say, comics and AI, the starting premise was _never_ “hey kids, of course that GenAI can enhance comics, let's see how that happens". It wasn't either “GenAI will definitely destroy comics, let’s see how that happens”-
It is hugely problematic that we are not willing to step back and ask questions: what is this doing? Do we really need this? Instead, the assumption is that we do, that we have it, and that therefore it's always-already a good thing.
Needless to say for many (particularly here whatever here in Bsky nmeans) the answer would always already be "no it can't", but I do find it worrying for how many GenAI is _always-already_ something with potential benefits and that the question is looking into how exactly it does that.
I continue seeing projects where it is assumed a priori that GenAI would enhance something. They do not start from a question: can _this_ be useful/improve _this_ in this context?
Public Image Limited - Rise
YouTube video by PublicImageLimitVEVO
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I don't like what the singer of this (and that other) band became politically, but this tune still motivates me. We need to go beyond exhaustion and sadness and get ANGRY. Then try to use that anger as an energy to create something different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7J... #np
Let's ask more of our own brains, folks. 😩
Google Pixel 10 Launch | Vanilla
YouTube video by Made by Google
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And let us not forget that Google Pixel 10 ad: youtu.be/DnWykPvftfg?... (hat tip @mikejohnson.bsky.social )
Indeed.
I should have asked ChatGPT how to write this thread.
Most scholars, educators, may be too busy to even encounter these ads let alone think about them and their implications. Their reach is significant. On YouTube alone OpenAI has 1.88M followers.
Dish with ChatGPT
YouTube video by OpenAI
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Not this but part of the same campaign. www.youtube.com/watch?v=To04...
If this what Generative Artificial Intelligence is for... it's clear we don't really need it...
If this what Generative Artificial Intelligence is for... it's clear we don't really need it...
Yesterday I saw a new (to me) ChatGPT advert on a bus stop; no text on the poster except the small "ChatGPT" logo; image of a woman cooking holding her mobile phone (chatting with OpenAI's bot about a recipe? Asking for positive feedback and reassurance?).
These are properly sad times.
These are properly sad times.
Looking forward to presenting along @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @mediocre.bsky.social at the 22nd Annual Historical Materialism conference in our "Comics Against Capitalism" panel on Saturday, 8th 10:00-11:45 GMT. conference.historicalmaterialism.org #ComicsStudies
Historical Materialism Conference
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Tomorrow! #panic
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We get a wee citation here: Predatory Publishing and the Policing of Academic Peripheries - goo.gl/scholar/N3mvQA #ScholarAlerts cc @eve.gd
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
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Blissfully open access.
