Dr Zara Bain
@zaranosaur.bsky.social
Some kind of philosopher | mama of toddlers (yes, plural) | disabled, chronically ill and neurofuntimes | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
It’s been a little while since I’ve experienced an #AccessFail like this and while it’s Fine I thought take the moment to reflect on the really visceral felt experience of exclusion that these kinds of things generate
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It’s been a little while since I’ve experienced an #AccessFail like this and while it’s Fine I thought take the moment to reflect on the really visceral felt experience of exclusion that these kinds of things generate
At a sales training day and the hotel the organiser booked at has fucked up the gluten free offering (specifically by giving three meal options all of which are written up as containing gluten even though verbally theyre trying to assure me is GF) so rather than networking I’m doing lunch solo
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
At a sales training day and the hotel the organiser booked at has fucked up the gluten free offering (specifically by giving three meal options all of which are written up as containing gluten even though verbally theyre trying to assure me is GF) so rather than networking I’m doing lunch solo
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BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
I’ve been doing amazingly well body wise for a while now in terms of functioning but a one two combo of a flare up plus more primary school admissions touring means I just accidentally slept through the afternoon
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’ve been doing amazingly well body wise for a while now in terms of functioning but a one two combo of a flare up plus more primary school admissions touring means I just accidentally slept through the afternoon
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A J Ayer talking about Frege and Russell with Bryan Magee on BBC Four right now, in world o beige
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A J Ayer talking about Frege and Russell with Bryan Magee on BBC Four right now, in world o beige
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Researchers say AI chatbots “pose serious risks to individuals vulnerable to eating disorders,” doling out dieting advice, tips on how to hide disorders, and AI-generated “thinspiration” — partly as a result of features deliberately designed to drive engagement. www.theverge.com/news/818508/...
AI chatbots are helping hide eating disorders and making deepfake ‘thinspiration’
Chatbot guardrails are too crude to help with eating disorders.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Researchers say AI chatbots “pose serious risks to individuals vulnerable to eating disorders,” doling out dieting advice, tips on how to hide disorders, and AI-generated “thinspiration” — partly as a result of features deliberately designed to drive engagement. www.theverge.com/news/818508/...
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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This piece also offers a generous (3000 word) intro that explains what NVIDIA is, how it got so big, how "building data centers" is a very difficult and complex thing, and why the entire future comes down to how long private debt can afford to keep buying GPUs.
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This piece also offers a generous (3000 word) intro that explains what NVIDIA is, how it got so big, how "building data centers" is a very difficult and complex thing, and why the entire future comes down to how long private debt can afford to keep buying GPUs.
I have a birthday coming up and a Christmas and I never know what to ask for, so inspired by @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social please link me to your art and craft and other offerings
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I have a birthday coming up and a Christmas and I never know what to ask for, so inspired by @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social please link me to your art and craft and other offerings
current @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social wish list (witchlist?): tarot deck and hex fascism print
anyway I could do with a bit more cash this month (lol who couldn't) & so here are a few things available on my website. as always super grateful for any shares!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
current @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social wish list (witchlist?): tarot deck and hex fascism print
Frank did the branding for @aat-transcribes.bsky.social and has an amazing tarot deck and other art, highly recommend
anyway I could do with a bit more cash this month (lol who couldn't) & so here are a few things available on my website. as always super grateful for any shares!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
shop.frankduffy.co.uk #art #printmaking #witchsky
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Frank did the branding for @aat-transcribes.bsky.social and has an amazing tarot deck and other art, highly recommend
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University managers are already declaring that they can't have the optics of pushing this levy onto international fees (would be nice if they thought about the students themselves but 🤷) and that they will seek the money in operational costs.
ie: government is further cutting into what makes unis.
ie: government is further cutting into what makes unis.
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
University managers are already declaring that they can't have the optics of pushing this levy onto international fees (would be nice if they thought about the students themselves but 🤷) and that they will seek the money in operational costs.
ie: government is further cutting into what makes unis.
ie: government is further cutting into what makes unis.
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Oh. But, I guess, yay that UUK finally discovered they had a voice and could actually use it to mention, politely, in passing, the utter destruction of one of the UK's major industries. Decade too late but ho hum.
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Oh. But, I guess, yay that UUK finally discovered they had a voice and could actually use it to mention, politely, in passing, the utter destruction of one of the UK's major industries. Decade too late but ho hum.
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
So what’s up with the thing when you set an iPhone alarm and the phone is charged and on and the alarm just doesn’t go off
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
So what’s up with the thing when you set an iPhone alarm and the phone is charged and on and the alarm just doesn’t go off
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We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We pour billions into saving an economically tiny steel industry whilst actively destroying one of our largest export industries. (Yes, higher education to overseas students who already massively subsidise UK students, are counted as exports).
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It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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spent the night awake anxious that I'd lost my purse, only finding it at the last minute this morning around 8am, decided to jazz up the anxiety vibes by revisiting the PhD thesis to make it public, WHY NOT
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
spent the night awake anxious that I'd lost my purse, only finding it at the last minute this morning around 8am, decided to jazz up the anxiety vibes by revisiting the PhD thesis to make it public, WHY NOT
In a spectacular example of a few things, I have only just finally deposited my PhD thesis into the university library today, despite receiving my award in Dec 2024
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In a spectacular example of a few things, I have only just finally deposited my PhD thesis into the university library today, despite receiving my award in Dec 2024
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Hey, so if folks are interested in Black economic thought, may I suggest the Review of Black Political Economy?
It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky
It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky
The Review of Black Political Economy: Sage Journals
journals.sagepub.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Weird to realise over a year after the fact that it’s kind of on the nose that Steely Dan’s Dirty Work was one of the songs that soundtracked the final write up of my PhD (on structural racialised ignorance)
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Weird to realise over a year after the fact that it’s kind of on the nose that Steely Dan’s Dirty Work was one of the songs that soundtracked the final write up of my PhD (on structural racialised ignorance)