Fortuna Desperata
@fortunadesperata.bsky.social
Formerly posting as Mondegreen.
🏴 Midlander but trying to learn 🏴, reluctantly 🇬🇧, 🇪🇺 by commitment, citizen of the 🌍... Depressive 🌧️ but never giving up hope: "Keep your mind in hell and despair not."
🏴 Midlander but trying to learn 🏴, reluctantly 🇬🇧, 🇪🇺 by commitment, citizen of the 🌍... Depressive 🌧️ but never giving up hope: "Keep your mind in hell and despair not."
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You have good researchers. Get out of their way, and they will do good research. It's Arts & Humanities, so you don't need to decide who gets to use the supercollider. You know you've got "research culture" right when people stop talking about research culture and just talk about their research.
February 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
You have good researchers. Get out of their way, and they will do good research. It's Arts & Humanities, so you don't need to decide who gets to use the supercollider. You know you've got "research culture" right when people stop talking about research culture and just talk about their research.
Also the welcome decline of a certain kind of male status hierarchy...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splodge...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splodge...
Splodgenessabounds - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Also the welcome decline of a certain kind of male status hierarchy...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splodge...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splodge...
With a nod to the Witchcraft Act 1735...
February 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
With a nod to the Witchcraft Act 1735...
Maybe bring back the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 in some form to deal with this? 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudul...
Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Maybe bring back the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 in some form to deal with this? 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudul...
On both/many sides, of course. The right wing attacks on Remainer/liberal elites remind me so much of Left attacks on the SDP breakaways from Labour in the early 80s: 'armchair socialists', Roy Jenkins sipping claret in North London &c. - as if Tony Benn, say, wasn't a product of the English elite!
February 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
On both/many sides, of course. The right wing attacks on Remainer/liberal elites remind me so much of Left attacks on the SDP breakaways from Labour in the early 80s: 'armchair socialists', Roy Jenkins sipping claret in North London &c. - as if Tony Benn, say, wasn't a product of the English elite!
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She came from Greece and she brought a brolly
She studied Europe at Manchester Poly
(Well, after they changed the name
I said, it'll never be the same)
Want to live like Gorton people....
She studied Europe at Manchester Poly
(Well, after they changed the name
I said, it'll never be the same)
Want to live like Gorton people....
February 1, 2026 at 10:16 AM
She came from Greece and she brought a brolly
She studied Europe at Manchester Poly
(Well, after they changed the name
I said, it'll never be the same)
Want to live like Gorton people....
She studied Europe at Manchester Poly
(Well, after they changed the name
I said, it'll never be the same)
Want to live like Gorton people....
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13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies.
This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
February 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies.
This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
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Two loosely connected things: I think also only a certain school of software dev prizes automation over craft. In almost every other area of life it's clear that doing something frequently, with attention and care, makes you better at it, while outsourcing it gives you time but decreases skills BUT
February 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Two loosely connected things: I think also only a certain school of software dev prizes automation over craft. In almost every other area of life it's clear that doing something frequently, with attention and care, makes you better at it, while outsourcing it gives you time but decreases skills BUT
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for reasons that seem surprising to me, may people seem surprised at that Anthropic research which shows that not doing something makes you worse at it. I mean, who knew? Who knew that giving a task to a machine wasn't a substitute for practice?
February 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
for reasons that seem surprising to me, may people seem surprised at that Anthropic research which shows that not doing something makes you worse at it. I mean, who knew? Who knew that giving a task to a machine wasn't a substitute for practice?
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The other thing is the frankly laughable idea that we need to improve our understanding of consciousness in order to verify that probability machines talking to one another in English are not creating consciousness. Of course they aren't!! Why would they be? Why are these claims taken seriously?
February 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The other thing is the frankly laughable idea that we need to improve our understanding of consciousness in order to verify that probability machines talking to one another in English are not creating consciousness. Of course they aren't!! Why would they be? Why are these claims taken seriously?