rich gall
@richgall.bsky.social
occasional features @thenewstack | interested in maintenance & rhetoric in tech | north east england
The new Wallace and Gromit should be a foundational text on STS courses
January 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The new Wallace and Gromit should be a foundational text on STS courses
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During the 1984/5 miners' strike, Women Against Pit Closures marked the festive season with this colliery themed Christmas card
Find out more about recently catalogued WAPC archives at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards
Find out more about recently catalogued WAPC archives at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards
December 10, 2024 at 3:53 PM
During the 1984/5 miners' strike, Women Against Pit Closures marked the festive season with this colliery themed Christmas card
Find out more about recently catalogued WAPC archives at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards
Find out more about recently catalogued WAPC archives at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WPC
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards
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I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...
The phony comforts of useful idiots
On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.
thetechbubble.substack.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM
I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...
About to see my first Douglas Sirk film
December 5, 2024 at 3:35 PM
About to see my first Douglas Sirk film
Is the Times implying that agile coaches are woke?
It’s part of a broader Reform-adjacent trend of dismissing any job title that didn’t exist before these folks retired as unneccessary.
cf this piece in the Times which just betrays ignorance of how large organisations work www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-...
cf this piece in the Times which just betrays ignorance of how large organisations work www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-...
December 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Is the Times implying that agile coaches are woke?
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I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings.
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chatGPT and its ilk are primarily focused on solving common problems faced by STEM majors, namely reading and writing for themselves
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
chatGPT and its ilk are primarily focused on solving common problems faced by STEM majors, namely reading and writing for themselves
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here's a favourite sonnet for this wistful season:
December 4, 2024 at 10:40 AM
here's a favourite sonnet for this wistful season:
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Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...
December 3, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...
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Guardian + Observer journalists on strike 4th and 5th Dec.
They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs.
Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days.
Solidarity with NUJ strikers.
They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs.
Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days.
Solidarity with NUJ strikers.
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Guardian + Observer journalists on strike 4th and 5th Dec.
They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs.
Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days.
Solidarity with NUJ strikers.
They’re fighting to stop selling off profitable Observer to loss-making Tortoise Media website and to defend jobs.
Union members ask we support and not repost Guardian stories on strike days.
Solidarity with NUJ strikers.
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oh you can't find a programming job? maybe you should've majored in something useful like reading books
December 4, 2024 at 12:40 AM
oh you can't find a programming job? maybe you should've majored in something useful like reading books
One of the most interesting things about the awful responses to that viral phd is the fact that so many people not only misunderstand but also don’t have a clue about the sciences either
December 4, 2024 at 9:22 AM
One of the most interesting things about the awful responses to that viral phd is the fact that so many people not only misunderstand but also don’t have a clue about the sciences either
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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
May 31, 2024 at 10:27 PM
computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
tech CEOs: let's add it to every product
“The obscenity of this mass delusion is nauseating — a monolith to bad decision-making and the herd mentality of tech's most powerful people”
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.
What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
wheresyoured.at
December 4, 2024 at 8:40 AM
“The obscenity of this mass delusion is nauseating — a monolith to bad decision-making and the herd mentality of tech's most powerful people”
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did a little survey of my socials this morning. the news from South Korea was all over Bluesky, nothing on Threads, only one post on X, a little commentary on TikTok and (surprisingly) at the top of my Instagram feed. feels like news orgs are trying to figure out where to invest for breaking news.
December 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM
did a little survey of my socials this morning. the news from South Korea was all over Bluesky, nothing on Threads, only one post on X, a little commentary on TikTok and (surprisingly) at the top of my Instagram feed. feels like news orgs are trying to figure out where to invest for breaking news.
People like being rude about BlueSky on Twitter but my brain feels significantly better when I’m here. The situation in South Korea might be the first big test of the health and success of it as an info ecosystem
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
People like being rude about BlueSky on Twitter but my brain feels significantly better when I’m here. The situation in South Korea might be the first big test of the health and success of it as an info ecosystem
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After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies.
I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
Why we must reclaim digital sovereignty
A new white paper envisions a radically different technological future
disconnect.blog
December 3, 2024 at 4:56 PM
After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies.
I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
Wrote something for @thenewstack.io about critical perspectives on the OSI’s open AI definition thenewstack.io/the-open-sou...
The Open Source AI Definition: What the Critics Say
The Open Source Initiative aimed to achieve consensus when it defined open source AI. Instead, it’s laid bare community concerns in an anxious time for open source overall.
thenewstack.io
November 18, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Wrote something for @thenewstack.io about critical perspectives on the OSI’s open AI definition thenewstack.io/the-open-sou...
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If you buy a website then crap it up you should be legally required to restore the website to its original state, like when they make polluters pay for habitat restoration
October 16, 2023 at 8:17 PM
If you buy a website then crap it up you should be legally required to restore the website to its original state, like when they make polluters pay for habitat restoration