"But we need a trustworthy counterpoint to GB News & FB, or we'll collapse completely into a mire of disinformation and propaganda!"

Yes. Probably true

Unfortunately the BBC has ceased to be any sort of trustworthy counterpoint. It's just pumping out more "respectable" rightwing shite of its own

Impossible to listen to it without thinking about that scene in the woods from Beautiful Thing

29 year olds in QTs:

"Here is a region-specific platform/piece of technology I sort of remember from my childhood that did EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING. I think.

Why did you also not remember and reference it when you posted that throwaway comment?"

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it :)

We've put anti-AI clauses in all our author contracts. I don't want that shit anywhere near anything we put out in the world

"Prompt engineers" (who were "content producers" until last year); "vibe coders" whose prior experience of coding began and ended with Minecraft

And all of them banging on "democratisation," apparently unaware that democratising knowledge isn't the same as democratising *job titles*

I love it when they call themselves "engineers" 🤣

*and fucking stupid, obviously. Terrible, dangerous... and utterly, irredeemably stupid

"Oh, it steals everything, poses massive tech and human security risks, erodes my ability to perform tasks I previously did routinely... AND it's a bit shit?

SIGN ME UP!"

It blows my mind how many software engineers, compsci/computational linguistics academics, data ethicists and digital sociologists are shouting, at the top of their lungs: THIS IS TERRIBLE AND DANGEROUS

And how techboy marketers have somehow still managed to sell it as The Future of Everything

Could really have done without this incredibly important, needs-to-be-reiterated-endlessly point being made without "the assistance of Claude"

OH MY GOD THIS COULD NOT BE MORE UP MY STREET!! ❤️❤️❤️