@sue There is a similar issue to this on the output side, where we are now seeing guidance on how to “tidy up” substandard GenAI output, which – if done well and applied consistently – takes significantly longer than creating the output yourself, once you have learned the necessary research and […]

@ilumium Indeed. I dare no longer travel to the US for fear they may actually let me in. What then? My entire self image will collapse.

Can this ”Martin Bieker” person, who apparently co-writes academic articles with all the Good and the Great in Data Protection Law and whom I can’t find on Google Scholar, LinkedIn or my University Library database please step forward and identify himself? One GenAI generated essay cited him […]

@mattblaze I still think the Waste Incineration Plant in Vienna (which also supplies heat to the city) is the undisputed winner in the beautification stakes with its Hundertwasser design.

But I agree that the stark, often brutalist architecture of power plants has its own beauty. I love Torness […]

@bencurthoys I’ll check that out, thanks!

@mattblaze TBH, Charles doing that was what really made me wonder what the heck is in those files. They tend to look after their own.

@chrismarsden.bsky.social At least now we know why the Commission wasn’t fussed about the UK making the changes to the UK GDPR that it did with the Dat(Use and Access) Act and promised to renew adequacy anyway.

[Kristallnacht]

In that place where Darwin justifies everything
Whether you deport people or torture them
Where power is backed by money
Where being “Strong” is everything
Disfigured by bootlicking and standing to attention

Where national anthems are even played on a comb kazoo
Where, in […]

[Kristallnacht]

In the calm before the storm, what is that?
Very secretly someone leaves town
Dignitaries rush past you incognito
Officially, they don't like to be seen there

When the soul of a people – always ready -
Rages towards the boiling point
Shouting “Heil – Halali" and horny as hell […]

@sue Interestingly that only ever happened to me South of the Border, never up here. At the same time, I completely lost my gaydar when I moved here. After over a decade, I’m still playing “lesbian or Scottish”?

I genuinely wonder, if my grandparents felt like this in the 19030s or if this particular insanity is a special 2025 edition. Like his model isn’t Hitler but the CharlieChaplin version. How did a country like the US ever get to this point so quickly? Are we all part of some massive psychological […]

@DataKnightmare Oh brilliant. Thank you!

@ilumium Although that skewed expectation only seems to have started with GenX. I remember back in the 90s when my flat in Liverpool was burgled, my German Boomer mum went “And? Have they caught anyone yet? And I was, “Oh sweet summer child. That’s not what they do”. My mum was still genuinely […]

@sue That’s exactly how I feel about marking student essays these days. Marking essays was never my favourite activity, but now that half of them are a samey, shallow clearly AI generated collection of platitudes (often reflecting arguments copied straight from Big Tech marketing material) it […]