David Hughes
@usernameerror.bsky.social
Librarian. Open scholarship enthusiast. Shill for Big Library. Power-hungry gatekeeper. King of infinite space. He/him/his. Personal account.
Actualising the dead Internet
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Actualising the dead Internet
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
My holiday trip to Syria & Jordan got moved from May to August.
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My holiday trip to Syria & Jordan got moved from May to August.
Well done, Scotland. What a game!
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Well done, Scotland. What a game!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
This is the way.
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is the way.
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Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
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this guy is such a fucking chump and every day he continues to draw a paycheck further enshrines how busted this place is.
False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this guy is such a fucking chump and every day he continues to draw a paycheck further enshrines how busted this place is.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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Reminder that no one outside of that miserable little island is under any obligation not to name David Cleary
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October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reminder that no one outside of that miserable little island is under any obligation not to name David Cleary
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villagemagazine.ie/soldier-f-na...
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Reminder: Chris de Burgh owns the chest burster from Alien (1979)
October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reminder: Chris de Burgh owns the chest burster from Alien (1979)
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This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
"Cloud infrastructure should be nationalised. Discuss". Can't wait for the day Bezos holds the world to ransom by threatening to bring down 75% of the Internet.
There's a major outage at Amazon Web Services resulting in a number of sites and services being down including HMRC, Signal, Canva, and Fortnite. A reminder that we shouldn't put all our infrastructural eggs in one basket no matter how big the basket is.
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"Cloud infrastructure should be nationalised. Discuss". Can't wait for the day Bezos holds the world to ransom by threatening to bring down 75% of the Internet.
Oh, just eff off with this will you, Clarivate.
October 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Oh, just eff off with this will you, Clarivate.
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
Last RT - A big cause of low water avalbabity will be use of the brain-rotting hallucination machine.
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Last RT - A big cause of low water avalbabity will be use of the brain-rotting hallucination machine.
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kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
Smoking is bad for your health but you must keep smoking and teach your students how to smoke responsibly.
Excellent thread
Excellent thread
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Smoking is bad for your health but you must keep smoking and teach your students how to smoke responsibly.
Excellent thread
Excellent thread
At an "edtech" conference and I think overall there should be much less tech and much more ed
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
At an "edtech" conference and I think overall there should be much less tech and much more ed
"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent."
Sociologists and Anthropologists in the future - if there is a future, will call this the Age of Madness.
Sociologists and Anthropologists in the future - if there is a future, will call this the Age of Madness.
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent."
Sociologists and Anthropologists in the future - if there is a future, will call this the Age of Madness.
Sociologists and Anthropologists in the future - if there is a future, will call this the Age of Madness.
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Holy shit, this is bad.
Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?
Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
October 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Holy shit, this is bad.
Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?
Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?
If I need information, I will find an article. I am not wasting my time watching a video that's 10 times longer than it needs to be.
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If I need information, I will find an article. I am not wasting my time watching a video that's 10 times longer than it needs to be.
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On Monday, as Minister for Education Helen McEntee stood at a podium in a Dublin primary school to launch the State's new and ambitious primary school curriculum it was difficult to ignore the smell of damp that pervaded the hall, and the state of the ceiling above her head
School ceiling tells own story on the state of schools
On Monday, as Minister for Education Helen McEntee stood at a podium in a Dublin primary school to launch the State's new and ambitious primary school curriculum it was difficult to ignore the smell o...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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