Black background, red icons. A Wheelchair in motion, 2 crossed spoons and a skull. Slightly splattery, messy feel.
Online playtest of TTRPG "Killer Crips 3000"
A game of Disabled Rage using the "Eat The Reich" system.
Set in a fantasy world where disabled people fought & won a war against an ableist regime but something ripped open the seams of reality leaking horrors.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-t...
Talk about my artwork Wrongmove: The London rental market, where its easier to find a home with chandeliers & marble floors than step free access. Tech replicating inequality, failure of legislation & capital's disdain for access.
Fri 6th March - Bristol & online
www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...
Best I've found is from: "Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models": aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-m...
"Minority and female group names are singly tokenized less than white and male names. Single tokenization correlates with frequency"
With GPT Tokenizers (like BPE) does the number of tokens used to represent a word or phrase tell us anything meaningful about the frequency of it within the training data?
Basically is it a way to reverse-engineer frequency in a hidden training dataset?
A handy tool for investigating various open pretraining datasets of LLMs without having to manage TB of storage space and it's quick:
infini-gram.io
Extracting books from production language models:
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...
Loved the manga reader and yellow case. Japan looked amazing. Inspires me to get back to improving my Japanese. Though my problem is my kanji is so bad I can only read the most boring kids stories.
"we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself" [Peter Hershock]
Resisting GenAI and BigTech in higher education:
Multiple scholar-activists talk about resistance:
tubedu.org/w/teHCy6pkiK...
A screenshot of the blog post at https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
An odd proposal: "llms.txt" web standard using plain text summaries of webpages to fix that LLMs are really bad at searching web pages. What happened to that thing we used previously to search the internet? That seemed to do a pretty good job of searching text.
llmstxt.org
Messy, squiggly lines that sketch the shape of a torus. Has a slight organic fractured feel to it.
I should be doing things but circles. Lots of fun, thanks.
Another good source for losing time: "Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers" (discourse.mcneel.com/t/implementi...)
There's a good paper on why LLMs error on these problems and by design always will. Anything with a large permutation space is too expensive to represent and gets pruned. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817
Pretty far from super-intelligence...
Explicitly opting out of MLCommons Safety benchmark (ailuminate.mlcommons.org/benchmarks/g...) for LLMs seems like a pretty big regulator red flag 🙈
* xAI - Grok-3-Preview
* Tencent - Hunyuan-TurboS
* NVIDIA - Llama 3.3 49b
Knowing LLMs scores on Child Sexual Exploitation is clearly for public good
The research does not mention the LLM tool used & risks or error rates are not examined. (asabiopreport.substack.com/p/a-multidis...)
The reference to "our models" imply it's "Informed Solutions" own LLM. Which I assume must need to be certified?
Is there any transparency of the LLM?
I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI.
They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails).
They also state
"most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently"
Any suggestion which LLM they use?
New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss. Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years.
Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.
Microsoft’s emissions jump almost 30% as it races to meet AI demand
He acknowledged that its energy consumption remains "very high" but argued that its potential benefits, especially in the fields of healthcare, public services, and business productivity, were worthwhile.
As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit.
Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.
I will be in Linz all week for Ars Electronica. Very happy to meet and chat, always interested in new collaborations. Most of my upcoming work is around resisting AI, corrupting LLMs, disabled fantasy and TTRPGs/games as forms of advocacy & resistance
The most concrete action you can take in Resisting AI is protesting the building of new data centres. The harm is clear
“The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”
Two DuckDuckGo search boxes. The first has the word duck and an image of a cartoon duck with a bowtie. The second search has the word hydra and a duck with many heads, just the one bowtie.
Accidentally came across the DuckDuckGo easter egg when you search for "hydra". I miss the silly internet.
Happy to help provide some words if a random fan would be helpful. I'm a massive fan of Brindlewood and any carved from Brindlewood game.
Wildsea. It’s not set in a dystopian future, or on the cusp. Human empires failed & nature came back and built a better world. My definition: play starts in a world where the big problems of our time have been fixed. It’s not about building better futures through play but playing in them now.
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I would vote for one with CHEF one it. It’s very tempting, I can see that first game session and the joy of that hat. Since it’s silly and I have no idea how expensive those hats would be I would pluck £10-15 out of the air. I guess similar to custom dice or gm screens.
Odd, I did not have an issue with more than one no vote selected. Just picked the ones I knew and left most "No Vote"
The CripShip game is available to buy:
* Physical book: ministryofaispills.bigcartel.com/product/crip...
* Digitally: josephwilk.itch.io/cripship
"The game uses roleplay as an empathetic and critical tool, providing players with a means to comprehend and engage with the lived experiences of communities and people who are too often marginalized and undervalued, but also to dissect the technological systems that oppress them."
Text reads: Prix Ars Electronica 2025 Honorary Mention. Title reads CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech. Background image is a bright and glitchy active wheelchair with a backpack and radar.
Text reads: “CripShip provides us with a palpable demonstration that the world is better when it's inclusive. It facilitates players in envisioning and therefore creating the futures we want. CripShip is play as activism.”
Happy to announce that our role-playing game “CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech” has won an honorary mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Artificial Life and Intelligence category.
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