It is ENDLESSLY loathsome. The insistence with which it is shoved into my face, the way it is sneakily slid into too many of the things I enjoy. The actual garbage it produces, that invokes revolt and disgust. The way I am forced to second guess so much of what I see. I hate it. Hate, hate, HATE.

I hate AI so much.

So. Much.

Please stop trying to make me use AI.

I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮

I will die on this hill.

It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us.

I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research - Climatic Change Climatic Change - A major challenge in the interdisciplinary study of past climates is ensuring that evidence and data relating to different disciplines are analysed effectively using appropriate...

An article last year claimed that tree-ring data shows a link between drought and late Roman conflicts such as the "Barbarian Conspiracy" of 367. We show problems with such claims and appeal for interdisciplinary palaeoclimatic research to respect historical method.
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Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

I expected so much more support for British Universities from this government

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We are losing stars one streetlight, one neon sign, one suburb at a time For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
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The question for me that seems to have been forgotten or passed over is why did the Queen pay £12m to Virginia Giuffre if she believed Andrew was innocent?

I’m fine with *exploring* the solar system, with robotic probes and some crewed vehicles.

But that’s not the same as trying to live there…

The Guardian view on universities: Labour needs a clearer plan | Editorial Editorial: Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edge

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Weird how this, the ultimate 'rape gang', isn't making the front page of the Daily Mail - especially since almost all of the redacted documents can be read.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.

"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"

Hear, hear!

Lots of kids speak 2 languages at home - including presumably his own when they were young.

Also... stirring up hatred of kids. What a delightful party.

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It costs TWO HUNDRED POUNDS to get a morning train from Manchester to London???!!!

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

Britain is one of the world's richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty? | CNN Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country's cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

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Wow I now feel old

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Today's view of Etna lava flows.

Image taken by Sentinel-2.

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3

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This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.

AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

“It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...