The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

There’s one at Bristol Parkway too: home of UWE.

People who know more about AI art find it less ethical When people understand the system and process behind AI art, its moral implications become harder to accept

Otherwise known as ‘apperception’.

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That’s a very insightful way of thinking about interactions with LLMs- as the opposite of poetry. Instead, AI generates perplexity rather than a poetic connection to meaning, history and culture.

Caerphilly is 98% white and 97% born in UK and Reform couldn’t win there either.

Is Goodwin going to claim endemic family voting disrupting democracy there ?
No? Wonder why not.

Wales tomorrow. New Winter Olympic competition. Getting your wetsuit off, and jumper on in 3 minutes before you freeze to death.

She Past Away - Asimilasyon (Official Music Video) YouTube video by ShePastAway

post a banger not in English

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“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer's precise instructions" (Umberto Eco).

Wow, the wall-to-wall ‘Americana’ concerts and programmes on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social in recent weeks are quite bizarre, given the geopolitical circumstances. And no, don’t want to listen to ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ for the 17 millionth time this month thanks.

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Artifice and Intelligence Executive Director Emily Tucker explains why you won’t hear us say “artificial intelligence.”

This is essential reading. The terminology we use to describe so-called ‘AI’ needs a radical rethink, as Turing predicted in a prescient manner.

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I’m not doing Dry January, I’m doing Why January?

Yes- I’m picturing Zizek bursting into the courtroom comparing the Lacanian tropes in Parsifal to Kung Fu Panda III.

Holy shit Naomi- that’s awesome. What about Zizek-Dolar in there for the Defence too- ‘Opera’s Second Death’?

This was amazing. Thank you Sean for your words.

Howard Hodgkin, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London. Well worth a visit.

Seriously NYT Spelling Bee: ‘hotdogging’ is not a word

It’s like changing the rules at half-time in a football match, so that no goals scored with headers count. Except we still don’t know the rules.

As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

As thousands of other jounalists don’t write rubbish like he does- I have to ask why Simon Jenkins?

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It hurts as a Welshman, but that BBCNOW Mahler 3 I just attended was ropey (at best).

Indeed. Amongst all the stupid claims for gen-AI made recently, this is the stupidest.

Probably unpopular opinion: Glastonbury, which is a weird UK obsession, operates with a weird kind of musical dynamic nominalism, whereby good bands become bad ones just because of the imperative to exist only to play at Glastonbury. Examples: Wolf Alice; Arctic Monkeys.

ChatGPT can’t even do the NYT ‘Spelling Bee’ game. In fact, it’s almost farcically useless at it. Like it is at chess.

Thanks to British chess GM Jonathan Mestel today for the (lost) simultaneous game at Imperial College Open Day. A lot of fun. Never played a GM before.

Hear you. Given the state of the HE sector, five-year Strategic Plans are their own variety of decontextualised nonsense.

Rhossili Bay, Wales. I’m the speck in the distance.

I can recommend doing academic admin while listening to Palestrina. #productivityhack

The Labour Party’s assault on immigration, and hence also care work and universities, is only the latest iteration of the Freudian death drive, after Brexit, Johnson, and numerous other UK examples. Literally doing yourself harm, despite ‘knowing’ the potential harm.

Change guru tells Cardiff University staff that proposed cuts could 'break' it Martin Shipton The transformation guru behind Cardiff University’s controversial cuts programme has warned staff that the proposals it unveiled in January could “break” the institution. Dr David Langl...

The rhetoric here from a ‘change guru’ is a hitherto unimaginable level of complete bullshit. Wales, and HE generally in the UK, needs much better than this.

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For the food in the student canteen.