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Ernesto Priego

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Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. linktr.ee/ernestopriego

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026
It's unbelievably common. I can't even.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026
I wish folk stopped posting CFPs as flat images with text that is not machine readable; makes everything harder. We should all know better by now...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026
Compliance sigh
Screenshot of an online course video. In a bright corporate meeting room, three businesspeople sit around a conference table facing a small cardboard robot. Behind the robot stands a hooded person wearing dark sunglasses and gloves, holding a device. A play button appears over the paused video. Below it is the course title, “Losing Millions – How a Deepfake will Fool You”, with an “Exit Course” button on the right.
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🏆 Losing Millions – How a Deepfake will Fool You
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
(can't believe it's been so long since this: theconversation.com/long-lists-a... )
theconversation.com
Long lists are eroding the value of being a scientific author
Replacing authors on scientific papers with projects could be one way to tackle the increasing numbers of contributors.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Thanks for the reply. Re blog posts: not necessarily, the principle of coauthoring a piece remains- and it would have been a good way to try out the principles of the taxonomy (and how sometimes in practice it does not fully address the issues it genuinely seeks to address).
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Love this post is multi-authored. It could have used CRediT so we know who did what. It didn't. Not clear if that was intentional...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics next Thursday 1st October in That London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per... #GraphicMedicine #ComicsStudies
eventbrite.co.uk
Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics
Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID).
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Ha.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Computer said no.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
This will read like historical speculative fiction in the UK, but it's reassuring to read about like-minded souls out there in other realities
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
"begins"?
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
“as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia”. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
typos and all.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
If this is too opaque to be intelligible or actionable it is intentional and obeys to the very essence of this multifaceted phenomenon in which human experience is being hammered down and fracked into relentless automation and the blurrying of previous ethical common understandings.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
There are obviously pockets of positive transofrmation here and there but the nature of the onslaught is such that a few initiatives doing well and good here and there are not enough to clear any well-founded concerns caused by the visible pervasiveness of corporate technofascism.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
It feels like we are also going through some seismic transformations and we'll need patience and tolerance if we are to be around to begin sensing a gradual rebuilding of what has been systematically destroyed and lost.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
I am quite concerned that we (collectively) may be going through one of the darkest periods of our living memory, even if we've been through several already and every time one's wondered if it could get any worse.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
So sad and concerning. Happy memories of buying the papers at UEA and also consulting more at the library.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
I'd have expected it to be available in a similar way to britishslavetraders.org
britishslavetraders.org
The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Is it also available via The National Archives' own platform? Or only via Ancestry dot com?
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Really disappointing this is via a for-profit service requiring registration
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers www.ancestry.com/c/colonial-e...
ancestry.com
Enslavement Registers for Former British Colonies - Ancestry
Research on Ancestry, the enslavement registers for former British Colonies in the Caribbean, Central America & Indian Ocean.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
"we can't possibly be more miserable than those poor, uneducated savages down south; we just have better and more advanced measuring instruments and enlightened cultural attitudes to suicide"
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Love how folk will rationalise this by blaming poor data collection, taboo and superstition before daring to hypothetise that higher income does not equal higher levels of structural happiness
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Survey takes _about 80 minutes_ to complete. Tell me you don't want the wider community to get involved without telling me you don't want the wider community to get involved... forms.gle/4zsB5U81YAtw...
forms.gle
Feedback Survey - DOAS Adaptation for OA Books
Are you a university, library, research institute, or another similar community based publisher or platform working with Diamond OA books? Then we need your input! The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guid...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026
Keep on promptin'. Waiting for the sea: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
bbc.co.uk
Waiting for the sea
It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026
Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430) reminds us love for money trumping love for study was already a thing for students back in his day
12. Page 43. I began actively to set about the business of teaching literature and public speaking, which was the purpose for which I had come to Rome. At first I taught in my house, where I collected a number of pupils who had heard of me, and through them my reputation began to grow. But I now realized that there were difficulties in Rome with which I had not had to contend in Africa. True enough, I found that there was no rioting by young hooligans, but I was told that at any moment a number of students would plot together to avoid paying their master his fees and would transfer in a body to another. They were quite unscrupulous, and justice meant nothing to them compared with the love of money. There [...]St Augustine. Page 13. Continues from previous image. ...was hatred for them in my heart, and it was not unselfish hatred, for I suppose that I hated them more for what I should have to suffer from them than for the wrong they might do to any teacher . . . For their warped and crooked minds I still hate students like these, but I love them too, hoping to teach them to mend their ways, so that they may learn to love their studies more than money and love you, their God, still more, for you are the Truth, the Source of good that does not fail, and the Peace of purest innocence. But in those days I was readier to dislike them for fear of the harm they might cause me than to hope that they would become good for your sake.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'
bbc.co.uk
Essex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobs
Staff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 15/09/2026
Last night, for real, I dreamt the university campus had become a data center, so there's that.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” (sic) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Trump attacks ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI as tech stocks slide
President hits out after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call to limit ‘reckless’ development
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
"In Britain, more than 320 newspapers closed down between 2009 and 2019" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
"The next solution, after we wake up, is to return to first principles. What are the ingredients for human flourishing? Once we can articulate that, it’s like a rope that can guide us back to where we should be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
"Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities" www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1969...
peoplemanagement.co.uk
Half of employees too busy to deliver meaningful work, survey finds
Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-... via @pulitzercenter.org
pulitzercenter.org
Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers
Para leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. Image The exterior of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in El Burgo, Spain. From the story "Deciphering AI Water Consumption: How Amazon Hides How Mu...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
And I mean, look at that image. It looks AI-generated to me. Is it? We don't know, because UKRI doesn't tell us. Whose idealised version of a research team is that?
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
Wish we could finally admit that “speeding things up” and “maintaining robust processes” are fundamentally at odds, particularly when the intention is to achieve both through automation.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
"Modernises" = "We will achieve this through both automation and staff expertise"
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
What can possibly go wrong www.ukri.org/news/ukri-mo...
ukri.org
UKRI modernises grant assessment for the age of AI
UKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
hahahahaha www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK economy sees surprise growth in July helped by AI boom
The economy expanded by 0.4%, official figures show, whereas analysts had predicted no growth.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
"The current literature provides a fairly consistent picture, suggesting that drone noise is substantially more annoying than road traffic or aircraft noise due to special acoustic characteristics, in particularly pure tones and high-frequency broadband noise." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drone Noise Emission Characteristics and Noise Effects on Humans—A Systematic Review
The number of operations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as “drones”, has strongly increased in the past and is likely to further grow in the future. Therefore, drones are beco...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
Something deeply disturbing in the normalisation of using drones to commemorate 9/11. Essentially a military surveillance technology. Yeah, pretty (?).
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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the hype cycle around recent declarations around the eschatonic potential of AI escalate, I want to bring people's attn: to this doc by one of the so-called "fathers" of AI, John McCarthy: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/d... That first sentence sums up almost everything abt these narratives.
www-formal.stanford.edu
dartmouth-sli
dartmouth-sli
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was meant to catch a plane from Mexico City to Washington, DC to attend ICAF/SPX 2001 (the International Comics and Animation Festival and the Small Press Expo), to be held September 14–16. It was not meant to be, obviously. 🖤
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026
"Nothing is true; everything is permitted", or, rather, "Everything is permitted, therefore nothing is true".
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026
The downfall of democracy and the thorough corruption of everthing once held dearly post-enlightenment: the logical consequence (the achievement of a main objective?) of the systematic promotion and celebration of ignorance and fraud as modus operandi in every aspect of human activity this century.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026
Hahaha beggars belief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026
"Overall reading scores saw particularly steep declines in the past three years, including in skills that matter most in the AI age [...]The instances of “hasty reading” - in which students read quickly but inaccurately - nearly doubled to 9% between 2018 and 2025." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
oecd.org
PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026
can with only one n of course
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