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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This is exactly right (I wish I had written this!)

paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Sitting in a conference plenary where a panel each takes a turn to state the obvious as though imparting a profound truth. I'm an hour into a 90 minute session and so far the only thing I have learned is a fun piece of Australian slang. At least no-one has said "human in the loop" so far...

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If I hear "human in the loop" one more time at this conference I may throw something...

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/10/2026

Rate-limiting ArXiv is just one symptom of a massive vibe shift i can feel happening, toward slower more careful (but sometimes more ambitious) projects. If “sheer productivity” were a stock I would short it; it’s going to start looking like a negative.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...

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Meet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom Watson

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

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Jon Udell @judell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

"When I skim a chatbot’s response to a question about back pain, I’m intuitively testing its suggestions against my hard-won mental model for how to approach back pain. Could I have developed that if I’d had a robot leading my thinking all along?" The same dilemma in every domain: seniors who […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I rely heavily on Zoom for work. I've been vaguely irritated by so-called "AI" features appearing and found myself frequently saying "no" to AI-related requests from the system. So I finally revisited the main settings for my account. There I found *32* separate, "AI"-related settings. I toggled […]

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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Interesting initiative I just became aware of: #Peerreview is a finite resource, and every review invitation presents a choice about where our time goes. The Diamond Reviewer Pledge asks researchers to commit to reviewing at least one article a year for a #diamond #openaccess journal — free to […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

It must take real dedication and practice to become such a complete cockwomble that you abuse the *volunteers* of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For shame :-( www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j3912…

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lobsters/117217749… This is wonderful 😁 "British orthography is enforced during lexical analysis. Colour is the namespace for values of A Distinguished Colour. Color is evidence that the source has arrived without a proper education.... There are precisely […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Number 2 son just back from Reading Festival told me how he really liked a band he saw there called "Geese". "Never heard of them" said I, "Do they play honky-tonk music?". I am very proud of myself for this. #dadjoke

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

If you say the words "align with stakeholders" to me, my brain immediately enters an almost zen like level of ignoring everything that is said after that.

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Just received a spam email for, and I quote exactly, an "Executive Mini MBA in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accelerator Programme". Yes, really 😂 I was already laughing about the notion of an "Executive Mini MBA" before I even got to the "Artificial Intelligence " part... I guess this is the […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I wish I could remove Slack from my working life... but there are too many communities I have to engage with there. I have been using it for some years and I still regularly get lost in its stupid navigation.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11711157531… You should cancel every subscription to a blog/newsletter whose "weiter" is now complaining about Anthropic's watermarking. Otherwise the only mark is you.

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I'm seeing commentary about people being upset about so-called "AI" services introducing "watermarks" into the text that they extrude. OK - good. But I'm not seeing much commentary about why these services are doing this. Presumably it's because they are worried about their outputs being […]

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

Tim Henke
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I've now had the UK government emergency alarm on my iPhone 3 times this evening :-(

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I have been a happy user of SublimeText for many years.... but I think Zed might have just won me over :-)

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/117087462321815673 "The psychological and cognitive factors in LLM use are a growing field of serious research. One study found a significant correlation between confidence in AI output and belief in the paranormal."

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Experimenting with Zed (zed.dev) - a text/code editor. Although it advertises itself with all kinds of so-called "AI" support, it includes a global "disable all AI features" toggle, which is encouraging. Without any of the "AI" features, it seems like a pretty capable editor. And it's […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: beige.party/@TheBadStuff/1170474399… Yes - this is exactly how I feel about it too. It has revealed how so many people care so little about what they do. I find that almost unbearably depressing

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

New study: "#Preprints are increasingly treated as legitimate, autonomous objects of #citation independent of their later publication status." arxiv.org/abs/2607.25220v1 PS: I'm fine with this, and so are the authors of this study. I'm from the humanities, where it's common to cite […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@tg have been using Current for some months now and very much appreciating it and the approach to relaxing into the flow. Occasionally I would like to simply click on a source and see what they've published lately, where "lately" would be defined by the existing lifespan for that source. I […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/11… I think the corrupt and batshit crazy guy on the other side might be a factor too...

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Not seen one of these before. I think it's a Privet Hawk-moth caterpillar

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@swearyanthony/1170… "Weird that Robert Morris got charged for all of the computers his worm broke into. After all, he didn't do it, the computer program did it, that's completely different, apparently."

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Anyone participating in or interested in #DH2026 in Daejeon: Please participate actively in the conversations on open social media platforms, like for instance Mastodon, and don't let all that communication energy flow into closed platforms like the conference […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Large stylized neon sign reading "OPEN" in orange, in a large blue oval shaped border.

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-dsr- (unoptimizable) @dashdsrdash.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

An astoundingly large percentage of my personal technical policies are guided by the idea that I want to minimize my losses after the next sudden yet inevitable betrayal.

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Finally got around to reading Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. This one will stay with me a long time I think. Utterly absorbing!

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

I'll probably watch the Neuromancer series because the novel made a big impression on me as a teenager in the 80s. But the trailer does not inspire me with confidence. Mostly consists of tired cliches and empty Americanisms like "see you on other side". Gibson seems to have been difficult to […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@juliank/1169740455… And yet, somehow, I'm not feeling that that moral imperative at all...

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Just been to see The Odyssey. It's a triumph, so much about it is excellent. The standout performance is Samantha Morton as Circe, but the other performances are great too. I very rarely find the ending of films to be satisfying - but this one really worked for me. And if you've seen any Nolan […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (openai.com/index/hugging-face-model…): "This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex […]

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/1169480… I think this is absolutely right. I had already noticed how the "human in the looo" phrase sounded like a lazy caveat to me - @jaredwhite nails the reason

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Reminder: undisclosed slop machine usage, even in so-called "human in the loop" scenarios, is a form of reputation laundering. That is, you are using your reputation as a human with expertise to provide cover for a technology which stands in direct opposite opposition to human expertise. If […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I am a model, you know what I mean And I do my little turn while getting arrested Yeah getting arrested, getting arrested, yeah I do my little turn while getting arrested

Andrew Tate looking chic while getting arrested

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paulwalk @paulwalk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Ed Miliband as Foreign Secretary! 🤯

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