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Steam machine allotment style system. I also get to have £1000.
September 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society.

See section 5 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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5 Respecting Expertise The compact between professionals and society at large requires respect of expertise — from well funded publicly owned academia to protecting certain fields from epistemic trespassing — for expertise to keep existing. That is, between academia and its host society there exists understanding that academia is publicly funded, directly or through grants, to produce knowledge; and furthermore that it exists to train and certify highly skilled graduates. Academic expertise can only continue to exist if statements made by academics are understood as coming from highly skilled research and educational practitioners. What this means is that it goes both ways: experts need to be framed correctly as domain-specific scholars, as well as that statements they make outside their expertise are understood as such. By the same token, that conflicts of interest are publicly known and acknowledged. AI upends all this, violating the compact between academia and society and within academia under its expansionist imperialist scheme (Guest, Suarez, et al. 2025; Solomonides et al. 1985). Sherry Turkle (1984) describes AI as a “colonising discipline” that sweeps away everything that came before under the guise of “intellectual immaturity” — using social privilege to undermine expertise and breaking down the boundaries between disciplinary expertise. At the extreme, it becomes both the case that everybody is an expert in AI, provided they are white and male, and that nobody is an expert in anything since only experts in AI can now practice any form of academic pursuit. The same for education: nobody can teach without the imposition of AI into their learning environments. Another perspective that results in experts being undermined, and turbocharged by AI, is the practice by colleagues and others of critical washing (Guest, Suarez, et al. 2025; Suarez et al. 2025): wherein scholarly critique is rendered decorative. Logics such as ‘I am aware of the downsides, therefore … cases are presented. As if merely listing the harms to people and planet is enough to absolve us of responsibly, dissolve the damage, and bless the use. Critical washing blocks experts from combating company misinformation and advertising screeds. For example, many experts without a conflict of interest can articulate that: a) LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems, meaning they can only output what they were exposed to in mix-and-matched ways; b) LLMs automate plagiarism and paper mills by churning out patchwork plagiarised text, stripping its provenance, and obfuscating the labour of cleaning the corpus; c) we cannot automatically meaningfully detect plagiarism beyond copy-pasted text, which is not foolproof, because no such tools can exist; d) we have a duty to — far from using these models in our workflows — protect the academic literature from LLM pollution; e) using LLMs, as well as being funded by or working for AI companies, are conflicts of interest for any academic, which must be declared with every published piece of work (Guest and Martin 2025a; Guest and van Rooij 2025); f) LLM prompts, the industry term for the user input to these systems, does not cause their output in an authorial sense.
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Sick band recommendations
September 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Yeah it's good for that. But you still gotta neo thematrix dodge the ways society throws "you're not Young. Die." At you
September 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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You can't let the "I'm 30 now it's joever" energy take you. It's a lie by big "give up on life and joy and art and feeling."
September 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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I maintain things can still get better from here. Please don't contribute to a jeering crowd, here.
September 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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it's not flashy but it uses the Feathers toolkit we have now and it gives me enough visual certainty to work with this stuff.
September 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Oh this is very cool! I find my own brevity to be a curse when tackling fiction but this is a cute wordle variant.

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August 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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don't get poisoned, not even a little bit.
August 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Some of you are in europe.
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If you didn't hear the news, we're going to bloody europe!! Come see us and Commoner on these dates in these places:

15-Sep Utrecht
16-Sep The Hague
17-Sep Eindhoven
18-Sep Hamburg
20-Sep Berlin
22-Sep Leipzig
23-Sep Prague
24-Sep Vienna
25-Sep Innsbruck
26-Sep Cologne

love you!!xxx
August 8, 2026 at 11:45 AM