Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Joined Oct 2022
Interesting but unexpectedly exhausting day hearing candidates for new HoD. Not been involved in this process for the previous 3 in my time here, but was really great to hear from people who have identified the current and future challenges, bring fresh ideas and experience.
Biggest disappointment was the lack of academic staff who made it in person. Their loss as there were plenty of lunch leftovers.
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I went deep into the world of TikTok spammers who claim to makes 5 figures a month posting stolen and AI-generated clips through its partner program. This community is very wild.
There are 80,000 people sitting in a Discord talking about how to turn Reddit posts, fun facts, redpill clips, Would You Rather, Minecraft gameplay into $$$. Entire industry has popped up around it. People selling clips, tools, US-based TikTok accounts, GPT prompts, ideas
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/
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"No country in the world affords women the same opportunities as men in the workforce, according to a new report from the World Bank, which found the global gender gap was far wider than previously thought."
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UK to Expand Extremism Definition
"Organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and protest groups such as Palestine Action are among those that could be affected by the non-statutory move to block groups from funding or accessing venues if they are regarded as promoting an ideology that undermines “British values”. - Guardian
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQSFnZpsqw
Absolutely insane story of a Ukranian girl getting her face cloned & deepfaked her into dozens of pro-russian fake digital influencers on Chinese social media.
I fear this flood of AI shit is truly going to break the internet
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🚨The #Gender & #Tech (#GIoT) Newsletter📰 is OUT!
📨 As you can see from its length, it took some time to set up 😵💫. We hope you enjoy reading it🙌!
➡️ February issue: https://mailchi.mp/f3d8e769f4ca/giot-newsletter-february
➡️ Sign up: https://ucl.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5fc63c9cf03878c3ab01efd9c&id=2fd178402e
Tories:
"Extremism is damaging British society."
"Wait, not the *good* kind of extremism."
#UKPol
For the nth time in the last decade, Byng Place / Gordon Sq / Tavistock Sq being ripped up. How much is this costing each time? No wonder councils have no money when dodgy contractors and subcontractors are hoovering it all up.
I figured he was going to refer to Liz Truss' appearance at a far-right conference, and her fascist comments, but seems not.
Nope, here comes the "critical race theory" dig, straight after we're "most successful multicultural nation in the world." I notice "patriotism" was the first quality that he claimed for Britain.
Ooh, our Prime Minister is worried about threats to democracy and is going to make a statement. Hopefully going to rescind voter ID requirement, stop his ministers circumventing UK and international law, clamp down on dodgy foreign donors. Right? Right?
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I had a professor/mentor in college that frequently gave a speech pretty similar to this, but for art:
- It's about two way communication with another human,
- Tools (brushes, pencils &c.) and media are the paths to this connection,
- Art for art sake is bullshit, enrich your life and the life of the consumer,
- Otherwise, you will be very bad at this and,
- If you're in this class to become a rich and famous artist get the fuck out.
Surly old Irish man. I loved Sean.
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Re this important thread from @grimalkina:
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/111972810596703896
I just gave a little soapbox to my Software Design and Development students that I give every time I teach the class, and I’ll give it here on Mastodon.
Software development is an intensely social discipline.
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What you can’t be is misanthropic. When you write software, you are in relationship with other people. And if you don’t care about people, if you just •hate• people, if you can’t care about healthy relationships, if you cannot be bothered to communicate or to listen or to just give a ground-level shit about other people, DO NOT get into software. You’ll crash and burn — and you’ll cause terrible harm as you go down. Find some other discipline to go torment.
The rest of you…come on in.
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So it's no wonder we have people going round chopping down Ulez cameras willy nilly. It may well be that the short-term and longer term impact on society and environment is unbalanced, but that's a policy discussion. All they're achieving now is costing me as a tax-payer, and conflating several loosely related measures.
But this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you cause damage to law and justice.
Lead here is about people disobeying the law... as if the Tories haven't spent the last few years trying to make the law and justice irrelevant. They're quite happy to invoke "The Will Of The People" when it suits their ends, or to bend the interpretation of rules, even if it damages the rule of law and other critial civic institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/why-does-rishi-sunak-want-to-clamp-down-on-protests
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An envelope that contained a white powder was sent to Judge Arthur #Engoron who imposed a $454M judgment against #Trump, causing a brief #security scare Wed at a #NY courthouse.
…the business-sized envelope was addressed to Engoron but never reached him. The powder was quickly determined to be harmless in preliminary testing. Further testing is being done.
#law #RightWingExtremism #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MobTactics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-judge-white-powder-arthur-engoron-new-york/
Pleased to see that one of my favourite #comic artists, @WinstonRowntree, is on fedi, although seems only to have dipped a toe. Beautifully crafted mini stories of angst, anomie and self-discovery.
Archive at: https://viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
Spotted an almost unrecognisable Jarvis Cocker in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.
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MOVED PROFILE: Now at https://mastodon.me.uk/@davoloid
Joined Oct 2022
