Emma Kennedy

When these people tell you who they are, believe them.

Lula Goes HARD

Last repost: not only does Marissa Mayer need AI 'assistance' to write three things about her own child, but she *admits it in public*. At least that poor kid is going to have an organised file to give her therapist.

Just heard on Radio 5 Live: "tune in for the next exciting chapter in the Premier League. Enid Blyton couldn't write this!" I'm sure there are some pacey sections in the Famous Five, but 🤣🤣🤣

I guess just as a starter, LLMs aren't our "peers," so whatever they are doing isn't peer review.whether it's interesting or valuable or bad or whatever. Who knows, maybe there are good reasons beyond metrics for scientific critique to occur among humans?

I dust my house. My AI Robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Socks and sandals are nothing new! These well-preserved woollen socks from Egypt feature a split-toe design allowing them to be worn with thonged sandals to keep toes cosy in chilly weather some 1,500 years ago! 🩴🧦 V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

UK submariners have a huge problem with sexual harassment, being a woman deep in the ocean locked up with men who feel like they deserve access to your body is already a horror movie in concept. But now for trans women in the navy it's mandatory

It's unfortunate that this organisation has the same initials as the UK's Higher Education Statistics Agency, making me briefly wonder if they'd gone deliciously rogue...

challenge accepted. any music historians up for doing a podcast episode on the history and cultural impact of Top of the Pops?

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

A haunted house where every door requires multi factor authentication.

A haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses

New, concerning figures suggest that London also contains 1/6 of all people who hang their toilet roll the wrong way round. As well as 1/6 of all people in England who breathe regularly.

The next time you watch a movie, even one without loads of special effects, look at how long the credits are! Most of those people are not famous, most of them are not doing glamorous jobs, most of them are not making huge amounts of money. And there are more on top of that who don't get a credit!

The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts

google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin

never the wrong time for this classic

Rat Purse — Paul Frey, 20th C. brass, ruby

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

This is an EXCELLENT retort to that coworker who just repeats AI answers verbatim

A1 In between spaces - walking to the library, meeting people in corridors or cafes #LTHEChat

Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

Welcome to 'looks like coat weather but anything heavier or more waterproof than a paper bag will leave you a sweaty mess' season!

"This is not an argument against excellence. It is an argument for recognising that there is more than one kind of excellence in higher education." So glad to have read this - it's spot on and brightened my morning.

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The worst political outcome is one in which I have to share" sums up the logic of many rich people when it comes to taxes and many car owners when it comes to public space.

He imposed Shania Law

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Does anyone have a (successful) British Academy Early Career Seed Fund application they'd be prepared to share with me? #academicsky

this is the cat other cats call to report ypu for late dinners and empty bowls.

We're extremely disappointed that, having just set fire to our house, our neighbours are absolutely ruining the paint by throwing water on it.

“We want you gone forever!” … “What do you mean you could be gone for five weeks!”

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin      heh an snappin      yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

'Britain’s debate about universities has become strangely one-sided. We scrutinise the supply of graduate skills....Far less attention is paid to the demand side: whether Britain’s economy is creating enough high-skilled opportunities to make full use of the talent universities produce.' Good stuff

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Two types of academic correspondence are “apologies for the delay but I’ll need more time” and “hey do you wanna do this thing with me three years from now”

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.