Natasha Saunders

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On waiting: If you are right, and GenAI really is good for society; If you’re right and GenAI really is the future we want for work; If you’re right and GenAI really is here to stay Then what’s wrong with waiting? If it really is the future, then there’ll be another train. I’m in no hurry.

The colour of the coffee at breakfast on Celebrity Traitors is an outrage. It would make me want to commit murder…

And this is why you should never cede ground to the far right! You will never be racist or violent enough for them and all it does is normalise them.

The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?

We should start calling it "degenerative AI", since it's only guaranteed impact is degrading skills and efficiency.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Still waiting to be enlightened on these supposed benefits…

Latest AI frustration: PhD proposals that seem so obviously to have been written with AI.

What a great cast for Celebrity Traitors UK! So excited for this series 🤩

Very much looking forward to the creativity of English football fans once the Premier League resumes and we all get to play cheating Man City!

Wow. JFC this is grim. Next time our university admin puts pressure on us to apply for grants my response will be: why would I spend all that time and effort when a person isn’t even going to look at it? I’m sure their response will be: use AI to write the application…

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

when ai leaves u behind

That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.

Oh good lord: we have, for the first time, over 1,000 students enrolled in 1st and 2nd year IR at St Andrews. That’s an insane number. That means that 1 in every 10 students at the University is in 1st or 2nd year International Relations. Utter madness.

So the new F1 track has delivered a supremely boring race. 😴

OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says Yeah, sure Sam; you’re delaying your IPO over “safety concerns” and not because your f-ing awful finances will prevent you getting the valuation you want… What a piece of work this guy is.

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

I will die on this hill: if you’re in the middle seat on a plane, you get the two armrests.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Two political parties, neither of whom are in government, sign a toothless memorandum of understanding and are already arguing about it.

I’ve finally seen them! Iceland 🇮🇸

1. No, it’s not. 2. Why is this a news story?

So ICE is reprehensible and of course needs to be abolished immediately. But in this one case…

Or, and I’m just spitballing here, you could use that $10 million to invest in staff and improving working conditions…

The sheer number of white men in jobs for which they aren’t qualified… But, of course, that’s not a problem. I wonder why…

Noted friends of academic freedom, the US administration…

''Dolly wanted to make sure kids knew how to read and understand the world around them. This is what she spent her money on instead of buying twitter, buying an election, villainizing trans people, investing in Palantir, making sure we slid into fascism.''

Oh Dolly! Rest in Power, Queen!

UK media always asks the wrong questions. Instead of hounding high achieving people of colour , perhaps they'd consider asking why white people who fail spectacularly in government so easily walk into high paying media & consultancy work once they’ve exhausted that particular racket .

A promising start up front and in midfield by Chelsea here. But I still cannot fathom why Robert Sanchez is still our goalkeeper. I don’t think he can either.

Since he came back to BlueSky after the AI writing schtick he hasn’t got the engagement needed for the next series of substack posts on how awful the academy is and how he’s the only enlightened one left. Don’t fall for engaging with his nonsense.

THIS 👇 If you only read one more thing about the Jason Arday horror, make sure it’s this 👇

Indeed! Shame my department don’t seem to agree. For some unknown reason we have an X account…

And by this point do we really think it’s because people lack the ‘skills’ to spot issues, or is it because these tools are for cutting corners - that’s what they’re for! And you’re more likely to use them if you prioritise speed over quality.

www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the... I will be sharing this with my students in a few weeks as part of a document explaining my position on use of GenAI in assignments: not permitted for anything at all. Using LLMs to (help you) write exposes you to a higher risk of committing plagiarism.