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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 20h

It’s always exciting waiting to see what the next commission will be?????? Maybe an Elizabethan bat, rat or Chough

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 22h

It's absolutely beautiful!

Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not going to stop pushing this one, because it’s a beauty.
You’ve all been really good to us, on here, and I don’t want you to miss out.
Once Christmas market season starts, these should all sell out.
(This Saturday)

Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had a successful day pushing this beautiful print.
There’s so much work in this, not just the meticulous printmaking, but it’s also been hand painted by Kirsty.
It’s been described as being like William Morris and I won’t argue with that.

www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/a-mi...

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

I work in computer science and read about this kind of thing daily.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Building something in controlled conditions is one thing, and machines can 'learn' from their environment but they cannot cope with anything unexpected. And they don't learn well because they're looking for patterns, not outliers.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh. Not everything can be planted by machine. Not everything can be harvested by machine. THINK about even simple jobs and how we do them -the decisions, judgements, prior experience, knowledge, context, surroundings, tools available..... I could go on. A machine cannot do this as well as we can.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Or indeed have any understanding about how humans actually work.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

for example, that machines can be very easily distracted by background, changes of colour, or anything unexpected. And we've only just learned what machines actually do 'look' at. A child can identify a dog far better than our best robotic 'eye'.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

I am. I'm more than a collection of systems. I'm more than the sum of my parts, and so are you. That's what makes me human - I can think, judge, act (or not) and do thousands of things a robot can't, and may never be able to do. We can't even make an image recognition tool that works - we know,

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm actually very sorry that you think like that. You clearly have no understanding of how the human body and brain function, but don't feel too bad. No-one knows because we haven't discovered all there is to know.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

You’re a machine. A biological one, born out of years of evolution. Your brain is a biological computer and your thoughts are a kind of software. What makes you believe a sufficiently powerful AI won’t be able to recreate that?

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

We are not machines.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Robots cannot replace everything that humans do, and they never will.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, I don't know, grow food? Pick crops? Do the laundry? Play with your children?

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

AI can't be staff.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

My vet is a limited company. There is one independent vet near me, so I'm going to change. I'm not paying for shareholder dividends, I want to pay the salaries of people in my community.
Vets could be made to publish prices after UK watchdog investigation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Vets could be made to publish prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose and must be modernised, CMA says, with pet owners paying 16.6% more at large groups

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

And keeping enough people alive to serve their needs.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

It is, isn't it? I've got the message loud and clear.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Labour is telling you VERY LOUDLY who to vote for if you value human rights. And it's definitely NOT LABOUR.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 1d

Late to the party I know but I'm enjoying Rivals. It's my era.
Got fed up waiting for Slow Horses to drop new episodes so signed up for Disney plus for a month.
Rivals is definitely going to be worth £6.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 2d

Still no oyster catchers on my bit of the Itchen. I miss their tooting.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 2d

I'm absolutely shattered, and lecturing at uni is nowhere near as demanding as being a secondary school teacher. I can only conclude that I'm pretty much too old for this now.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh nice!

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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 3d

Are you looking for something special for Halloween?
How about some linocut prints infused with a little bit of darkness?

www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 3d

Should have made sure your contract specified equal billing everywhere, if that's even still a thing in television.

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 9d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. I only subscribe when there's something I want to watch. I wish I'd held off Slow Horses until the entire latest series had been aired. As it is, I'll end up paying for two months.

Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 3d

And sometimes what I watched turned out to be shite.

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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 3d

It's the only reason I'm paying for Apple TV+. Everything else is either shite or I've watched it.

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