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Ernesto Priego

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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 5

A quick LinkedIn post about @comicsandai.org yesterday- basically thanking everyone- you guys rock. www.linkedin.com/posts/ernest... #ComicsAndAI

💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London! A heartfelt thank-you to… | E...

💭 🥰 🙏 What an inspiring, thought-provoking, and energising day it was at Comics & AI: Critical Prompts on 4 September 2025 at City St George’s, University of London! A heartfelt thank-you to everyone...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

(I am not talking about me personally in only the most subjective and individual way, but reflecting on my experience as it instersects with the collective, the community, the sector, society today).

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

This is such a cliché by now, but really the user-generated turn in technology has increased workloads massively, contra the dominant narrative that tech is there to increase productivity. The imposition of GenAI in all workflows already worsening this situation. Again, contra the official narrative

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

(Todavía me pasa con proyectos que terminé hace años, con gente con la que ya no colaboro en años, así de severo el trauma que el miedo a no haber entregado/respondido todavía me despierta).

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

ah, been there, done that. Solidarity.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

But of course it is a mistake to acknowledge this publicly, because it reads like a mea culpa, and the fault will be placed on those who, as the survey phrased it, "feel they can('t) manage their workload", and not on 21st c workloads and corresponding misaligned horizons of expectations and KPIs...

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

Seems like one's fate is to never be fully on top of all things, and supposing one ever is, as soon as one is it immediately restarts again, multiplied exponentially. And this is the contemporary definition of being "lucky" in the current landscape...

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

Are you also woken up in the middle of the night by nightmares featuring people who are waiting for something from you (multiple emails, reports, reviews, letters of recommendation, copyedits, articles, completed forms, surveys, spreadsheets, marks, feedback) calling you to your landline to say wtf?

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

*Italo with only one i - edit button please

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

“There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences [...] But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst." -IItalo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979)

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

Clear visualisation of, indeed, this doom loop

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2h

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

Important, and also quite fundamental to understand when discussing 'developing nations', grants, humanitarian aid, etc. Structural inequality is made worse by colonialist paternalism.

Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1h

A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.

Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.

There’s plenty out there you can read on why giving the working class vouchers rather than money is paternalistic classism. But in sum: there is a reason social security is seen as the only way for a civilised society to function. The myth that children are in poverty not because of high rents or low wages but because their parents spend their cash on booze and fags is as old as it is deceitful. Being poor doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. It just means you’re poor.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1h

If you are into ambient/soundscapes/contemporary/experimental and need an hour to escape put your headphones on and press play- not a playlist, vinyl records recorded in sequence in one go one night of anxious Winter sleeplessness www.mixcloud.com/epriego/wint... #Mixcloud

Winter Chill (Señor Priego Frozen Ambient Session Mixtape)

An ambient mixtape for these Winter days. " I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands." - Sylvia Plath Mixtape artwork reuses...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1h

A key part of the backlash to ending the two child limit is the idea parents won’t actually spend the extra money on their kids. Why not give them vouchers for food and clothes instead? critics ask.

Because it’s paternalistic classism that believes being poor means you’re a bad parent.

There’s plenty out there you can read on why giving the working class vouchers rather than money is paternalistic classism. But in sum: there is a reason social security is seen as the only way for a civilised society to function. The myth that children are in poverty not because of high rents or low wages but because their parents spend their cash on booze and fags is as old as it is deceitful. Being poor doesn’t mean you’re a bad parent. It just means you’re poor.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 2h

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

And young people and adults. It's not only children who get repeatedly infected in classrooms.

Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 1d

There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

It's gaslighting.

Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 23h

It's a relief after all the migrant-baiting to see a Labour government doing something, however limited, to shift fiscal policy in the right direction

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

AI Scams Are the Point newrepublic.com/article/1883... via @newrepublic.com

AI Scams Are the Point

Propaganda and deceit are a feature of AI, not its downfall.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 23h

It's a relief after all the migrant-baiting to see a Labour government doing something, however limited, to shift fiscal policy in the right direction

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23h

Very nice.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1d

Can we have billboards with this everywhere please. And tote bags.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1d

Nothing beats getting your research on knowledge monopolies cited in a paywalled book chapter so one can't even see how was one cited without paying or having access via a library (I may have access via my library- that is not the point so please don't offer).

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 1d

We got a wee citation here: "Decolonising History Beyond the Curriculum: Student Participation and the Local Lens Towards a 'Reparative History'" - goo.gl/scholar/dXcwek #ScholarAlerts

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Yes, definitely. This idea of ultra concentration and specialisation is naive about the way that research is done and how we achieve good outcomes from it.

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Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · 1d

There is still no programme of ensuring #cleanair in classrooms. Children continue to get repeatedly infected. #makehopenormal #boldpolitics #Covid #LongCovid @greenparty.org.uk @greensorganise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

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Karl Whitney @karlwhitney.ie · 2d

The Reith Lectures

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d

Go, read.

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI

✍️ @eve.gd

#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri

Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences

Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 2d

💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI

✍️ @eve.gd

#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri

Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences

Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d

Oops. Seems the quoted post in the post I quoted has now been deleted. Most likely due to overwhelming critical response.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d

I knew students would be tempted, and most likely did (particularly as some skipped the whole "log in to the University library first" instruction and went to Google, with embedded Gemini on it), but I was not going to be the one to tell them to use it to compare. Sod that.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d

In my literature review tutorial this term students had to design strategies for search for literature on uses of LLMs for literature review across databases and then compare results. The exercise intentionally did not include GenAI chatbots (say ChatGPT).