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Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk) .. more

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10h
The austerity cuts to
Government comms budgets mean we’ll never see the like of this beauty again. We use it to store our baubles. I’m delighted by it every December

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 11h
Samantha Harvey, subtweeting the Future of Humanity Institute, in Orbital

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, Scott A. Imberman, Jack Stilgoe

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h
this has become a very important video to me

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 21h
Giacomo is a superstar

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
Had they just not given the creature superpowers it would have been so much better

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Jack Stilgoe, Steven H. Seggie

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Zalatoy @zalatoy.com · 2d
Hoy en "Como lo hacen?"
Visitamos una fábrica de Punkis en china

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Having now finished the new Frankenstein movie I can reveal that it is, in fact, shit

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
Here in Europe, I think things like Renault Twizys are regulated as 'quadricycles'. Not legal on motorways.

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe, Ludovic Lestrelin

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2d
The day of a World Cup draw is a day of uncertainty and possibilities when teams discover who they’ll play and where they’ll be in their bid for football’s ultimate prize. There is little uncertainty about another prize: FIFA’s hastily arranged peace prize

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
As Trump Covets Nobel Peace Prize, FIFA Cozies Up to Him With Its Own Award
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2d
The Scientifc Reports autism cycle article has been retracted: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
AI generated figure about autism

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
When the group railing against groupthink starts to outnumber the groupthinkers, do we rethink groupthink?
jaheale.bsky.social James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 3d
New: Liz Truss will tomorrow premiere the first episode of The Liz Truss Show.

Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".

Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
This is fascinating, and useful for for our project on geolocation and inference
shahanmemon.bsky.social Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 2d
This tool is a wild roasting machine. It's by ente, which is a privacy preserving photo app company. They use Google Vision API to infer things from a photo. While it sometimes guesses the location accurately from surroundings, it's also pretty racist and sexist.

🧵1/5

theyseeyourphotos.com
They See Your Photos
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.
theyseeyourphotos.com

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 2d
This tool is a wild roasting machine. It's by ente, which is a privacy preserving photo app company. They use Google Vision API to infer things from a photo. While it sometimes guesses the location accurately from surroundings, it's also pretty racist and sexist.

🧵1/5

theyseeyourphotos.com
They See Your Photos
Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.
theyseeyourphotos.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
This story seemed a step too geologically determinist for me

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d
@theonion.com

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Jack Stilgoe

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 3d
For generations, the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree has brought light to the heart of London.

Thank you, Norway, for this gift of friendship since 1947.
Trafalgar Square Christmas tree Carol singers at Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square Christmas tree Mayor of London at Trafalgar Square Christmas tree

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
Really important research, to which we can add our work on what AI researchers think about some of these things zenodo.org/records/1511...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d
Agreed. But the system has been built such that some people's rights and options are tied to particular diagnoses.
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d
This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.

I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar

Reposted by Justin Lewis, Mark Priestley, Jack Stilgoe

jaheale.bsky.social
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · 3d
New: Liz Truss will tomorrow premiere the first episode of The Liz Truss Show.

Billed as "A bold new programme in a media landscape dominated by groupthink and timid consensus".

Truss: "The Deep State tried to destroy me but now I'm back and excited to launch this show."

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d
This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.

I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’ The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports. Streeting is understood to be concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the Times reported. He has asked leading experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become “over-pathologised”, the newspaper said, as he seeks to grapple with the 4.4 million working-age people now claiming sickness or incapacity benefit. The figure has risen by 1.2 million since 2019, while the number of 16 to 34-year-olds off work with long-term sickness because of a mental health condition is said to have grown rapidly in the same period. Streeting told the Times he knew from “personal experience how devastating it can be for people who face poor mental health, have ADHD or autism and can’t get a diagnosis or the right support”. He added: “I also know, from speaking to clinicians, how the diagnosis of these conditions is sharply rising. “We must look at this through a strictly clinical lens to get an evidence-based understanding of what we know, what we don’t know, and what these patterns tell us about our mental health system, autism and ADHD services. “That’s the only way we can ensure everyone gets timely access to accurate diagnosis and effective support.” The review, which is expected to be launched on Thursday, is set to be led by Prof Peter Fonagy, a clinical psychologist at University College London specialising in child mental health, with Sir Simon Wessely, a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatry, acting as vice-chair. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d
From @helenpearson.bsky.social in @nature.com, a nice roundup of all the research into AI’s effects on Memory: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Pauline Stafford, Jack Stilgoe

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 4d
The UK is in a dark place right now, where anti-asylum attitudes have spilled over into racism from the 1970s or earlier. These types of comments are not 'the result of' higher migration. They are the personal responsibility of the person who wrote them.
Who Counts?
The increasing extremism in British commentary about race
benansell.substack.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
"Slop" feels right
And The Economist’s word of the year for 2025 is…
An unappetising symbol of a messy year
www.economist.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
If you must, and if three notes beget for you the correct symphony, www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
www.newyorker.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
My least enjoyable moment of this unenjoyable piece was the line "The first three notes of Beethoven's Fifth beget the fourth." THEY'RE THE SAME NOTE! It's also the start of Jingle Bells.
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Nov 3
Anyway, the whole piece is terrible. It's a weird hybrid between science communication and the kind of literary prose (complete with house style umlauts in words like coördinates) expected in the New Yorker --- except that the author clearly doesn't understand the science:

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emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Nov 3
New Yorker author describing gradient descent and oblivious to the existence of local minima:

"(The algorithm could be compared to a hiker navigating from a mountaintop to a valley; a simple strategy for eventually finding one’s way is to insure that every step moves downhill.)"

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4d
**FT GRAD SCHEME**

applications are now open. Incredible opportunity for young wannabe hacks. Spread the word:

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
And Harry

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d
Amazing way to round off an abstract

Reposted by Jack Stilgoe

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 5d
Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025:

thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...