Joanna Cooksey
@msfennybentley.bsky.social
Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
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‘oh, just one more thing… Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history’
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
‘oh, just one more thing… Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history’
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"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"It really is a travesty that England, named after the Angles, speaks English and speakers are called Anglophone, when it could have been Sexland, named after the Saxons, speaking Sexish and speakers are called Saxophone"
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Trying to think of anything camper than Karen being swept around the floor like a mop in a Flash advert, before being held aloft on the shoulders of what appear to be Catholic priests, and I tell you what, I'm really struggling #Strictly
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trying to think of anything camper than Karen being swept around the floor like a mop in a Flash advert, before being held aloft on the shoulders of what appear to be Catholic priests, and I tell you what, I'm really struggling #Strictly
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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New ChatGPT ad copy: "Shallower than Google"
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New ChatGPT ad copy: "Shallower than Google"
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Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
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I have hacked
the prompts
that were in
your model
and which
you were probably
stealing
for profit
Forgive me
they were poetic
pithy
and evocative
the prompts
that were in
your model
and which
you were probably
stealing
for profit
Forgive me
they were poetic
pithy
and evocative
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I have hacked
the prompts
that were in
your model
and which
you were probably
stealing
for profit
Forgive me
they were poetic
pithy
and evocative
the prompts
that were in
your model
and which
you were probably
stealing
for profit
Forgive me
they were poetic
pithy
and evocative
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will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In case anyone thinks Reform could ever get a foot in in Oxford, here are photos of the two opposing protests taken within minutes of each other today.
Oxfordshire Patriots out in full force in centre of Oxford today.
Difficult to gauge numbers but definitely 4.
Maybe even as many as 6
Difficult to gauge numbers but definitely 4.
Maybe even as many as 6
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oxfordshire Patriots out in full force in centre of Oxford today.
Difficult to gauge numbers but definitely 4.
Maybe even as many as 6
Difficult to gauge numbers but definitely 4.
Maybe even as many as 6
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Labour had everything they could ever want in order to enact meaningful change. An opportunity that could guarantee a successive term in gov’t and provide a platform to truly address the systemic fault lines ripping this country apart.
But instead, they decided to try and shadow the devil.
Labour had everything they could ever want in order to enact meaningful change. An opportunity that could guarantee a successive term in gov’t and provide a platform to truly address the systemic fault lines ripping this country apart.
But instead, they decided to try and shadow the devil.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Labour had everything they could ever want in order to enact meaningful change. An opportunity that could guarantee a successive term in gov’t and provide a platform to truly address the systemic fault lines ripping this country apart.
But instead, they decided to try and shadow the devil.
Labour had everything they could ever want in order to enact meaningful change. An opportunity that could guarantee a successive term in gov’t and provide a platform to truly address the systemic fault lines ripping this country apart.
But instead, they decided to try and shadow the devil.
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I *love* Karen’s spikiness - it’s her thing. She’s not a soft girly dancer. I really liked that, and her partnership with Carlos is excellent. #strictly
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I *love* Karen’s spikiness - it’s her thing. She’s not a soft girly dancer. I really liked that, and her partnership with Carlos is excellent. #strictly
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If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
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FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
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For when you’ve got work at 9 but have to instigate a Puritan uprising at 5
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
For when you’ve got work at 9 but have to instigate a Puritan uprising at 5
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the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”